Southern Maine Bottle Dump

[cowback]

Thanks everybody for the great feedback. Beendiggin I would dig a big hole to clay but it keeps flooding up on me. So I keep stopping till I hit water. Unless you guys have a method to avoid the water.

 

[cowback]

Beendiggin What town are you from because when I talk about Maine I usually say there is Northern Maine and Southern Maine. I live in Auburn Maine. I do hope we can dig together some time and talk about what we have found. I also found a wicked piece of local history. I just found an Aluminum Business Card and it is all in French, I found in this same dump.

 

[beendiggin]

I'm in Waldoboro, not sure if thats what you call North or South. It's on the coast between Wiscasset and Rockland. I hope we can dig sometime too. I drive through Auburn several times each summer to bring my kids to and from camp.

 

[Lobster207]

Welcome to the forum Drew. I am also fairly new to the forum and I enjoy reading and learning from the other member's posts. I am from Gardiner and I can totaly sympathize with you on the water issue and digging. The vast majority of bottle digging I've done over the years has been near streams and the water is a constant challenge, especially with all the rain we've had this year. Stream banks seem to have been a popular place to discard unwanted items in the earlier days, at least in the areas that I've dug. My tool of choice in muddy conditions is a potato digger or hand cultivator. Dig slowly to avoid breaking or scratching the keepers. Water can move bottles and other items a considerable distance, work your way upstream and you may find the main dump site and save digging in the mud until drier times.