Went out this weekend digging...got into a privy right off that was circa 1900-1910 but it was pretty clean. Just one local beer and a strange straight sided Coca Cola bottle in it...just has a big script "Coca-Cola" embossed near the base and the diamond with a C for Chattanooga Glass. We dig broken straight-sided Coca-Cola bottles from Houston and Galveston fairly often (almost never whole) but I've never seen a generic like this one. Anyone have any information?
After this, I found a strange 1870's trash pit where the outside of the trash pit had been lined with bottles placed neck down in the ground. There were about 70 bottles, mostly big wines, big beers, big food bottles, and so forth, all from the late 1870's. Mostly slicks, but I did find two examples of the TX280.5 hutch soda (both fitted with gravitating stoppers); this bottle was unreported until we dug a damaged example back in March of 2015. I was over the moon to dig an intact example of this extremely rare local! Also found a couple of Hostetters, a ring neck sho-fly style quart flask (I've been told these are Lyndeborough?), and a broken food bottle that is embossed "Mexican Gulf Shrimp & Fish Preserving Co. New Orleans" that I have never seen before. Overall a fun dig!
After this, I found a strange 1870's trash pit where the outside of the trash pit had been lined with bottles placed neck down in the ground. There were about 70 bottles, mostly big wines, big beers, big food bottles, and so forth, all from the late 1870's. Mostly slicks, but I did find two examples of the TX280.5 hutch soda (both fitted with gravitating stoppers); this bottle was unreported until we dug a damaged example back in March of 2015. I was over the moon to dig an intact example of this extremely rare local! Also found a couple of Hostetters, a ring neck sho-fly style quart flask (I've been told these are Lyndeborough?), and a broken food bottle that is embossed "Mexican Gulf Shrimp & Fish Preserving Co. New Orleans" that I have never seen before. Overall a fun dig!