Sundays Digging.....

[beendiggin]

Way to go...bummer about the broken ones. Hope you post those anyway.

 

[CALDIGR2]

Great story and cool pics, Chris. I also find it easy to convince curious neighbors to dig their yards. I have a question about the plastic G-cans. Isn't it a pain to manhandle those when full of dirt and frags? I can get plenty of used herbicide and pesticide barrels from our ranch, but have never made use of them. In fact, I have never seen that system used out West. I have used tarps extensively for many years, but that's it.

 

[elmoleaf]

The house looks unoccupied so you just start digging in their yard? No permission?
Do that here and you get arrested or end up looking down the wrong end of a gun barrel.

 

[pjritter]

ORIGINAL: elmoleaf

The house looks unoccupied so you just start digging in their yard? No permission?
Do that here and you get arrested or end up looking down the wrong end of a gun barrel.

ya not where they dig. they just gotta worry about crack addicts who use spoons as shivs.

 

[brokenshovel]

Here's some smalls and glue backs. It was a shame that most of the items were so damaged. These pits also suffered heavy dipping as many items were missing large pieces of the item
Pipes

Half were marked with the same logo

Couple of pontiled bottles, bulls eye marble, doll's candle stick, scent bottle with an "S" inside a 5 pointed leaf

Glue back cups

98% of a chamber pot

Redware Bean pot, missing the bottom

 

[brokenshovel]

Personal criers

unlisted amber side strapped whiskey

GUSTAV JOHN
714 COLUMBIA AVE
BALTO

GVI-7 CORN FOR THE WORLD (ear of corn) / (Monument) BALTIMORE; pontiled 1/2 pint

Hopefully Chris will hurry up and glue back that Balto porter.

 

[cobaltbot]

Man, love the pipe bowls and glue back cups. Where's the Stewarts? Looks like great weather for privy digging and that corn for the world would have been a major crier for me!

 

[baltbottles]

Mike,

I really like the trash cans the help keep the yard very neat and make the fill in time really quick. Its dump a can and pack then dump a can and pack then repeat until finished. Also we dig a very high percentage of wet privies. with the cans all the water and black muck goes back in the pit very well and keeps the yard clean. We lay the tarps down under the cans. its also a great system for digging in parking lots.

Overall I like the small 30 gallon cans the best they are very easy to move. I wish we had more of them.

Chris

 

[beendiggin]

Thanks for the pics...great finds

 

[baltbottles]

Here is that green porter glued back together. Its almost an Antifreeze green. I've never seen another 1840s iron pontiled beer in this color. Its pictured next to a lighter green example I dug across the street several years ago. I really wish this one had been whole. But even as a glue back its great as a example until when or if a whole one in this color ever turns up.

Chris