appliedlips
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Keep focused on one permission and not all of them. I dig privies with nothing in them at times, ash and rust included. They are not always crunchy on the probe. Have you dug the big sinkholes in the picture near the alley?There are pits with hardly any if any shards. I live in a town with very shallow on average privies 2-4 ft. deep and most of the time dipped clean but occasionally hit a deeper one or one loaded with trash. I have dug 20 ft. stoneliners with almost nothing but clean clay to the bottom and then 2 inches of use layer with a few shards. I dug a 3ft. deep privy once with 80 intact pontilled bottles in it. It was in a town with notoriously dipped clean shallow privies. Privy digging is not new in Kansas and has been done. Oklahoma,Nebraska,small Missouri towns all have had guys digging and finding bottles. Positive thinking is what it takes. If you expect to find pits resembling those on Rick's or Chris' site you will not but there will be exceptions. Even big houses here have very shallow pits in these rural German towns. Drive 25 miles from me and I am digging 8- 12 ft. stone and brickliners in several different cities. Nobody I talk to around here has ever heard of bottles in privies and alot of friends are in construction and excavation. I keep digging and keep finding. There are better places than others and I have dug in alot of cities and towns. And any property has a chance of producing sodas and alot of bottles. Thinking is a privy diggers worst enemy,trust me!