Your largest haul!

[cyberdigger]

I bet anyone who brought home more than 1,800 bottles in one day is still trying to apologize to his wife!

 

[tristian bottle]

ORIGINAL: cyberdigger

I bet anyone who brought home more than 1,800 bottles in one day is still trying to apologize to his wife!

Or Single []

 

[bottlediger]

No wife and I didnt bring home nearly that many bottles, I took 8 5 gallon buckets home and the homeowner took the rest, about 14-20 5 gallon buckets full

Digger Ry

 

[pa digger]

Port Carbon PA 500 +

 

[RICKJJ59W]

The Most bottles from one pit had to be from the 22 foot 1870s 60s bricker dug back in 05.The women of the house was a so called local (healer).That explaned all the meds.
There were almost 900 bottles in this pit.Here is a pic of some of them.I think about 600 are in this pic.Its all ways good to take pix to back up your storys []
The story about this dig is on my web site."The Privy Well"


That's (one) big pile of glass.

 

[tristian bottle]

Port Carbon PA 500 +

ORIGINAL: pa digger

Port Carbon PA 500 +

Whats that coke bucket to the left pa digger

 

[pa digger]

Dug a Privy in Reading Pa years ago 8 feet round and 30 feet deep. We dug the the 1st 6 feet or so and then hit almost 20 feet of solid redware plates and everyone of them was broken. Talk about cryers, There was at least a couple thousand of them.

We only kept a couple that we found most of the pieces to. It was a night dig with very little light to see, and just way to many shards to even try and save.

We had a van with us that night and we could of filled it up at least 6 times with shards. I have never seen so much redware nor do i think i ever will again. It would be hard to top this redware find.

Later,

PA Digger

Im always looking for good pa soda/mineral waters.

 

[RIBottleguy]

My best haul was not dug, but a gift from a friend. He was thinning out his collection, and I came away with more than 100 bottles for free. There were some nice acl and embossed local sodas, a bunch of meds, and more! I don't think this was all of them.

 

[stephengray]

I wish I had a picture to post for this, but oh well. I found a dump that was untouched and in the first 3 hours 15 minutes I dug up 743 bottles. I was so excited dirt was flying everywhere. I eventually dug about 10,000 bottles in that dump as it was about 100' by 50' and 12' deep. In some places the bottles were so thick it was hard to dig! Just dug with my hands or a small rake in those areas and a typical haul for an hours dig was about 75 bottles. Age wasn't terribly old, found bottles from 1880's up to about 1910. My dad came up one time to dig with me and he took home over 3,000 bottles that I had left on the ground (had no where to put them!). I do have a picture of some of the bottles laying on the ground and will find it and try to post it here. I haven't found a nice dump in years though, especially since I have moved to Wyoming. Ahhh! I'm getting bottle digging withdrawals....

 

[tristian bottle]

WOW! 10,000 bottles out of one hole?! []