Your largest haul!

[cyberdigger]

Believe it, Kristian.. but not from a privy, but a dump..and not in one day.. I excavated a riverside dump back in the mid 1990's and uncovered probably around 10,000 bottles there.. brought home at least 2,000.. most were chunkers, gave 'em away like candy to numerous spectators.. it was a bottle bonanza for a while, until I had dug the entire area down to below the low tide level, then it got dangerous and difficult.. lots of shards, too.. never got cut once, but one time a friend of mine joined in, ended up lacerating both hands..

 

[tristian bottle]

i would love to have the chance to pick and choose through that many bottles, i would have a sale made right there and charge by the pound it would be like a pick your own berry thing but with bottles, DIG YOUR OWN BOTTLES! [8D]

 

[cyberdigger]

Yeah, every collector should get a chance to do that.. maybe you will find one..

 

[lexdigger]

I've dug cisterns that had thousands of bottles in em! Most were commons or slicks. One we dug had over 500 amber cokes in it. We got about 50 that were undamaged! This was just my take of the split.

Dug a privy once that had over a thousand bottles in it. It was a big, deep brickliner. We kept over two hundred to split between three of us!

While digging in a dump one day I discovered a cache of ALL cobalt bottles. Over a hundred in all, with most being bromos. There were about ten or twelve others including a prices patent and a nice ink!!! There were also a bunch of insulators in that same area of the dump. Not sure what was up with that???

 

[logueb]

They are there, just gotta keep looking. Found these underneath a house.

 

[logueb]

Along with a lot of mason jars

 

[logueb]

30s dumps produce tons of bottles and jars. Left these behind.

 

[logueb]

And creeks can sometimes can produce a lot of bottles. Just be safe and always dig with a friend. There are still some great places out there to dig.

 

[bottle_head9]

Nice haul on them Cokes.Like to see them cleaned up.Looks like one of them in the middle still had a cap on it.

 

[reallyrs]

There is a dump on the Oregon coast that I have been told is 1/2 mile long.... I have seen probably 400-500' of it, it is in a gully 15-25 feet deep, both sides... YOu cannot walk without breaking glass. Less than a mile away is where ships from all over the world would dock and let their passengers off, or their cargo, and reload. What used to be a 40' bay is now less than 10' but in its day.... The amount of glass there defies imagination. How could this backwards coastal area have produced so much glass?? Im thinking ballast, and garbage from passenger vessels. Still, if you are indiscriminate, you can dig, or pick up, unbroken bottles as fast as you can put em down. It is horrible to find a killer bottle you would love to have on your shelf broken by that pickle jar you tossed to the side!! I will be at my parents for Thanksgiving, and I will post a pic or 2.