jgas
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- Apr 23, 2008
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So as the season draws closer to the end we usually have a couple of trash pits that were stored away in the back of our minds. I decided to hit a couple of them just to see what I might be able to snag up. Had to probe a bit to relocate the first one as the mowers had taken the small branch that I marked it with earlier in the summer. Took about 2 minutes and I figured it was only 4 feet max depth. Easy as I was by myself on this one. Started off with what I kinda knew what I was going to see. 1905-1915 stuff. I usually hate to dig these as they are too young a pit. But ya never can tell. I was having a bit of a tough time hitting the usual steel and rusty cans. I found out why, it was a bike. Looked like something American Pickers would love to have. Ha ha. Once that was out of the way I started finding ketchup bottles. The scourge of all pit diggers!!! Then to my surprise out pops a pint blob beer. Sweeeet! Never thought I’d see that. Then another. Then another. What the heck. Pretty common ones but what the heck. I’ll take them. I also found a Watermans Ink. Continuing my Ink bottle streak. Most of the other stuff was some common Miles Nervine and Caldwell’s Pepsin. Not too shabby for a late season trash pit. The other one I did was a continuation of a trash area just 20 feet away. A lot of digging and only saw a pile a smashed crock jugs. Ovoid jugs, and some civil war era bottles that were in pieces. Obviously smashed before they were tossed in. So no luck there. But as I usually do at the end of the days digs I go probe some more. Low and behold I found two actual privies to keep in mind. Hopefully the streak of inks will continue or something even better. Good luck out there. And be safe. Jgas.
