NJKLAGT
Bronze Member
- Oct 18, 2014
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- Garrett Euro Ace 350
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hey Everyone,
I've been a little busy for the last month or so, but I finally got out for a dig this past weekend. I think I got some forgiveness from the bottle gods, for dropping that jar a while back...
Anyway, about a month ago I had stopped by a roadside dump that I hadn't really given much of a chance before. It's one of those dumps. It's big and it's bad and most of the stuff is from the 1960s or later. After making a deep test hole near the top (I'm weird like that) I pulled this blown shoe polish or something from Hamilton. "Hey, there's stuff here!", I thought, but I wouldn't be able to return until a few days ago.
I went to work on this dump, I had no plan, I just wanted to dig. Haha, I was making holes near the top, near the bottom, on the sides, and those would all eventually run into one another and become larger holes. I was all over the place, but I was having fun. This might sound silly, but digging in this dump felt like digging in a dump, haha. It's big, it's steep, there's a lot of material, and there are even some small cave-ins once in a while, something I don't get to see very often.
But yeah, I'll just keep this short and summarize what I found using the last picture: a uranium glass shaker etched with a grapevine (the first uranium glass I've found intact), some different coloured slicks, an interesting early ABM ointment pot with cool straw marks, a perfume that I usually find in cobalt but this one was a weird light blue, a pair of inks, a clean aqua Crown quart (the forgiveness), a Crown pint, an Improved Gem pint, a nice bubbly light olive green ABM butter jar (closely resembles the CFJCo butter jars), some clear embossed bottles including the Hamilton polish, an earthenware ashtray, a buttload of cutlery, an early Owens scar light amethyst Improved Crown quart (probably my favourite), a tiny personal oil lamp with a sheared lip (I've discarded the crumbling components on top for now), some sodas that had great paint despite the ash (very mysterious, some of the cleanest bottles were in the worst soil), a cow tag, some pennies, two iodine poisons (always good to get a poison), some marbles, a pair of different Bovrils, a ceramic C.P.R. insulator, and an old lighter.
So that's it! The jars are probably my favourite, especially the Improved Crown. It's beaten up but it's beautiful. And the clean aqua quart is a great replacement for the one I dropped. The colour's different and it's a slightly later variant, but hey, I'll take it!
I'd say I'm about half of the way done with this dump. I hope there's more!
Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
I've been a little busy for the last month or so, but I finally got out for a dig this past weekend. I think I got some forgiveness from the bottle gods, for dropping that jar a while back...
Anyway, about a month ago I had stopped by a roadside dump that I hadn't really given much of a chance before. It's one of those dumps. It's big and it's bad and most of the stuff is from the 1960s or later. After making a deep test hole near the top (I'm weird like that) I pulled this blown shoe polish or something from Hamilton. "Hey, there's stuff here!", I thought, but I wouldn't be able to return until a few days ago.
I went to work on this dump, I had no plan, I just wanted to dig. Haha, I was making holes near the top, near the bottom, on the sides, and those would all eventually run into one another and become larger holes. I was all over the place, but I was having fun. This might sound silly, but digging in this dump felt like digging in a dump, haha. It's big, it's steep, there's a lot of material, and there are even some small cave-ins once in a while, something I don't get to see very often.
But yeah, I'll just keep this short and summarize what I found using the last picture: a uranium glass shaker etched with a grapevine (the first uranium glass I've found intact), some different coloured slicks, an interesting early ABM ointment pot with cool straw marks, a perfume that I usually find in cobalt but this one was a weird light blue, a pair of inks, a clean aqua Crown quart (the forgiveness), a Crown pint, an Improved Gem pint, a nice bubbly light olive green ABM butter jar (closely resembles the CFJCo butter jars), some clear embossed bottles including the Hamilton polish, an earthenware ashtray, a buttload of cutlery, an early Owens scar light amethyst Improved Crown quart (probably my favourite), a tiny personal oil lamp with a sheared lip (I've discarded the crumbling components on top for now), some sodas that had great paint despite the ash (very mysterious, some of the cleanest bottles were in the worst soil), a cow tag, some pennies, two iodine poisons (always good to get a poison), some marbles, a pair of different Bovrils, a ceramic C.P.R. insulator, and an old lighter.
So that's it! The jars are probably my favourite, especially the Improved Crown. It's beaten up but it's beautiful. And the clean aqua quart is a great replacement for the one I dropped. The colour's different and it's a slightly later variant, but hey, I'll take it!
I'd say I'm about half of the way done with this dump. I hope there's more!
Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
