NJKLAGT
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- Oct 18, 2014
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Hey Everyone,
I made a thread exactly a year ago today with the same title, and that dig really did end up being the last dig of last year. So here we are again, December 16th, and by the looks of it, the ol' digging barometer might just be right again. It's cold, it's windy, the ground's starting to get hard, but worst of all is the water and mud where it's not frozen yet, it's reaaaally messy. I bought a new pair of boots a couple weeks ago, first new pair I've bought in a long time, they were going to be my "nice boots" - haha, yeah right! That didn't last long...
Anyway, I did go back to the Merchant site first, because I had to solve that trash pit / privy / septic mystery. I went through a foot of gravel in different directions, way wider than a privy pit would have been, and so I'm fairly certain that there's nothing underneath. It's gotta be some septic bed, or, now I'm starting to wonder if it's natural. I dug holes in other areas and still hit this same type of gravel. I'm still scratching my head about that place, but I'm closing the file on that one for now, I'll go back in the spring. I did a small bit of detecting as well, found a busted reigns guide and some clad.
Yesterday I went for a looong walk to retrieve a light smoky aqua half gallon Ball jar that I left at a dump. I hadn't even dug this dump yet, the jar was a surface find that I originally couldn't carry back. But I brought my shovel and my scratcher just in case, and ended up digging for a couple hours. I had to chop through a frozen crust, and then there was about three feet of clay to get through, but it came off pretty easily if I sunk my shovel in and pried it out toward me. I ended up finding a bunch of fruit jars, most of them from the 40s and 50s. Along with the Ball jar, I took home my third Perfect Seal variant, this one's from around 1930, and an older half gallon Crown, it's sicker than a dog and has a one inch flash crack, but it looks okay from this side, until something better comes along.
On the way home I walked the train tracks for part of the way, and spotted a marble in the rocky bed that the tracks sit on. It was fairly close to a crossing, so maybe some kid lost it there. It's pretty crude though, it's got a lot of deep clefts in the glass, I'm not sure how old it is. A strange find, anyway. I'll go ask the marble guys.
So yeah, after that Merchant site, this was definitely a huge change in pace, haha. But, I have a soft spot for these more modern dumps, reminds me of when I first started, searching for that one late throw.
I think this might be it for the year! There's one upcoming day that I might try to dig, but I'm not going to force anything. Of course I'm still going to be hiking around looking for new spots, so hopefully I can bring home a cool surface find or something over the winter months. And I'll still try my best to be active here, to help with ID's, etc.
Go find some glass, and come back here and share it! Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
I made a thread exactly a year ago today with the same title, and that dig really did end up being the last dig of last year. So here we are again, December 16th, and by the looks of it, the ol' digging barometer might just be right again. It's cold, it's windy, the ground's starting to get hard, but worst of all is the water and mud where it's not frozen yet, it's reaaaally messy. I bought a new pair of boots a couple weeks ago, first new pair I've bought in a long time, they were going to be my "nice boots" - haha, yeah right! That didn't last long...
Anyway, I did go back to the Merchant site first, because I had to solve that trash pit / privy / septic mystery. I went through a foot of gravel in different directions, way wider than a privy pit would have been, and so I'm fairly certain that there's nothing underneath. It's gotta be some septic bed, or, now I'm starting to wonder if it's natural. I dug holes in other areas and still hit this same type of gravel. I'm still scratching my head about that place, but I'm closing the file on that one for now, I'll go back in the spring. I did a small bit of detecting as well, found a busted reigns guide and some clad.
Yesterday I went for a looong walk to retrieve a light smoky aqua half gallon Ball jar that I left at a dump. I hadn't even dug this dump yet, the jar was a surface find that I originally couldn't carry back. But I brought my shovel and my scratcher just in case, and ended up digging for a couple hours. I had to chop through a frozen crust, and then there was about three feet of clay to get through, but it came off pretty easily if I sunk my shovel in and pried it out toward me. I ended up finding a bunch of fruit jars, most of them from the 40s and 50s. Along with the Ball jar, I took home my third Perfect Seal variant, this one's from around 1930, and an older half gallon Crown, it's sicker than a dog and has a one inch flash crack, but it looks okay from this side, until something better comes along.
On the way home I walked the train tracks for part of the way, and spotted a marble in the rocky bed that the tracks sit on. It was fairly close to a crossing, so maybe some kid lost it there. It's pretty crude though, it's got a lot of deep clefts in the glass, I'm not sure how old it is. A strange find, anyway. I'll go ask the marble guys.
So yeah, after that Merchant site, this was definitely a huge change in pace, haha. But, I have a soft spot for these more modern dumps, reminds me of when I first started, searching for that one late throw.
I think this might be it for the year! There's one upcoming day that I might try to dig, but I'm not going to force anything. Of course I'm still going to be hiking around looking for new spots, so hopefully I can bring home a cool surface find or something over the winter months. And I'll still try my best to be active here, to help with ID's, etc.
Go find some glass, and come back here and share it! Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
