1950-1960s bottle gloryhole pit

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Went out this afternoon after work to try and dig some huts in a confederate camp out near Spotsylvania that i've had fairly good success in but the ground was just too frozen :violent1:and didnt really feel like messing with that hard soil so I just decided too take alittle hike :walk: down into a swamp land and hit a path i never seen before and walked down it and something caught my eye about 30 yards from the path, went to it and it was a 1960s car that someone junked then i walked up the hill and sure enough found an old burnt down/bull dozed 1950-late 1960s house which i've seen 100s of 1950s-1960s old house sites in the woods and thought nothing of then i walked over and peaked down the hill and spotted a pit, walked down to the pit and moved some old house debris out of the way and what i saw is something I never seen before a whole pit filled with 100s and 100s of bottles from the 1950s-late 60s, kids toys, old cans...

I went and got the truck and drove down the path and took two buckets and it only took 15 minutes too pick up a bunch of bottles and fill two buckets up, there must be 1000 more bottles in that pit. Here is some photos. I rarely collect anything mid 20th century but this was jut crazy,This is one trash pit I dont need my detector for...
 

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Boy you have something to keep you busy for a long time.
 

Come to find out the Esso motor oil can is worth $20, Diet Dr Peper bottle $15, each of those 1968 beer bottles are $2 each and the Vespre is a one of a kind find cant find anyone that has sold one on the net other than a magazine add for it for $9.99 on E-bay. Going back tomorrow if the snow isn't too bad. :occasion14:
 

nice finds i love trash dumps
 

Cool finds!!..I love finding them old bottles..i would clean that place out
 

cool stuff...you can soak steel beer cans in oxalic acid to clean them....but the guys at the www.therustybunch.com know more about that than I do....I do know they dig cans that are totally brown and sometimes they come out decent...check it out...
 

WOW had no idea about this site Pete. Thank you!!!!.. :thumbsup:
 

Nice gloryhole!
 

Id rather have a glory_hole filled with GOLD :icon_king: But i will take what I can get, didn't get to go back today due to 2 inches of snow but i will soon have half a storage unit filled with 1950s-1960s bottles (some bottles date to late 40s) and trust me I didn't wake up and go out MDing thinking i was gonna find a bottle glory_hole so you NEVER know what to expect when you go out into the woods. :icon_sunny:
 

COOL GLASS/TIN

Those 1940- 1960 bottles can be interesting .Last summer I came across a site that was is loaded with this type of bottles ,amber CLOROX bottles w metal "not tin" lids to medicine bottles w-DR'S name &city I Picked up a few but had to leave the rest & I also found a small run down shed full 60 to100 returnable COKE BOTTLES A 1/4 of wich are the liter &32/0z style . The other day I saw 1 of the larger bottles for 20$. I an still thinking about going back to pick them up but it's around a 1/4 mile walk through mostly sticker bushes & I have no where to store them or the older bottles I spoke of first ."sorry for the rant" Davers:BangHead:
 

Nice haul of vintage cans and bottles. I have an Esso oil can like that that I found in my parents basement a long time ago. It's on a shelf displayed in my basement now.
 

your welcome....Ive sold some cans through that site too....Ill take cash wherever I can dig it.....
 

Nothing wrong with those finds, good stuff!
 

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