NJKLAGT
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Hey Everyone,
Some of you might remember the jug that I dug out of a small cave in a clay muck trickle-down dump this last November. Well, I went back for a change of scenery and got a few little goodies.
This is a pretty long trench, there are many different approaches you could take to digging it, but this time I decided to try chopping at the walls wherever it looked like the junk had originally been deposited on either side. I figured that most of it would have drifted down into the creek but that there would be a few stragglers left behind. It was easy digging on the surface but very tough toward the clay bottom. I was surprised to see just how deep some of the stuff was embedded in the solid clay. You'd think that you hit the bottom and then keep finding shards a foot down - but I'm not going any further than that from now on, it's super tough and dirty digging without any guarantees, and I've got plenty of trench to cover, so I'll take my chances elsewhere.
Anyway, we ended up with a string of blown bottles, all embossed. It was strange, I was rubbing them off one after another thinking, "okay, this one's gonna be a slick", but no, they all ended up being embossed, haha! So here we have an extract from Toronto, a Robert Ralston shoe dressing from Hamilton, a catsup flavouring, and a beautiful linseed and turpentine med.
Shoot, I've really gotta bring my camera with me more often. Next time!
Some of you might remember the jug that I dug out of a small cave in a clay muck trickle-down dump this last November. Well, I went back for a change of scenery and got a few little goodies.
This is a pretty long trench, there are many different approaches you could take to digging it, but this time I decided to try chopping at the walls wherever it looked like the junk had originally been deposited on either side. I figured that most of it would have drifted down into the creek but that there would be a few stragglers left behind. It was easy digging on the surface but very tough toward the clay bottom. I was surprised to see just how deep some of the stuff was embedded in the solid clay. You'd think that you hit the bottom and then keep finding shards a foot down - but I'm not going any further than that from now on, it's super tough and dirty digging without any guarantees, and I've got plenty of trench to cover, so I'll take my chances elsewhere.
Anyway, we ended up with a string of blown bottles, all embossed. It was strange, I was rubbing them off one after another thinking, "okay, this one's gonna be a slick", but no, they all ended up being embossed, haha! So here we have an extract from Toronto, a Robert Ralston shoe dressing from Hamilton, a catsup flavouring, and a beautiful linseed and turpentine med.
Shoot, I've really gotta bring my camera with me more often. Next time!
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