Blue colbalts, square gins, soda bottles, ring and gold.

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Hi all, With resent heavy autumn rains, i decided to try digging a bottle dump in the bank of a creek, just below a general store. On the gold diggings all camps and structures were bulit on the high flat ground about 40 feet away from the creek.The general store was used between 1854-1920. Closed down when the gold ran out. The banks of the creek are not natural, mostly made up of tailing clay from mining. Old shallow shafts made for good dump holes after use. This was a common practise. Did a few hours mding until the speaker wire broke. Got tangled in the under growth and dead trees.So spent the rest of the day bottle digging.Here my bottle finds and ring and one small piece of gold.

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Aussie Okie said:
Nice finds Tinpan, anywhere near Ballarat?

okie 80 miles east of ballarat .
 

Hi Tinpan, that tiny piece of gold must have took some finding :o
 

Okay I use to have a place in Lyonville, in between Dayleford and Trentham.
 

who doesn't like finding blues :thumbsup:
 

Don't remember the name for the bottles but the one in the middle 1 st pic of bottles...does that have a marble as the closure?
 

nice gold and sweet glass :icon_thumleft: MR TUFF
 

love those bottles mate..great finds all round..you beaut....
 

creeper71 said:
Don't remember the name for the bottles but the one in the middle 1 st pic of bottles...does that have a marble as the closure?

That would be a Codd bottle creeper.

Nice group of finds tinpan, would love to get on an old bottle dump around here.
Happy Hunting,
hill
 

Nice going on the bottles. Always liking sodas and the case gins, the gold is a nice bonus. :icon_thumright:
 

Love the old bottles!
 

Very collectible bottles in great condition. :headbang:
 

hi all, Thanks for the replies. Most of these types of bottles are common finds. The wedding band is only 375 % gold .


tinpan
 

Cool bottles, Tinpan :icon_thumright: You got that elusive Codd (at least for me). I've always found them necked >:( including 2 rare ones. One guy invited me to dig out a tip on his property and he told me that he picked whole Codds on the surface but I had to return to Melbourne that day. 3 months later I returned to find out that he sold his estate.
 

great finds love the glass alls you are missing are old coins and you have shot the gambit of treasure in one day gratz :headbang:
 

Nice bottles bud! I love bottle diggin almost as much as relic hunting...heck its all treasure to me :icon_thumleft: :wink: Like that old torpedo bottle in the first pic :icon_thumleft: :wink:
 

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