coinman123
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I think that this would be an interesting idea for a thread. Have any of you found an item that does not fit in with your dump, such as a colonial bottle at an 1890's trash dump or a modern bottle or such in an old trash dump?
Here are a couple things like that I found. I was digging an 1890's trash pit and start shoveling. At this point I am only sampling that small area, looking for fragments of glass or ceramic. I started shoveling and see glass fragments in the dirt I dug up... and a 1988 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure. I'm guessing that some kid was playing there and dropped his action figure. Not a beautiful 1890's bottle but still in my opinion a very fun thing to find.
Here is another strange thing that did not fit in with the dump. I was walking to the good area of a wooded colonial site to metal detect. I had to go through a 1950's dump site to go there. It was all junk, no classic soda bottles or anything worth keeping. It was mostly big pieces of metal, which makes my metal detector go crazy so I do not ever metal detect there. I could see big rusty iron barrels, a broken 1950's push lawn mower, and pieces of unidentifiable metal garbage. The only bottles were just as bad as the pieces of metal, three quarters of the bottles were broken and the rest were ugly screw top beer bottles from companies I have never heard of. I continued walking when I see a big piece of bottle on the surface. Except, This bottle was not junk from the 1950's. At first I did not want to keep it because it was broken but then a few hours later I decided to got back and get it after finding out that it was a mid-1800's rarer variety of a Townshend's Sarsaparilla bottle. I do not think it is worth anything but what was the harm of keeping it?
I could be an old drop of a newer drop, maybe an antique collector from the 1950's had it on his desk and it fell of and broke so he threw it away, But I'm not sure? I dug around for more pieces and other bottle but I found nothing.
I would love to hear if anyone else has had any experiences like this, where they find something that they would not expect to find in a trash pit from a certain time.
I wonder if anyone will ever dig the 1890's trash pit in which I lost my plastic garden shovel 5 feet down?
Coinman123,
Here are a couple things like that I found. I was digging an 1890's trash pit and start shoveling. At this point I am only sampling that small area, looking for fragments of glass or ceramic. I started shoveling and see glass fragments in the dirt I dug up... and a 1988 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure. I'm guessing that some kid was playing there and dropped his action figure. Not a beautiful 1890's bottle but still in my opinion a very fun thing to find.
Here is another strange thing that did not fit in with the dump. I was walking to the good area of a wooded colonial site to metal detect. I had to go through a 1950's dump site to go there. It was all junk, no classic soda bottles or anything worth keeping. It was mostly big pieces of metal, which makes my metal detector go crazy so I do not ever metal detect there. I could see big rusty iron barrels, a broken 1950's push lawn mower, and pieces of unidentifiable metal garbage. The only bottles were just as bad as the pieces of metal, three quarters of the bottles were broken and the rest were ugly screw top beer bottles from companies I have never heard of. I continued walking when I see a big piece of bottle on the surface. Except, This bottle was not junk from the 1950's. At first I did not want to keep it because it was broken but then a few hours later I decided to got back and get it after finding out that it was a mid-1800's rarer variety of a Townshend's Sarsaparilla bottle. I do not think it is worth anything but what was the harm of keeping it?
I could be an old drop of a newer drop, maybe an antique collector from the 1950's had it on his desk and it fell of and broke so he threw it away, But I'm not sure? I dug around for more pieces and other bottle but I found nothing.
I would love to hear if anyone else has had any experiences like this, where they find something that they would not expect to find in a trash pit from a certain time.
I wonder if anyone will ever dig the 1890's trash pit in which I lost my plastic garden shovel 5 feet down?
Coinman123,
