NJKLAGT
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At my burnt down house spot there is a cellar hole that I never really payed too much attention to. I once found an amber cider jug near the surface of all the ash but assumed that it was thrown on top much later and that there was nothing underneath. I've dug a couple test holes near the middle and got through about a foot and a half of ash and debris without finding anything at all.
There's a lot of rusted metal in the form of stove parts and buckets and chairs and bed frames, and there are massive rocks everywhere - the foundations that were bulldozed into the middle. It's all grown in with trees and vines and it's just an absolute disaster. I knew that if I ever got around to digging it, it would be the most exhausting and discouraging dig ever.
Well, at first it was just that. I moved what felt like thousands of pounds of ash, wood, bricks, and rocks. I ripped out vines and sawed through roots and got cut up by rusted cans, all for nothing but an aching back. But, as all of you know, this hobby is just as much - probably even more - about hard work and persistence as it is chance and good luck.
I reluctantly went back the next day, having no idea why I was drawn to the cellar to break my back for nothing again. I decided to try a different side of the cellar. I hauled off the rocks to wrestle with the metal to rip through the roots to root through the ash, and finally I heard that 'ding'. It was a blank beer, but I didn't care, because it was something. I ended up discovering a clot of about fifty bottles from around 1910-1925, all larger sodas and beers, and these are the ones I took home. These are a lot more modern in contrast with the things I've found in the house section, but I still had a great time pulling them out. I didn't have any of these yet.
Being fairly close to Brantford, these A.E. Burke sodas are quite common. The clear one has a big bruise on the back but I'm still happy to have found it. The Montgomery mineral waters are common too, but I've never seen one in this size. Every bottle that I took home is around 11 inches tall. In the 'other' department we have a Diehl beer from Defiance, Ohio, a George Norris & Company soda from Detroit, an Associated Bottlers Limited bottle from Toronto, and a Huebner beer from Toledo.
So, I won't be ignoring those cellar holes anymore. I've still got half of this one to get through - who knows what's hiding along those other walls!
Thanks for looking everyone, and good luck out there!
NJK
There's a lot of rusted metal in the form of stove parts and buckets and chairs and bed frames, and there are massive rocks everywhere - the foundations that were bulldozed into the middle. It's all grown in with trees and vines and it's just an absolute disaster. I knew that if I ever got around to digging it, it would be the most exhausting and discouraging dig ever.
Well, at first it was just that. I moved what felt like thousands of pounds of ash, wood, bricks, and rocks. I ripped out vines and sawed through roots and got cut up by rusted cans, all for nothing but an aching back. But, as all of you know, this hobby is just as much - probably even more - about hard work and persistence as it is chance and good luck.
I reluctantly went back the next day, having no idea why I was drawn to the cellar to break my back for nothing again. I decided to try a different side of the cellar. I hauled off the rocks to wrestle with the metal to rip through the roots to root through the ash, and finally I heard that 'ding'. It was a blank beer, but I didn't care, because it was something. I ended up discovering a clot of about fifty bottles from around 1910-1925, all larger sodas and beers, and these are the ones I took home. These are a lot more modern in contrast with the things I've found in the house section, but I still had a great time pulling them out. I didn't have any of these yet.
Being fairly close to Brantford, these A.E. Burke sodas are quite common. The clear one has a big bruise on the back but I'm still happy to have found it. The Montgomery mineral waters are common too, but I've never seen one in this size. Every bottle that I took home is around 11 inches tall. In the 'other' department we have a Diehl beer from Defiance, Ohio, a George Norris & Company soda from Detroit, an Associated Bottlers Limited bottle from Toronto, and a Huebner beer from Toledo.
So, I won't be ignoring those cellar holes anymore. I've still got half of this one to get through - who knows what's hiding along those other walls!
Thanks for looking everyone, and good luck out there!
NJK
