jgas
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Hello all Treasure Hunters, jgas here once again. I know its been a long time, too long really, that I have posted anything. Doesn't mean I have not been digging. Just means that computer technology stinks sometimes and mine has been on the fritz as of late. But here we are back up and running...and digging 
. So as you can see in the pictures we started out with a pure ash pit. Two bottles in it. 1890's ash too so we can't stand that stuff. Really dry and powdery. But light weight to toss back into the pit. 
So off to the next one on the other side of the yard. It felt really good. Hard pack all the way past 4 feet then bammo, the top of the use layer. Hit glass on the first poke. Sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes it's not. The reason I say that is because if you probe and probe enough to get the perimeter of the pit located and you hit glass everytime, in our experience we seem to find that most of the glass is shattered. If you hit glass every three or four pokes then the glass seems to be more intact. Whole bottles just under a void in the Use Layer. 
So we started digging and wouldn't you know it a water pipe right through the top of the pit. 
We had to move a bit and come into it from the side a bit. No biggie jut more exercise! 
On down we go through a seriously hard pack of dirt and small gravel like rocks. At about 5 feet Don uncovers the first Looker! And the first Cryer! Thought it was going to be whole but it was blasted. Don was wiped out from digging through this huge cap so I went in and found a nice pickle jar. It was whole so it was looking up. But soon enough as we entered the Use Layer we could easily see that whomever was living here had a bucket up top and was smashing everything. The occasional inkwell and other smaller meds arrived but nothing great. Then the next super cryer. The shattered Manitou Bitters with the Indian on the front. I think that might be a decent Bitters. If anyone knows more about it please let me know. Then we found a decent Hutch and the bottom. Don located another Cryer as he pulled out parts of a honey amber Chapin and Gore Chicago strapside flask. Ugh....It just didn't want to give up a good one today. But at least the computer is not broken and I will be documenting a ton of digs as we go. Hope the weather holds a bit more before we hang up the probes and shovels for the winter. Good Luck to all of you out there. It's great to be back! 
jgas
. So as you can see in the pictures we started out with a pure ash pit. Two bottles in it. 1890's ash too so we can't stand that stuff. Really dry and powdery. But light weight to toss back into the pit. So off to the next one on the other side of the yard. It felt really good. Hard pack all the way past 4 feet then bammo, the top of the use layer. Hit glass on the first poke. Sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes it's not. The reason I say that is because if you probe and probe enough to get the perimeter of the pit located and you hit glass everytime, in our experience we seem to find that most of the glass is shattered. If you hit glass every three or four pokes then the glass seems to be more intact. Whole bottles just under a void in the Use Layer. So we started digging and wouldn't you know it a water pipe right through the top of the pit. We had to move a bit and come into it from the side a bit. No biggie jut more exercise! On down we go through a seriously hard pack of dirt and small gravel like rocks. At about 5 feet Don uncovers the first Looker! And the first Cryer! Thought it was going to be whole but it was blasted. Don was wiped out from digging through this huge cap so I went in and found a nice pickle jar. It was whole so it was looking up. But soon enough as we entered the Use Layer we could easily see that whomever was living here had a bucket up top and was smashing everything. The occasional inkwell and other smaller meds arrived but nothing great. Then the next super cryer. The shattered Manitou Bitters with the Indian on the front. I think that might be a decent Bitters. If anyone knows more about it please let me know. Then we found a decent Hutch and the bottom. Don located another Cryer as he pulled out parts of a honey amber Chapin and Gore Chicago strapside flask. Ugh....It just didn't want to give up a good one today. But at least the computer is not broken and I will be documenting a ton of digs as we go. Hope the weather holds a bit more before we hang up the probes and shovels for the winter. Good Luck to all of you out there. It's great to be back! jgas
