jgas
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Hello all fellow diggers. Today we got a chance to open a fairly large plug and start our journey downward. Of course we began with setting up the dig site. We always do our best to leave the area as original as possible. So we started out with some serious bricks blocking every shovel jab. Ugh I hate that. But at least maybe the bricks didn’t make it to the use layer. We were about 2 feet down or so and found a straight layer of bricks that appeared to bisect the center of the pit. Kinda strange. More digging and now into small field stones. A pile of em good for any rock garden!
Finally through all of the stones and bricks and now about 5 feet down we started hitting some glass. Mostly small slick meds and a shattered confection jar from Saint Louis. Then out pops a nice Jacob Jahn pint blob beer. A decent one from these parts. Then a good looking blob pops up only to have an empty slug plate. Ugh. A whole crier!! We were around 1890 or so and out pops a Lockport Gargling Oil. That’s about an 1885 bottle I believe. Great color. Some smashed insulators showed but we were able to save two. A Brookfield and a Hemingray. Some more nice color. I did find the top to the confection jar. It is a Candy Brothers from Saint Louis. Went on to score a perfume and a cool little pharmacy bottle from Lawrence Kansas. Although it has a lip chip it’s still one of the best finds I think. Last bottle to show up whole was a Schenks Pulmonic Syrup. Cool octagonal shaped bottle. I did happen upon a plastic pipe that is flat out bad to the bone. Never see one like this before. It was a huge pit that appeared to be two pits. One side had wines and champagne bottles and the other side was beers and pipes. A his and her special privy. Big hole all filled in and ready for the next. Until next time have fun and be safe out there. Jgas.
Finally through all of the stones and bricks and now about 5 feet down we started hitting some glass. Mostly small slick meds and a shattered confection jar from Saint Louis. Then out pops a nice Jacob Jahn pint blob beer. A decent one from these parts. Then a good looking blob pops up only to have an empty slug plate. Ugh. A whole crier!! We were around 1890 or so and out pops a Lockport Gargling Oil. That’s about an 1885 bottle I believe. Great color. Some smashed insulators showed but we were able to save two. A Brookfield and a Hemingray. Some more nice color. I did find the top to the confection jar. It is a Candy Brothers from Saint Louis. Went on to score a perfume and a cool little pharmacy bottle from Lawrence Kansas. Although it has a lip chip it’s still one of the best finds I think. Last bottle to show up whole was a Schenks Pulmonic Syrup. Cool octagonal shaped bottle. I did happen upon a plastic pipe that is flat out bad to the bone. Never see one like this before. It was a huge pit that appeared to be two pits. One side had wines and champagne bottles and the other side was beers and pipes. A his and her special privy. Big hole all filled in and ready for the next. Until next time have fun and be safe out there. Jgas.
