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- Jan 2, 2010
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Whole Civil War Bottle & More!
I've been out a few more times hunting civil war relics since my last post! I thought I'd show you all some of my finds. Me, Rob & Dickie were diggin' out a trash pit only a few feet from each other. All 3 of us were diggin' up broken bottle parts when I uncovered part of one that was under a big tree root. I worked it slowly but in my mind I thought it was going to be broken. But as I pulled it out from under that root the whole thing was there! Man was I happy! I still can't believe in the middle of all those broken bottles there was still a good one waiting for me to find!
I did find it in the crouch's book. It's listed as a whiskey bottle. It has a seam that runs up the side & a concaved bottom. You can also see bubbles in the glass.
I also found a canteen neck with what looks like some letters scratched in it on both sides. Can't figure out what they are though.
Other things are 2 Eagle I coat buttons, 2 regular Eagle cuff buttons, a button back, a belt hook, a 69 cal bullet & 2 58's, a 32 cal S&W bullet with casing, misc lead, a percussion cap and 2 shoulder scale attachments. One still has the little turn knob on it.
I've been out a few more times hunting civil war relics since my last post! I thought I'd show you all some of my finds. Me, Rob & Dickie were diggin' out a trash pit only a few feet from each other. All 3 of us were diggin' up broken bottle parts when I uncovered part of one that was under a big tree root. I worked it slowly but in my mind I thought it was going to be broken. But as I pulled it out from under that root the whole thing was there! Man was I happy! I still can't believe in the middle of all those broken bottles there was still a good one waiting for me to find!
I did find it in the crouch's book. It's listed as a whiskey bottle. It has a seam that runs up the side & a concaved bottom. You can also see bubbles in the glass.
I also found a canteen neck with what looks like some letters scratched in it on both sides. Can't figure out what they are though.
Other things are 2 Eagle I coat buttons, 2 regular Eagle cuff buttons, a button back, a belt hook, a 69 cal bullet & 2 58's, a 32 cal S&W bullet with casing, misc lead, a percussion cap and 2 shoulder scale attachments. One still has the little turn knob on it.
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Great dug bottle!
Good gosh, SB! Yer making it look toooo easy! 
What an amazing bottle! 
You guys are finding some of the BEST stuff!!! 
OH...and I bet that Shark Pit sifter you have would come in handy diggin those out. 
I might be wrong but it looks like a 3-piece mould black (dark-green in reality) glass bottle of mid-19th century with a dimpled pontil bottom. In Australia we call them 'goldfields black' because it was where they were found in the first place. And they usually contained spirits. It's always a miracle to pull out a whole thing from among those shards.
Don't know a scientific term though.
