First time posting here

[Angela (Australia)]

Hi All,
this is my first time posting on this forum. I'm an avid bottle and relic hunter. I happened to stumble across a bottle dump detecting with my Quattro, and pulled out about 150 bottles! Here's a pic of some of them. Cheers Angela

 

[ED-NH]

Holy crap!!!!! You stumbled on a great OLD dump. Those small inks look like burst top inks. The spiral hawk wines are awesome!!!! Great finds.

 

[MK_(MO-snakedigger)]

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[Angela (Australia)]

Hi again,
Here's another pic of more bottles from the same dump, some from one prior. Both dumps were found within 500m of each other, near an old 1800s hospital, that's now used as a B and B.

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Spanky]

I was kinda looking to see what else is on this forum and saw your photo. It reminds me of my parents cottage in Northern Ontario. They bought an acre of land on a hill over looking a lake. Interesting thing is that the hill was used to dump farm house materials. Tons of bottles and nick knacks. My mother has them all over the cottage but not on a nice set of shelves like yours. I'll have to tell her.

Fascinating history !

Thanks for sharing !

 

[Angela (Australia)]

Hello Spanky,
and thank you for the nice comment! I reckon your parents are very fortunate to have found a dump of their own. The nick knacks would have been interesting too I'm sure. I've also found china doll parts, tea set parts and many other interesting relics that all tell a story about our past ancestors.
Cheers Angela

 

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[Brandon/ny]

I started diggind at age 6 and spent as much time as I could in the woods. Only kept the blue glass and swamp root bottles, since I didn't know which were the real good ones. Found all kinds of relics including money clips, old pipes even silverware I still use. i was sorting thru my moms basement since she felt now that i bought a home I could alleviate her of some junk. Well God bless her soul, she saved every piece of old junk I had ever brought home. Much of the stuff was junk, but just seeing it again, brought back many good memories of digging the dumps and knowing she saved all the stuff brought tears of joy. Anyway, glad I stopped by and will have to take some pics. Have a good one.

 

[Brandon/ny]

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[Angela (Australia)]

Gi'day Brandon,
Sorry I didn't see this post till after I repied to the top one on this page! I'd love to see some pics if you can manage it at some stage! It's surprising what's junk to one, may be someone else's treasure. Never think you own junk! Just imagine, in one hundred years it'll be someone's treasure. Shame we may not be alive to see that happen! Okay, enough morbidity!!!
Appreciate your posts!
Cheers Angela

 

[Spanky]

is a lot of history and to be honest the quality was better back then or we would not be finding anything. Coins are a good example. Todays coins disolve in the ground very quickly because they are cheaply made. Coins from years ago will be in the ground for ever. To think that people are still finding Roman coins and yet I pull out new 2002 coins that are so full of holes its hard to tell they are coins.I love the old slogans on bottles as well as the shapes,colours and sizes....very interesting hobby.I'll have to do some detecting on my mothers cottage to see what other treasures she may have missed.I know she has found pieces that belonged to a silver tea set.

Cheers!

 

[Angela (Australia)]

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[GreyWolve]

That is one beautiful dig. Used to dig for bottles all the time. I have a few decent ones from my area in Pennsylvainia. They dont even compare to what I see people finding here. A really great dig Angela and a pleasure to see the pictures.

Happy Digging

 

[Angela (Australia)]

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