Bottle/dump digging

[Magageddon]

Anyone else bottle hunt or dig trash pits?

I've been working one spot for a few years now on and off and hit a really good layer this weekend. I'm mainly going for local stuff, so finding the hawley pa hutch bottle today was a bucket lister find for me and the 1914 porcelain license plate was a surprising find too, usually anything iron coming out of that spot turns to dust

Also found an old green/white swirl porcelain gear shift knob, gonna have to save that for a future car build

[NONOBLITUS]

I love digging in old bottle dumps. I luck out because being a land surveyor I’m on lots of old farms in some towns. I have a bin full of old bottles at my office.

[autococker04]

I used to go telegraph insulator hunting with my dad a lot. We would mostly go along railroad tracks, but the more dedicated hunters would look for old outhouses. For whatever reason insulators ended up in those along with all the bottles.

[Chuck E Ducky]

I found a bunch years ago when I did excavation. We were building a bunch of high end home’s along the Hudson River in NY. I found a bunch of bottles and those insulators digging foundations and screening top soil.

[redsquirrel]

The father of one of my childhood friends would go digging for bottles in NYC and then photograph them. Always loved looking at the detail in the pictures and have a few hanging in my house now.

https://www.zacharymillerantiques.co...rt/glasslands/

[Cdn_Cuda]

Did a minor Reno on my 70s house and found two bottle of Pepsi in the wall.

[Carp]

Dumps and assorted other locations... I've found things, of the glass and glazed stuffs... from Maine, to Florida. And as far west as, California...dumps in New England area, railroad station/stops n' old homestead place's...out westerly. 🤫

[Ecapnation]

There's a pretty neat place off the coast of Brooklyn on Long Island called glass bottle Beach I have not gone I have a few friends I've been. It's also known as dead horse Beach because it was a dump that the city used to leave their horse corpses and other refuse. The only things that have survived over the 100-ish years are horse bones and interesting glass bottles.

There's also a place I've been meaning to go to with a friend of mine right near where I live currently that used to be a dumping ground 200 years ago he has come up with some interesting perfume bottles and other things.

[NONOBLITUS]

Nothing that old on the back wall of an old farm but still had time to poke around a bit.