For my area that is. The city is doing a street tearout to replace an old clay pipe that runs to the creek. theyre moving quickly, so I would try and go every evening to metal detect the dirt piles after they replaced each section. Two days ago they dug out the area up to the creek, so I walked in there to see if I could find something with my detector. Towards the creekside I saw broken bottles on the ground near an area that was discolored that indicated there was a trash dump there at one time.
I told my hunting buddy about it, who is an avid bottle collector, and the next evening we went over there to dig bottles. I only found a couple of nice bottles before it got dark, while my buddy found more. We went back this morning and started digging again since the crews said they werent going to go that far until next week.
We started finding bottles right away, and I found some that I think are quite interesting:
The dump doesnt seem very thick, but it stretches into the side much farther on both sides of the dig. In my opinion my best find was the medicine bottle with part of the label still attached (Id like to preserve it that way). I was also surprised that the PUREX bottle wasnt broken. I first saw the mouth sticking out, and when I dug the soil out around it and saw how big it was, I figured it would be broken. But it was all there! Finding several bullets was also interesting.
Thanks for looking!
I told my hunting buddy about it, who is an avid bottle collector, and the next evening we went over there to dig bottles. I only found a couple of nice bottles before it got dark, while my buddy found more. We went back this morning and started digging again since the crews said they werent going to go that far until next week.
We started finding bottles right away, and I found some that I think are quite interesting:
The dump doesnt seem very thick, but it stretches into the side much farther on both sides of the dig. In my opinion my best find was the medicine bottle with part of the label still attached (Id like to preserve it that way). I was also surprised that the PUREX bottle wasnt broken. I first saw the mouth sticking out, and when I dug the soil out around it and saw how big it was, I figured it would be broken. But it was all there! Finding several bullets was also interesting.
Thanks for looking!