19th Century bottle Digging.Digging up the past to preserve it for the future.

Digging/collecting Antique Bottles/privy digging/dump digging

Assorted privy pits *

                    A turds eye view of the world.

 

 

 

              A ray of hope shines on a privy digger.

 

     A 6 by 22 foot brick lined privy that had 600 1860s 70s & 80s bottles.

        Most  privies  around this area are from 4 to 6 feet deep. 

 

    A square wood lined privy.What they used mostly in our area.

 

    Digging in the winter and  through solid ground. shows we love our hobby.

  

         Digging in the summer.Sometimes you have to cheat a little .

  

    A huge double wood liner,and the famous probe swallower ha.

  

        Paul inspecting a piece down in a 1850s barrel liner.

  

   Me down in a 1870s barrel lined privy with a sheaf of wheat flask.

  

          Digging out a whole 1870s china white tea kettle.

  

       1840s Summer tree flask at the end of the clay cap off.

  

    A big 1830s-60s double wood liner, the pit the puce Eagle flask came from.

  

                    The summer tree flask came out whole!

  

    A old river stone lined pit.Dug on the outskirts of Allentown Pa

  

    Once in a while we have to dig through black top to get to the privy's.

  

                            A farm stone lined privy.

  

     A deep bricked lined well..wells are a gamble to dig.A lot of work for not a lot of glass.

  

     A cinder lined wall privy.These were made around 1890s

   

                    A wood liner dug in February 2007

  

                  A tunnel pit sported by a mini mine shaft.

  

       A nice Harrisburg squat from a 1870s wood lined privy.

  

 

     A 20 foot brick liner.(see Highway to hell privy dig) Video

      

 

       Another deep brick liner! This one had barely anything in it!

    

 

 

 

  

   

   

 

 

 

   

   

 

   

 

  

  

   

 

          

   

  

 

 

 

 

  

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