OCT 9th Digging Results
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving. This is a small dig that took only a few hours. It was a wood lined privy with a concrete foundation around the top. This was probably for the privy to sit on and was located behind an 1880's house.
The pit was beneath a large sandstone slab, and once removed yielded pre-turn of the century bottles 2 inches below the surface.
One unfortunate casualty we suffered was a real nice Merry Christmas flask Dan blew though digging the fill layer off the top. It really is hard not to break a bottle when they are up so high in the pit. Bottles are rarely less than 2 feet below the surface, but care needs to be taken regardless.
We had to battle a very large piece of concrete in the hole, fisrt breaking it in two, then heaving it out to the surface.
After it was all said and done we had just a few nice things. The most interesting being a rootbeer colored threadless insulator that I happend to find in the side of the wall right before Dan started filling the hole back in. It is always a good idea to hop into the hole "fresh" after deciding to fill it in by the last person digging in the hole. Something will always POP out!
These are our specimens we uncovered for the day. Take a look at the brown insulator. For questions concerning the insulator contact Dan at 1-248-437-6104.
Talk to you soon, Scott.
