11/14/04

    Steve and I hooked up for our weekly dig. I didn't see a bank thermometer, but it sure was crisp and cold. I am sure the ground will be frozen before we know it!

    We had a couple tunnel projects lined up. We picked the one that felt the oldest and went for it. This one was under the garage and a little deeper than normal. What a pain. It was tough laying on our sides scooping out small shovels of dirt. To make a story  short, there were a few pontil slicks and some whole smooth base bottles including: Arnica Liniment with and extra ghost "T", French Extract Rochester NY, Burnett's Cocaine, Dr Jaynes, etc. There were a couple criers including a pint smooth base scroll flask, Spensor's fruit jar, and a green master ink.

    Not wanting to get into a another tunnel job, we moved over to a different neighborhood. This place is owned by a  coworker of mine, Ryan. It didn't take long to find the pit along the back fence line and the dig was on. Right off the bat, we ran into some ABM stuff, bunk whiskeys and slick meds. Steve did manage to find a set of dentures! Nice! There were a lot of bottles, nothing to fantastic. We found a bunch of light bulbs and 37 Franco American bottles. Must have been some good stuff.

Ryan showing off a couple finds

Steve and the take from pit 1

Dentures?!?!!

Harlow Ott from Madison

    The next pit was in the corner. Somebody must have been sick in that house. There were a ton of slick and embossed meds. We were hoping for a soda or beer though. A couple times we got pumped up only to pull out a blob that was unembossed. Steve found a statue of Jesus on one of his turns. You have to wonder why he ended up in the crapper.

Start of pit 2

Steve and the Jesus statue

Who needs a horseshoe when you have Jesus looking over your shoulder!

It's amber, looks like a soda or beer..........

Of course it wasn't embossed

Conner and Son med

Duffin

Take 2

 After we finished up this one, Steve found yet another pit. It was getting to close to dark, and it was Sunday. I talked to the Ryan the owner, and he said we were welcome to come back and open that one another day.