First privy dig of 2024! Pontiled 1850's stuff at bottom, odd items and an embossed pontiled ink!
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- This was a brutal 10 foot deep stone lined privy with heavy wet gooey clay. Typically, the best bottle was right under my feet the entire dig and was last bottle out of the hole! I nearly gave up a couple of times as I could find nobody to pull a bucket for me. I eventually had to cut back to lifting half a bucket at a time due to the wet clay weight being too much. What a wimp I've become! Ahhh, for the idea of digging a pit full of light and airy dry soil! Rare in these here parts! Only ones are ash pits void of trash! Arrrg!
Great dig! Nice 1850’s finds!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I like your soothing voice. Nice pontilled ink!
Thank you so much!
DISCO!!
well done; always great to see and save pontilled stuff.....very exhilarating
Thanks for your support! Yeah, I'm always excited with the possibilities a pontil era pit offers, even though they are universally skimpy on the glass in my area.
@@WellAlrightyThen ....on the RIGHT coast here(mid-atlantic area), i have dug pontilled pits for over 30 years and i can still go to many areas where there are 1880 pits to dig with impunity and great regularity....
not the greatest areas but i have never had any issues even though my skin B the wrong colla
lolol
You do have a soothing voice, btw. Love the ink and the marble!!
Nice finds. The C Ellis bottle may be flint glass, which leaves little trace of a pontil. The large amber bottle has the honey-amber color and the styling of a Stoddard short whiskey cylinder. The German shooter marble will shine again if you rub a little mineral oil on it.
Love that ink! 👍
I just recently realized this was my first undamaged EMBOSSED pontiled bottle from my little town. It's mighty stingy my way! Have a few pre-civil war properties up in Hannibal waiting for me to sling dirt. The digging tends to be more productive up there...
@@WellAlrightyThen If you need some help slinging dirt in Hannibal, just let me know. 😁
Good variety to start the year right. Always wonder how different digging tools and probes, just how much damage can occur. Be safe in those deep holes. 😊
Thanks for watching and I hear ya! One reason I prefer extracting with a screwdriver is less chance of damaging the bottle. Reason why I gave up on the three prong garden tool as it is too easy to hook a neck or lip with one of the prongs. Also they create scratches in the glass that can be removed but takes some work. The probe thing is sometimes unavoidable when locating the privy hole, but once you find it, it is a wise thing to not continue probing or over-probing the hole. Something I forget myself on occasion and this was one of those times. When I probe to find the bottom, I have to remind myself this is the gold zone where the oldest of glass resides and best to avoid probing at all. Easy to say, hard to follow! One tool I have yet to try is a sharpened pvc plastic pipe. Looks like it works well, for the most part.
FantasticINK I think ,you deserve a drink,wink!wink!
A drink of ink? Might help me think! The pen IS mightier than the shovel! Unless you run out of ink! Then all ya got is a dart!
Gotta be a 70's 80's pit
Being most pits in these parts were heavily dipped or cleaned out every 20 years or so, this one was no exception. The lime that was still in the use layer looked disturbed and not layered as usually found. In fact I feared another digger 50 years ago may have beaten me to the dig, but due to the compaction of the clay, it would have had to be that long ago to not be easy digging. That said, it is tough to say what time the pit was capped and unused, but I can say that which remained on the bottom came from the early construction of the house in 1858 due to the pontiled bases. I can also state with confidence the glass I dug was primarily from the early to late1860's based on the use of keyed hinge molds and drippy applied tops. It appears to come to an abrupt end at the earliest of the 1870's, again likely from being cleaned out likely more than once. Generally, dippers did not go deeper than the lime layers that formed as the lime rendered recycling any of the fecal matter for fertilizer unusable. This was a common way for dippers to make extra money. All that said, this pit definitely fits a time period of late 1850's to possibly 1890's, allowing for two 20 year cleanouts, leaving little behind in a semi-jumbled state. I was fortunate there was anything left as thorough as they were. Thanks for watching...
All ash is clay now. But is it what should be???