Youtube video of dig site

 This is a YOUTUBE video of a guy who has been digging on a dump site for months... kind of like I do.  He has quite a collection of bottles and treasures he's found. 

Interesting Article on Hobby Digging

 This article was in USA Today and is an interesting read about people who hobby dig.  Sometimes they even dig in old priveys!  (That's outhouses for those of you who don't know!!)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/19/outhouse-pit-treasures/27598927/

Favorite Finds

Here is a picture of some stuff that I've found in my dig site. I have all of my stuff on display in a bookcase.  The plate I found in pieces, and had to glue them back together. The bottom left is a clock I found, or at least what's left of one. The white bottles are bottles of shoe polish, and the shoe polish is still inside the bottles. And what would an old dump pit be without milk bottles? In the back, as you can see, 2 1 quart milk bottles. 

The beginning

So my house is located next to an abandoned field that used to have an old house on it. During the late 1930's the people who lived there threw away their garbage. Back then the way they threw it away was they buried it. It became a garbage dump. It was either burned or dumped. It's just what people did back then. There was no garbage trucks or garbage service. So one day my cousin and I were messing around with my metal detector and got a signal. We started digging. The first thing I found was a piece of a cast iron stove. Around it, we kept finding more and more pieces. The more we dug the more stuff we found. We continued on and just kept on digging. We found a ton of stuff. Our hole just kept expanding and getting bigger and bigger and the hole is about 4 feet deep. Every layer we keep finding new stuff. This blog tells about some of our treasures.