Stone Bottles history/worth?

[greenacres]

Sometimes bottles will actually float up. When we were building houses in Manyunk  We hit a landfill from the turn of the century. We had to put in pilings. It was sand and seashells. The bottles would be lying on the ground the next day.

[bigwull]

you want to stay off the G&T,s... ...btw, i don,t hate your chair....i,m just low on firewood....

[mart]

She is right Wullie !! They will float up !!

[greenacres]

Bigwull, lol  I have some bills you could burn.

[bigwull]

Did,nt take you for a G&T person....more like...a coors..sort of person...float up...in the middle of a New Hampshire forest....you sure you,ve not been taking some of my RD,s...

[bigwull]

Bigwull, lol  I have some bills you could burn.

...the problem with bill burning..is the senders always have back up copies...

[greenacres]

Lol

[ghopper1924]

If he was digging the foundation, that implies that there must have been a foundation to dig, whether there was a house there or not. A quick trip to the county seat could get you the tax and/or building history of the lot, and therefore a useful range of dates.  You could do it with a single visit or even a phone call.

[bigwull]

If he was digging the foundation, that implies that there must have been a foundation to dig, whether there was a house there or not. A quick trip to the county seat could get you the tax and/or building history of the lot, and therefore a useful range of dates.  You could do it with a single visit or even a phone call.

..Yep, no house, the land was just a patch of woods on a dirt road. Makes you think though, who had these way out in the middle of nowhere?....No house...implies no foundation..."he was digging the foundation of a new house that was going to sit on the patch of woods....

[ghopper1924]

I work 40 hours a week with archaeologists and no house most definitely does not imply no foundation. If it did they'd all be out of work!

[bigwull]

I work 40 hours a week with archaeologists and no house most definitely does not imply no foundation. If it did they'd all be out of work!

this argument has no basis of a foundation...perhap s the topic starter should have said...I was digging a New foundation for a new House that I planned to build on this patch of woods in the middle of nowhere...

[mart]

I think they may not have old house sites in the UK !!  I have hunted many of them with metal detector where only a foundation was left !!  A line of bricks or rocks !!  No house !!

[ghopper1924]

I think they may not have old house sites in the UK !!  I have hunted many of them with metal detector where only a foundation was left !!  A line of bricks or rocks !!  No house !!

That seems strange,  but OK. Over here people routinely excavate old foundations for houses that are no longer extant. Its called historic archaeology. Bottles like these are often found.

[bigwull]

this is like the like taking 3 steps forward then 2 back....he said there was no house there, he was not looking for old foundations of a non existent house...he was excavating in order to make a new foundation for a house that he wanted to build...are you with me.....

[ghopper1924]

The question really seems to be are YOU with ME, the answer being 3 steps back...