Digging Antique Bottles in a new dump that is producing bottles from all over the United States! You truly never know what you will find when you are digging up history! We dig in some incredibly ...

And then there were five. When William James Beal crept out under cover of night and buried 20 uniform bottles filled with a mixture of soil and seed in 1879, he lit the fuse on agriculture’s longest ...

W earing chest waders and armed with a flashlight, gloves and pitchfork, Nick Fredsall of Stockbridge is ready to start hunting. His prey — century-old bottles. ¶ The ideal day for a dig is the sunny ...

We joined a massive group bottle dig filled with families, collectors, and history lovers. From early 1900s glass to rare embossed bottles, everyone found something special. It was a day of discovery, ...

In 1879, botanist William J. Beal filled 20 bottles with soil and seeds and buried them on what is now Michigan State University’s campus grounds. In April 2021, the 16th bottle was unearthed, and its ...

What many see as trash, Ned Clarke sees as treasure. Traversing the western states, the Marin native searches through piles of excavated mud and dirt for remnants of the buried and unforgotten past, ...

To history experts, the scenario goes something like this: A Union officer stationed on enemy Southern soil drops a handful of iron nails into a bottle, adds some personal effects — clippings of his ...

GREENWICH — For two hours a day, low tide along Long Island Sound exposed a mud bank that conceals antique glass bottles, pottery, marbles, hotel tokens, pocket watches and coins. But when the tide ...

Eddie Goodall had been metal detecting for 20 years before he took up bottle digging "Each one's a memory to me. I've got hundreds of bottles, but I can look at a certain one and it takes me back to ...

Minnesota is full of all kinds of collectors. They can grow their collections through flea markets, estate sales and even eBay. Mark Youngblood built up his old bottle collection by digging down. "I ...