starting a new collection ,Bottles

[irishman254]

Me and Matt decided to investigate an old town site where we live.loggers recently cleared this site and we were lookin for arrowheads at first. Noticing all the broken glass we started picking through it and come up with this stuff in about 30 min. anyone with a little knowledge on age and types of use for the bottle any info would be appreciated..I was thinking some type of medicine but i really have no idea..







Matt found the pendant looks like two powder horns and some blue stone.

think we may have a new hobbie for sure...very cool

[irishman254]

next time i will take a camera for some insitu pics

[DesertWalker]

Looks like turn of the century stuff, about 1900. The bottle may be an olive oil bottle. If you can get in there with a shovel and screen, you could have some fun!

[irishman254]

Went back this evening and found some more stuff....

[rmartin]

Cool stuff! Looks like you are on an old dump site. If it were around here, they dumped stuff down ravines. I agree with DW on the age and I really like the porcelain leg. I have picked up a bunch of them, Ray

[Mud Hawk]

irishman254, cool collection. If you can date any tiny bottles to 1600-1800, you might want to google "laudanum". It was an opium based medicine, infused into alcohol. I think I even looked at laudanum bottles on ebay once, some even had the labels still attached.

[wrenchmandan]

hey Irish , I find alot of the same stuff you have here, many old bottle tops , and I believe that is an arm from a china head doll in the center of the pic with all your pieces
in 1905 a plantation burned to the ground on the hill my home is built on , matter fact we dug into the old cellar floor when digging the foundation for our home in 1977
I have one complete bottle with a label from late 1800's
liquid ginger 1oz,

[irishman254]

Wrenchman, I didnt know it would be this cool looking for bottles and homestead relics but its way cool.. we were looking for arrowheads and got a neat surprise. I would love to see some of your stuff, post if you can

[fldwlkr]

I have over 100 bottles from Ohio ravines. From handblown beer bottles to raised letter Cokes. Here are a few blue glass examples.