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DumpDiggers

A low tech treasure hunter uses vintage maps and steel probes to find and excavate antique bottles and collectibles in forgotten heritage sites.
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  What’s a Dumpdigger? More than treasure hunters who find relics for profit, Dumpdiggers are dedicated research historians committed to recovering and preserving their community’s forgotten heritage. They’re storytellers with a thirst for knowledge. What do they do? Dumpdiggers use old maps, metal detectors, privy rods and spade shovels to unearth early American antique glass bottles, insulators, arrowheads and old coins. They love salt glazed stoneware, pottery, jugs and crocks, enameled cups, porcelain, Civil War era relics and old coins, buttons, toys and tools. They meet here to discuss torpedo bottles, saloon pipes, sodas, bitters, whisky, gingerbeers, medicines, and cobalt blue poison bottles. Every digger worth his salt has found stoneware in a farm dump, or po
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Posted 2/26/08 4:02 PM