Digging up Dirt

Well, actually, there seems to be as much glass in our dig site as there is dirt. Not to mention rust. Plenty of that. Yeah, I guess this requires explanation. My friend Morgan and I are digging in my backyard. About five or so years ago, some of our local gophers pushed some pieces of glass to the top in an area toward the back of my property. My younger sister and I decided to investigate. Though most of what emerged were the broken pieces of old bottles, dishware and various other old things, several fully intact pieces came out of it as well. We continued our digging all summer but once school started up again, we gave up on it. The project lay unattended for all this time. Recently, another of our pesky little neighbors (I do mean the gophers) pushed a fairly large piece roughly 70 year old glass to the surface. When I noticed it, it reminded me of our long ago project. My sister had no interest in the dirty work of "excavating artifacts" and so I called my friend, Morgan. She readily agreed. And now there are buckets and buckets of glass, metal and pottery sitting in my bedroom. Its alot more slow-going this time as we are being much more careful and having dug in only two places so far, the pieces we are finding likely go together which will make it much easier to sort them out. Currently I am only missing a few pieces to a large white dinner plate. Its only about 80 years old as compared to some of the things I have that date to the 1880s but its still a really fun project. Lengthy explanation over, the point of this seemingly pointless little rant was to voice my excitement at having found a piece of a very old whiskey bottle with the label actually mostly intact, as well as a Rum bottle with part of the name still on it, (the labels on the buried bottles rarely survive) and a metal spring which also survived its stay in the ground. Yayness.