When the weather gets warm and the ground gets hard, in the flatlands, the high country is the place to be if your looking to dig some bottles.
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Even though taxpayer funded non profit entities like the Nature Conservatory are gobbling up huge tracts of land in the Sierra Nevada mountains and closing them to public access there is still plenty of private property to dig in the Sierra's - not all of the ground is public domain and off limits to diggers.
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Two examples of high country digging. Even though these are early eastern blown bottles they come out of the ground as clean as the mountain air.
Old Cutter's was famous for saying " just give em' a good blast with the garden hose and they will come out clean as a whistle"
Even though taxpayer funded non profit entities like the Nature Conservatory are gobbling up huge tracts of land in the Sierra Nevada mountains and closing them to public access there is still plenty of private property to dig in the Sierra's - not all of the ground is public domain and off limits to diggers.
A nice early eastern spice bottle
Two examples of high country digging. Even though these are early eastern blown bottles they come out of the ground as clean as the mountain air.
Old Cutter's was famous for saying " just give em' a good blast with the garden hose and they will come out clean as a whistle"