digging for antique bottles...
Most antique bottles and pots you see in collections, show displays or for sale in bric a brac shop's, eBay, show stalls etc were more than likely to have been thrown out into landfill site and covered over and lain undisturbed for many years later to be retrieved by antique bottle digger's, the digging and collecting of bottles really started to take off in the early 1970's and has grown bigger ever since, due to the mass development and regeneration of towns and cities during the late1980's and 1990's many of these old refuse sites have now been cleared and built on but there will always been smaller sites out there full of bottles and other goodies waiting to be found, below is a photo of a group of diggers hunting for antique bottles.
Above: bottles emerging from an ash seam of an old Victorian dump.
Above: a ginger beer bottle freshly retrieved from the ground by a digger.
Above: pot lids and ceramic dolls heads are also found after being thrown out all those years ago.
Above: a disappointment of finding a broken rare coloured Codd bottle.
Above: a fantastic days haul of minerals and ginger beers.
PLEASE NOTE: The information supplied on this page regarding bottle digging is for reference and as a guide, neither this website or the British Antique Bottle Forum or its operators will be held responsible for any action taken by anybody who uses this information for trespassing on private property or causing damage in the pursuit of finding antique bottles.