Art Gose is standing in a 13-foot hole dug straight down into a turn-of-the-century town dump somewhere in South Carolina; he’s asked Free Times not to say exactly where it is. Layers of dirt — ...

Digging Antique Bottles in a new dump that is producing bottles from all over the United States! You truly never know what you will find when you are digging up history! We dig in some incredibly ...

And then there were five. When William James Beal crept out under cover of night and buried 20 uniform bottles filled with a mixture of soil and seed in 1879, he lit the fuse on agriculture’s longest ...

Whether you’re a collector or just curious, bottle digging is a fascinating way to uncover history buried beneath your feet.

Mark McDonald joins Jack Klotz on a dig for bottles in Louisiana, Missouri. Mark McDonald joins Jack Klotz on a dig for bottles in Louisiana, Missouri. Aired 03/11/2022 Illinois Stories is a local ...

In 1879, botanist William J. Beal filled 20 bottles with soil and seeds and buried them on what is now Michigan State University’s campus grounds. In April 2021, the 16th bottle was unearthed, and its ...

To history experts, the scenario goes something like this: A Union officer stationed on enemy Southern soil drops a handful of iron nails into a bottle, adds some personal effects — clippings of his ...