Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Hut Excavation & Relics


After months of probing out hut sites and coming up with little to show, I finally got into one that yielded several complete bottles and a few other nice relics.  I had been surface hunting with great success and hoping to get into a deep cache of relics that often comes with huts.  The US buckle was the signal that put me on the hut. Next to the buckle were remains of a soldiers kepi (cloth and buckle) as well as his powder flask.


The shot below shows the recovery of a nice black-glasss Hostetter's bitters pulled from between two rocks adjacent to the firepit.


 The short clip below is of the complete canteen that lay next to the soldier's firebox.  



Sinking a test hole to find the edge of the hut ,opposite the corner where the initial finds were made, put me on yet more glass.  The clip below shows a medicine bottle recovery. More would follow.


 In this video, I've just scraped away the dirt, just to the right of my hand in the video still above and inches from the medicine bottle, exposing the embossed panel of a flask.  The question, as always, is...intact or broken?  My sister was there to record the recovery.




A return visit to the hut firepit yielded the RRR Radway below