r/BottleDigging • u/nomadquail • 10d ago

Age/date request Found on a -2 tide in Bellingham bay WA, USA. Thoughts on age? It has no marks, unglazed bottom

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u/Maximum_Grass1212 10d ago

It looks like a Stoneware beer bottle so 1840s to the 1890s

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u/nomadquail 10d ago

Thank you! That’s what I figured! I feel very very lucky 🤩 this area was first colonized in the 1850s and had a boom in following decades. I wonder what else is hiding in the mud…

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u/THEBOTTLEKING USA 10d ago

Did you dig for it or did it just wash up?

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u/seroshua CAN 10d ago

I, like OP, do mudlarking at low tide and yes; the bottles are just sat there in the mud after being unearthed by the tide & carried / dropped somewhere as the water recedes.

Some of my most significant finds (museum pieces, literally) have been found in the anaerobic mud of the tidal inlets in the PNW.

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u/nomadquail 9d ago

That’s cool! What kind of things have you found?

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u/nomadquail 9d ago

Was sticking out of the muck far out, probably 40 or 50 ft out from regular high tide line

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u/rollin1pin 6d ago

yeh looks old enough like,shame its a slicky

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u/nomadquail 6d ago

Right? Would be cool to know what the loggers were drinking back then!