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East, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh PA
Monongahela riverbank dumps
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: whiskies, pressed glass, ash-dump slag.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Glasshouse and steel city where a century of riverfront fill and ash dumping laid Pittsburgh-district bottles into the Mon and Allegheny banks
Active digger threads on antique-bottles.net and Tribune-Review coverage of Pittsburgh bottle diggers confirm riverbank and fill finds
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Steep riprapBarge wakes, sharp steel and glass in fill, contaminated soil
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