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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 bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also 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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