‘NEAR CARCOAR’, Central West NSW: The hunt for old bottles in ash tips

[@WharfSomewhere]

Join Me on an old tip somewhere..

[@seandefreitas2699]

I bet that codd had the heart pumping when you were digging it out , could so easily have been a coat of arms Derwins, Persist with that second spot, Lots of junkers but there are crown seal ginger beers in that tip , I've dug quite a few Newlings Cowra , Brown Bronger bros Penrith and all white Fred Hayes Murrurundi GB's (These have all been broken but have all come out around that fence where you are digging) , Lots of Forbes crown seals on side closest to the houses, mostly Lachlan Cordial Factory Dumpies and 13oz sets up's and Lewis Forbes 13oz crown seals. The old building across the road on the corner with all the solar pannels on the roof was the pub before the pub that's in use now so I'd say most of the bottles came from there. Don't stress about the people in those houses around that spot, I dug there many times and they couldn't care less in fact one of them told me to come dig in their paddock becouse the dump goes through it. Anyways it isn't a great spot by any means but if you persist there I'm sure you'll score a good ginger beer.

[@WharfSomewhere]

gday Sean:) yeah i havent been to carcoar since '86 with my late dad where dug broken lamonts (not derwins-just plain) down below the bridge. this time I found a tip upstream behind the houses and I'm surprised how easy to find; there's still heaps of rubbish at carcoar and one day when cooler I hope to get there and hit it harder. that tip I dug is a creek-side ash tip-v deep and keeps going but its just not rich enough with glass; good age. LOT of ash between bottles and I hate that. Its very soft ash and not hard to dig but you need a big heart to keep going. So I abandoned it. I'm not the worlds best digger and tend to give up if Im not digging in very rich rubbish with lots broken glass and tins (I love tins) some going back 1900-1910 . For the Australian Brewery I need 1885-1900 though. I reckon the codd was paper label derwin possibly. The other tip so much of the tip is still undug I realise and there actually is some real good age there and def good enough; patches of late gear 1929-33 though and I try keep out of that. the gingers seem constrained to the other side in 1 area against fence but it wasn't thick; its taken me a while now to understand it; I found one area that was right on the edge of the cliff that was real old down in the hard clay going back id say 1905; broken Dawson Duff town, mangled codds and early rolled lip small chemists-v old.Later they rolled that late 20s' crap on top. Its not a deep tip but there are bottles in it and Im hoping one day Ill get a bloody ginger..:) far out I haven't had the luck (I'm not the world's luckiest digger Good bottles seem to avoid me like the plague:) around near the centre seems to be 1920-22 which is perfect age I want and there's a big section still to be dug on a cool day. Yeah def pub rubbish there and its interesting. I wasn't aware the house over road was a pub. I thought maybe the rubbish came frm the main pub. However geez id luv to know where the main pub were dumping-must have produced a lot of rubbish from the main pub. People never bother me. Ive been there 4 times now. Lovely to be in the bush. still heaps rubbish out that way and If the God grants me lot more years Ill give it a good bash out there one day. Love the bush. cheers mate.

[@seandefreitas2699]

@@WharfSomewhere It's funny you talk about tins because that's what I collect now, I'm active on rare early tins but still have all my bottles. I was never a lucky digger but I was a good digger and moved so much dirt that I would eventually score something decent and I used to dig every weekend for years around hear , I got a very nice green Derwins 3 c's crown seal right near where you park your car to walk into that spot I also dug an enamel sign and a clean skin ginger beer in the same ash heap but most of the rubbish is around that old quarry, Best bet is to dig straight down of the edge around that big peppercorn tree, you dig through all that loose garbage until you hit that nice ash layer on the bottom and that's were the better bottles are but that's a winter undertaking imo.