>>20650424Thank you, that's good info. I was thinking the vials might have been ampules for injection, so I have learned a new thing! Tiny pill bottles certainly make sense, that's cool to know.
I agree regarding the lack of fire damage. There's evidence in other areas that the town itself burned down, but I'm not seeing that on this particular trash pile. Also the trash layer isn't particularly deep, maybe a foot or so. Just trash and ashes they tossed out the back door in a pile. The dime I found yesterday is one I should've found in previous visits to the spot. I guess it was either sloppy detecting on my part the first few times around, or perhaps it was standing on edge in the soil and didn't give my detector a wide enough signal for me to notice. It's tiny, but it set the detector off like a tin can would this time around. Not sure how I missed it before. Could've come closer to the surface via frost heaving or prairie dog action but the trash layer really isn't deep enough to hide it.
anyways, this pic is a different saloon midden I've been screening the last couple years. This one also has no bottles, but I've found a handful of tokens in the stove ashes. Most of them burnt to garbage, but one worth a small fortune. Whenever I get time I go screen a couple feet of dirt and see what comes up.
