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>>57030442
>100+ year old city garbage dumps
based and comfy.

one of the places where I lived as a kid back in the day, there was an old "bottle dump" we knew of, at the end of an alley in our neighborhood. The alley ended at a deep gully. the gully was well forested and it was easy to sneak around in without anybody seeing. People used to just drive to the end of the alley and throw their trash over the side. so, all along down the hillside, from the top of the gully and directly downhill from there, you could see remnants of old junk partially buried, partially exposed in the hillside.
the dump was from back around WW1 or WW2 era, having not really been used for several decades probably. so, any perishable goods or household type of garbage that would possibly be rotted or stinky, was long since decomposed, so there was no nasty smells or nasty rotting things.

there were things like old car tires and rims, old metal bed frames, random old iron junk like old car frames or ancient cook stoves. any kind of old used discarded goods form people's houses, garages or backyards.
The dump by the time we visited it was well overgrown with grass sod and what not and no longer in use for trash dumping. So, we would go down there looking for treasure sometimes. we found old bottles, old toys, old glass electrical power line insulators, all kinds of stuff. the kind of things you might see at an antiques store.

one our favorite things to do would be to wrestle one of the old just tires from the ground and roll it downhill. the gully was steep and deep, so the tire really went. it was a hoot. Occasionally we found something neat like an intact color glass bottle or old porcelain dishware. probably there was more valuable things lying hidden there.
I've been to other old city dumps similar to this where we would regularly find old copper and silver coins.

>>56674311
wow

>>54500213
>When will my newfound lust for precious metals fade?
I'm going on 15+ years. it hasn't faded, only gotten nice oxidized patina, and stronger, more lustrous. maybe even, dare I say,... Frosty?
arrrgh me shinies. 'til death, do us part

>>54395399
No, that’s 1500s I believe

>>53290557
>Mountain dragon hoard
a beautiful thing

>>53276069
Prospectors? I don’t believe they were