I’m reminded of digging on a farm tip near Warkworth. The tip was at the edge of a field in a wide area of waste between the fence line and the ploughed area. We had permission to dig in the waste but the tip extended into the ploughed area – you could tell by the darkened soil and broken glass in the ploughed soil. This tip was a nightmare – lots of real nice local bottles but all broken. Curiously densely packed in the ground. Normally a tip would be 95% ash or something with household items including bottles making up the rest. This tip was just packed with broken bottles. You could hardly get the fork in. I can only assume the farm had a use for their ash and the bottles might have been broken by kids.
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