Hi Pete, a very warm welcome to the forum!
We share a good few interests, and I'm just starting to get a bit more of a serious interest in local history, hence the site(s). Although I'm just an enthusiastic amateur really, no qualifications.
Anyway if you've pushed your genealogy back to Latin then you obviously know your onions so congratulations on that.
Funny you should mention bottle digging - but I claim to be a pioneer
(digging in the 70s) the collection has been boxed up for literally decades and I have never been digging for decades either. But I was thinking about photographing the whole thing and putting it online, it may be of interest to locals what their ancestors were using in the late Victorian/ Edwardian period, as it's all from within a few miles of Amble.
Mike