Digging in New Lexington

By Josh Guisinger; posted October 26, 2006

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This is some of the pieces I have recovered so far. For reference, the brown skirt is 5 3/4" tall, by 4 1/2" wide. The other pieces are firsts for me, I have no idea what they were for, but they are pieces that were broken before they were put together. The original grade is now between 10 and 12' below the current grade, and all these pieces have come from the very bottom. I'm sure a lot of people are going to doubt that this stuff is from New Lexington, but I have been very careful in keeping track of date signs. I know this hole is in original fill, it has not been used for anything else, and the pieces(which were covered with 6' of broken molds, used to make insulators before 1912), and the 2 frags I found with 1904 dates, and the broken T&S bottle that was at the bottom which dates before 1910. I'm thinking 2 ways, either Consumers kept making insulators there, or New Lex was responsible for making a lot more than we already know.

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