Are you trying to say Aussie's drink a lot!!!!!!

In the Pilbara (Western Australia) bottles were used for most garden bed
borders at the port of Cossack and the hotel at Bella Bella had its whole
floor made from upturned bottles (well it was a bit marshy in the
mangroves). Sadly bottle hunters have dug up the lot. The bloke who dug up
the hotel floor took two bottles and smashed the rest. There is a house wall
made of bottles in the Goldfields I believe, that has faired better.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John R Hyett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: WW I air service


> I can't help with WW1 airfields but some 40 years ago (long before I ever
> thought of becoming an Archaeologist) I worked on fencing the airport in
> Cooktown in far north Queensland, Australia. This airfield was used, I
> believe, by Australian and American forces in the Pacific War. Some of the
> features I noted were
> 1) Parking areas for planes set off among the trees and accessed by roads
of
> the main runway
> 2) Piles of shell cases discarded from the planes machine guns (evidently
> fired while on the ground)
> 3) Foxholes? Machine gun nests? Hollows set in the ground with earthern
> banks and some evidence of roofing, with spaces for the gunners to fire
> through
> 4) Garden beds and paths lined with empty beer bottles buried neck first
> into the ground (well it is hot in the tropics and I suppose you have to
get
> rid of the empties somehow)
> Hope this is of some use
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McAlexander, William" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:04 AM
> Subject: WW I air service
>
>
> > After spending some of the weekend pestering people at the South Central
> > Historical Archeology Conference 6, I was copping names and e-addresses
> > down, when a thought occurred to me.  Why not pester the Histarc list?
> >
> > I hope to soon contact the landowner(s) to ask for permission to
> investigate
> > a WW I air field here in Arkansas.  Before doing so, I would like to
know
> if
> > anyone has done so previously, or could point me in the direction of
> someone
> > who has or is conducting research along those lines.
> >
> > Before going out, I'd like to have an idea of what possible features
could
> > look like.  I suspect they'd be similar to normal early 20th Cent.
> military
> > deposits, but I feel its best to get as thurough a background as
possible,
> > before causing problems.
> >
> > Simple minded me, I believe that it would be a good idea to have a list
of
> > possible scenarios of what could happen or not to better explain to
> > landowner(s) what and why I 'd like to go out poking around.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help given.  If any do not wish to post to the list,
> here
> > is how I can be reached elsewhere.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > William McAlexander
> > Arkansas State Hwy. and Trans. Dept.
> > 10324 I-30 P.O. box 2261
> > Little Rock, Arkansas 72203
> > (501) 569-2078
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