Gaye's point is true.  Aussies do drink a fair bit.  So did the Chinese
immigrants to north Queensland.  They used upturned beer champagne bottles
as form work for a concrete path outside the Temple of Hou Wang in Atherton.
Vandals and mowers have smashed quite a few.

Gordon Grimwade

Gordon Grimwade & Associates,
Heritage Consultants,
PO Box 9
Yungaburra,
Queensland, Australia 4872.

Web site <gga.com.au>

A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat.
(Anon)
> From: Gaye Nayton <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:26:38 +0800
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: WW I air service
>
> 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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