so now I have gridded about 100 square miles of desert over the decade and know where pretty much every mineral deposit, old bottle dump, and Indian village is. I have an extensive antique barbed wire collection
Interesting. The property we live on was a farm at one time and they used to throw their bottles in one place. The picture below shows some of the ones I have unearthed and saved over time. I have also dug up strands of barb wire as well which I have just strung along our fence.
The bottle on the left in the picture is the exact same bottle.