Are You a Dumpdigger?

Have you ever heard of a “dumpdigger?” I hadn’t until I came across this picture on Wikimedia Commons.

Dumpdiggers use antique maps and other historical records to locate very old properties and then systematically search the land for old garbage dumps using metal detectors and shovels. They find things like early American pottery, antique glass bottles and stoneware, saloon pipes and porcelain dolls heads, civil war relics and British Navy relics, military collectibles, coins, toys and tools....