Used to brush dirt off with my hands, now I use a $3 toothbrush

Digging last month near the old railroad cut outside Pueblo. Found a small glass bottle, looked like medicine from the 1800s. Old me would've just wiped it with my thumb and called it done. Chipped a pottery shard that way back in 2019, still feel bad about it. Now I carry those cheap multipacks of toothbrushes. Soft bristle, wet it, work in circles. Slow but worth it. Took me 20 minutes on that bottle, but the embossed lettering came out clean. How do you guys clean small finds in the field without wrecking them?

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