140 Year Old Map Led Us to a Jackpot at the Bottom of an 1870’s Well 

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It would be interesting to include a segment at the end showing the finds cleaned up so the details are clearer. It’s very interesting to see how the cast-offs and trash of a previous time can be valued as historical and aesthetic artifacts. Thanks for sharing!

Hey everyone. thanks for watching! i just wanted to respond to about a dozen or so comments that said what we have in this video is an outhouse pit, not a well.. just to clarify, this was in fact a well. at no point did we find any signs of human waste (rich browish/red soil speckled with seeds).. the entire well was filled with mostly ash and trash, and in some spots it was gravel, likely where the walls had caved it.. it was lined with timber, which wasnt uncommon in the area for wells, and it went down to at least 19 feet, which is far far deeper than any outhouse pit we've ever come across in the dakotas. (we dug down to about 12 feet, and used a 7 foot probe rod at the bottom, and the whole way down was gravel past where we dug.. its likely that the top of the pit collapsed into the hole and it filled the bottom with several yards of debris at which point it wasnt below the water table. i know it may have been a little confusing that we didnt explain why we thought what we thought in the video, and i appreciate anyone who attempted to let us know. again, thanks for watching everyone. have a great day!

Tom is a remarkable young man...He is very capable of restoring antiques that appear to be beyond the point of no return...Tom is much more than a guy that knows how to dig holes...I have respect for his work ethic....

never in their wildest dreams would these folks ever have thought that someone would dig 12 feet down to recover their trash.

I get mesmerized with your "treasure hunting" and impressed of your historical knowledge of your finds! So fun to watch!

Material values are a second thought , everything is history of our past, you are great, your joy at every find makes me want to watch more well done Sir, thank you greetings from grandpa Pete from France 🇫🇷 👍👍❤️

Brilliant dig! Thanks for taking us along! One of the few channels that I actually watch the video from start to finish. Thanks again!

How bored do I have to be to sit and watch someone dig a deep hole? LOL! No seriously, enjoyed every minute. Watching and waiting for each find big or small.

Tom and Jake, incredible dig, can’t believe how deep you guys went. Great video, we always enjoy watching your digs.

Quite the range of dates on those bottles, must have been filling that we'll up for years. The picture quality looks so good on this video, it's almost just a joy to see the quality. Looks cinematic almost

Excellent work.

Wow, I bet that turned out alot better than you expected. very nice by the way. fun to watch you guys dig these holes. I can only imagine the excitement of actually being there and seeing a bottle come out, and that brief moment in between when you see one and when you pull it out. Sounds like an exhilarating hobby. Really enjoy your channel. please never stop. this video was really good. not just the dig, but the quality, and the way its presented.

We really enjoy your videos! We learn so much and love the advertising that you find to go along with the bottles. We have a small collection of bottles and advertising cards, so it's fun to see them in your videos. Thanks and keep the videos coming guys!

Just mind blowing. Your energy, your understanding of how to accomplish what your doing and your understanding of what you find, and the production of your videos, with historic references, wow. Thanks so much.

Love watching you guys dig up treasures from the past. I find it so relaxing. Thank you for allowing me a glimpse into the past.

That was great! They really loved their horses it seems.

Wow! Thank you for taking me on a trip down my own memory lane. When I was a young boy probably around 13 years old my best friend and I started collecting what was locally known as "civil war" bottles. The name wasn't really accurate because almost any cork top bottle qualified. If there were no machine mold marks on the top then those were our gold. Our very first searches were in a large wooded area that had been the town's dumping ground. At one time it was a waste area eroded with deep gullies that had become filled over the years and then grown over. We rode our bicycles to that area carrying a war surplus trench shovel and a weed rake. when we found a spot on the ground with broken glass, charcoal, pieces of ceramics, and loose gravel-like soil we would start probing the ground. Once we found a bottle or a piece of a bottle that fit the target description we started digging down. From that point on we spent the day almost exactly like this video of you at the bottom of the pit. Luckily for us, we never had to dig more than a few feet down and I don't recall ever being over my head. Watching the video I started remembering many times making the exact same moves. I was reminded of feeling sometimes the frustration of pulling out an earthware jug from the side of the hole. After carefully working at digging around the edges being certain not to possibly break the thing myself only to finally slip it from the ground and find the top is broken. Such heartbreak and then the next few feet or the next day it happens again but the bottle comes free whole and intact. It was digging treasure for me but I don't think my parents agreed when the boxes of bottles started piling up in our utility shed. I was and still am a big fan of the old patent medicine bottles. Some of them had colorful descriptive names embossed on them. One of my favorite bottles was a Rumford Chemical Works just like the one you found. Mine was a kind of bluish-green though whereas others I've seen were strictly green. Thanks again for putting me back in a hole at the city dump digging up antique bottles and having so much fun doing it, too. Enjoy yourselves.

Thanks everyone for watching, liking and commenting, it really helps us out! Enjoy

Thanks for captioning your content, allows me to watch on bus commute. Happy digging. Rich (& Brenda)

My brother collected and dug old bottles up in some historical areas. I enjoyed digging up bottles too. It was fun to watch you discover them in this pit/well.

We had a trash hole on a place we bought in Junction Texas. Rather than cover it we broke out the John Deere and started removing layer after layer of useless junk. It was like a time capsule calendar,the further we went down the cooler stuff we found until we decided to start digging by hand so we wouldnt break any potential cool stuff. Found all kinds of old bottles and other items that were interesting.

I love when you Dig up an old bottle, The feeling is so nice.

Watching you dig up the past sure made me forget about the present days. I enjoyed it. Kind of mesmerizing. I’ll be back for sure.

What happens to all the things you dig up? Do you donate it to the local Historical Society in the area, museums, or does it go to the homeowners? Everything is so interesting to look at and the history you provide is useful to someone like myself that enjoys learning about antique and vintage items. I'm glad I happened upon your channel. I'm hooked.

Thanks for putting your content up in higher quality than 1080p. The fine little details of the stuff you find really shines in 2k and 4K that 1080p wouldn’t let me see

I feel like prairie public should be airing your videos. They are super interesting and well made.

What a deep hole! You are braver than me! Glad you got good stuff for your hard work. It was a very good video 👏 😊 thanks so much!

It really adds to the video to see some of that stuff cleaned up later. That end shot of the bottles was really nice!

I love you're channel! Thank you, your videos brighten my day.

Awesome dig and finds cant wait to see the next one.thanks

Most amazing dig ever! Made me realize how careful you have to be. Thanks for what you do.

I like the historical notes you include. Enjoyable watch.

Wow that pit was crazy deep! Great dig guys

That was simply amazing. You are fearless! Very well done. Thank you.

Glad to see your hard work paid off.... What are you going to do next? I'm hoping you find a canning jar filled with coins...👍🇺🇸

Another great video! Good job guys, be careful out there

Man, that bitters bottle came up out of that hole and I was hoping it was embossed! Pulled some pretty interesting stuff out! I tell people to be careful with digging wells. One caved in when I was in it. Went down 35 ft into water up to my mouth! and I couldn't move. I guess that is whats so helpful about having a digging partner. Hope you guys find some more out holes out there!

You would love the old glass dump we did in

Iron China 🙌 I have collected it for 50 year’s. Thank you for sharing this.

Don't know how I found your channel, but very glad I did. Never thought I would enjoy watching someone dig through human waste and love it.

This one is the deepest I have seen so far. Wow. At least you wont need to fill it back by hand. ThX for the video.

Lime was placed in old outhouse pits to aid decomposition before filling in the old pit.

Sweet hole brotha keep up the good work

We used to wander the grounds at the Pierre airport in the 60's. The Army air base from WWII used to dump their trash in the gullies and the gullies naturally washed out. Mostly found ketchup bottles.

The plate is amazing!

Never a boring minute!!

Wonderful finds on this dig!🌴🍺😎🍺🌴

Most old farm stead’s across the plains had a place to dump trash. They would burn the burn able trash but there was always bottles of all kinds By the way we would pore lime in the outhouse to cut down on the smell Dad would ever so often pour some on top (sprinkle)of the deposited poop. We spent many hrs. As young men shooting bottles with BB guns and 22 cal rifles. In the 1910s where I was raised Mr Post of the toasties layer out farms on the high plains of west Texas , Wence I was raised in the 40s and 50s. There was no plastic bottles and everything came in bottles, or glass containers. The WATKINS MAN CAME AROUND EVERY SO OFTEN TO SELL EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. Some of those bottles you are guessing back in the 1800s are really out of the 20s, 30s, through the 50s. The 1960 brought on plastic. Oh how I long for those days when few men were regular drinkers Almost all men smoked, Most people depended on the goodness of God. No more, how sad.

I really find it interesting that water collects inside those bottles!

spent summers at my grandparent's place a few minutes away from here - amazing to see what is below the plains - thanks!

Wow loved those wonderful pieces along with all the whole ones

Absolutely love it, such a good hobby, and a hands o. Lesson in history. Constructive criticism? Change tools, get a hand trowl. Every time you dug in with your pick all I could see were the bottles below shattering.... again just Constructive advice, no complaints at all. I live in Northern California, almost Oregon, redwoods, logging camps I. The 1800s... my hobby too when I can fi d a pit, or an ash pile . ...board walks were hot too. Great video, and nice artifacts man. Keep it up!

Hello I just subscribed to your channel yesterday. I love watching you find stuff. I noticed the Espey's fragrant cream has a date of 1883, at an online image I found. 👍 That's so cool!

Your knowledge is unbelievable

NOW THAT'S A HOLE! Impressive digging! 👍

Alright! Fantastic! Congrats!

awesome haul guys🙂 had some real nice age to those finds

You guys continue to do great work! I can only imagine the time and effort it must take to research and edit these videos, never mind digging the actual pit too.

Amazing Dig. That Early Big Amber applied top is a Screamer💪🇺🇸

Very fun (for us watching while you did the hard work).

OMG! That is so CRAZY! BEST treasure video on RU-vid

Wow what a deep pit I enjoyed your videos thank you for sharing the bottle with the horse on it was awesome I am still looking forward to getting the glass shards or plate shards from just let me know how I need to get them thank you have a wonderful day ♥️👍👍👍🤠🗝️ yeehaw

This Video was more interesting than I thought. I watched the whole video till the end. Thank you for the historic informations, the old advertisments and afterpicturs of the cleaned bottles. 👍 If i would find something like that, I would use the bottles as a vase or fill it with coloured water and use them as decoration. :D

You should send that labelled mustard bottle to the mustard museum in Wisconsin!

Awesome dig and great finds. The lantern and jugs were my favorites.

There is a true legend on our farm right here, about my great grand father was just 16 years old back in 1866 having a ball with some dynamite he and a neighbor kid swiped from the nearby railroad office. The neighborhood kids used to sneak in the railroad office all the time stealing the manager and cashier tele station operators candies food and now and then money because they were certified drunks I was told. Just before 4rth of July 1866 they stole an entire box of dynamite from that place put in their wagon drove it home to our place which was the farthest farm from the railroad office and the edge of town. Afternoon of 4rth of July 1866 my great grand daddy earned himself a real beating from big ole great great grand daddy Heikela after they got carried away with tossing the stuff thru the air to make it explode. However a stick went astray and straight down our well. Our well being about 500ft from feet from a natural cistern fed stream was not all that deep yet deep enough that it had hand made concrete and stone stairs that got wrecked. My great great grand daddy Heikela worked my great grand fathers ass off until late August in 100 degree heat to fix them stairs to like perfect condition in the bottom of the well. Later that summer it was just before the winter they built concrete foundation wooden & tar topped well house over the top of the well to complete it with a sort of huge opening sky light so they could see the water flow in the bottom. It was important to keep fissure open that let the water in the hole and great great grand daddy was anal about that it be clean and clear flowing at all times because sucking stuff up in the well pump pipe. The wells cast iron (stick) pipe that went down from the Ames Pump Head is still there on the outside platform I last made circa 1999 and I have repaired it just like they did all their lives. I have rebuilt the guts of that Ames Pump head twice since I am alive. Last time I made a video with my son so he can remember how to rebuild it and what we bought and used to do the job. The adjustable fletch as we call the threaded pressure rod I hand made from stainless steel all-thread this time. I actually got the dynamite story directly from my grand father when he was alive so it wasn't nothing fabricated I actually found evidence of the explosion since the slate and granite stones that got broken still sit out back of the barn just a little farther away since I moved em because of cutting weeds down when we put the metal siding on the barn no more wood replacements crap for this old cowboy...

Just recently found your channel. Fascinating finds!

I know of a couple drinks that call for drops of bitters. What did they use a bottle of bitters that size for I wonder 👍🏻

Tide out clay pipes with stems can be picked out of the mud Thames London hard to imagine them cast into the river and surviving all these years

Great video, great finds!

Once in a lifetime finds.

Now that was a pretty awesome and deep hole great fantastic finds 😀

So much work. Got to really love what you do.

THAN-Q BROTHER NICE JOB.

You’ve a damn good eye for this! Thx for sharing your dig & treasures!

Great finds guys 👍😊

I was thinking it looked like someone demolished an old farm stead and pushed it into the old well to fill it for farming.

amazing..

Great archeological finds.

Tom :: that was a great dig , some really old bottles, one thing I like about your video is the image stabalazation is great , some people have so much movement in the vids i get motion sickness and turn it offand dont bother subscribing -- those territory bottles are exiting to see comming out

We used to put lime in our outhouse to help keep the products decomposing, and to keep the acid smell to a minimum. I was only 4 years old when i watched my grandma dump some lime in the outhouse of our summer home before we left to go back to reality.

What a lot of work!

a fun time for us to watch.

Love watching this! Makes me miss my Grandparents farm in Nebraska. #prairielife

Very cool. I would like to have seen what the old map looked like

Omg! Amazing finds!!!!

Do you do anything with the broken bottles. That bottle with nice neck. Cut off some of broken bottom. Make a unique candle holder ✨️

What a cool video. It's an eerie feeling when you think about it... The people who used those products and left them there are loooong gone.

That was very cool to watch

That was a amazing dig!! Thank you!!!

Great dig! Those Yankton territory bottles are super cool. Love all the Humphrey's too.

Wow that looked kinda sketchy. Careful! Thanks for sharing

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

I find it all fascinating!

I appreciate that you have the information on the lower left portion of the screen. Makes reading easy. You are so far down, that privy was meant to last a long time. Sorry, not a privy, a well.

These videos are fun to watch! I love treasure hunts!

Thank you for providing this video. These are interesting and your knowledge of the artifacts are impressive! (especially for a youngster). I love finding old bottles and would find them helping my dad and relatives on old houses. We would find them under the porch. So interesting and uniquely shaped bottles, back when products were made with pride and style.

The outhouse used to be people's dumps hence the depth. Nice to see many artifacts survived. I hope he washed his hands afterwards

I entered a trance somewhere in the beginning, I can't believe I watched the whole thing.