142 Year Old Map Found in an Old Library Led Us to an Absolute Jackpot

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Excavating the earliest privy at a residence in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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@BelowthePlains Год назад

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@stewartdowouis9218 Год назад

Do you guys have a website where you sell the bottles you unearth?

@Flippsbigcountry Год назад

Have you ever found one of those jugs filled with coins?

@barrywainwright3391 4 месяца назад

You mean future videos are going to be cut for non payers? If so that's not a good thing to do if you want to grow your channel.

@d-lowz-no9931 2 года назад

My grandpa used to be a big time metal detector guy, it was his biggest hobby aside from tinkering around in the garage on old cars and bikes. He was walking his land back in 2004 and got a hit, he used to get us kids involved because it gave us a reason to “dig for treasure” lol well one day on the southwest corner of his land under an old hay awning we started digging and found an old Harley buried about 3 ft under the ground laid on its side wrapped in about 5 tarps inside a custom made steel box. After about 3 months of research and tracking down the owner, it was a 1954 Harley Davidson FL Panhead and the old man had passed away many years before this. It was stolen in 1979 and never recovered. We claimed ownership after a great deal of paperwork and time. Of course the frame and everything was shot but we completely rebuilt the motor and everything salvageable back when I was 22 in 2012. Cost us a very shiny penny. That was the last project we finished sadly before my grandpa passed away. The bike is still sitting in my garage to this day. Just repainted it last summer actually lol we call it “tougher than dirt”

@leehambleton9919 2 года назад

My granddad hap a picture of the queen mother 😂😂

@thekingsilverado3266 2 года назад

I don't know if your grandpop is Lou Sallo from Center Valley Pa. About 1990 1991 he dug up a stolen Harley that was totally taken apart and buried in a steel military coffin. He also tracked down the original owner but I think the Harley was a 61. My dad dated the coffin to the vietnam war era he said they were sold at surplus stores all over our area in the mid 1970s you could buy em ammo cans and gun crates we had piles of that crap in our garage. Lou and his dad that just recently passed away a few months back did just that with the bike they redid the engine among other parts most of the bike was intact and had been neatly taken apart. The only missing piece to the bike was the front wheel which they used a bit later model wheel. I think possibly the wheel would not have fit inside the coffin the engine back wheel and frame mostly took up all the room the coffins were pretty narrow if ya ever seen one. One of the other things in the coffin were foreign porn magazines wrapped in a plastic like wax paper. We found a 22 pistol that had been stolen on Philly circa 1966. Mostly Lou got to keep everything because everyone in the matters was dead and gone.

@racerx4152 2 года назад

I wished you could have filmed your adventure and put it on utube.

@bobopolliwog2832 2 года назад

What a treasure to keep in the family.

@cheshirescarf2065 Год назад

What a story! And the reply…fantastic! I grew up with no grandparents involved. Yours sounded an absolute fascinating character.

@whalesong4401 2 года назад

We bought a house built in 1945, while doing a little remodeling we pulled up part of the floor and found a photograph of a young mother holding her baby son, they were the original home owners. We found that their family was still in the area and we were able to return the photo to the son's grandchildren.

@Kerosene.... Год назад

Bro how are u still alive lol

@mikespex8505 Год назад

When you say we you mean your parents?

@gargamel3393 5 месяцев назад

@@Kerosene.... They said they bought a house that was BUILT in 1945. Not that they were born in 1945.

@gargamel3393 5 месяцев назад

@@mikespex8505 They said the house was BUILT in 1945. Not that they were born in 1945. Both people who responded to this comment need to read more carefully.

@Kerosene.... 5 месяцев назад

@@gargamel3393 ik i meant that as a joke

@thebottlebug5729 2 года назад

Well that was a fun pit! I feel for folks who don't do what we do,or can't,there's just nothing quite as fun as digging a privy full of old bottles! BTW,I hope you kept that spading fork,you know that would make an awesome "two prong",'it would just have to be good luck!!

@banditofbling3973 2 года назад

your theory on the ihp cent is 100% correct sir ive been metal detecting for over 30 yrs and i can say that ihp was def a legit top find and i have dug more dumps than i can remember and sold some amazing pieces before i really knew what i had. so make sure you research anything you come across that is.....odd!!! Overall vn video got the fever stoked again...gl to you in your future digs!!

@mrsseasea Год назад

This just fascinates me…….thank you for digging.

@lizhall3620 2 года назад

I died when you pulled out the stoneware

@retroredo9850 2 года назад

its just bisque, not biscuit porcelain? idont know why this popped up but interesting. jealous of the jugs! We bought an artist built house but thngs not finished. Digging foundation ditch for block walls got us a lot of whole bottles. 1928 salad bottle. A plastic military whistle dated 1945. We have sandy lot in high desert. Just walking on it over time reveals glass and small bottles. the area where this house was built used to have large trees and stream run off. I think many had picnics here. But rock hounding is big in area for a long time. There are still old areas people must have camped. One trash kind of pit changes every time it rains in mountains and exposes more bottles. I think this was he family trash pile though. An intact doll head is valuable too.

@Barbara_Schulz Год назад

Your knowledge of the various types of bottles is amazing. What a great “hobby”! Have you checked them for value? In England if someone found a dump site, they tell no one.

@fultonyt8989 2 года назад

Those liquor jugs are so cool

@Hellcat-de7yq 2 года назад

Back in the days 1900 and up people used to bury your trash in the backyard so I'm sure that if you do more digging you'll find more things

@rockgirl1901 2 года назад

I thought this was going to be about the map that was found.

@CMcKinnon1013 2 года назад

Soooo.. Being that deep.. Is it from tornado's ..hurricanes..etc? Also.. What would values of these.. Roughly look like by chance.. Do you know?

@fl2660 2 года назад

cookware, dishware, dolls, food and baking extract bottles, and a trainload of liquor bottles. The majority of the finds suggest the site was primarily occupied by a woman that may have entertained herself with alcohol. The drugstore bottles eliminate the idea that the liquor was for medicinal use, as a pharmacy was clearly available. I would be curious to know if the land deeds give a history of the people who owned the property.

@RizenAbility Год назад

Turn of the century pit. Why do you suppose there was a layer of clay above it? Ever look into the mud floods or the Phoenix event of 1902?

@GodsQ 2 года назад

Ok, I just had a thought as to why there was a bowl and a coffee pot.... someone probably went to dump something out of it and it fell in accidentally... and well... they certainly weren't gonna go in and look for it.

@robertbolton9450 Год назад

1870 tea 🍵 coffee and extracts bottles from New York. Old artifacts.

@bjness8655 2 года назад

My client has a wealthy offer for the Shoes. Please say you have still got them!

@JBra1382 2 года назад

How do you know where to dig?

@hippybabe 2 года назад

New here! Just adore your channel. Amazing how many bottles, especially the liquor ones, made it thru time and piles of dirt. They definitely made bottles to last forever back then. I ❤️the 2 stone jugs you pulled. Do you often find one type of glass/crockery survives time better than the next? 😊

@mr.hanger 2 года назад

I fell a large pecan tree years ago and hit something with my chain. I cut above and below it and discovered a cannon ball that had been in the tree since the civil war. Not worth much, but it makes a cool conversation piece to set on the mantle. I love old stuff!

@matthewlambert8789 2 года назад

As a plumber in Chicago...when we dig up water or sewer mains we find many many items from the Chicago fire ...I have several old pewter coins from the horse and buggy tokens and super cool medicine bottles etc 😎 I love these videos 📹

@matthewlambert8789 2 года назад

@@SPotter1973 yeah we dig about 6 to 15 foot deep and we find old horse bones wrapped in blankets ..kinda cool to see the old tradition

@triciac1019 2 года назад

how fun!

@colejarvis3098 2 года назад

That's pretty cool. I've never dug a hole and found anything other than snakes and worms. Not as interesting. 🤣🤙🍻

@1582len 2 года назад

I also used to be a plumber back in the 1970’s in Hudson County New Jersey. All old towns. Digging up old water and sewer lines I found many marbles. It seems they would drop a marble or 2 in the trenches. Or even under a basement floor before cementing. I started saving them, and have a bag of about 40. Some pretty clean, some chipped, a few with cement stuck to them. All from days gone by.

@jernigan23 2 года назад

Thats awesome

@TargaWheels 2 года назад

I wonder if people from a hundred years ago would have ever thought someone would love digging through their rubbish pile.

@redlight3932 2 года назад

Half of archeology lmao

@bettymukami Год назад

One man's garbage is another man's treasure

@MegaShiels Год назад

in a hundred years people will film themselves digging through our landfills

@oystersnag 2 года назад

Not sure how I ended up here, but I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Really neat finds along with well researched tidbits of information to go along with the finds. I appreciate you taking the time to include this extra information and sharing your finds with us. I would love to have seen the shoes you found. To know someone's story is to "walk in their shoes" so I think it could have been a neat and personal thing to see, even if they were really deteriorated.

@BelowthePlains 2 года назад

yeah we have started to focus more on all of the finds, instead of just the unbroken bottles.. and wow, i really appreciate that.. i know, its such a random thing to have a channel about, but its just something we've been doing for a long time. thank you for the nice comment, glad you found your way to the channel!

@misfitking_0143 2 года назад

😆 Me as well... Cool Stuff! Makes me want to dig up my yard...

@claredegroff1491 2 года назад

my wife has a plan to do a story about shoes. you know that single shoe in the middle of the road, hanging on a power line, at the beach, pretty much everywhere people have been. each had a story or stories even. "lost soles" if you steal it you will be sued. she has been working on it for years and was smart enough to protect her ideas. but I'm interested in knowing any stories you may have and want to include (yes you will be credited).

@BatOneTwo 2 года назад

I wanted to see those shoes also!! Oh the stories they hold..lol Blessings, Fran

@tracielliott681 2 года назад

@@BelowthePlains I have loads and loads of the old ironstone fragments from my digs......what do you guys do with all of the old china and pottery pieces....just a nosey question from an avid digger upper.....

@dutchschultz3076 2 года назад

Got family in Grand forks. The slominski family had a farm in the 30s and 40s and turned into a tile company. They immigrated here from Poland and Germany pre ww1 or during. I remember as a kid going there and getting rides in the crop dusting planes. Great memories and love from Ronald Schultz of Detroit.

@jackaustin3576 Год назад

If the pilot sat in the back and the dust in the front where did you sit....

@dutchschultz3076 Год назад

@@jackaustin3576 with your mother Jack ass

@handyhippie6548 2 года назад

just goes to show, outhouses were not only toilets, but trash pits as well. whatever you had, that you didn't want anymore went into darkness under the thunder box. when it was full, you just dug a new hole somewhere else, and put the old house over the new hole. when my parents bought my great grandfather's farm in the late 60's, even though there was an indoor toilet, the outhouse was still standing over the last hole. as a kid i used to find tons of old quaker brand whiskey bottles stuffed in the walls, rafters, and every other small space you can think of, in all of the outbuildings where my grandfather had stashed them to hide them from my grandmother.

@got2kittys 2 года назад

There was a colonial era dump under my parent's old woodshed. When they tore down the ancient building, they dug up the dump for antique bottles, and paid off their mortgage with the proceeds.

@triciac1019 2 года назад

Now that would be wonderful!

@spammerscammer 2 года назад

Pictures or it didn't happen.

@blee30 Год назад

Where do you find out what they're worth? I've got old medicine bottles too I dug up, old shoes, pepsi bottles, etc

@Starfish2145 Год назад

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ go away! 🤦‍♀️

@barrywainwright3391 4 месяца назад

They must have been pontiled bottles from tge Civil War and prior.

@TheEAGLESEYES007 2 года назад

love how you guys researched all the finds and show us the company where they came from

@jomardale5940 2 года назад

I think this is one of the most interesting things I've ever seen on youtube. It's almost like watching you open a time capsule. Love it!

@delanyx2310 2 года назад

I'm no archeologist, only a big ass 'time team' fan but holy shit the way you're digging up the pieces and how you removed them made me so anxious 😂

@fanofthechase1249 Год назад

Where's mick when you need em?

@tracycombs1484 3 месяца назад

Love Time Team ❤

@handimanjay6642 2 года назад

Growing up in Connecticut we would locate circa 1800 or earlier homesites, locate the back doors and walk out till the ground drops off. This was the typical home dumpsites. We found many interesting period pieces. Some in pieces others whole.

@curiouscharacter1 2 года назад

Once had a girlfriend whose Dad was a bottle enthusiast. He had a similar technique. First, he'd find an old abandoned house in the woods. He would go to the back door and throw a junk bottle as far as he could. Walk to where the bottle landed and start looking/digging. Apparently, a lot of drinkers back in the day would dispose of bottles this way. It was effective; the walls of his house didn't have room for pictures. Every inch was covered with shelving floor to ceiling to hold his bottle collection.

@JoeyDecay 2 года назад

I wanna dig up my backyard now

@debraadkins-brown399 2 года назад

Potato forks, from my experience, ended up in the pit when the kid tasked with digging the potatoes decided that if the fork was stolen or disappeared that the potatoes could not be dug. That only happened once. LOL.

@BatOneTwo 2 года назад

🤣 My luck, that would be the first place my Mom looked for the potato pitch fork to be stashed..lol Blessings, Fran

@williamhyde2310 2 года назад

I saw some guys a few years ago that were digging old outhouse pits from the 1800s in New York city and they were finding lots of whole bottles but also coins, jewelry, knives, and pistols. Basically things people dropped in them and said "ok that's gone." Lol

@diegoroswell302 2 года назад

I grew up in connecticut with a forest in my backyard, my grandfather took me target shooting at an old farmer’s bottle dump that must have spanned an acre. Shot up everything, didn’t know or care at that age. Later on my father and little brother excavated the site and recovered thousands of items as old as the revolutionary war. Our entire basement canning closets were filled with blue glass telegraph pole connectors and bubbley blown glass of every imaginable size and color. Got to the point where they only kept the most valuable items, later sold it all. The fun was in the discovery

@thekingsilverado3266 2 года назад

I grew up and lived with my kin folks near Kutztown Pa. Same deal dumps that went back to the revolutionary war not just the civil war. Most farms had huge dumps if U knew where to look. We had old bottles and coins from early 1700s & 1800s one penny from 1759. Some of those early coins were British coins probably tossed out after losing their original value because of our money system. Most notable treasure I save is an oil lamp a Milk Glass lamp made in Lancaster England. The appraiser my dad took it to back in the 70s around the bicentennial was one old guy. When he saw the lamp he immediately offered my dad $100 for the lamp because one it was in perfect condition even had a brass wick collar not steel or tin. I have no idea of the actual value but being it was parlor lamp not a table lamp it stands about 2 feet tall with the beautiful shade. Whoever buried it did just that they buried it perhaps not wanting to break it because it was that beautiful with the flowers in the glass shade. I have a farm house now in the coal regions and that is all I dig up is old wire insulators and leather shoes. I have gotten a few bottles and vasoline bottles and even got coke & beer bottles from the early 1950s were on the top. I never really dug the pit open here. Some of things I did find I did not dig for the stuff the back yard ground hog jettisoned the stuff while digging his holes under my firewood piles. My first year here I did find some coins and two silver dollars from the 1890s one I think is 1895. I found a gold coin it's the size thickness of a modern nickel but nobody locally knows what kind of coin it is that that worn. One local collector suggested it was an Italian or Spanish coin from the early 1700s. Mostly this area was inhabited by the Irish and Pa Dutch like me. Most of the other ethnics came along after WW I...

@sandrajohnson9926 Год назад

Lavender color is valuable in old glass wire connectors.

@69ChevyGarage 2 года назад

Love old relic discoveries. Just knowing someone else was there right where you are so long ago, is almost like there is a bond to that past that is hard to describe.

@swissuz 2 года назад

This is absolutely fascinating. I'm a history and antique buff and never heard of or thought of an "outhouse" being used also as a trash dump. All those liquor bottles make me laugh...as if the owner was trying to hide the evidence of maybe a little excessive drinking. At that time, no one would check out the privy to locate anything. I'm in the middle of writing a book about the 1800s and the daily life of people living at that time. It never occurred to me to question where trash went. I always thought it would be composted or burned. Obviously, things that you are finding couldn't be disposed of either way. I need to research when trash collection evolved. I'm addicted to your channel now. This is wonderful knowledge of how our ancestors lived in the city. I used to live in San Antonio, Tx. One of the early houses that were downtown and no longer standing was the home of a very prominent family. Early in the 1900s, they were having the house remodeled and a big tree removed. As the stump was being taken out, one of the workers stuck in a shovel and hit something hard and metal. When digging more, it was a cache of gold coins that the family had buried in the yard during the civil war. The family living there were descendants of the family and just let the workers divide it. That was in a news article from about 1925-30. There is a high-rise building there now. There is no telling what is buried under our cities to be found one day in the far-off future. Don't let anyone say there isn't anything left to explore! The possibilities are endless.

@voncielrussell6260 2 года назад

Interesting! Years ago I had a magazine on treasure hunting and there was an article about digging up old outhouses and finding valuable items. Especially in public outhouses in the south. We had an old outhouse on our farm in WA and I talked my husband and his friend into digging it up. I know it seems like a nasty job! All contents have turned to soil in an old outhouse. We found no valuables! The article stated that when a person was sick in the household all their dishes and utensils they used where thrown away in the household to prevent the spread of the sickness they has.

@shunga1962 2 года назад

LITTLE TIP WHEN DIGTING IN AND OUT OF PARTS. AVOID AT ALL COSTS TO SHAKE THE PIECE YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF THE GROUND. Because when you want to take out one of the big pieces, you have to pull from left to right and it weakens the objects already, very often cracked, even more. Use a brush for painting...one 10 cm wide and clean, not too abruptly to clear the part as much as possible...if it does not want to come out...try delicately with a small kitchen fork, to scrape around the object and then...you clean again with the brush.. YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO TAKE OUT VERY FRAGILE PIECES...IN THEIR ENTIRE STATE. GOOD LUCK...I ENVY YOU FOR NOT BEING WITH YOU TO HELP YOU.

@BADD1ONE 2 года назад

As a construction contractor that has seen several trenching collapses this gave me the chills. It's always the hole your positive that won't collapse that does

@Twistnthewind 2 года назад

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

@kfiscal01 2 года назад

Yea, people do crazy things when treasures are involved, myself included. Found an old 1700s brick lined well years ago and of course me and a buddy had to in it and dig. We hit water! It was about 15 ft deep and decided to take all the bricks out from the top down. Crazy to think we did that but came out ok. Got 400 bucks for the old bricks.

@BatOneTwo 2 года назад

@@kfiscal01 WOW, scary and cool story at the same time! I bet there was coins under all that water! Glad it turned out so well. Blessings,Fran

@turkeyrunfarms 2 года назад

Yes, had the same thought. Yikes!

@BADD1ONE 2 года назад

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ AMEN

@joew8438 Год назад

They apparently did quite a bit of drinking in the outhouse back then. I wonder if there's a story about that. Was it a husband trying to hide his extra curricular drink from his spouse? Or perhaps a teen learning to finish off bottles he scrounged from the neighborhood?

@Chimonger1 2 года назад

From those layers of ash/soot/charcoal, Looks very like you’ve excavated the old family burn/trash pit! That’s another way folks used to deal w/trash…dig hole, burn trash in it til no more fits, layer w/dirt, dig new hole. Repeat. If it was the outhouse hole, there would not be such significant evidence of burned layers. You’ve found some very nicely salable collectible items!

@BatOneTwo 2 года назад

I live here in North Dakota, and you have got me wanting to start checking my yard out more! lol I do have a metal detector, I will start with that. I have no idea how I found this video, but I am so glad I did. I enjoyed watching the haul unfold, and what a haul you have! Thank you for sharing this with us all, you have planted a seed in my head..lol Blessings, Fran

@ericthiel4053 2 года назад

Dude about 100 years ago: "take this trash out and bury it" Son or daughter: "ok dad" People in 2020s: "Jackpot"

@taffythegreat1986 2 года назад

Looks like a refuge pit, where people dumbed their rubbish. We had one on the farm. The farm house was over 700yrs old. My brother use to go digging in the corner of the field, where he knew there was a pit. He found hundreds of old bottles mainly, going back 100yrs of years along with other finds. Bring back memories your video 👍 it’s nice to keep what you find. It’s a great hobby as well

@karensky3456 2 года назад

Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering why things from the Victorian era were so far below ground.

@prostyle1626 Год назад

Refuse pits were common back then because they didnt have sanitation departments like we have today. And like your family we had pits on the farm also. I just never thought to go digging up anything. Unintended time capsules.

@taffythegreat1986 Год назад

@@prostyle1626 so true 👍

@fishinwidow35 Год назад

Not in the USA, where was this?

@prostyle1626 Год назад

@@fishinwidow35 I lived in Tennessee in the USA.

@markstahl1638 2 года назад

There used to be a place across from my mom's house that I used to dig. It got covered over and made into a park. I think because parents, maybe my own, were afraid it could cave in on me and my friends. It probably wasn't as old as that but had the potential for older stuff. I was pulling out inkwell bottles, other bottles and other interesting things. We used to call it the ditch because of the stream next to it and we could pull the stuff right out of the embankment wall.

@davidball3081 2 года назад

Is it advantageous to keep the liquids in the bottles like sewing machine oil or any medicine with a solid sealed cork for value if it can be verified not just ground water....? Thanks David.

@kelleydays3907 2 года назад

I live next to a golf course that was a farm for 200 years. My husband is about to get really angry at me because I’m about to start digging up my property line along the golf course. 😂😂😂 I can’t imagine what I’ll find. This is the first video I seen of your and I’m so glad I fell upon it. You had an amazing time today great job.

@DetectiveHeatherHolmes 2 года назад

Just remember, deeper=older. 😁

@Eyes0penNoFear 2 года назад

Also remember, unsupported ditches can and do collapse. Be safe 😊

@catsarereallyfurryaliens 2 года назад

I have never seen anyone dig a hole that deep and come up so clean! Honestly he hasn’t even got dirt under his fingernails!

@Smo1k 2 года назад

Gloves help. Am puzzled that he grips the spade handle with the thumb around it, though, that tends to give you nasty sores... 🤨

@oldyoungArt 2 года назад

Gloves

@Eyes0penNoFear 2 года назад

@@Smo1k that's why I always get nasty sores using one. The more you know..

@deborahbaker4770 2 года назад

It’s amazing that most of the cool pieces you found are still intact !! 👍🏻

@cdd4248 2 года назад

Really beautiful and an interesting assortment of finds. Lovely Stoneware and Decorative pieces. The Liquour Jugs and Snuff Jars are fantastic finds.

@Scriptorsilentum 2 года назад

seagrove, sc is a pottery mecca even in colonial times. I bought a small set of blond pottery for every day use there 10 yrs ago. Colours and patterns were beautiful. potter told me it was a pattern from an old bowl he found buried in similar circumstances as this video. reckon it was 1740s design.

@philipbeasley72 2 года назад

My cat died. And I was looking for a spot. Suddenly my dad said," Here's a good spot to dig." So I dug. Then I hit something, it was another cat that a home owner previously buried. What are the odds? So I put my cat, "Tommy girl" in along with the other cat. There, it lies, TWO lost pets in one hole. I figured the odds were this great that the spot was worthy. I said a prayer. That was that.

@badapple65 2 года назад

Long ago a man sat there in his outhouse wondering if in 100+ years someone would dig through his pit. He then shook his head and said “Nah”!

@Roberttttttttt 2 года назад

I once found an old map in my attic, After days of searching we finally found my dad

@Tealtra 2 года назад

Now that's what an untouched pit really looks like. Loved 😍 all the snuff, jugs, and Kickapoo bottles.

@bensontroy1526 2 года назад

Fascinating that you ran across a bottle associated with the Kickapoo medicine company. I recall that the late Hollywood silent film actor, Buster Keaton, best known for his film, "The General", mentioned somewhere that his father was somehow associated with what Keaton referred to as the "Kickapoo Medicine Show".

@laurelshugars2866 2 года назад

What fun! I watch a lot of digging videos, but have never seen snuff pots. The Sagwas were also cool. As an aside, try a blacklight on the Vaseline jars...I was pleasantly surprised to find several uranium glass bottles among my many finds!

@oldyoungArt 2 года назад

No TV back then 🤣

@fredflintstoner596 2 года назад

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"

@djmiklethun 2 года назад

It would be interesting to see what the bottles you decide to keep look like after they’re cleaned up. I’d be also curious to learn why you decide to keep a particular bottle and what they’re worth.

@djmiklethun 2 года назад

I realize it’d be more effort from a production standpoint, but an outro with you showing and talking about those items was what I meant.

@adelineunderwood9525 2 года назад

He should keep them all

@larrynazzaro5216 2 года назад

I second the comments here. Love to see the cleaned up items at the end. I see you have shown a couple here. Really nice!

@laurelshugars2866 2 года назад

Your videos outshine many others due to the effort you put into history and documentation: I absolutely love the graphics that you insert!! However, I have timed the views you give us of embossed bottles and it's right around 4 or 5 seconds. More, please. Thank you for all of the time you put into entertaining us, Tom!!

@craigdutton6072 2 года назад

142 yrs old ya throw nothing away lol 😂and most bottles have been found before mate and have a market price to find any value of any bottle is really so simple ya will scoff at it lol 😂 ya just type the brand of bottle into ya search 👀 and it will take you to a auction page that has sold the bottle you have 👌

@SweetSassyMuffins 2 года назад

I just became addicted to these kinds of videos, it's so fascinating to watch. I love that you put research stuff on what you are finding. I got curious and started looking up some of the ingredients on some of the old RX bottles and OMG they used some really toxic stuff back then 😮

@idiotburns 2 года назад

And they still do

@SweetSassyMuffins 2 года назад

@@idiotburns Facts 😂😢

@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat 2 года назад

Tom, OMG that was an amazing dig. Nice variety of stoneware, snuff jugs and crocks and embossed bottles. Loved the Redwing jug made in our state. Very exciting watching you pull so much out. Congrats.

@davidrussell8795 2 года назад

Ppl ppl ppl,do we have to say: oh my God? For everything that impresses you,thalt shall not take God's name in vain!!! He's listening,but if he spoke you because you said that,how would you react? There's: oh wow! And don't be saying holy shit either,that's another no no! After all,it's just someone's old trash,not a miracle! And that impresses you?

@collequ 2 года назад

@@davidrussell8795 shut up sickening

@GEAUXFRUGAL 2 года назад

I was raised in an old shotgun house. 2 Blocks awais a railroad track. Across the tracks Ft. Star 70380. I have found vottles not even trying. It's been said the town fell to the union Early in the war and there were over 100K union soldiers camped in the area. Grandad worked for the city and they have found cutlass, cannonballs, bullets, you name it it's still out there too.

@shainazion4073 2 года назад

Thank you, very interesting, there is no explanation in your "About" section on the channel, perhaps write a small intro about your interests and what you do and post. How did you get started? Did you study archeology? Did you collect old bottles before digging for them?

@samsonian 2 года назад

@19:36 that enamelware pot is highly collectable “Druware” I believe from Holland. It might be worth more or less based on the fact it is over 100 years old regardless of just the condition as it might clean up reasonably well.

@williamheden6794 2 года назад

You guys do an amazing job. Thank you for saving our history and allowing me to come along. From Ohio

@annehenry6243 2 года назад

Hey, from Ohio, you know the Museum of Natural History in Cincinnati has a display of outhouse history from around the Cincy area. It's pretty cool.

@williamheden6794 2 года назад

I'm 5 hours from Cincinnati but I'll check it out thank you

@Dball10-4 2 года назад

Gay

@williamheden6794 2 года назад

What a lovely singing voice you must have

@CodeGrayHere 2 года назад

Really fascinating to watch you dig and see what comes up! Edit: oh my gosh, toward the end you're scaring me with your tunneling off to the side! Be safe!

@Beanieweenieable 2 года назад

This looks like a burn pit for peoples trash in the mid to late 1800’s…certainly NOT A TREASURE MAP, typical click bate title…

@JamesWestAZ 2 года назад

Tom..... Jake....... WOW. Now that was one loaded pit for sure. All those different bottles. And those old whiskey jugs, and snuff containers.......... AND coming out intact.......... Pretty amazing. Definitely worth you guys time digging that one out. One of the best I've seen for a while.

@incog30 2 года назад

I'm from Streator Ill. The Owen's glass company was the world's largest producer of glassware. It's nickname is the glass capital of the world. Great video and keep up the good work!

@Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад

i have family in streator, do you know where the old glass and bottling factory was located? Is it near the vermillion down town? Bet theres a lot of bottles in the vermillion near streator

@incog30 2 года назад

@@Quantrills.Raiders it's located next to the am track rail line. It has a viaduct that crosses the rail and also goes over the mountains of crushed recycled glass.

@robertmckelvey3091 2 года назад

You know that's exactly what it looks like when you're digging up an old outhouse

@StalkedByLosers 2 года назад

Lol 😆 so all that dirt is basically human compost? Lol 🤢

@janesmith716 2 года назад

He probably knows he's digging a poop hole.

@hrcnick11 2 года назад

The description says it was a privy.

@olsim1730 2 года назад

That's why it's such soft digging...

@aprilthomas1734 2 года назад

Stuff just kept coming! Oh my gosh I bet that was a fun one to do. Definitely did seem a little tight in there hahaha. Seriously your guys videos just keep getting better and better. You can really see that you guys put a lot of work into them, cause it shows. 😃 thank you as always for sharing and taking the time to do these 😊 be safe out there!

@waynedrummond6583 2 года назад

Growing up in the 50's in NZ it was common practice for households to have their own mini landfill pit as no regular rubbish collection. Later the Council opened a landfill site that people could take their rubbish to (for a small fee).

@scottsdialyadventure1338 2 года назад

Cool to see the little Treasures and this can bring the reality of even a 100 years ago there were multiple addictions going.. Alcohol tobacco snuff and those prescription bottles were likely laced with cocaine or laudnum.. A lot of women had some pretty serious dependencies back then as well.. Best luck on your adventures thank you for sharing..🙏🙏

@justinsimpson3000 2 года назад

They even had pure heroin in bottles in powder form back then but at least you knew what you were getting unlike now where the streets are flooded with all kinds of garbage. Unfortunately I feel victim to the oxycontin boom in the early 2000s which led me down the path to heroin and fentanyl. Back then it was you want off you just had to stop and deal with the withdrawal not knowing much about it. I'm going through it right now cold Turkey on day 10 hopefully I'll get over it at some point but...🤷‍♂️

@malzimus Год назад

@@justinsimpson3000 You can do it, well done on going cold turkey, I bet that's tough! If so inclined, maybe have a look into products by The Root Brands / Dr Christina Rahm, they have a yt channel as well and many videos including one on addiction. Our family is using them for various health things and happy with them.

@snarklar 2 года назад

I really want to dig places that aren't all rocks and roots. New England is fantastic for finding tips, yet is also really frustrating because so many potentially great dumps also were for throwing unwanted rocks into. Or just in general there are rocks everywhere. If not, so many older dumps have so many roots to work through, or both rocks and roots and a bunch of amazing, but broken bottles. Can't complain too much. I've found a lot of great stuff, just way more heartbreaking stuff. Outhouses too. So many ended up being filled with unwanted rocks, just breaking everything.

@Random-JustAnother 2 года назад

Ugh. I feel like I've experienced that just around my home, gardening, planting trees/shrubs, etc. I've been wanting to try. Live in Maryland btw... Still going to try!

@ericgulseth74 2 года назад

17:27 Bigelow was my grandmothers maiden name. Glad to know snake oil sales runs in the family...

@bonnieblack925 2 года назад

I've found bottles shaped like coffins. Guess that needs no explanation

@reginaromsey 2 года назад

I really love the extra effort you have done in identifying your finds with the notes on the picture! Have you ever tried one of the little hand garden claws to Hephzibah you get things out?

@patstats1 2 года назад

The Grand Union supermarket is a popular, local grocery store I knew most of my life. Although, they had stores across the US and especially in the midwest. It changed hands a number of times. It went out of business in 2001 under a chapter 7 bankruptcy but has been revived in several stores across New York state. Check out the wiki. It says they started in Scranton, PA and were known as Jones Brothers Tea Company in 1872. In 1980s they innovated the look of supermarkets to incorporate specialty sections for baked goods, teas & coffees that displayed goods in baskets and had a modern yet old-timey look to the stores.

@RobCantonJr Год назад

I remember Grand Union in Schenectady ❤

@jerimow8400 2 года назад

Today is September 6, 2022. I just happened to trip over this video and I am completely hooked. This is amazing! I can’t talk right now because I’ve got a lot of binging to do! Thank you so very much! Sending great respect from Central Florida.

@paulsuprono7225 2 года назад

Near the Everglades ?

@jerimow8400 2 года назад

@@paulsuprono7225 No, nearer the Gainesville/Ocala area. Horse country.

@Teeveepicksures 2 года назад

@25:50 My pottery studio is in Lydia Pinkham's old factory in Lynn, MA. It's been repurposed as an Arts Center and her original home still stands next door. She was brilliant and one of VERY few self-made, independently wealthy women of that era.

@soteful9949 2 года назад

Little did somebody know that, years later, somebody would be digging up their trash they buried and calling it a jackpot. I call this a 142 year old you've been punked.

@dannybell926 2 года назад

Nice dig buddy! Also, I noticed you've gone beyond 10,000 subscribers... congrats

@toddamtmann3528 2 года назад

I'm under the impression that just about EVERYTHING (aside from opium and cocaine) had alcohol as an active ingredient!😂 They couldn't be more wrong. I guess they figured, "let's get them drunk and tell them they're better"!😂 Can you say "placebo".

@anthonyperkins6364 2 года назад

Nice finds, as a metal detectorist and history buff , I come across bottles, salt and pepper shakers often. Old maps do hold the key to success in finding this stuff. Do you display your finds ? Sell your finds ?? The probably is a market for bottles intact? eBay ?? Nice finds and good luck with future digs !! 😃

@philc7192 2 года назад

Looks like you found the location of an Outhouse. We had these when I was a kid. We tossed a lot of stuff in them and then filled them in with dirt as we dug a new hole for the new Outhouse. Lot of good finds in Outhouse holes.

@brockbaker3able 2 года назад

Definitely where you find the “ good shit” 😂

@philc7192 2 года назад

@@brockbaker3able lol!

@regularguy6501 2 года назад

Very cool that you took your time to carfully extract the items. Good job and nice finds.

@roberthern3057 2 года назад

And I thought I was the only one that got excited when I find an old trash pit while I’m running my excavator! So cool to see!

@triciac1019 2 года назад

That must be so fun! Bet you want to dig through it for days.

@deborahbaker4770 2 года назад

Do you ever imagine who the people were when you find anything like what you have found ? I would definitely love to have the interesting item’s you found no matter how far you are digging into that pit you keep finding something it’s so cool !!👍🏻😊

@annehenry6243 2 года назад

I imagine how much those ppl would be cracking up knowing that we're digging through their out house looking for valuable artifacts. 😁😅

@spammerscammer 2 года назад

"Do you ever think about stuff?"

@artiejohnson703 2 года назад

So awesome, love looking at the history you have found. So cool.

@bobcumbers3624 2 года назад

With the amount of whiskey bottles that came outta there you may have been digging an outhouse pit.

@marykaystreasures 2 года назад

Wow that is amazing the surface find of that age so cool I always enjoy your videos thank you for sharing and have a great digging good time this week ⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️♥️👍👍👍🗝️

@Thee-_-Outlier 2 года назад

Next on this episode of "World's dumbest Pirates". "Captain Areyoukiddingme", after plundering several ships, is being pursued by the queen's armada when he makes the baffling decision to bury the treasure map, not the treasure. For his crimes he was hung by the ankles 'til dead.

@boonedog1457 2 года назад

I'm sure a collector would pay dearly for this treasure! Thanks for sharing your treasure hunt!

@ryurc3033 2 года назад

It's so funny, where I live you can't dig 10 inches without heavy equipment. Nothing but limestone and clay(stone county in southwest Missouri) my yard grows rocks, top soil has to be brought in from outside, and generally will wash down the hill in a few years anyway. If you go out with a shovel, your in for a hard day. For a hole like your sitting in halfway in, your talking about renting a small excavator or spending all day moving rocks by hand.

@wokefordaze7329 2 года назад

Just imagine all of the things buried in this world undiscovered 🤯

@anamolina3601 2 года назад

👍🙄👉Please use safety gloves and make sure that your tetanus Vax is updated, the findings are precious but not as much as your health and of those kids that might be watching your videos. Please writ some warnings. Thanks.

@IronskullGM 2 года назад

I wonder if people realize that what he is actually doing is digging through an old outhouse hole. Its kinda gross when you think about it, but also pretty cool to see what's down there after all this time.

@ungwungboozia8797 2 года назад

That's what I thought

@surcettinr2600 2 года назад

He mentions it @8:54

@mafubaa 2 года назад

Dirt is decomposed biological material so any human waste, after all that time, it's just dirt and minerals. The gross part is imagining a dude seated on the toilet leaving the crap on the hole and then having to smell the perfume but like I said, after all that time, it's just dirt. Just don't eat it and wear gloves, just in case lol

@IronskullGM 2 года назад

@@mafubaa that's the problem for me, as a person who grew up with out houses, I don't know if I could do that 😅 even if it is just dirt... 😆

@mafubaa 2 года назад

@@IronskullGM Lol you got a way more close experience with outholes than I do so I just could be wrong and it's actually gross 😅

@frankdelucey2137 2 года назад

I knew a awesome place to find old stuff that was buried. They built over it to put in a new highway interchange to a toll road. It was a old garbage dump site from the late 1890’s to early 1920’s. Most people didn’t know it existed. Found and sold lots of old glass in that garbage dump. Neatest thing I ever found was a collection of glass cars with drivers. All sold a long time ago but the memories are always going to be there.

@paulsuprono7225 2 года назад

It's amazing how that phrase - 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' takes on real meaning ! 🤗

@frankdelucey2137 2 года назад

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ AMEN

@jamescarlson6723 2 года назад

I was digging a hole for a fence post in my back yard. I found several old bottles. I kept expanding the hole finding more glassware things. My house was built in 1926 and realized at some point the land was used as a dump. Sandy soil it was easy to dig. In older part of Denver. If I have time I have thought of digging out more areas.

@jaywhoisit4863 2 года назад

You’ll make a shit pile of money with antique glassware. Especially if you can find depression glass.

@Op1zilla 2 года назад

It's been a while since I went bottle digging, IV even found old pistol wile digging, ggz-😁👽👽🚲💥💨💨💨💨💨💨💨

@deboraharmstrong3002 2 года назад

The likker jugs? Them being down in the outhouse pit, makes me think of a story my gramma told. Her brother dug a shelf into the side of their outhouse pit, and stashed a jug out there.Gramma said Ernie spent an awful lot of time 'communing with nature' ... At least, until their daddy found the jug. I get my sense of punishment from Great Grandpa... He poured out the likker, broke the jug into tiny bits, and the next time Ernie reached for his jug? He found a rat trap!