All of This Had Been Buried in Their Backyard for over 100 years 

Just found your channel a few days ago. I subbed. Been digging dumps and privies since 1974. Your right you never know what you might find. About 25 years ago I dug a Van Cleef and Arple 18k cigarette case in awesome shape. It was art deco from the 20s and weighed 215 gram's. Sold it at auction for $7650. Keep digging and I'll keep enjoying.👍👊

Super glad to see you saving the old bottles and other relics. Your channel is a no gimmick, no fluff channel and I like it that way. Just good old digging technique and knowledge you so generously share with us. I like that you use wood to dig, because as you know it is so much gentler on the treasures you find, whatever they may be. Keep On! ( :

I love your channel. Never boring. So fascinating to see what you dig up next. Glad your here👍😊❤️

At the end of this video there is a cast iron boot remover under the metal hoop. I have one. Mine is a cockroach/ bug. My grandfather worked for a time in the mill that made them...in Lewiston, Maine. He gave it to my dad who then gave it to me. Exciting to see that item and the lamp. Love your hard work! Continuing to watch...

I like the old houses and buildings, also. Old maps, too. I like how you respect the objects and the owner’s property before, during & after the digs. 👍🏻

I appreciate your guys's knowledge and zeal for what you guys do it's freaking awesome. I remember finding a brass bell with a date 17 86 in my backyard garden in 19 86. Sad to say it was stolen right out of my hand and I never saw it again

Nice finds, I love the extract bottle with the owl ! 🦉 😍

Just subscribed! My brother use to dig old sites he remembered seeing alongside roads ,once he discovered the town at one time had a cola manufacturing company. He found bottle after bottle that said, Madison Cola. No one around even remembered the place being there. He started off finding bricks, so he knew something had been there. A big part of Madison, Ga history had been forgotten. Don't know if he still has any of the bottles. Says there's got to plenty more, but you can't go in the wooded area anymore. Whoever owns it now, maybe they will dig and see what type of machine's were used back in the day. My brother is also a collector of Indian artifacts. He's been doing that since he was a child. A true archeologist, he has a huge collection of both Indian an early American artifacts.

The history you provide sets you apart from other channels and is very interesting. Thank you.

I still use my 100+ year old Rayo center draft lamps and find them soothing in the winter here in rural northern MI. They can burn kerosene or lamp oil (I use oil), give off about 40 watts of light (have a round wick, which are still being produced) and quite a bit of heat for their size. Great for when the power goes out or when you just want some extra warmth and light on cold dark days. I use frosted chimneys on mine, without the shade, to defuse the firelight. The lamp you found didn't have all its working parts, so maybe that's why it was thrown away. Happy hunting!

Your adventures are great to come along,i am new to finding your channel, Thumbs up

Really enjoyed watching you guys dig up all of those old items. The large brown glass bottle looks like the antique bleach bottles that I have.

New sub, came over from Reddit. Loving the channel so far! Keep up the good work guys, the videos are great 😃👍

Tom very nice finds. I enjoy how you explain what the items are and the age. The marbles were cool. Happy Digging.

I love your channel. I keep telling my friends to check out your videos. Keep making the great content!!!

Whoa! Fantastic viewing guys! Keep it coming!

Love the sound of the train. In Canada here we had our touched in the head government take out the railway in my home town, when i was a kid over 35 years ago. Miss that sound. The train use to pass my grandmother's property and the trains conductor use to throw me an 🍊. Good memories.

It’s awesome how you guys put up the years and the information on the stuff that you find keep up the good work guys

Thanks everyone who watches, likes and/or leaves a comment

All really good finds. Would like to seen more of the boot jack you had lieing out with iron hoop which most likely came off a bucket or keeg. Good stuff.

You were saying it was some kind of a statue. Didn't you hear me yelling it's a turkey tail?? 😂😂

Thanks for sharing this video

❤❤❤ I love your channel - super chill and relaxed .. almost like Christmas presents lol you guys most definitely have to send me a doll head and Sign it that would be so sick!!!!!

Hi Tom Jake and Todd, you make my back hurt just sitting in my chair😊 I’m a 76 year old grandma from MN. Just found you and binge watching. How many people on your crew?

This was fun to find all this old stuff

The "Ring" looks like it came off of a "Wine Barrel".

My dad lived in a house without indoor plumbing with his grandparents, on their farm when he was little. They always told him to relieve himself before going to bed. He fought them, because of the cold or wet walk to the outhouse. One night woke up because he needed to go, but didn’t want to go to the outhouse. So he used the chamber pot. He regretted it for the rest of the night. His room smelled like poop! That lantern you found. I saw the holes and thought you guys had accidentally poked it. But then we got a closer look, and the hole was made from the inside-out! I think the lantern became defective, and was disposed of, after being used for target practice. Pretty cool artifact!

The bottles and all were super cool, but that lamp was bad ass!

Awesome cool finds! Keep Diggin!

Just stumbled across this channel and subbed...very interesting stuff and commentary 👍.

Stumbled across your channel. Love your videos its just amazing and fascinating. 2 questions please? What is the most valuable piece you ever found? And what is the strangest thing you ever found? Keep up and keep strong ❤ from South Africa

Hi Tom, I'm down here in KS near Wichita, I would love to see a video of your finds a maybe you talking about some of the older bottles and finds. Really like to hear the history of where found items came from and used for. I just subscribed and will be watching all your videos and be catching all your new ones. Thanks and take care be careful and stay healthy.

I find this channel very interesting. And for such a young fella to be into this hobby. Fantastic, I just came across this channel last evening. I do believe I've watched atleast a dozen videos already. I have my own bottle dump site. I found it last year in a bank along an old river. The area I hunt was established in 1605 by the Acadians. Above the bank was a property of an English governor who settled here in the mid 1700's and I've found some fantastic relics coins black inch thick bottles and silverware. To all those who love the hunt, hunt on my friends and good luck.

I’d like to see your personal collection I bet it’s pretty amazing. Great content keep it up…

I Did not realize how deep you have to dig for artifacts it just amazes me good job guys very very interested thank you

I recognized the metal object with the horns on the end. It's a cowboy boot puller for taking the boots off. My sister had a brand new one when she took horseback riding lessons.

Have you ever saved the old window glass and made a mosaic-stained glass article with it. With the swirls and imperfections in the old glass I think it would be glorious and the sun would fire through it like crazy. Heck you might ask your followers if anyone would be interested in purchasing lots of the window glass you might be surprised out the answers. Especially those people that do art glass pieces and stained glass pieces with the lead. I always enjoy watching history come out of the ground. The Dr. Kilmers swamp root sample bottle is found quite often in the UK diggers holes. It’s crazy how some bottles and produce made it over seas and a lot of others didn’t. Same goes for products made in the UK some made it to the states but a lot didn’t. Like the Cobb bottle have you ever found one of those here in the states? I love the lamp you found, nice. Nice pictorial bottle at the end of the pit. I just commented on another video about how we don’t have pictorials like the UK our is very sparse where over there they are pretty well plentiful. Meaning there’s a lot of companies that had pictorials on their bottles. Just like they had tons of stone ware bottle of all kinds and shapes. But it is fact that they are the old world and existed long before us in our country. They find whole pieces of Roman pottery and also fragments. Onion bottles from the 1200s and later. The piece of metal under the metal ring looks like a devise used for pulling your shoes off or boots off. The Dr. Kilmers bottle looks to manganese glass. With its purple tint.

Great finds!

You guys would love it this side of the pond, 🤠❤️🇬🇧

I have 2 bottles of side show medicine with original labels and contents of one bottle intact. I quickly sealed the bottles in plastic bags to prevent loss of contents. Active ingredients 80% alcohol 15% coal tar and 5% other active ingredients. I found that way back at a doctor's office they were tossing out at the curb back in the early 1980's but the bottles date back to the late 1880's.

Nan from Florida: wow!! That kerosene lamp was gorgeous!!!!👏👏👏

I just started watching you guys and you both are always able to easily identify your finds - is this knowledge from experience, education, or both? Nice Work!

Another nice dig guys. Shame the old lamp, and chamber pot wasn't in better condition, Those would have been amazing. And Jake...... Saw another Watkins bottle. Saw you replied to my comment on another video earlier about Watkins. And yeah, not really gonna find them in any store. Pretty much the same as they used to be. Door to door sales mostly, and or, online websites. Like the Avon Lady...............

Hey! That looks like a turkey tail! Or chicken.... maybe a fancy serving type dish? Cool!

My hometown,still live close by. We had an outhouse when I was kid.

I have to ask a morbid question. I am a floral designer and work in a funeral home..I was telling my coworkers about your channel...The elderly FH owner told me a story that when they updated the Fredericksburg VA train station they cleaned out the old out houses...sadly they found a new born baby in a carpet bag..rumor is she was wealthy and went from DC to Richmond.. sadly have you ever come across something like this??

Yes, the green glass was the base of a cake salver/stand. The oil lamps you often describe as "lanterns" are known more commonly as lamps when they were used in a household or restaurant... Lanterns term refers to mine and railroad lighting/lantern. I have vast collections of both 1800 cake salvers and oil lamps. What you referred to as a broken creamer pitcher is known as a cruet, usually oil and vinegar. I have vast collections of those too.

very nice!

I have got to get me an old piece of property. I could spend my final days just digging holes all over the backyard. That would be so much fun.

that strange thing under the wheel band is a boot jack

Still enjoying watching you dig out old toilets (hee hee). Was wondering what happens to all that you recover? I know when metal detecting you are supposed to return the items to the land owner. Is this the same? I have seen shows on tv that an agreement would be made to split 50/50 or whatever they can agree to. Keep digging and we’ll keep watching!

The site I dig here in the east is quite shallow (

Cool Dig. I found the Dr. Kilmer's frequently in NH back in the 70's. The small sample bottle was more rare to find back there.

Nice dig! Looks like you guys were cold! Wonder what was wrong with that lamp to make them chuck it...

Love those small bottles. You can send them to me...if you like..LOL 😀

I love the train sound

Man, I'd love to dig some territorial bottles. Maybe some day!

That's cool I live 20 miles from Freeport,I'll. Stephenson county.

Dude,, this is fascinating, how did you figure to dig in that spot? So neat! I'll come dig for you guys,, so cool

Not a wagon hub. It’s a barrel ring. Hubs are thicker. Why aren’t you keeping eye out for indigenous flit. Or small beads? Screens would help make sure you aren’t missing small valuable artefacts instead of just bigger items. The broken figurine appeared to be the fanned tail of a Turkey figurine .

Do you happen to have the bottle from Binghamton,NY still?Thats close to where I live!

Addition or edition? Love the channel!

thankyou. excellent dig! Q: was the hole originally a privy/ toilet pit and later used as a rubbish pit?

How do you locate the site? Thanks for the videos.

Would love that broken place platter stand for crafts.

Wow!!!!

Very interesting. How do u know where to dig for these artifacts. 👍,

Just stumbled across your channel. How do you know where to dig?

At 18:32 it looks like someone's dentures near the chamber pot.

21:00 That watzit had the look of turkey feathers. Your idea of some sort of figurine could have been a seasonal decoration?

Wow that dirt is dry. Does it ever rain there

Most excellent video 👏how does all that topsoil get there, they must have brought it in over the years. Thanks for sharing 👍

Where did you find the map??? Im new here.

I have one of those cast beetle boot loosening foot holds.....

That Bell is probably a sleigh bell

Question do you find Brillcream or California Poppy oh and Bex came in small bottles but also loose powder form in box……I am in Australia

You have 1 call free line locating in south Dakota. Why don't you use them before you dig ?

Tom you got at least 3 more pits on that house all getting older

How do you know where to dig ?

How do you know were to dig at

People used to bury trash ! Maybe that's like the junkyards

At 8:01 it appears to be a cruet, not a creamer.

How did you know where in the yard to dig?

I could do that all day everyday. But I just don't find much here.

Their are mosaic artists who would maybe be able to use those China fragments

Garbage pit? Or out house/ Garbage pit?

Why not put in the museum about that 1915 history that people can check out the stuff of the past and present between different. 😊

Who would just start digging in their yard? It seems like you’d have to have a reason to start digging.

The families of my parents lived about and in this area and SE South Dakota. Different perspective. Those were the containers of what their parents used.

Oil lamp - not even plated...Made by the thousands!

How do you get people to allow you to just go digging 6 feet into their nicely manicured yard? What's the secret? Isn't there liability? How do you keep the earnings? How do you get away around the possibility of lawsuites? We never see how that is done if we would like to do this ourselves. You don't know them and they don't know you as well. Just a little perplexed is all. Thanks for te videos. I just dont' seet his really happening in the real world. People are weird. Where I live, I wouldn't have a chance in hell to successfully dig in someone's yard. They would want part of the commissions for sure.

You just dug up an old outhouse crap hole

Are shifting the dirt for coins.

How do you secure permission to dig a giant pit like that?

In my expert opinion I'd say that pit is only 49 years old

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Hello sir I'm nector Celeste from Philippines I'm your subscriber pleas shot out thank you & god bless

I've seen nothing dug up from that hole that was worth the time and effort you put into that project. All trash that will go back into the trash. I didn't see you using a metal detector so you could be missing out on finding something of value. But if you enjoy digging up trash, I wish you the best in finding treasures.

Yay, new video 👌👌👌👌

great video! also do you have discord or any social media?