An Unbelievable Find After Road Construction Accidentally Unearths 120 Year Old Ruins 

Dude's, Thank you for giving us this gift!

I stumbled across one of your videos a few months back and now look forward to watching your future uploads. I have to ask Tom, What do you do with your finds ? Do you sell any ? Your DownUnder (Melbourne, Australia) follower 🦋

much deserved. your calling is pretty awesome.

I dug old dumps back in the 70s and 80s. Always excited to see what you find next. Your videos are the next best thing to being there. Dig on brother...keep 'em coming.

Your videos are great , makes me wanna go out and detect. Hey have you done a video of your whole collection of all your treasures you’ve found ? Or a video explaining your process of finding out exactly where to dig? I’ve never run up on a pile with that many treasures in one spot … so awesome

@@woundeddove it’s so easy to get addicted to their awesome adventures! I hope you are well. The wind is crazy this spring! Be safe and enjoy but go outside if you can. I’m trying to sit outside a couple times a day.💕

How do ya think I feel at the same age stayin up really late to watch a video with a title says finding big jugs... Then I see then I see this kid finding my grand parents trash... lol

It is stocked for sure but stuff found underground like this comes out with scratches on all sides and decreased value. It’s more about the passion and hobby of course.

@@demsakawalkinglatetermabor7ion I wouldn't mind finding some old scratched up coins.

I kept some old Ketchup bottles from the early 70s.. Occasionally 4rth of July I fill one or 2 up and put em out on the picnic table.

I second that!❤

ah thanks! thats awesome. so kind. and yeah, we had to grind all summer to make sure we had enough videos to get us thru the winter.. we're gonna get an early start this year and go south before it thaws up here.. its gonna suck but ill be happy to get some older sites in.. well thanks for watching! and thanks for being a patreon.. not sure if you know yet, but i am posting early content on patreon, theres a video up now and theres gonna be another one up sometime before sunday. thanks for watching!

How about one that says "On the way out"

Not in Leeds, I'm sure. They could grow their own tomatoes.

@@653j521 This was an American delicacy, usually enjoyed in diners in large cities

A dog dug it up?

haha well we gotta hook them in! and that candy dish lid was actually a really good item (becuase of the hand painted town name on it).. we never found the bottom, but we ended up donating that to the town and they ended up putting it in the city hall! along with some of those colorful dishes we found in a previous pit. haha i had never heard of mercherchrome before tom opened up one of these bottles.. he said he got it on his hand and he couldnt get rid of the smell for like 2 days, so now he doesnt wanna get anything in the bottles on his hands or clothes ever again! and yeah, i got a few shelves in my house bowing in the middle from all the bottles i have on them.. running out of places to put the ones i like so ive just been saving the tiny ones. well i know it was a bit newer pit but i hope you enjoyed it all the same! thanks for watching and special thanks for you being our first patron! take care

@@BelowthePlains The smell isn't the offensive part, but the smarting of the stuff on an open wound will bring tears to your eyes! If you've not seen an intact vintage bottle, the lid has a glass dauber attached to it, that the red stuff is applied with. And the stain doesn't come off easily, so everyone knows you've been treated!

We unfortunately never found the bottom half. Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out our Facebook page (Below the Plains)

ah man i gotta get out to england one day.. i watch some of these mudlarking videos and i have to admit.. they find cooler stuff than we do! and older! and thank you very much, glad you like the videos! thanks for watching

@@BelowthePlains Hey, don't put down your country's good junk. You want us to watch another channel, instead?

We appreciate the info and will take note. Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out our Facebook page (Below the Plains)

Don't you find it odd that they had electricity at so early a date?

@@danreed7889 It could have been out of a battery radio. A lot of early radios were. I would say that the house had electricity especially because of the number of light bulbs!

@@danreed7889 It would have been more unusual outside of town, although many farms had a delco battery to run the lights or a milking machine.

@@653j521 yes, I know of this as I worked at a electric co-op. Most co-ops didn't get going until the late '20's.

well thank you! glad you like. i really appreciate that, we try make them entertaining and informative,. thanks for watching and leaving us a comment

I've dug a lot of ketchup bottles. I couldn't tell you how many. Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out our Facebook page (Below the Plains)

When I was young my scrapes were treated by mecuracom(?) and methyolate(?). Times have sure changed in the past 70 years for me.

thank you! glad you liked! we're gonna try get 1 video out a week this year without any breaks so stay tuned!

yeah a few other ppl let us have it in the comments already! and i gotta say, this era, is not my area of expertise! but.. im learning, definitely wont make that mistake again. thanks for letting us know, and thanks for watching!

Awesome! thank you! you have no idea how much that means to us. we really appreciate that, thanks for watching and commenting! and be sure to check us out on facebook!

hahaha awesome! yeah, catsup came a little earlier than this era, but in pits of this age, we usually find a TON.. yeah its probably the third most common type of bottle behind drug store bottles and liquor flasks!.. well thanks for watching, and leaving us a comment, that really helps! and if you wanna follow us on facebook, its just "below the plains" thanks!

hahah yeah we used a hammer drill to punch holes like 2 feet down and then we go thru after making a row and we probe those holes.. we also had a map tho, so that really helps! but it was actually a fresh lot that they had just torn up, and layed down gravel, so the ground was super soft.. and they told us the general area that they were finding glass... so we did have waaay more help finding it than we usually do. thanks for commenting and watching, and if you go over to facebook, be sure to follow our page, its just "below the plains" thanks!

@@BelowthePlains That is still so impressive to know how to do! It still takes a feel that I don't think most people could even imagine. The commitment to even get near a site is something else, you feel like a 1970's brother or something to me.

He uses the Sanborn insurance maps to find the general layout of the town then uses digging probes to feel out where there are bottles or where there is a loss of soil compaction.

First I’ll look for old maps or pictures. Even if it’s a newer picture they often didn’t move the outhouse far. Then check for low areas where the ground may have settled. Note the outhouses were moved every 10 or so years so there could be multiple several sites out there, which as mentioned, usually aren’t far from each other; they’re often in a row. Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out our Facebook page (Below the Plains)

I would die to see a piece of jewelry! Just for fun!

wow thank you! and yes we have quite a few fails, but id say we dig into just about as many good pits as we dig ones that arent worth making a video out of.. kind of sucks but theres just no 100% way to know whats under the ground until you open it up.. but we are able to get a good sense of the age of it by looking up records of when the structure was there and what it was.. sometimes we just dig up a random pit from like the 60s and its always disappointing.. ive actually dug into a pit that was from the late 1990s once.. lot of plastic in it, it kinda grossed me out.. hope that answered your question! be sure to follow us on facebook! its just "below the plains"