Find of a Lifetime in the Rubble of a Burned Down Hotel, Found with a Map From 1901 

I'm 75 and have recognized several bottles. I like seeing things that takes me back. Thank you so much, what fun. 😮😊

I just discovered your site. I really like it. I'm fascinated watching it. I got to do it one afternoon by chance. Behind an old tavern in Bleck Earth Wisconsin. I stepped outside in back to have a smoke and saw a bottle sticking out of the ground. I pulled it out and that led to about 60 old beer bottles and others. One was 1846!!! I like the time you allow for descriptions as I'm a slow reader. It really nice..glad your doing it,,I

We want 5 minute videos of cleaned-up finds!

I've got to say I love it when you get excited about a piece you find. You work so hard you deserve something exciting!

It's so amazing to me that all that stuff is right there below our feet!

4 complete Masons!? Wow! What a great haul on that first pit! Masons are one of my favorites to find!

The delight with which you say "Look seeds!" is both exciting and a tad stomach turning knowing you are in the faecal matter!

J'aime beaucoup l'idée d'aller fouiller pour retrouver des objets du passé comme les bouteilles et autres artefacts. C'est une trace de la vie d'il y a longtemps, un peu comme des recherches archéologiques sur le siècle passé. Je possède chez moi une bouteille datant de la révolution (1789/1795), fabriquée de façon artisanale et intacte. Je prend l'abonnement à votre chaîne, et salutations depuis la Normandie! 😃

I think people would enjoy seeing a video of your most prized finds.

I don’t know anything really about archaeology or that but these videos have become one of my favorite things to watch- so satisfying 🙏🏼🙏🏼 love what ya’ll are doing and your knowledge is wild

You are one of the most amazing hardworking individual. Every time I watch your videos you find the most stunning bottles! Keep on digging and Enjoy your life ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love the pickle bottles. Make a nice bud vase.

McHenry turned out to be worthy of your dig....awesome finds...thanks for sharing your finds...🥰🥰

You find the best places where bottles go to die! Amazing and fascinating finds, thank you. I think every one of us has that little treasure hunter inside…

What a WONDERFUL video!!! A gift, to be able to watch as you find these treasures, and a long video to boot...what a joy!!! Thank you!!!

How are you not extremely excited about the bottle from Paris, France! So COOL!

FANTASTIC find!! Love it. ❤

I’m in Baltimore. We still have the Bromo Seltzer tower in town. Neat!

I’ve been enjoying your videos for the last month or so…. Finally subscribed. Keep the cam rolling and keep digging ! I’ll keep watching 😊

So many beautiful bottles. Love them all. Great video always waiting for the next one.

Wow great finds!! 😊

I am amazed at all the comments from people who did digs. I keep thinking I am going to read about you - - FIRST CASE OF CHOLORA - SWIME FLU - MALARIA - TYPHOID - BUBONIC PLAGUE - DIPHTHERI - who knows. Just scares the heck out of me. No mask - you take your gloves off and rub things with your bare hands. But I guess those that dug before you are still alive and talking about their experiences. I do love your finds.

Great video!

Awesome finds 👍🙏❤️

The Hayner’s embossed Whiskies are fantastic!

KTK is Knowles, Taylor and Knowles China, I believe. I used to sell vintage American dinnerware. You find some interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing your digs here. I love watching!

Hi Tom. How long is one dig from probe to fill? Keep up the great work. Love watching your channel!

Awesome dig and cool findings. Thanks and Blessings.

Great finds! Love the video. I know it must be hard work for you Tom, But some great finds! Thank you!

Omg what a hall! Great job.

I love when you find the China/ dinnerware bowl, butter pat dish and coffee cup. The ornate ketchup bottle- so cool!🍽️ Another intact crock! Wow!🎉Sewing Machine! Ok, wash pitcher is my fav!

I am fascinated by what You are doing. I wish I could do it also but I am old and crippled. Thank you so much for allowing us to watch all the things you're doing. It means a lot.

Amazing finds!! Love you channel.❤

I long to see you clean up some of the nicer things you find, see how they look after a good wash and brush up. Of course I enjoy watching you find these things!

That pitcher with the beautiful gold design is still beautiful. Can't get over how well preserved it is

What a great way to live your life. Digging for something you love. I’d love and ice chest of beer and wine. Just hanging out with you. Make A Wish for senior citizens. One of our favorite things to do when we were little. Digging in the dirt.

It would be interesting to explain and show examples of all the different types of tops e.g. tooled, machined, applied, blob, etc.

great video as always

Man I love this channle.. Definitely in my top 3 if not the ONE!☕️👊🏼

Love this

Are you ever. Concerned about contracting parasites, Typhus, or earlier forms of diseases in the outhouse digs?

Would love to see some of your finds cleaned up. Any chance you could do that?

Great finds! TY!💜..Anyone else notice "That Chapter" intro 🎵? It's one of the better YT scores! 😆

Thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos. What do you do with all the things you find?

I am north in Saskatchewan and I wonder how many arrowheads and fossils you may have found on these hunts?

That was fun thank you

Hi tom " you should be digging and older states like the first 13 I know you can find out all old dumps you got a very good skill

I found the dump from that era, just have to walk a ravine for a ways, climb the side and boom. All the old stuff, even found glass syringes, mortar and pestle, just all kinds of neat stuff. Above that layer is fill and a park. Makes for a fun day!

Way way cool finds!!! Thank you for sharing all of it with us!!! God Bless!!!

I loved their grape Nihi soda.

Even though that sewing machines parts are broken, If it's all there may have some value. Cast Iron can be either brazed or nickel welded I'll bet your house is full of your best finds!

Nice

How much do you want for the Snyder bottle from Cincinnati Ohio ? LOVE!!

I remember getting drinking glasses from laundry soap boxes.

Can you cut off the broken ones and make votive candle holders? Beautiful finds!!

I subscribed love watching and do you have to ask permission to do the digging? Greetings franny

I used to donate to redcross for years. But, during Hugo my sister went there for some help for her and her son. They sent her and hr son away. They told her thry didn't have the funds. They didn't even tell her other places she could try too go to. She ended driving to our house, which was a good distance away. I swore, then I would never give them money ever agree.

I double dog dare ya to drink the liquid inside, lol, j/k, this is cool! I love digging finds, you are for sure wirking for your treasures!

Would love to buy that pitcher and basin off you if you found all the pieces.

I'd love to a dig with you, if your ever in maine!

Lots of work, all that digging, what do you do with all your finds? I enjoy watching and commend you on your research, thank you for the videos!

The ketchup jar with the fluted body, shoulder, and neck would be Snider's Ketchup of Cincinnati OH.

We really enjoy your videos. Can you tell us what background instrumental music you play? Very folksy.

I can’t believe all the beer bottles planted and none of em sprouted!

At my age, memory is not that good. But I believe the dice that "rattles" is trick dice so that when you roll it, it will always stop on numbers to win. I remember as a kid getting a pair of dice like that and it always rolled to the 7 or the 5 (I think it was 5 or maybe the 1 for snake eyes).

Powdered tooth paste. Soda , not always beer. cough syrup Trash pits not always outhouse (my husbands farm still has a huge pit, he dropped a piano... in it.

So enjoyed the video do you ever get down to Georgia

I am new to your channel and I was wondering what you do with all of the bottles and other stuff you dig up?

You sure can dig~ dont you bring a metal detector or pinpointer with you?

They did have some dice that rattled on the inside, or were double. Some were in the speak easy LOL Some were $$$ and some weren't. I have a glass one that is red. My grand mother had it in her button box. I am 76, so it's dating way back.

I’m wondering, what do you do with all these objects once you dig them? Do you sell them? Do you keep them? Do you donate them to a museum?

Hey, I'm going to be doing some canning. Would you like to donate those canning jars to my cause??? 😂 Can't hurt to ask! 😂😂😂 I sure hope you rested good between pits! That's a lot of work!!!😮

Soo kool❣how do you know when you have hit the absolute bottom of these pits?

I wonder do you ever glue the pieces together?

Hi I was wondering if you would sell any of the canning car ? The half gallon one.

Pops here. Do you get cut much? With all the glass shards i would think you would.

How do you know it's the edge? 2nd vid I watched. Very interesting. The mason jars are so big. I just love the mini bottles. A lot of bottles! Be kind to each other. Stay safe. Love to all

You missed see other bottle that you did pull out. Check video. 😊

Wow some good finds, I don’t know a damm thing about old bottles but I enjoy watching Thanks

Hi!! Could you please tell me what a “use layer” is? I hear you say this often in your videos. Would this be the layer the people went to the bathroom on?

You really found something by finding the canning jars

That sure is easy unpacked dirt he's removing .

It would be cool to clean up sewing machine and braise it together as art. Rusty gold.

Do you use a special instrument to find the ash and glass?

My brother was a cop and got permission to dig on old abandoned properties no one else could get in to. He had an entire room shelved top to bottom with his collection. He sold it all before he passed away.

This may sound stupid but, do you get to keep your finds?

I have a shirts weird question ...Have you ever found a body while digging ?

I’ve seen you pull out a lot of bottles with liquid in them, what is the liquid?

what do you do with all the stuff you find?

Hey Tom, I was looking to see if you had an Etsy store, but I couldn't find one. So what do you do with all of those bottles, plates and cups, and such? Even broken pieces will sell. Those of us who craft can always find a way to make beautiful upcycles! It's currently 6pm PDST, and we're about ⅓ of the way through.

nice modern archeology now do you think those bottles were ritual with burnt offerings

I love seeing all the amazing finds you unearth, but aren't you fearful of the dirt coming in on you when you dig so far down in the soft soil????without any support on the sides of your hole?????

How long have you been doing these digs? Tom, and how do you know where to dig? Do you get the things you find appraised?

I’m so confused how do you probe ash and glass?

Hey Tom- what do you do with slicks and things like non-embossed beer bottles? It seems like home brewers would really dig the early slick beer bottles. Just wondering.

Please tell us what you do with all this stuff

I will NEVER doate to the RED CROSS, during WW2 my uncle saw with his own eyes, the Red Cross charged for wool blankets in England that were donated here in the United States & they also charged for cigarettes that the tobacco companies donated for the servicemen, this was also in England.

Can you tell me what the find of a lifetime was? I expected a real burst of enthusiasm when a particular piece was pulled out but it seems every piece was as exciting as the last....

Love your channel hun I flip flop between your bottle hunting and mudlarking and magnet fishing drugstore. You are my favorite bottle Hunter though very knowledgeable❤❤❤

Really enjoy your videos. A friend of mine in Portland, OR, Mark Junker was a bottle digger for the last 50 or so years. I dug with him several times over the years and it was very much the same as your videos. Couple of stories. One time we were digging a shallow hole in the backyard of a house built in 1890s or so. Hole wasn't wide so Mark was the only one in the hole. He started pulling out some bricks that were sticking out of the dirt. Pulled one and there was a hole underneath. He dropped a rock into the hold and it didn't splash for a few seconds. He'd been digging in the fill over a well that had been bricked over. A few more bricks out would have meant he'd fall to the bottom. Lucky break. Next story: I was digging with him on Thanksgiving morning in early 1980s. Kathy and the kids were still in bed at home. It was the old Sellwood dump in SE Portland. I was undercutting a foundation and finding a few interesting things. I pulled out of the hole to wipe the dirt off my face and about 20 feet of the foundation collapsed into the whole I had been digging. Probably the closest call I've ever had. Fascinating thing you are doing. Be careful and have fun. Do you have a website or ebay store where you sell any of your finds? Mark died mid 2022. But your videos are a great reminder of what he loved to do.