Hidden Compartment Opened for the First Time in 120 Years 

Gordon's dry Gin is still sold I love there Lemon chillo! Gin along with Rhubarb and Ginger 😂💜😈💜 Loveeeeee watching your finds Caz from Stockport Cheshire UK

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And we didn't have to get dirty!

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aww.. i appreciate the comment, and thank you for watching

If the family still lives in that house, it would be something to see the things used by your great grandparents. That your gr grandparents used those toothbrushes and drank that booze.

wow thanks! thanks so kind.. and yeah ive been doing this for a long time, so im fairly familiar with most of this stuff, and ive done alot of research over the years.. once you know the manufacturing style its really easy to date them, but yeah, it took me a few years to be confident in what i was dealing with. well i really appreciate the comment! and thanks for watching

yeah thats always helps make the videos a little more interesting. and yeah, those were some of the nicest pieces ive ever found in any pits ive ever dug. couldnt believe we managed to get almost all the pieces. thanks for watching

well thank you! that makes my day.. glad you enjoyed the video. and thanks for watching/commenting

hahaha yeah maybe theres some connection there. thanks for watching and commenting

That is funny

oh wow. yeah theres just so much variety of those things, its hard to identify each and every specific one. thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching

Thank you for sharing this information

Are they valuable? I hate to sound dumb but can someone tell me why people do this?

@@judithgretes6299 Bottle collecting - is (1) collecting for collecting's sake - like stamps, fishing, hunting, The Dodge daughter of Detroit collected elephants, ... (2) digging and collecting is self-gratifying in finding your own, (3) collecting a specific type of bottle - whiskey, pharma, ink, black glass, red (gold) glass, etc has its own attraction, (4) digging, and buying to fill out one's collection is further investment, (5) bottle collecting is turning (other than hi-end art) has and safer investment and payoff than gold, silver, stock market, bit coin, ... (6) digging and collecting saves historical and archaeological artifacts for future research and discovery - as much of my research is doing in supporting these collectors, (7) auctions of bottles that others would pay for (and their backstories) make these bottles more appreciated and kept for their intrinsic value, increased value, ... and eventual sales, (8) the saving of bottle history, products, producers, the very glass making companies themselves who made bottles, fruit jars, and jars for so many companies also needs to be told. Bottle collecting is on a par level of having, holding, studying, and appreciating history - much in the same way as I also do family ancestry and genealogy research for some of these diggers - who then find out the same bottles that their ancestors were using long long ago. History comes alive.

Thank you. I just had a flash back to pharmacy school lol

yeah that hamlins wizard oil is such a cool bottle. ive found them before and ive always thought that was probably the coolest name ever. thanks for watching

thank you! appreciate you watching and commenting

haha thanks! yeah those were so cool, that we had to! they are actually all in the local museum on display right now, they were pretty excited to get those. thanks for watching!

yeah that thing was really cool,., it felt like it was about as thick as an egg shell, i cant believe it was in that condition. thanks for watching

Thank you so much for that

yeah i know. i come to find out that digging the houses of the people who were prominent members of the town, turns out to have some of the coolest finds.. you find a higher quality of items that you just dont see in depot or hotel pits, which are some of the main places that we target. anyways.,., thanks for watching

haha yeah i really liked the other blue one.. but those 3 plates were probably all in the top 5 coolest plates that ive ever found.. and im glad youre subscribed too, thank you for watching

wow thank you! really glad you like the channel.. thank you, for watching and commenting.

haha awesome! glad you found us!!

ah yeah, i guess i picked up a thing or two over the years.. the truth is, ive come across most of this stuff several, if not hundreds of times before.. and anytime i find something new, i always research it, just out of curiosity.. well thanks for watching

oh wow thanks! thats awesome! thanks for watching

wow thank you! glad you like watching the channel

yeah this town was decent to us.. we dug a lot of pits there.. easy digging, but the water table was like 4 feet down... in some future videos, you will see what we mean.. fortunately this pit wasnt very deep

lol.. thanks for watching!

lol thank you! for watching and the really nice comment

whoa you have a cool avatar! yeah ive come across a ton of homer laughlin over the years.. not the most common pieces i come across, but i dig so much that i do come across it every now and then. unfortunately so little of it is intact.. i do keep anything that isnt broken tho. thanks for watching and commenting

Its human compost basicly

They dig up old outhouse pits. People used to throw their garbage in with their bodily waste.

yeah in eastern north dakota we have like 12 feet of black soil, and then like 20 feet of clay.. makes the digging really easy... but any time we go dig in a far away state, ive come to find out that we got it very easy up here... some of the places ive dug in south dakota and kansas was like digging thru cement! thanks for watching

Sound like you live in oklahoma !!!?

yeah its like 12 feet of black soil on top of really soft clay.. we almost never get down far enough to even see the clay tho.. but yeah ive dug and probed in other states other than nd,sd, and mn... and it threw me for a loop.. i wasnt tuned into the geology.. and i dug kansas before.. that was like digging thru cement

thanks!

yeah ive actually seen alot of what people do with some of the broken pieces and to be honest, some of it is absolutely amazing.. but yeah, i be willing to give the broken stuff to anyone who wanted it, but i dont personally know any of the craft people.. but we got those pieces taped together and we donated them to the library/town hall and they have those on display right now. thanks for watching

@@BelowthePlains Thanks for the reply Jake and Tom! I asked not for myself, but in the hope that you would respond thusly. Perhaps it will encourage viewers who make such crafts, especially those living in your region of course, and motivate some to approach you guys for materials, thereby preserving a little more history, albeit in repurposed form. Thanks again for cleaning, reassembling and showing us the colorful dinnerware*. I hope it is a feature of your videos that you will continue. Happy to hear that the donations are getting displayed👍👍! Incidentally, the small clear glass "pitcher"--do you think it might have been one-half of an oil and vinegar cruet set? If the other half of such a set got broken, it might explain why that apparently intact item was tossed out. * I believe that we sometime tend to think of the 19th and early 20th century in the same photographic hues we are accustomed seeing from the era; namely, black, white and shades of gray or sepia. Colorful products such as the dinnerware and the vintage advertising that you include in your videos remind us that the past was also richly multi-hued.

@@BelowthePlains I would love some of the pottery to use for art if possible. I commented on one of your other videos regarding this very thing.

haha yeah, we usually try to save the ornate stuff when we dig, and try piece it back together if we can.. when we dont find most of it we usually jus put it back. gonna start trying harder to get some more of that stuff in the videos, thanks for watching

yeah i know what you mean. the first time i ever went with to dig one of these sites, it just blew my mind. but i guess it all kinda makes sense, it was easier to throw them away in the back yard than to walk across town to the city dump. thanks for watching and commenting

yeah, usually the prominent families of these small towns seemed to have some of the best stuff in their pits. thanks for watching

Most of the finds end up with the property owner. I’ll keep a few to document and then sell to offset travel costs etc. Some of the finds will end up with local museums although surprisingly they often have little interest in these kinds of things. If no one is interested and they hold no monetary value, we'll place the finds carefully at the bottom of the hole and fill it back in. Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out our Facebook page (Below the Plains)

hahahaha i will choose to take that as a compliment, and ignore the word "boring" bc any minor criticism will shatter my fragile ego. lol i appreciate the comment. and thanks for watching

@@BelowthePlains well just saying. You digging in a hole and find the coolest stuff. Nothing exciting about digging it’s just work!! But exciting discoveries you have. I been a plumber for over 20 years never have discovered much. Maybe a marble here and there. I’m puzzled how you find so much!!! Would love to see your whole collection. Do you have pictures any where?

@@joshuabigdog7009 oh and we find so much bc these are the old outhouse pits.. we dig right into them.. thats where all the stuff is gonna be.. idk if you know any guys who lay the pipes that run under the streets and alleys, but ive talked to a few guys whove done that and heard some stories.. they always say the same thing, that they found a pocket of old bottles and just threw them away or reburied them after they put the pipe in.. undoubtedly some of these guys have come across millions of dollars of bottles in their lifetime

yeah i havent dug very many dump sites, but ive had a lot of fun at the ones that i have dug.. i like the idea of a dump, bc theres such a greater variety of stuff you could find. i gotta start trying to find some. thanks for watching and commenting

yeah i know, that thing was crazy.. couldnt believe it was fully intact. amazing. thanks for watching and commenting

I see people on Etsy that make jewelry out of broken antique plates and such

oh wow Australia?! thats crazy. thank you, thats so kind of you. really glad you found the channel. thank you, for watching and leaving us a comment

haha yeah we get that question from time to time.. well, for the most part, no.. the dirt is indistinguishable from regular soil.. except sometimes.. when the water table is high in an area, it smells pretty dang bad... and it's pretty gross to dig thru.. i have a video im working on right now, and its a sloppy mess, and you will be able to what i mean.. but those pits are unusual.. id say less than 1 out of 20 i dig are really bad, but for the most part, any of the pits that are full of water, are extremely gross.. the cold fresh ground water prevent its from decaying.. well im glad you found the channel! thank you for watching and subbing!!

yeah we had to do it when we find pieces like those.. those things were some of the best dinnerware pieces ive ever come across.. all of them were amazing. thanks for watching

@@BelowthePlains some amazing colours on the fruit plate.

thank you!

haha yes of couse.. we actually donated all the plates and the pitcher to the local library/town hall and as far as i know, they have them on display there.. they were quite happy to receive them.. or at least they appeared to be happy, they might have just been humoring us lol.. yeah we found some other really cool stuff in other pits in upcoming videos, and we gave it to them.. we actually found a candy dish lid that had "leeds" hand painted on it.. it was really cool. you will see it upcoming videos. anyways, thanks for watching and commenting kevin