A Strange Sink Spot Opening by a Fence Leads to a Find of a Lifetime Buried in a Back Yard

Tom Askjem excavates three privies at the site of an 1870s home on Pearl Street in Yankton, South Dakota.
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  • @detectingnewyork
    @detectingnewyork4 ай бұрын

    There’s definitely so many coins and relics!! You need to get a hold of a metal detector and swing over the dirt before filling back in…YOU’LL BE AMAZED!!! 🙌🏼😁💯

  • @mikef.1000

    @mikef.1000

    3 ай бұрын

    I'll second that.

  • @ktCol64
    @ktCol644 ай бұрын

    Forgot to add that i love the research you have done it shows with your knowledge of the pieces you find! I love the pictures you add with it (the advertising). Keep it up!!

  • @joymains4745
    @joymains47454 ай бұрын

    Hey, I'm an old lady & the re-visits to the awesome digs are new to me🤣‼ Still the best historic bottle diggers on YT‼ Quit complaining‼ Love you guys❤❤❣

  • @MarciaShackelford-st5bt

    @MarciaShackelford-st5bt

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, even if I watch it again I can't remember if I saw it before or not (I'm on the old side too). I do remember unique items that they find though. That clues me into if I've seen it before or not 😀 !

  • @dorothycraft2173

    @dorothycraft2173

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm confused,,,,we never put out trash our outhouse. We had a trash pit for that.

  • @BrianCarnevaleB26

    @BrianCarnevaleB26

    4 ай бұрын

    pocket flask is very cool I only saw one before they wanted like 40 bucks for it. still had labels

  • @SusanLynn656

    @SusanLynn656

    Ай бұрын

    @@dorothycraft2173I’m wondering about that too. But I have no familiarity with outhouses. Did they need to be cleaned out? Was stuff thrown away regularly or all at once when someone left the property? How deep were outhouses? I guess I need to Google that and go down that rabbit hole.🕳️ 😂

  • @lauriemayhew2279
    @lauriemayhew22794 ай бұрын

    Love your digs and seeing what treasures you find. Please make a video about how you got into this hobby/career, how did you learn about bottles and bottling companies, what do you do with all those items you dig up, do you clean them yourself, are there collectors and buyers, have you ever been injured down in the pit, how is your back, have you ever found a dead body or something suspicious, are there other places in the US or abroad that you'd like to excavate, what items in particular that you've found are the most valuable, do you edit your own videos or do you pay someone to, do you ever do live videos and answer questions, etc. Inquiring minds want to know these things!

  • @joankelley3772
    @joankelley3772Ай бұрын

    We love watching your channel. Our house was built shortly after our area was settled -1750 to 1800ish. (hand hone boards, hand made bricks and nails) We decided to install a pool and dug up our back yard, We found a ton of old bottles and jars, plates and bowls! It was so much fun! As a 55+ year home canner I get sooo excited when you find old Mason and Ball jars!

  • @shannondantoni4849
    @shannondantoni48494 ай бұрын

    I don’t know who has ownership of all the things you dig up, but every time I watch your videos I wonder what happens to all the beautiful broken porcelain? Has anyone offered to sell it? I can imagine all the fantastic artwork one could make with it. Thanks for the entertainment, enjoy the videos very much.

  • @BrianCarnevaleB26

    @BrianCarnevaleB26

    4 ай бұрын

    Tons of porcelain on the market many in mint condition. They made hundreds of thousands but many were unique and a one-of-a-kind design for the full set. Ahhh, all the full sets are broken up now and pieced out with few wanting full sets like they did just a couple of decades ago as the market shifts so quickly now.

  • @shannondantoni4849

    @shannondantoni4849

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BrianCarnevaleB26 I would hate to see intact porcelain being smashed, that’s why I was inquiring about all the pieces that are dug up .

  • @deniseview4253

    @deniseview4253

    3 ай бұрын

    Bits and pieces of broken dishes would make a beautiful counter top project.

  • @zGJungle

    @zGJungle

    2 ай бұрын

    @@deniseview4253 That would look fantastic

  • @KristinaBakerSmith

    @KristinaBakerSmith

    Ай бұрын

    @@deniseview4253we got a bunch of chipped items from my in laws. We are making a mosaic table. I think its going to be stunning😊

  • @toplistcrew7645
    @toplistcrew76454 ай бұрын

    I know of an old old military fort that turned into a school around the turn of the century I’m going to go check out now!

  • @TheTigerQuoll
    @TheTigerQuoll4 ай бұрын

    Compared to today,the past had a much more pleasing aesthetic beauty to it in the construction of everyday items.Great digs Tom and pleased for your rare beer find.

  • @Frook52

    @Frook52

    8 күн бұрын

    Everything was hand crafted!

  • @ToddTheJoker
    @ToddTheJoker4 ай бұрын

    This was a great mid-week treat! Tom, I appreciate your patience in showing us every piece especially when there is another piece waiting that you really want to see what it is!! lol It is appreciated!!! Thank you guys! Take care,,can't wait for the next dig!

  • @fngrusty42
    @fngrusty424 ай бұрын

    I was born in the 50s, we dug a burn pit every year , in to it went all the garbage . We burned once a month . 1 year we dug up an older burn pit and found all kinds of neat bottles , jars, and stuff like that . All our neibours came over and looked at what my dad didn't keep. Figured it was from the mid 1800s all the stuff not taken was put back in the pit. Today there's a big car lot building on top of our burn pits. Lol just wanted to thank you first time I've thought about it in years was always a fun day digging our new pit , me and dad. Thanks

  • @kevinwalgreen2199
    @kevinwalgreen21994 ай бұрын

    Congratulations 🎉 on the Blob bottle find, keep those awesome videos coming!! ❤

  • @bernadettecrawford3656

    @bernadettecrawford3656

    4 ай бұрын

    We had a Blob shop ale house in liverpool im 75 now interesting

  • @barbarahatcher4552
    @barbarahatcher45524 ай бұрын

    So proud of you you know your history in bottles love to here you say all the different bottles names

  • @calnative4904
    @calnative49044 ай бұрын

    I love old embossed bottles, I can only imagine what it was like back then. Awesome finds.

  • @cathylitwin7044
    @cathylitwin70444 ай бұрын

    That round glass ball was a fire extinguisher bulb ✌️

  • @andrewowens9382
    @andrewowens93824 ай бұрын

    Hi 👋 👋 👋 👋 Tom and jake what a great bottle pit 👌 😀 I was so pleased you found your holy grail beer bottle you definitely deserve that with all the hard work you both put into it 😀 some really old bottles and pretty good nick too 😀 😊 all the best Tom and jake another great video 😊 Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 👏 😀 🇬🇧

  • @fishinwidow35
    @fishinwidow354 ай бұрын

    What a pit! I believe that comb is a nit comb.

  • @g1stylempdesign929

    @g1stylempdesign929

    4 ай бұрын

    For nit Picking :)

  • @novallasuter5265

    @novallasuter5265

    4 ай бұрын

    Removal of head louse eggs

  • @alanatolstad4824

    @alanatolstad4824

    4 ай бұрын

    @@g1stylempdesign929 Aha, good one!

  • @chasetonga
    @chasetonga4 ай бұрын

    As soon as I saw Dr. Shoop in the lower left hand corner, before you even pulled it out of the ground, I knew it was from Racine. I went to school half a mile down the road from Shoop Park. I would love to purchase that bottle.

  • @daviddarrall9384
    @daviddarrall93844 ай бұрын

    This has to be your best dig Ever! Well done you ❤ UK.

  • @oneagentfrog
    @oneagentfrog4 ай бұрын

    I do not think you have ever giggled like that on your video! Nice Heselton! Shows the emotion and joy of being able to discover Treasures & new knowledge!🥰😍🤩

  • @MrYowen88
    @MrYowen884 ай бұрын

    I’m jealous that this is your job… it seems so satisfying… makes me want to dig up my back yard!

  • @jetstreek17
    @jetstreek174 ай бұрын

    Well done on getting 100k subs. You deserve it. Great content. Thanks for the Vid

  • @glennaw1547
    @glennaw15474 ай бұрын

    I really enjoy your finds, especially when you get so excited over unusual relics. Thank you for all of your hard work presenting these to us.

  • @TheopolisQSmith
    @TheopolisQSmith4 ай бұрын

    I enjoy seeing items my Grandparents might have used. Especially my wife’s as they were from the Minneapolis area.

  • @user-yg4ne9zg8p
    @user-yg4ne9zg8p4 ай бұрын

    Love the red wing bottle!

  • @kissell69
    @kissell694 ай бұрын

    When I was a kid living outside Charlottesville, Va out past Monticello and Ash Lawn back in the 70's early 80's our landlord had over 400 acres and there had been a lot of old houses on the property he tore down. My brother and I used to sit on the big flat rock in our front yard at night in the summertime with the flood light on gluing old plates, coffee cups, serving platters etc. back together from this same time period. Tons of killer old bottles. Found a flat chrome Art Deco Klaxon horn in the dirt sparked a 6 volt battery across it and still got a sad old honk out of it.

  • @marylavine2632
    @marylavine26324 ай бұрын

    Terrific digs. I enjoyed it all. Old dates. Made my day as i was in sciatic pain.

  • @eaglepursuit
    @eaglepursuit4 ай бұрын

    All those perfume/cologne bottles make me think you've found the trash pit from a house of ill repute

  • @ValerieBergan-dt4oc
    @ValerieBergan-dt4ocАй бұрын

    So very interesting. Val from Central Coast NSW Australia. Age 82. Keep up the good work. 👌

  • @gnudad
    @gnudad4 ай бұрын

    Love your vids. Perhaps sometime you could do a somewhat instructional vid going over the different styles, types and manufacturing of bottles from your finds. That would be very interesting.

  • @jasonbennett8008
    @jasonbennett80084 ай бұрын

    I can't thank you enough for the sort of history that you're saving, congratulations on a good day.

  • @kathymarshall2787
    @kathymarshall27874 ай бұрын

    I think it would be fun to take some of the sead layer and see if any would grow. Lol to me that would be fun. I lov watching you extract all the bottles and stuff from the pits in the plaines. They always amaze me. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. ❤

  • @EmpathBonz
    @EmpathBonz4 ай бұрын

    I wish I had knowledge of digging 50 years ago when I was a kid and lived in a 250 year old house on 40 acres in KY. We were told that at one time the house had 18 rooms. When we owned it there were 3 bd/1 ba, 2 dens and a formal dining.

  • @markhyden2321
    @markhyden23214 ай бұрын

    To be young and able to dig like you do!!!

  • @davelester1985
    @davelester19852 ай бұрын

    You know the history of this stuff, nice going.

  • @richarddowling9020
    @richarddowling90204 ай бұрын

    This is a great dig, just the age I liked to find when I was digging in San Jose 50 years ago.

  • @lyndamac1058
    @lyndamac10584 ай бұрын

    I remember watching these a few months ago and it did have some great finds and it's funny when Tom gets excited.

  • @metaldetectingwiththesilva8311
    @metaldetectingwiththesilva83114 ай бұрын

    What a great site! Cheers for the video!

  • @sallyethridge1393
    @sallyethridge13934 ай бұрын

    I love history and antiques! Your videos are my favorite form of entertainment!

  • @rogerb4971
    @rogerb49714 ай бұрын

    I sure love your content and the intimate insight into your adventures! Your narration has got to be some of the best of any channel. I wish you great fortune!

  • @aicirtkciub9167
    @aicirtkciub91674 ай бұрын

    Awesome ! I really enjoyed this ! Lots of great finds and stories to go along with them. Super interesting. Keep up the good work and I love this one is an hour and 15 minutes. Lots of fun to watch !!!

  • @Jean-ko4xv
    @Jean-ko4xv4 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed watching you! Great job, keep up the good work. If I wasn't 84 years old I'd like your job. God Bless. Jean

  • @ABeautfulMess
    @ABeautfulMess4 ай бұрын

    Loved the jolly rancher bottle lol but the saddle bottle was wonderful..i always adore the tiniest bottles.

  • @fiorenzaattanasio4796
    @fiorenzaattanasio47964 ай бұрын

    I love your knowledge and channel always. Thank you ❤🇨🇦✅

  • @martinco712
    @martinco7124 ай бұрын

    I love the old digs .Man this is good. yYea

  • @susiereed3612
    @susiereed36124 ай бұрын

    I love the Mason jars! Especially the aqua colored ones!

  • @davidgeier5827
    @davidgeier58274 ай бұрын

    Like your Jack Webb like introductions...nice diversity of embossed bottles.

  • @riverc3171
    @riverc31714 ай бұрын

    Big congrats on that bottle! Edit.. you killed it !

  • @weldhutch2857
    @weldhutch28574 ай бұрын

    Love watching these videos from Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @leewomack3498
    @leewomack34984 ай бұрын

    Your camera operator is awesome! Can see the bottles and embossing so clearly!! 😊

  • @BelowthePlains

    @BelowthePlains

    4 ай бұрын

    hahah thank you! yeah. sometimes the light puts a glare on the bottle, and you cant see anything.. it drives me crazy. we bought a canopy to put over the pit, and it has helped a lot. thanks for watching

  • @julienissalke7759
    @julienissalke77594 ай бұрын

    Love what u do always loved old stuff❤️💝✝️🙏🇺🇲

  • @gloriaprimeau7318
    @gloriaprimeau73184 ай бұрын

    Just LOve your site

  • @kacythomas7436
    @kacythomas74364 ай бұрын

    Great digging, with your grab bag finds

  • @canadianfloormasters
    @canadianfloormasters4 ай бұрын

    Congratulation on reaching over 100 K subscribers! You guys are killing it!

  • @samsager1
    @samsager14 ай бұрын

    Good times!! Great finds!! Hell yea!!!

  • @bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif5287
    @bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif52874 ай бұрын

    Nice score on the Blob top....!

  • @kgough80
    @kgough804 ай бұрын

    What a pit!! Congrats! 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @pathoodjoy
    @pathoodjoy4 ай бұрын

    Tremendous finds!

  • @heidiwilkinson8514
    @heidiwilkinson85144 ай бұрын

    Love those old soda bottles tom keep up awesome work 😊

  • @peri-lynnerutter4443
    @peri-lynnerutter44434 ай бұрын

    Hello from Northwestern, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. I’d love to find stuff like this here in Canada. I collect bottles. Have all sorts and love them all. Wow….i guess I better start digging around here. But the US has better history. Ha ha keep up the great work. Love your channel. Also……I’m in the pharmaceutical business. Take care and stay safe. ♥️🇨🇦♥️

  • @michelledonahue4601
    @michelledonahue46014 ай бұрын

    Congratulations on 100K!

  • @leewomack3498
    @leewomack34984 ай бұрын

    I get excited over the old bottles, and that pitcher! Wow! But I really get excited when there is an ink bottle find! The only time I found one was at the Goodwill, but not as fancy as the ones you've found.......I LOVE INK BOTTLES; 😂😂

  • @BelowthePlains

    @BelowthePlains

    4 ай бұрын

    yeah i collect those inks. im trying to get one of every style, but there were probably 100s, maybe 1000s... they just look so cool

  • @leewomack3498

    @leewomack3498

    4 ай бұрын

    @@BelowthePlains I'm envious 😏

  • @1yris1
    @1yris14 ай бұрын

    I guarantee nobody ever sat in those outhouses and thought about a day when someone would be digging through their crap looking for their trash 😂

  • @marykunselman284
    @marykunselman2844 ай бұрын

    Love the blue red wing bottle and the green bottle

  • @BelowthePlains

    @BelowthePlains

    4 ай бұрын

    yeah that green one was super cool. we spend like 4 hours looking for any information on it... never could, it was written in french. i spent like 2 hours using google translate and came up dry. thanks for watching!

  • @HistoryStillThrives
    @HistoryStillThrives4 ай бұрын

    Really like the turn mold blobs. I've dug a few tops and bottoms like that lately marked A B Co. or W.F.S. from Milwaukee on the bottom. Keep it up Tom 👍

  • @missyb7411
    @missyb74114 ай бұрын

    What an awesome amount of finds! So jelly!

  • @greenrockgarden2851
    @greenrockgarden28514 ай бұрын

    I love watching this so much that I’ll watch it over and over, until you can dig again.

  • @loucenn.4267
    @loucenn.42674 ай бұрын

    Hey guys!! Congratulations on reaching 100k subs!! You guys deserve it. You have the best production in you genre. Can't wait to see what yiu guys do next. Hopefully more watchers give a little so we can see what yiu guys put out with some budget! Come on eveyone, chip in. Lets get these men the budget they deserve!! Sincerely. Lou Los Angeles California.

  • @VolcanoTimeLapse
    @VolcanoTimeLapse4 ай бұрын

    Marvelous simply marvelous!!

  • @joejoebus8814
    @joejoebus88144 ай бұрын

    This dig is so awesome. Many items I have not seen. ThX for sharing. I dig you digs.

  • @margiecooper6045
    @margiecooper60454 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed this one. Quite a haul! I do not recall seeing it before. ❤

  • @lynnerodgers4461
    @lynnerodgers44614 ай бұрын

    Love the iridescent ink bottle❤

  • @leewomack3498
    @leewomack34984 ай бұрын

    In the last pit just before you found that heavy champagne bottle, there was a very small bottle right in front of you, and you scraped dirt over it to get to that champagne bottle! Slow your roll dude, you might be missing some of the bottles!

  • @lisag9145
    @lisag91452 ай бұрын

    Id cut the stamp out of all the broken dishes and make a display of them. I really enjoy your videos not just the finding of things , but also your master knowledge of those finds .

  • @jeffclark2725
    @jeffclark27254 ай бұрын

    Thumbs up, the stuff you find in great condition for being buried, enjoy all these videos, you could fill a museum

  • @terrancemiller8350
    @terrancemiller83504 ай бұрын

    I'm thinking the fire ball "no not your's or Jake's " a fire extinguisher from my video view, what a fun digs. I'm so proud of you,I just love it. Great day's, be safe, much love. Afriend.

  • @deloradeabel8487
    @deloradeabel84874 ай бұрын

    Wow I never knew South Dakota had a water way big enough for a steamboat!the territory bottles are really something!❤

  • @avengingmime

    @avengingmime

    4 ай бұрын

    Yankton is on the Missouri and I think steamboats went all the way up into central Montana at least to Fort Benton...maybe to Great Falls?

  • @deloradeabel8487

    @deloradeabel8487

    4 ай бұрын

    Learn something new everyday!ty

  • @leonguyot4991
    @leonguyot49914 ай бұрын

    What an amazing pit! Very cool finds

  • @budburcar4603
    @budburcar46034 ай бұрын

    Tom….love the videos, love the info. I am a bottle digger in the Thumb of Michigan. Wish I could find privies like you do. Have you ever done an institutional video on finding privies ?

  • @jimmylarge1148

    @jimmylarge1148

    4 ай бұрын

    One thing is for sure. All vids will be reuploaded at least three times and there is a zero % chance of ever getting a reply.

  • @jameshaselmayer8492

    @jameshaselmayer8492

    4 ай бұрын

    Lol....

  • @SusanLynn656

    @SusanLynn656

    Ай бұрын

    @@jimmylarge1148what do you mean?

  • @glenpitts6813
    @glenpitts68133 ай бұрын

    I love seeing these old gems.

  • @wwjoesr
    @wwjoesr4 ай бұрын

    No fast forwarding through this dig. Amazing finds!

  • @darcybloom-boedefeld5046
    @darcybloom-boedefeld5046Ай бұрын

    Love this stuff!

  • @sadielevens1144
    @sadielevens11443 ай бұрын

    I always enjoy your channel ❤❤❤❤❤😊

  • @jeanafoster2315
    @jeanafoster23154 ай бұрын

    Love watching you as you dig through yester- years... so fascinating to see all of the unique bottles and other items that you find... I actually have a question! What do you do with all of the items you find? Do you have a business selling them? I also wonder how do you clean them up... considering where they are all coming from.... Enjoying your channel so much.... keep on digging....

  • @deniseview4253
    @deniseview42533 ай бұрын

    I would love to do what you’re doing. It’s a lot of work and interesting finds. I love the blob tops. And any blue glass too. Pretty ink bottle. So cool on the canning jar! The little’s are so stinking cute! Some of the bottles I’ve not seen before. I’m always amazed that the stuff has been buried 90-100 plus years and many pieces survived.

  • @edwardallan197
    @edwardallan1974 ай бұрын

    Real fun, thanks!

  • @JayInOz1
    @JayInOz14 ай бұрын

    I was just gonna say that the little fine toothed comb is for removing head lice- a nit comb. I see fishinwidow beat me to it :) They're still available as far as I know. When I was a kid there was a site on our farm where an old lady had lived alone for years in the early nineteen hundreds. She made borders for her flower beds with dozens of embossed bottles she found, buried half in the ground. We found some beautiful bottles and jars, no digging involved. I envy you being able to stick a probe into the ground- American dirt must be a lot softer than Australian dirt :)

  • @ritadonovan6606
    @ritadonovan66064 ай бұрын

    Hi I've watched your videos for a while now but I never comment. I just wanted to mention I like the household dishes etc... most because it's almost the same bottles every video but I'm still watching. Thanks👍🇨🇦

  • @lisathomas1622
    @lisathomas16224 ай бұрын

    😂 I was thinking about Picardi style glasses and you actually pulled one up… wow. you called it a bar glass.

  • @dixonrupp8347
    @dixonrupp83474 ай бұрын

    Exciting dig. Lots of o wows. LOVE it.

  • @carolynsimone8647
    @carolynsimone86474 ай бұрын

    Awesome video....keep on digging...🥰🥰

  • @roybal1975
    @roybal19754 ай бұрын

    A clean up of your favorites finds would be awesome👍

  • @heidiavera5071
    @heidiavera50714 ай бұрын

    Love your channel

  • @bmcc12
    @bmcc124 ай бұрын

    How do you turn these treasures into cash? Do you advertise them or do you send them to auction?

  • @karenwright8556
    @karenwright85564 ай бұрын

    Wow,great dig. Congrats on the really good bottles.👍😁

  • @Digger-rn9yh
    @Digger-rn9yh4 ай бұрын

    Awesome video!!! Great finds!!!

  • @ritahall8653
    @ritahall86534 ай бұрын

    Great finds

  • @howarddenney5331
    @howarddenney53314 ай бұрын

    Nice finds, age and veriety!!

  • @billykelly5798
    @billykelly57984 ай бұрын

    Awesome!!

  • @squatchthumper7537
    @squatchthumper75374 ай бұрын

    Awesome dig!!!!

  • @show-metreasure3438
    @show-metreasure34384 ай бұрын

    Amazing !!Digs

  • @BelowthePlains

    @BelowthePlains

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks!