Digging a Confederate Soldier's Privy - Deep Glass and War Relics

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For those who follow this channel, you've seen our more recent videos where we've been metal detecting at a Confederate Plantation. Well, we decided we'd try to locate the privy and dig some old 1800s bottles. Well, we find 2 privies in this video and we pulled out a bunch of glass and many relics. While Jason and I were busy in the hole, everyone else was popping relics out of the ground left and right. This is going to be a two part episode so make sure you subscribe and click the bell. I'll have part 2 uploaded within the week.
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  • @JGW845
    @JGW8453 жыл бұрын

    1853 Confederate soldier? If I remember history correctly, and I do, there was no Confederacy or Confederate military until 1861. Both my great-grandfathers enlisted in 1861.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    House pre-dates the war. He would go on to be a colonel.

  • @ECCHAPPEL

    @ECCHAPPEL

    2 жыл бұрын

    You probably mean great-great- grandfather

  • @Everything817

    @Everything817

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @BlueEyedColonizer
    @BlueEyedColonizer3 жыл бұрын

    My great great grandfather fought with the CSA calvary out of Bartow County, Kingston. Awesome show guys.

  • @iamrichrocker
    @iamrichrocker3 жыл бұрын

    Zach..what i love about you is the family concept of your passion of metal/relic hunting...and good gosh are your kids growing tall quickly..glad you will have videos to pass on to their grandkids..time is flying..peace and health to your clan...

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks brother! And yes time moves too fast. Peace and health to you as well.

  • @Roosterdoodler
    @Roosterdoodler3 жыл бұрын

    Good to see you guys out hunting. About time for a road trip! Thanks for sharing. 👍

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Festus!

  • @shooter3083
    @shooter30833 жыл бұрын

    Great video Zach! Already looking forward to the next installment!!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Shooter!

  • @brianmaxey3263
    @brianmaxey32632 жыл бұрын

    Good video, you found some nice old stuff. I've always found them to be rock or wood whenever I have dug them..

  • @diggingthewest7981
    @diggingthewest79812 жыл бұрын

    Nice digs and congrats on your first 19th century medical! Make you up a couple steel probes, aside from helping you find privies, they will help you determine which way the privy goes so you don't have to tunnel.

  • @robertafuge2311
    @robertafuge23113 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you are happy and not down in the dumper ha ha

  • @user-wj4nz2ct7e
    @user-wj4nz2ct7e8 ай бұрын

    Looks like a blast

  • @ivyyoung521
    @ivyyoung5213 жыл бұрын

    Wow!!! Great find.💪

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @leroypuckett3441
    @leroypuckett34413 жыл бұрын

    Pretty good video the kids seems to be having blast lol

  • @idigdaytona4478
    @idigdaytona44783 жыл бұрын

    Hey Zach , cool spot . Looking forward to your return trip.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man!

  • @treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340
    @treasurehuntingscotlandmud93402 жыл бұрын

    Love the history of the war in America it’s what got me into metal detecting in the U.K. finding WwII finds then lead me to bottle digging some lovely bits coming out that area

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks and good luck!

  • @grantpiper1223
    @grantpiper12232 жыл бұрын

    The "dude" on the Australian coin is Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI who reigned from 1936 to 1952, following the abdication of his older brother, King Edward VIII.

  • @WILDKYLE
    @WILDKYLE3 жыл бұрын

    Great video brother! Glad to see you at it!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks brother!

  • @irenefitzkee535
    @irenefitzkee5352 жыл бұрын

    4:16 looks like a look from storage trunk

  • @kathysmith1656
    @kathysmith16563 жыл бұрын

    My uncle and cousin used to hunt old bottles and they told me the best place to find old ones was an old outhouse!!! I have a few that came out of them!!!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep. It's definitely a good place to look

  • @183charlesspiva
    @183charlesspiva3 жыл бұрын

    Zach, it's possible the piece of bone that was missing from the 'bone' was wanted to make a handle or other such use. Keep a diggin!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man

  • @HeartbreakerRelics
    @HeartbreakerRelics3 жыл бұрын

    Cool video Zach! Now here I sit waiting on the next one lol. Congratulations to Levi on his second breast plate. You gotta be thinking with two breast plates are the belt and cartridge plates there too. Good luck!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    I dont know where all the belt plates are around here. They just don't turn up as often

  • @marksexton4860
    @marksexton48603 жыл бұрын

    You guys need to come dig bottles with me in virginia and I'll come dig civil war with you glad your back videoing awsome always enjoy the videos congrats my friend and good luck

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much Mark! I'd love to come dig some bottles in VA.

  • @happyhunting6303
    @happyhunting63033 жыл бұрын

    So cool!!! If that lock plate has a pat. # on it , you can still look it up! Probably to an old trunk.I emailed you a pic of this lockplate, its to a large trunk!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much!

  • @CalvinsCorner72
    @CalvinsCorner723 жыл бұрын

    Y’all probably on the edge of a trash pit. Awesome stuff. 1800’s bottle is cool

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still looking for the trash pit

  • @randyblackburn9765
    @randyblackburn97652 жыл бұрын

    Good finds , especially the bottle, the old cellar may have old fruit jars probably doubled as a tornado shelter

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's definitely possible

  • @colleencrane4843
    @colleencrane48433 жыл бұрын

    Just found you through Brandon from Adventure Archeology...Enjoy your videos!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much. Brandon is a great guy.

  • @rey.del.guac.7
    @rey.del.guac.74 ай бұрын

    Neat stuff

  • @danielcline7413
    @danielcline74132 жыл бұрын

    I get it smell the bread baking while your pinching a loaf the old days!

  • @olafvidar9315
    @olafvidar93153 жыл бұрын

    Zach, you came into my KZread feed yesterday. Liked you right off and instantly sub'd! I watch a lot of detecting videos. Chig, Bird Dog etc. Don't know how the hell I've not heard of your channel before. You're already my favorite.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dang man! Thanks so much. That means a lot. Which video popped up if you don't mind me asking.

  • @olafvidar9315

    @olafvidar9315

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd Your latest privey dig.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right on man. Well again, I appreciate the kind words. Part 2 of the privy dig should be out next week.

  • @olafvidar9315

    @olafvidar9315

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd Wouldn't be nice if you could get a backhoe on those priveys... I'll be looking out. You're a good man. Remember, ONWARD!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would definitely be nice to have one for filling the holes back in haha

  • @budrohammbone2806
    @budrohammbone28063 жыл бұрын

    Good Vid Zack !

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @seanlittle2148
    @seanlittle2148 Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding utilization of your built in child labor force! 👏👍

  • @johnkowalczyk6933
    @johnkowalczyk69333 жыл бұрын

    You need to come over here to this side of the pond where you can dig artifacts one to two thousands years old in your back garden .

  • @KB4QAA

    @KB4QAA

    3 жыл бұрын

    No thanks. We'll just wait another 1200 years and dig what we have! :)

  • @RelicHuntingSouthTexas
    @RelicHuntingSouthTexas3 жыл бұрын

    Breastplate is an amazing find! Wow!! Awesome digging for you all! Great job! Take care- Char😊

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much

  • @ExploringAlabama

    @ExploringAlabama

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is an awesome spot! Congrats on all the finds!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks brother!

  • @scottnix4991
    @scottnix49913 жыл бұрын

    I think those were civil war knapsack buckles. You usually find several of them close together.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'll have to check it out

  • @waso122463
    @waso1224633 жыл бұрын

    Makes some good broth and soup with that marrow.

  • @athelwulfgalland
    @athelwulfgalland3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, best to widen those holes I suppose. You wouldn't want to be remembered as that guy killed in a vintage pooper collapse! lol Neat finds but I don't think anyone would be able to convince me to dig a privy regardless of what treasures might be there. After all I already know what is definitely in there!

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha. Very true. Thanks for watching!

  • @sloanchampion85
    @sloanchampion852 жыл бұрын

    Looks like everyone is having a good time, I was going to mention that the little bottle wasn't made in Savanah that's just the advertisement on the bottle, it was made somewhere else for that company

  • @backwoodsbrown
    @backwoodsbrown2 жыл бұрын

    What is a "breast plate"? Indian decoration, sash pin for a solider... I tried googling but couldn't find info. Love when Mom says "Those are your new shoes!" And the kid quietly responds "I'll clean them..." 😂

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man. A breast plate was worn by union soldiers during the Civil War.

  • @tsamoyed
    @tsamoyed2 жыл бұрын

    I recently found a dump nearby to me that nobody knows about, so far all the bottles I've found have been 1910-30s. I've only dug around for about 15 minutes there too

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dig deep

  • @chriscarter225
    @chriscarter2252 жыл бұрын

    Looks like that lock plate came off a union lock box. May be off stagecoach lock bo

  • @stevesloan7132
    @stevesloan71323 жыл бұрын

    That's a pressed glass bottle from the late 1800s. The lip on it is part of the pressing. If the lip had been applied separately, then it would probably be pre 1850.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Steve

  • @stevesloan7132

    @stevesloan7132

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd Happy to help. I became interested in bottles when I wanted to find a good one to build a ship in a bottle. A really old landfill will often have old unbroken bottles near the surface because they didn't have bull dozers or heavy machines to to do the work back then. Old ghost towns out west, like abandoned mining towns, usually have a place like that somewhere. But most old towns in any area usually have such a place like that.. I found one near Marinett by asking my grandfather if he remembered one. And he did. He used to poke around in it as a boy. Good luck.

  • @markhannam7144
    @markhannam71443 жыл бұрын

    Coin is George VI guys Commonwealth issue, greetings from the UK

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @tracytavares1365
    @tracytavares13653 жыл бұрын

    If I had the funds Id get you kids some Metal Detectors . I could search that place for 20 years . Good huntin to the whole tribe

  • @WilliamAyres-mr8zx
    @WilliamAyres-mr8zx6 ай бұрын

    I found a medicine bottle years ago Dr wise.

  • @martihetrick609
    @martihetrick6093 жыл бұрын

    #2 might be a work number a mine workers. Or store number for to buy goods?

  • @garryeadon9962
    @garryeadon99622 жыл бұрын

    I never thought a bunch of guys digging in a shit hole would be exciting.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha. One of the best comments I've ever gotten.

  • @irenefitzkee535
    @irenefitzkee5353 жыл бұрын

    The lock with a date looks like it’s from a storage trunk.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's what I was thinking

  • @keepitreal477
    @keepitreal4772 жыл бұрын

    Zach I can't believe how much I think you are the male version of me. We sound alike have the exact same accent and the same hobbies. I feel like I'm your twin sister. Lol

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha that's great!

  • @swbottles
    @swbottles Жыл бұрын

    That druggist bottle is most likely 1900 to 1912.

  • @therelicextractors4761
    @therelicextractors47613 жыл бұрын

    If you hit clay in the privy ya shoulda dug past it..that was more than likely a cap and good glass could be underneath the clay

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Once we hit the clay, we dug another 2 feet and hit it with the probe and nothing.

  • @divinodayacap3313
    @divinodayacap3313 Жыл бұрын

    Is that centuries old poop inside the privy? or just plain old soil?

  • @dannybell926
    @dannybell9263 жыл бұрын

    Hey brother... not wanting to rain on the parade, but the patent date on an item is not the date that it was made. Do you know how to tell if a bottle is hand blown or machine made? That's really the only way to date it unless you know the start/stop dates of a certain variant

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    I usually go by the seam that runs the side of the bottle. I'll admit, I don't know near as much about bottles as I do civil war relics.

  • @mengelman2
    @mengelman22 жыл бұрын

    Is there any odor from the old privy in there?

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just smells earthy

  • @martihetrick609
    @martihetrick6093 жыл бұрын

    Need brush and spray bottles

  • @matthewcarroll5451
    @matthewcarroll54513 жыл бұрын

    Zach Byrd, new subscriber, North Alabama here. What’s its take to bribe you enough to take a guy metal detecting sometime? Never got on any civil war even with looking at all the old maps. Let’s trade I’ll get you on some Alabama long beards you bring me detecting sometime

  • @matthewcarroll5451

    @matthewcarroll5451

    3 жыл бұрын

    Btw I constantly watch detecting videos and I’ve never found you til now. You randomly popped on my news feed. Good to see a southern boy like myself

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not sure why yoytube has been sleeping on me but I've been at it genuinely for 5+ years.

  • @matthewcarroll5451

    @matthewcarroll5451

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd Let me know about my other comment for real! I would love to trade out some hunts sometime

  • @newlevelgraphicsdavidframe2870
    @newlevelgraphicsdavidframe28703 жыл бұрын

    that is probably 1910ish bottle

  • @3centpickle626
    @3centpickle6263 жыл бұрын

    That lock plate looks to be from a chest.

  • @ff441980fredcrowe
    @ff441980fredcrowe Жыл бұрын

    How can it be an 1853 Confederate privy?

  • @matthewfocke5360
    @matthewfocke53603 жыл бұрын

    Zach, What State are you in?

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm in Georgia

  • @matthewfocke5360

    @matthewfocke5360

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd Cool beans...I have family in Georgia. A beautiful place.

  • @brucerowan2183
    @brucerowan21833 жыл бұрын

    Looks like the coin was used for target practice.

  • @ranmarch6768
    @ranmarch67683 жыл бұрын

    Privy = Outhouse? Wear thick rubber gloves.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep, we're digging in the pooper.

  • @KB4QAA

    @KB4QAA

    3 жыл бұрын

    RM: Human soil is safe after three years of composting. No way to catch any diseases.

  • @tallyhorizzla3330
    @tallyhorizzla33303 жыл бұрын

    That Australian was probably brought back by some US serviceman who was stationed In Australia or at least spent some time(and money) there. Depending on the date of course.

  • @irenefitzkee535
    @irenefitzkee5352 жыл бұрын

    The thing daddy dug that had the 2 and was fat maybe was a trade weight. 2 pounds?

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe you are right

  • @onceANexile
    @onceANexile2 жыл бұрын

    I'd have a nice fire going and a coffee pot brewing...just saying...

  • @143DREWID
    @143DREWID3 жыл бұрын

    12PM on Wednesday... What? You think we're ALL unemployed? I gotta leave in 5min as roads clearing but icy now. I smell something though.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    12PM on a Tuesday haha. Today is Tuesday.

  • @harryasstruman3101
    @harryasstruman31012 жыл бұрын

    1853 ? The Confederacy wasn't formed until 1861. There was fighting On the missouri-kansas Border in the 1850s prior to the Civil War but they were considered Border Ruffians not Confederate

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    2 жыл бұрын

    He lived here before the war amd also after.

  • @harryasstruman3101

    @harryasstruman3101

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ZachByrd okay enjoy the video good job 👍

  • @Yo-SoN
    @Yo-SoN2 жыл бұрын

    I didn't realize the confederates smoked meth. wild. lmao.

  • @gipsonp
    @gipsonp3 жыл бұрын

    To be historically accurate the confederacy did not exist in 1853. Did you mean 1863?

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    3 жыл бұрын

    No. I mean that the house was built pre civil war and the owner would go on to fight for the confederate army.

  • @Travelling..Bottle..Digger
    @Travelling..Bottle..Digger Жыл бұрын

    Nice work ! Love the breastplate 👍👍

  • @mikereynolds3294
    @mikereynolds3294 Жыл бұрын

    Why y’all wanna dig in the sh*tter? Wasn’t there just 💩 in there????

  • @justinholmes4579
    @justinholmes4579Ай бұрын

    This is one of the most disappointing click bait titles ever. I thought I was going to see rare 1850s pontiled bottles, but once they dug up the lock I realized where the title came from. I would have been happy to watch this video as an average dig on a property, but the title made me too disappointed to enjoy it. I in general dislike how you tube forces everyone to make click bait titles just to get views.

  • @ZachByrd

    @ZachByrd

    Ай бұрын

    Unfortunately, if we don't market our videos, they'll get buried by the algorithm.

  • @jaywinters2483
    @jaywinters24833 ай бұрын

    Hold the camera more still. It's moving so excessively I can barely watch. Sorry, I gotta exit out. I can't handle all this movement.

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