Who would of thought digging through trash from over 100 years ago would be so interesting but it is. I wish they still made glass bottles for pop and such when I was a kid they still had glass pop bottles and I loved collecting them and bringing them to the store to get money from them. back then they still had 1 cent candy and Surprise bags where my favorite thing to get at the store and they were only 25 cent then it went up to 50 cents. I miss them days

The way you locate these dig sites amazes me. Love your videos

I live and grew up in a house built in 1740 in ma. I am totally obsessed. I began digging around. Lots of fun wondering what i might find. Your videos are very informative..love it.

@noneyabeeswax3200

4 ай бұрын

Get a metal detector and learn it

@gwenfowler1826

3 ай бұрын

Have you had any amazing finds? This would be something I would have really enjoyed doing back in my younger days.

@lisathomas1622

Ай бұрын

Let us know if you found anything. You tube will tell me if you comment here in the future.

Imagine bringing home a prescription in a beautiful, embossed glass bottle with a cork. Today there's hard plastic with a child-proof lid that only a child can open. Even when they're dug out of the worst conditions, they still have beauty. Same with the Mason jars.

You must have dug up most of Yankton by now! Seeing you digging on your knees make mine hurt. I’ve watched every episode.

@gwenfowler1826

3 ай бұрын

Mine too. 😄😄

I very much appreciate the text you place on your videos with the information on each piece. Absolutely wonderful way to learn about your work.

I never heard of Knoxit Globules, so I looked it up. Turns out it was a treatment for venereal disease! Just found your fun channel. Over the years, I've often thought of my Great Grandmother's farm outside Zimmerman MN. My Great Grandfather built the house in the 1890's. Two stories, no running water, pump in the kitchen, no electricity until about 1960, scary "root cellar" under the kitchen, two seater outhouse down the hill, shed/garage containing a Ford Model T, barn in such disrepair we were forbidden to play in it. But the best thing was the "dump." A huge round open pit--haven't seen it since I was about 10 years old but guess it was about 12 feet across--lined with rocks. Everything went in there. I can't help but wonder if it was filled in before she sold the farm, or left open for the new owners to pick through.

I like when you show the cleaned up pieces at the end I could definitely do with more of those. Thanks for all you do and for sharing

@Marysservant

4 ай бұрын

Got to be careful or people will skip to the end. Disperse cleaned up photos throughout!

Do you ever get tired of the physical digging? I wouldn't blame you. I think the excitement of the find keeps you going😊 Love your videos.

@briankgarland

4 ай бұрын

Best exercises to stay in shape: dig holes and chop wood.

@user-wl9ps6pe1j

4 ай бұрын

I can confirm half of that , digging holes when running fiber optic cables in my teens/early 20s . Working in different states and already being a tall, slim figure , probably had less body fat than alot of military then lol

@beemerkon

3 ай бұрын

If you have bad joints and arthritis it's not from digging holes it's just bad health and bad genes

@briankgarland

3 ай бұрын

@@beemerkon I suspect you haven't engaged in fifty years of manual labor.

@asphaltrox

3 ай бұрын

I would imagine the adrenaline keeps you going. Its hard to turn off that prospector's rush. He probably feels it the next day, I'd guess.

Im addicted and I cant stop watching

Tom you are truely a modern day Archaeologist, and you deserve every like and subscriber with how hard you work. Thanks for the videos.

Love these longer episodes. Never get enough of seeing whatever you find👍🏼

That figurine missing it's head is likely a "Frozen Charlotte" figurine. They came in many sizes and the diggers in the U.K. often find them. RE: Tooth powder- Yes it was a "tooth paste'. I remember as a small child we made out tooth powder out of baking soda and salt. One wet the tooth brush and dipped it into the powder. It worked well and literally cost about 2 cents to make a small container of it.

@Marysservant

4 ай бұрын

My dad used tooth powder in a tall tin up to 80s that he bought in stores.

@Hawaiianstyle-dz4xb

2 ай бұрын

I remember my grandmother used to do that. I was a little back then, but it was funny to watch your elders, make toothpaste. ❤

@nycgingercat

Ай бұрын

My family did this if we ran out of toothpaste.

@karenchilders2449

Ай бұрын

My mother used to use that because she was allergic to toothpaste.

Yikes!!! 2 hours!! I'm in heaven. I love your digs!

Beautiful pitcher Tom, bloody museum quality!!!

Oh I love these vids! Thanks for bringing us along!!

I have used Crazy glue to restore certain glass and porcelain pieces recovered from dumps at mine sites in Arizona. Brings the history back to light.

I recall you said you give most of your finds to the owner of the land. I am curious and would enjoy a video on what you have kept from these various digs. And everything you pull up I think would be awesome rented to prop companies for movies and tv. Been a fan and subscribed some time ago. Find you relaxing to listen to and learn from your impressive research.

The "yawning" figurine is more likely a singing choir boy Christmas figurine. Kind of interesting to see holiday artifacts.

I fell asleep watching this after work, woke up dreaming about prescription bottles 😂 then i realized why lol. I bet Jake dreams about bottles too after all this editing. Thanks for all the great videos guys ❤

When I watch you I get that ‘thrill of the hunt feeling’ again!Feels good!❤

@jacobs9306

4 ай бұрын

I used to go digging for relics a lot, it was very fun. I have been busy recently though, so i have to get back into digging again.

So happy to see a new episode during the week AND it's 2 hrs + long!!!🎉🎉

Hello 👋 Tom and jake I'm always amazed 👏 what you find ,all those bottles in that pit can't get over how so many survive, if it wasn't for you and jake finding those bottles, no one would these bottle companies exist so you bringing your history to life, I just think it's brilliant what you both do well done 👏 ✔ Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧

My grandfather was born in 1902 very near Yankton so am very nostalgic about what you are doing! knowing grandpa could have used some of those bottles is very exciting!

Feels like public access and I love it

Never ceases to amaze me how dark and rich the soil is there.

@speedfreak8200

4 ай бұрын

It's the sh!t ain't it ?!

@papeep2694

4 ай бұрын

@@speedfreak8200 I think the decomposition of the prairie grasses. It's like that everywhere there. Not just the outhouse digs.

@rmurrs

4 ай бұрын

I was born n raised in South Eastern SD n the rich black soil is through out the state ​@@papeep2694

@speedfreak8200

4 ай бұрын

@@papeep2694 not 8ft deep I wouldn't think, an outhouse gets filled with pee and poo .... watch more videos

@Marysservant

4 ай бұрын

Topsoil was made by Buffalo over many many years

Hi Tom and Jake, love your dig sites from the 1880-90. I always enjoy them the best 😊

The small plate with the "clover" is a pattern called "Tea Leaf" and was make by Meakin. The iridescent coppery sheen on the leaves is always present

Love seeing the stuff you pull out!

That Spongeware lid (possibly Robinson Ransbottom Pottery) could be worth quite a bit. Usually there is someone looking for a lid to their pot, because the lids tend to get broken before the pots.

The Blatz beer name was still in use in the 1980s, when I was in college in Milwaukee. They even used the same lettering font as seen on that bottle for their advertising!

@Marysservant

4 ай бұрын

Wasn't it where Laverne and Shirley worked? 😊 (tv show)

Tom I love the knowledge you have of these bottles and things.

Hi Tom and Jake and all you guys. First, let me start off by telling you how much I absolutely love watching your videos. All my life, I have wanted to do something like this to find old bottles. If you ever come to Ohio, would you please let me know, and possibly I could come and watch you in person. That would make my day and my whole year happy. It is so interesting and exciting seeing what you find each time you dig. Thank you.

@marg233

3 ай бұрын

Ditto 👍🏻

Oh my gosh! The pitcher and bowl!❤❤❤

I’ve noticed your videos couple days ago and you know what??? I really liked it. It’s actually soothing. You have such a wonderful voice and I really enjoy seeing those little pictures and little history. Quotes about the bottles you recover…❤ amazing job young man amazing job.!

Fantastic privy digs,well done gentlemen!

Maybe someday you can show us your bottle collection it's got to be badazz anyway thanks for the videos

@stubstoo6331

4 ай бұрын

Tom said on his Facebook page that he's sold most of his collection to fund a couple books he's doing.

Tom, my read on the first pit is the ailment was probably a morphine/ opium addiction mixed with a little bit of alcohol. I rewired a 1900's house in Palatka Florida and discovered the concrete block foundation walls were loaded with 1 ounce prescription bottles and a few of them still had the paper labels ledgable enough to read the ingredients mainly alcohol and opium and the instructions that read, for babies 1 day old 1 drop, babies 1 week 2 drops up to the adult dose of the full ounce 😮.

@smo-guiver8315

4 ай бұрын

It does look like a pain-killer addiction. That was a lot of medicine and they made sure to dispose of the empty bottles where nobody would find them - for a good long time.

@Marysservant

4 ай бұрын

Wow! Absolutely crazy!

Yup. I could hear the echo. Nice dig. Quite a bit of decent stuff. Thanks. Take care.

Love the little brown bottle

I love this! At my school (csun) we have a secret room most people don't know about outside the geography department full of hundreds of old insurance maps from all over the US. They were supposed to be thrown out but csun saved them and I've even found my own city in them from the 1800s!

Luv your videos my friend..make me feel younger than I am

I look forward to each one of the videos when they come out. I remember as a child my father bought an old farm that had 100 year old brick house on it and we lived in it for quite a few years while he built a small housing development. I’ll never forget standing in the upstairs during the summer when they were cleaning out the house and the outbuildings and throwing them in everything into a inground pool made out of concrete block. I think I would love to be digging in that place right now doing what you’re doing. In any case I was wondering, have you ever done a video that shows how you clean and preserve the items you find and how you do your research. I would love to know because I’m really feeling like I would like to attempt something like this in my area. We used to live in historic Annapolis, Maryland, and, there would’ve been plenty of opportunity to do this on a lot of the old farms. But now that I live in the Chattanooga area, there’s a whole new opportunity of things around here from the Civil War.😁

I really enjoy seeing what you find in home vs business digs. Whatever the location, you always find something cool.

The second pit had a lot of beautiful bottles

Thank You Tom! I love your videos! Like opening presents. Love seeing things cleaned up on the end!

I'm sure your already aware that lilac bushes were often used around outhouses to cover the smell.

I just found your channel today and I subscribed . I am no longer able to go anywhere or do anything so watching you dig treasure is exciting for me . I feel like I'm right there with you while you dig . Thank you so much for your channel

I love your channel…u are so knowledgeable. Thank you ❤

Great video! I love watching! Thank you! Please be careful and stay safe! ❤❤

Tom, any way you could show/demonstrate how you probe for the loss of compaction? I don't quite understand how you see or feel stove ash. I get that you'll feel glass with a probe...but maybe they are just rocks and not glass...how can you tell the difference?

I used to dig in dumps,out houses,old home sights,we lived close to a landfill,old couches,stiffed chairs,find gold ,rings,ear rings,pocket knives,lots of money,coins,bills,

Amazing the number of lantern globes!!

Love the show and thanks. Do you ever metal detect the spoils.

Superb video as usual. I can’t get enough of your channel. It is so entertaining and informative. That last pit was crazy deep. 😂

I ❤❤❤you both it is amazing all the bottles you find.😊😊

I love seeing the things you find!!🤩

I live at Campobello Island, N.B., about a mile or two across the bay from Eastport, Me. I was actually born in Eastport and my grandmother was from Eastport. Imagine my surprise when you said you were there digging!!

Loved them,everyone, again...🥰🥰

So Happy someone taught Tom how to say bakelite as bake-o-lite!

@kentsaunders9900

4 ай бұрын

and faux as fox!

@JNeilWalker-mn7jk

4 ай бұрын

That was me , Same as rut for root , we could go on forever, tomado , tomado …TOMATO ffs 🤪

@michaeldriscoll8434

4 ай бұрын

I always remember it as Bakel-ite… as in “Bakel’s rock/mineral”

You will need a ladder to get out of that last hole!!! Very nice finds in all of them!!! God Bless Us All!!!

With broken bottles, you can get a glass cutter cut the bottle off even and sand the rim down, sell them internet, for drinking classes, or vases

Nice collection, thanks for combining them.

This was great! Love these long dig videos! Thanks guys! Take care. I like forward to the next!

You guys are hard core. Keep up the digs

Amazing video. Thank you

Tom im so glad to see you getting all the new subs you all so deserve it you have the best dig channel on KZread 👍🏻

That oil bottle is wierd looking for sure. Those purple pieces were really cool. I love the random ornate pieces. The pepper sauce bottle is really nice.

Wow… Your videos are fascinating and so addictive to watch. It’s unbelievable how much stuff you find and dig out and more so how much is still intact and complete. I would have expected a lot of stuff to have been smashed and broken in these pits and dumps yet you prove this not to be so

I watched all 2 hours lol! Amazing finds as usual. I love all the embossed medicines. Great job Tom.

Love watching your videos. So interesting. The history is very much welcomed 😊

Now I'm curious to know more about the family and what was going on when all those bottles were being dumped. Wasn't diptheria going around about then? And then we have to remember that a lot of those medicines were full of alcohol. Could be someone was goung overboard on that. Interesting.

Great finds! And so many in great shape -- congratulations! New words for you: "eyebrow lintels" (over the windows on the house), "celluloid" (the white early plastic -- bakelite is NEVER white or cream)... and bakelite is not a "precursor to plastic," it actually IS plastic.

You guys stay busy! I hope we can. Great digs.

Always look forward to your videos.some good digging

I believe the bakelite piece you found maybe is for the atomizer bottle ❤❤❤

Thanks for all your work researching the people and companies. It is fascinating.

I live in a very small town in Nebraska. Actually a county seat. My home, very small and rudimentary was built in 1895. It was at one time the "Farmers Union". There were gas pumps here in the 1930's. I'm sure there is a pit in the back corner. We found many small broken pieces when we dug in new propane lines. There is also some kind of well. It has an open ended pipe stuck in the top of the well and about 7 ft. tall coming up out of the ground. A man came here a few years ago because he knew there were 3 wells in town but could only locate two of them. He believed that this was the correct location after looking at it but he never returned to investigate further. When we dug to move the sewer pipe a bit further out from the house so we could install a patio we found the cement islands for the gas pumps burried. The tanks could still be down there. It's evident where they parked the gas delivery trucks because grass etc. Will not grow in specific areas of the yard. Sirry if there are typos. I can't see very well.

The house i live in today was originally built from a Sears and Robucks 16x16 1/ 1/2 story 1890 kit. My back yards probably full of pits, right? Never been excavated or landscaped. Think maybe ill probe around. Love your work.

all across the west tom and jake reveal the gold buried in crappers

Awsome digs !!!

Laudanum was an abused RX drug and you could buy it over the counter until about 1920. It contained Opium. Maybe that is the reason there are so many drug store bottles. Subscribed, I love watching the treasure hunting.

I just found your channel and love watching you dig out all the amazing items from the past

That ten foot pit was really something. Must have been fun and exciting to go so deep and keep finding things. Thanks for taking us along. Really enjoy your videos 😀 edit what? 12 ft ! That thing keeps going ! Awesome.

Cool that you buried all this stuff beforehand so you could dig it up and make it look like you're "finding treasure" on KZread. Really creative idea.

Love watching you dig up goodies

I have a bunch of old bottles and such. This is kool I found your channel! I`ve learned a lot!!!

TOOLED TOPS GOT ME LIKE😃

All that digging got your arms looking jacked my dude. Good for you! See doing what you love isn't always easy but all the times you must have dug and found nothing wasn't in vain bro. The finds are icing the cake and makes you not look crazy digging up yards. Total validation for your yard work. Keep digging!

Is there a reference book you can recommend? I’d like to learn about the bottles and jars. There are 3 pit sites in my backyard I’m digging up as soon as the ground thaws. My house was built in 1905.

You know what they say, one mans trash is another ones treasure! Its wild what you can find in the ground in old colonial areas. There were no trash services like we have today. People used to burn what they could, and bury the rest. Some of the more rare bottles found have fetched some serious money ebay!

thank you tom! excellent!!

I love all the stuff you pull out that figurine is part of a nativity scene

Kinda curious, how do you approach these people? What is your pitch to them?

Im from binghamton ny. I always thought dr. Kilmers swamp root was just a local joke haha. Super cool find man!

Not a 4 leaf clover pattern but a ginkgo leaf pattern

Great finds! Thanks. Loved it.

Amazing old finds. Great job

Nice dig video! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing