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I have a question do you sift all the dirt for small things like buttons and coins and other little things that you might not catch with a shovel before you put the dirt back in
I just was at the Kilmer building in Binghamton, NY today. Building still stands. First floor is a restaurant and some retail. Dr. Kilmer's swamp root was a HUGE seller in it's day.
Tom your videos are awesome I just love it. Some awesome bottles. Love the mason jars and that bitter one. Dont know how you dig all those pits. I bet your give out. Lol. I watch your videos always
Being a collector of Victorian era antiques when ever you dig up pieces of China or porcelain I can almost feel the sadness of the lady of the house when one of her treasures got broken.
Cereal milk! I found one in a riverbank last year here in Vermont. Love the Wells Richardson advertisement, they had so many products and shipped worldwide so they are found literally anywhere and everywhere. So great to see 👍 Great video as always.
best treasure hunting channel, always high quality, high effort, informative, and just plain fun to watch. probably one of my favorite channels, been watching for a few months now, and i still get excited when you come out with a new video. makes me want to go out and dig one of these myself!! thanks for all your hard work
It's always good to see multiple pits before 1900 in a single yard, especially in your area. too bad that old one didnt have a little more inside it. when I saw that first bottle come out I thought "ok, here we go!" thanks for sharing
The brass thing @ 34:35, we found something like it here in Central TX. it was an old ghost town house. I've wondered it was for years. Also is there someone in TX that does this. I do love the historical digs, arrowheads, pottery and fossils. But I enjoy recent historical finds too, most TX ones seem to focus on really old stuff.
"Fox" for the French word faux? It is pronounced with a long o and no x sound, as if it were the word foe. 42:42 I loved the pressed glass serving dish. People must have been really upset when their nice things were broken.
As always we were hoping that you would find some old gold ,or silver coin / coins 👍 or at least one item that was worth a couple hundred dollars low end . So that you could enjoy the DIG and gain some money in the pocket 👍
Do you ever consider wearing a mask over your face while you're down in the pit? Especially if you're 6' or more down? I'm just thinking of your health!
As soon as you said "cereal milk" I knew what that was about. To get babies used to whole foods, they would put cereal, usually cream of wheat, in the milk. It would sit on their stomachs a little longer than liquid milk and they would cry a little less often. After a month or two of that, they would graduate up to pureed foods, back in that day it would be mashed and whipped with a beater. They still follow the same principle today in many areas. It appears that back then it might have also been oatmeal soaked in milk and strained. I'm not sure when they started using cream of wheat, but that's what they were using in the 1960-80s, and maybe even still today.
Thank you guys!! I have always wondered if any of the seeds out of the use layer would grow? It would be cool to see what a tomato from the 1800's would taste like (no genetic changes)
nice variety in there. I like seeing the non-bottle items of pits of this age. Gives a good snapshot of what the decor inside the houses must have looked like. another great video, lots of older ones lately
I've been reading about the ingredients found in the popular maker bottles. It's amazing that people lived through the ingestion of some of the ingredients!
Old lilac bushes are a good sign of old outhouse pits. They were commonly planted next to the privy. I love all the research you do on the artifacts, the companies that made them or sold them.
Around 16:40 or so, I was glad to see you notate the year 1850 and how long it took to sew a shirt by hand. I read that before the sewing machine was widely available for purchase, women and girls had to stay home during the daylight hours in order to sew all the clothing their family needed to wear. Daylight was the brightest light for sewing. When sewing machines cut the time to sew down drastically, women were left with more available time. A new culture came to be, and families looked to spend leisure time away from home. Stores and shops caught on to this, and began to display items for sale in their front window. This led to larger windowed storefronts, the phrase 'window shopping', and eventually the plate glass window was invented in order to entice the eyes of shoppers when the store was closed.
Love your videos. The style, quietness of your shooting, very well done. Do you have a link to see what the bottles look like all cleaned up and do you sell them? I assume you do
Been loving watching you dig these ! My husband grew up digging outhouse pits with his parents and siblings. He is 70 years old now. Yes, we have more than a few old bottles! Coincidently, he is from North Dakota!
Love watching what comes up and out from the 1880s. I don't want to sound rude or anything, but faux is not pronounced fox. It is french and has a hard o sound...like open ...fo... not your enemy, but your foe. 😁 I know how you like the bottles, but I love seeing the glass table ware. TY
Well, binge watching your videos has finally gotten into my subconscious. I had a dream last night that I took a shovel down to the Villa Montezuma (Jesse Shepard house) to dig up the outhouse. The house was built in 1887. Presently it is a museum and I bet they dug the pit 50 years ago.😊 I really love your videos.❤
I love your videos, from the intro to the end. Do with you could show a few more cleaned up items at the end though. Your set up and the way the video plays is perfect, thanks for all your work and the time to edit the videos.
I wonder if the presence of unbroken mason jars in these pits could be from them being used as "emergency pots" ...possibly in the dark of night, or an extremely cold day or an "unbeatable" sense of urgency.
You are so pleasant. Your show has comforted me while I am recovering from covid. I am fascinated by the finds, you are so adept, naming every find as you find it, and get excited when you find cool stuff. You are a very brave soul to dig those places up!! Thank you for your content. 😊❤
Very cool I just don't know about digging in turds.... that would be hard to get over. I wonder if the Sperm oil you found could be Sperm Whale Oil as they used to use Sperm Whale oil in lams and such in the old day.
Great dig! The number of sewing machine oil bottles might suggest that the household was doing sewing to supplement their income. Then again, old treadle machines likely needed a lot of oil compared to modern machines. And the hand lamp was possibly dropped during a night-time visit to the privy.
I can't imagine doing this in northern regions of the US where glaciers sat. Tons of rock heavy clay tree roots. That makes for hard digging. Probably could have some success.
Is your degree in archeology, researching American history? Amazed at the numbers of Hero Mason jars found on the latest digs. More like a home site opposed to saloon or boarding houses. Tiny medicine bottles with concoctions find to be lethal or of little use.
The most interesting podcasts on TH-cam in the genre.. That guitar music is perfect for your site .. Glad to subb you.. That goes for the behind the scenes staff,too!!!
My mom and all of us children would gather up grandpas quart beer bottles and make our own root beer with that Hires root beer extract. It was made with yeast and it was absolutely the best root beer ever!!!
Little off topic, but here you are digging in old latrine holes and the knees on your pants have no stains and your fingernails are perfectly manicured and clean!
Whats the average depth of these pits? Have aomething that i believe to be an outhouse pit and the house is from like 1905. I already found the old well as i fell part way in it. Lol i am ok and didnt get hurt
We found some at a garage sale. I would like you to look at them. I’m gonna take a picture I don’t know how to send it to you, so can you let me know how I can get in touch with you other than your
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hell yeah, brother!
Once I saw that you posted a new video, I stopped cleaning the kitchen and sat down to watch you find a few treasures of history. 💪😎
I have a question do you sift all the dirt for small things like buttons and coins and other little things that you might not catch with a shovel before you put the dirt back in
You sell this stuff? I would have a spray bottle to get some of the dirt off and highlight the colors and embossing.
Can I buy an old mason style from you?
P.s. hey Tom? Maybe one of these times you could give us a tour of your personal bottle collection? That would be epic.
Would love to see that!
Yes sir me to !👍
He would have to have a huge warehouse 😅
Was just getting ready to clean my kitchen and oops 😬🙊....you posted a video. (The kitchen can wait. ) 😂
A real now a day's treasure hunter. Great stuff 🙌 thanks so much keep on keeping on🙏
Wow! These were exciting digs to watch, you never knew what you were going to haul out of the dirt! Pretty cool, thanks Tom and crew!
I love watching these
I just was at the Kilmer building in Binghamton, NY today. Building still stands. First floor is a restaurant and some retail. Dr. Kilmer's swamp root was a HUGE seller in it's day.
I don't believe I have seen a bitters bottle with the long neck before Thanks for sharing 👍♥️⚒️🇺🇸🗝️
It's an amazing feeling saving history like this! Well done.
Tom your videos are awesome I just love it. Some awesome bottles. Love the mason jars and that bitter one. Dont know how you dig all those pits. I bet your give out. Lol. I watch your videos always
Love your videos my friend thanks for sharing 👍 😘
Being a collector of Victorian era antiques when ever you dig up pieces of China or porcelain I can almost feel the sadness of the lady of the house when one of her treasures got broken.
What a great haul!
Cereal milk! I found one in a riverbank last year here in Vermont. Love the Wells Richardson advertisement, they had so many products and shipped worldwide so they are found literally anywhere and everywhere. So great to see 👍 Great video as always.
best treasure hunting channel, always high quality, high effort, informative, and just plain fun to watch. probably one of my favorite channels, been watching for a few months now, and i still get excited when you come out with a new video. makes me want to go out and dig one of these myself!! thanks for all your hard work
It's always good to see multiple pits before 1900 in a single yard, especially in your area. too bad that old one didnt have a little more inside it. when I saw that first bottle come out I thought "ok, here we go!" thanks for sharing
Great finds. Always so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Great dig!!😍😍😍❤❤❤
another awesome video thanks
Love these put that are pre-1900’s. Seems lately like the pits just after 1900, have more variety in them
So exciting to see your digs. Great video. Would love to see you put some of the plates and cups together if majority of the pieces are found. ❤
What is his Facebook page called?
Those beers look purple and blue when you pulled them, beautiful!
Early beer bottle goes with the early spittune
Would love to see a video of the bottles all cleaned up afterwards, if that’s what to do with them?
Great dig. Thanks for sharing.
Most excellent digs!
The brass thing @ 34:35, we found something like it here in Central TX. it was an old ghost town house. I've wondered it was for years. Also is there someone in TX that does this. I do love the historical digs, arrowheads, pottery and fossils. But I enjoy recent historical finds too, most TX ones seem to focus on really old stuff.
I would love to know how you clean your bottles. I always end up with some stains
Do you ever find old coins in your digs?
Awesome finds!
❤
Standard Oil started out in Cleveland Ohio.
"Fox" for the French word faux? It is pronounced with a long o and no x sound, as if it were the word foe. 42:42 I loved the pressed glass serving dish. People must have been really upset when their nice things were broken.
SPERM WHALE OIL for the sewing machines! So cool.
So destructive.
Holy crap you found a whole globe from 1895 intact, the bottle gods are looking very kindly on you today
Your finds are amazing! The spiked shovel you use, did you make it or buy it?
As always we were hoping that you would find some old gold ,or silver coin / coins 👍 or at least one item that was worth a couple hundred dollars low end . So that you could enjoy the DIG and gain some money in the pocket 👍
Just saw the Singer Sewing Machine Oil bottle! Are you interested in selling it?
Do you ever consider wearing a mask over your face while you're down in the pit? Especially if you're 6' or more down? I'm just thinking of your health!
It's so neat how each pit takes you back in time.
What's the oldest thing you have found? I would love to know.
One of his videos he found an ancient hammer! I'd say that's likely the oldest item he has found!
@@elizabethbrown6681 wow! He finds some of the neatest things in those pits
As soon as you said "cereal milk" I knew what that was about. To get babies used to whole foods, they would put cereal, usually cream of wheat, in the milk. It would sit on their stomachs a little longer than liquid milk and they would cry a little less often. After a month or two of that, they would graduate up to pureed foods, back in that day it would be mashed and whipped with a beater. They still follow the same principle today in many areas. It appears that back then it might have also been oatmeal soaked in milk and strained. I'm not sure when they started using cream of wheat, but that's what they were using in the 1960-80s, and maybe even still today.
Thanks for watching everyone!
Thank you guys!! I have always wondered if any of the seeds out of the use layer would grow? It would be cool to see what a tomato from the 1800's would taste like (no genetic changes)
So what happens to the items you collect and if they go to your house, are you ever going to show your collection?
A lot of times i found lilacs or jasmine planted near the privies
Love the show.
nice variety in there. I like seeing the non-bottle items of pits of this age. Gives a good snapshot of what the decor inside the houses must have looked like. another great video, lots of older ones lately
I've been reading about the ingredients found in the popular maker bottles. It's amazing that people lived through the ingestion of some of the ingredients!
Love your videos. I enjoy every dig 😊
Old lilac bushes are a good sign of old outhouse pits. They were commonly planted next to the privy. I love all the research you do on the artifacts, the companies that made them or sold them.
Around 16:40 or so, I was glad to see you notate the year 1850 and how long it took to sew a shirt by hand. I read that before the sewing machine was widely available for purchase, women and girls had to stay home during the daylight hours in order to sew all the clothing their family needed to wear. Daylight was the brightest light for sewing. When sewing machines cut the time to sew down drastically, women were left with more available time.
A new culture came to be, and families looked to spend leisure time away from home. Stores and shops caught on to this, and began to display items for sale in their front window. This led to larger windowed storefronts, the phrase 'window shopping', and eventually the plate glass window was invented in order to entice the eyes of shoppers when the store was closed.
Well ...I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Tom? You Rock all things! I give ya props just having to dig the damn pits alone!
Love your videos. I have to know ... do you have help digging those pits?! Granted your ground isn't hard or rocky but man you are in good shape.
Love your videos. The style, quietness of your shooting, very well done. Do you have a link to see what the bottles look like all cleaned up and do you sell them? I assume you do
This dig is like potato chips you just can't watch 1 😊
Awesome finds Tom! How do you find these places?
Are you sure you're not a geologist? You seem to know your shit!
Gorgeous complete flow blue plate! So exciting to see what you find! Really rare and unique finds in this pit. 😍😍😁😁
I have watched other dig's on youtube, but yours is the most descriptive on the pieces. Hope to see more from you soon.
A lot of sewing and shoe polishing going on in that house.
You found some beautiful stuff this time!! That deep purple and white piece that was broken, is called Purple Slag glass. 😊
Great finds Tom. Always enjoy watching your program. Keep up the excellent work. take care 👍
Been loving watching you dig these ! My husband grew up digging outhouse pits with his parents and siblings. He is 70 years old now. Yes, we have more than a few old bottles! Coincidently, he is from North Dakota!
Love watching what comes up and out from the 1880s. I don't want to sound rude or anything, but faux is not pronounced fox. It is french and has a hard o sound...like open ...fo... not your enemy, but your foe. 😁 I know how you like the bottles, but I love seeing the glass table ware. TY
Well, binge watching your videos has finally gotten into my subconscious. I had a dream last night that I took a shovel down to the Villa Montezuma (Jesse Shepard house) to dig up the outhouse. The house was built in 1887. Presently it is a museum and I bet they dug the pit 50 years ago.😊 I really love your videos.❤
I love your videos, from the intro to the end. Do with you could show a few more cleaned up items at the end though. Your set up and the way the video plays is perfect, thanks for all your work and the time to edit the videos.
I wonder if the presence of unbroken mason jars in these pits could be from them being used as "emergency pots"
...possibly in the dark of night, or an extremely cold day or an "unbeatable" sense of urgency.
Worst part of your videos is the end😢...lots of great finds
Another outstanding video with anazing finds...Love your videos...🥰🥰
I think those brown leaves are Royal Tea Leaf pattern. Royal Ironstone China. Alfred Meakin. England.
You are so pleasant. Your show has comforted me while I am recovering from covid. I am fascinated by the finds, you are so adept, naming every find as you find it, and get excited when you find cool stuff. You are a very brave soul to dig those places up!! Thank you for your content. 😊❤
Sweet dig. Never saw a "structure" and was honestly really looking forward to that. A bit misleading.
Very cool I just don't know about digging in turds.... that would be hard to get over. I wonder if the Sperm oil you found could be Sperm Whale Oil as they used to use Sperm Whale oil in lams and such in the old day.
Great dig! The number of sewing machine oil bottles might suggest that the household was doing sewing to supplement their income. Then again, old treadle machines likely needed a lot of oil compared to modern machines. And the hand lamp was possibly dropped during a night-time visit to the privy.
Nothing else to say but “Totally Awesome” keep up the great work!
I can't imagine doing this in northern regions of the US where glaciers sat. Tons of rock heavy clay tree roots. That makes for hard digging. Probably could have some success.
Is your degree in archeology, researching American history? Amazed at the numbers of Hero Mason jars found on the latest digs. More like a home site opposed to saloon or boarding houses. Tiny medicine bottles with concoctions find to be lethal or of little use.
What do you do with everything you find? Just curios, Greetings from Mexico.
The most interesting podcasts on TH-cam in the genre.. That guitar music is perfect for your site .. Glad to subb you.. That goes for the behind the scenes staff,too!!!
I think with the amount of bottles of sewing machine oil they were tailor/seamstress family. They sure sewed a lot. Happy digging and have a great day
Tom do you keep all the artifacts /bottles you dig up? Greetings from holland franny (new here)
My mom and all of us children would gather up grandpas quart beer bottles and make our own root beer with that Hires root beer extract. It was made with yeast and it was absolutely the best root beer ever!!!
This question is kind of weird but inquiring minds would like to know. Does it smell like poop? And there's never any bugs or worms?
Hi from England Tom and Jake! WonderfuI dig, as ever. I think that brass item may be a candle snuffer.
Do you sell the bottles...Id love some of the sewing machine oil, especially the Singer bottle!
Little off topic, but here you are digging in old latrine holes and the knees on your pants have no stains and your fingernails are perfectly manicured and clean!
Great fines today. Fines with age from the day’s of the Wild West.
Thank you.
Whats the average depth of these pits? Have aomething that i believe to be an outhouse pit and the house is from like 1905. I already found the old well as i fell part way in it. Lol i am ok and didnt get hurt
The square bott with the lady leg neck and hole in shoulder is likely a unembossed Mount Vernon Rye Whiskey
I read a book about how the captain would hide the pay money in the negro toilets as the enemy would never look there .( spoils of the war . )
We found some at a garage sale. I would like you to look at them. I’m gonna take a picture I don’t know how to send it to you, so can you let me know how I can get in touch with you other than your
The plate is Alfred Meakin Tea Leaf. Thanks for showing the dinnerware/ironstone😊
Lots of good finds, alot of work to get those! Just subscribed!
Seems like are in an earlier part town. As always, enjoyed going along. Thank you.
Do you get to keep the items you dig up or do you have to give them to the landowner? Do you have a museum? Do you sell the stuff?
You're going to be famous ! (Baby steps.....)
did I miss something? where was the underground structure?
Your the man but you say Root Beer so weird, like your from Boston! XD_ _ _
Pop's here. Would you ever think about a bottle clean up video?
Love to see everything after it is cleaned PLEASE!
Gramps always comes back from the outhouse with a big smile on his face.