1800's Gold Miner's Map Leads Us to the Bottom of a Stone Well in an Ghost Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Part 4
Excavating the stone well at the Campbell House, a stagecoach station at Dawson Creek on the Firesteel Trail, in Scotland, South Dakota.
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Kilmer Swamp Root was from my hometown of Binghamton, NY. The original Kilmer building still stands and is about a quarter mile from my house. His mansion still stands and has been renovated. Fun fact: Binghamton, NY is the hometown of Rod Serling of the Twilight Zone. Met him a few times, we went to the same high school.
Hi, do you sell any of your bottles at all?
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Way to go Tom! Seriously you are a one man show. Very impressive!
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I just really appreciate all the work you put into making these videos archeologically valuable. Your passion shows, and that's a mighty thing. Such a worthy endeavor on top of the treasure hunting aspect. Wishing you everything you need to keep doing it!
This was a totally awesome dig! You gotta listen to us old-timers, especially us that are gold miners. A friend of mine just "discovered" a vein in NV that i told him about a couple of years ago. 40 ounces to the ton. My week has been full of incredible videos like this. Thanks Jake!
haha thank you! oh wow, i wish i had found actual gold instead, but those hutches were still pretty damn good! yeah, this was a good dig, i only wish they all could be that good, bc next week is gonna seem underwhelming by comparison.. but i guess thats just the nature of digging. you never know whats down there until you dig to the bottom. thank you richard!
I read you don't keep a lot or have a huge collection but I think that would make video of your collection more interesting. Show what you have. Tell what each piece is. Where you found it and why you kept it. A detailed video of the items cleaned up would be interesting to me anyway.
Super awesome fine guys those hutch bottles are awesome
oh i know right! so cool looking, so colorful! that was some of the best bottles i had ever found in a singal pit! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!
Wow, that was amazing! This is one of your best videos! Probably the best. My favourite
Thank you so much! thats awesome! thanks for watching
Awesome dig! Love those hutches Tom 👍
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Awesome stuff.
Thank you!
Just found your channel. Very much appreciate the historical comments and your exceptional knowledge
Half way through vid and great find so far. 👌✌
The is the BEST treasure map find on TH-cam! Why doesn't this have 1 million views?
hahahah thanks dude!
Most likely because they are a fairly new channel. Hopefully, it is not because they don't do a lot of whooping, hollering and high-fiving like so many of the other diggers. The systematic approach based upon historical research, which they share with us viewers, and the more dignified demeanor of "Below The Plains" is a big part of the channel's appeal for me--I suspect it is for others as well. If "Below The Plains" keeps producing content and we keep viewing, liking, subscribing and commenting the view count will undoubtedly grow!
hahaha that so fucking nice! haha yeah, we do try to make a quality product.. and all the celebrating seems a little... corny.. yeah and i know we will go farther if we make television quality videos.. as you can see, we've actually come a far way in only a few months.. still figuring out the editing and filming. its harder than i thought it would be! but thank you, that made my night
Brave going so deep in the ground. Nice bottles.
Your perseverance is inspiring. I live in Ohio near the Miami Erie canal. I am determined to start probing the area. Love your stuff!
❤ love history of the home. I have learned so much
Beautiful color on that bottle the hutch
oh yeah i know!! those we unreal. i used color grading to get them to look a little more like they do in real life. really happy with how it turned out
Tom you have a scary job. You are a hero in my book.
I really liked the plate shard's you showed thanks for sharing
yeah, well the video next week is gonna have a bunch of cool plate fragments! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment
@@BelowthePlains I am still interested in the plate shards and broken bottles I'm planning on making wind chimes and doing some tabletops
yeah.. okay! we can do that for you., so it might be a few weeks until i get back out digging again, but i can do that.. just keep reminding me in the comment section of whatever video is my latest video. i wont forget but, its just easier if you keep contacting me, bc sometime i cant find the old comments. but yeah thats no problem!
Thanks for taking us along. You teach us about every find. No cussing and fussing. A pleasure to watch. Have a great week!
hahaha we actually get that alot! i havent watched too much of the other channels, but from what i hear they swear alot and celebrate alot.. well thank you, glad you enjoyed! and thanks for commenting!
I agree, love it. Watching from England.❤️❤️
Never ceases to amaze me, how the old get's mixed with the new, even at the bottom of the dig. Some amazing finds there friend. Next to a mudlarking channel out of "the old country", my FAV TH-cam post.
i havent heard of that channel, gonna have to check it out. really glad you like the channel. and yeah ive noticed that about digs.. sometimes i will find stuff from the 50s on top of like an 1880s privy.. so i always make sure i dig a test hole to the bottom, if i hit something from the late 1920s forward... just to check. thanks for watching. glad you like the video.. and to be honest, this is probably one of our best videos.. top 3 for sure.. its a shame it didnt get more views!!!
Awesome dig!✊
Thank you, and thanks for commenting
Awesome finds
Yooooo that was crazy! Good for u guys, that's a good pay day. Kinda jealous. Those insulators are beautiful
haha yeah i know!! sometimes you swing and you miss, sometimes you knock it out of the park! thanks
I got a bit claustrophobic there towards the end! Mind over matter...mind over matter! Great finds!
Nice finds and great camera work
haha thanks! yeah this was one of my favorite videos to edit, when everything is filmed right, it acttually makes it fun to put together. well thank you for leaving us a comment
Wonderful video?
thanks!!
thankyou beautiful video. amazing dig i note in the end text @25;38 you state .".sometime in the 1970's..: I believe that should be 1870's? thankyou., Your page is my favourite and I await new videos always:)
oh yeah. it must have been a mistake! thanks for letting us know, yeah we did mean 1870s. and thanks for the nice comment, glad you liked the video!!!
Enjoying the videos well done on the finds
Lighting rod insulator's. They were at ground level on the wire for the rod on the roof of old homes. I would of liked to seen a closer look at cracked Blob Top. The Territorial hutches were great finds. The big man will have to loose a few pounds if he plans on going into small holes. lol. Looking forward to your next video. Thanks
lol! yeah it was a nightmare to dig, because you could barely work a shovel in there.. we were gonna dismantle the rocks, until we realized that it was a well.. we thought they were just thrown down there for the first 2 feet, but then we realized it was a structure.. it was just too cool to destroy!
very cool insulators
Nice to see Jake, the "behind the spotlight" member of this team, in the pit. I just read your kind and extensive reply to a watchers query on grinding and probing.
Sweet digs I believe those are lightning rod insulators for a house
yep! funny thing is, you can actually see the lightning rod in one of the pictures of the old station. we didnt end up putting it in the video tho, bc it was such a grainy photo. thanks for letting us know tho!
I really "DIG" you guys!
What do you do with all your finds? Do you sell them or are you keeping them for your collection? Very interesting videos!
At what point does it go from digging to mining? lol I was thinking maybe you needed a headlamp... Thanks for bringing us along it's so fascinating to watch.
yeah i know.. this one wasnt too deep tho. we actually do alway bring headlamps with us, bc it not uncommon that we are stuck digging after sundown, especially as the days get shorter. and of course when the pits start to get deep, we need them, but we usually turn them off when filming so it doesnt over expose the video. well thanks for watching and leaving us a comment
That pit reminded me of my grandparents well on a really old farm in Alabama. You could see part way down it and it was rock lined like that.
I really enjoy your videos, but I have a request I'd like to repeat: Please include more of the discovery process like you did in some of your earliest episodes.
The historical photos and map images, the zooms into today's Google Earth satellite views of the same subject area and the anecdotes related to a site's history or the bottle producer/user are part of what hooked me and prompted my subscribing to your channel as one of only ten that I have done so. However, while you mention grid probing in your videos, you rarely show much of that process like you did in the earlier videos. I know at least a segment of your viewers would like to see more of that process, as I have read their questions regarding probing. Personally, I find it remarkable that you are able to locate privy pits under hard-packed gravel layers. I've seen glimpses of your use of hammer drills to lay out a grid of what I can only call pilot holes, but I would like to see and hear more detailed coverage of your process. If you could document the process from beginning to finding a suspected pit, describing and showing the difference in probe "feel" upon that instance, and then defining the privy outline with further probing (instead of just showing your outline flags afterwards) I would find it extremely informative and valuable--I believe others would too.
Also, on the site featured in current video, if there were any remnants of the historical structures still visible at the location they were not evident in the video views. I hope you do not mind the following questions. How extensive of an area did you need to grid and probe to discover the pits you excavated on that site? How finely did you grid, as close as 1-foot intervals?
Do you also often find surface dumps on your explorations? If so, are they usually already dug by previous bottle and relic hunters?
And, do you guys purchase, or make your own probes?
yeah we plan on showing the gridding in some future videos. we just wanna kinda try keep it streamlined.. and yeah, i was thinking about adding the satellite zoom back in, but its just kinda fuzzy about the rules on copyright.. i cant find a clear answer on how to make it okay, and i tried to properly site our work, but all the satellite imagery is from before we got monetized, so we are kinda unsure if we could eventually get a copyright strike on our channel. i actually do want to add it back in, but i dont wanna risk getting the channel deleted, and yeah we've been recording more of the actual sites, unfortunately at this place all that was left was a cistern and a light pole,.. the whole thing had been demolished.. it was just a beautiful pasture now,,, but the outhouse is usually between 30 to 200 feet away. usually out the back door, and usually they put them on the side that blows the smell away from the house. usually the northwest corner. and yeah we grid in lines of about 100 feet, and we seperate the rows by about 1-2 feet.. then we probe every 2-3 feet up and down the rows. we start at the most likely areas and work our way out. but to be honest, about 40% of the time, the ground has sunk and you can actually see a depression left over.. but yeah, we are gonna set up a future video as more of a tutorial that anything. just give us a few months, we got a bunch of videos already recorded and we wanna get those our right away. we do find surface dumps in old farmsteads.., they are almost always on farmsteads.. they usually dont give out a bunch and sometimes theyre just tiny junk yards.. so its alot of work, but if we do find one, we will at least give it a good look before we tear it open.. usually isnt that great tho.. but town dumps, those could be a gold mine. only dug a few, but they are really cool, and really fun. you never know what you are gonna find. sites are rarely ever dug.. but it happens. we also know all of the older diggers up here, and they have told us where theyve been so.. we usually dont dig one thats already done, but.. it happens.. we purchase the probes.. oldwestbottles.com.. i think thats the right site,. tom is the one who does that, this is jake, i kinda run the channel and make the videos. well i think thats all of your questions. and hey... thank you for subbing. i really do appreciate each and every person who has, and i want to entertain and educate people so im committed to making the best product as i possibly can. so dont hesitate to leave us a comment whether its a question, comment, criticism or suggestion. just let us know, and we will build our content around what our viewers want, thanks you, if i missed a question, just leave me another comment
Very kind of Jake to take the time to so thoroughly answer your questions.
@@BelowthePlains I'm certainly no copyright expert, but you might want to investigate ArcGIS as an alternative source of the satellite imagery. Their base imagery is used by diverse governmental and private third-party app developers. I personally know of several counties in WA and MT that place their various GIS property information layers on top of ArcGIS base maps. I believe they've become, or are becoming, a standard for Assessor and Engineering departments across the country.
@@laurelshugars2866 Jake and Tom are very good about responding--it's part of what I like about their channel, and it is additional motivation for me to always give a "Like" and post comment to help them out. Of course, once we help get them past 100K subscribers I doubt we can expect that same degree of personalized responsiveness.
That Hutchinson Soda Bottle can go betwen 500$ and 3000$ depending on condition , what type of glass, is it cloudy, etc, on buyer cool find.
I was thinking about how difficult it would be to dig the well, due to narrow hole. But then I realized the dug it bigger, and then lined it with rocks.
I freaking need to find a 100 year old bottle dump!
could be an old "out-house site. People used to throw all kinds of stuff down the out-house hole. When it filled up.....they just dug another deep hole 20 feet away and stood the wooden out-house over it.
Don't know if anyone has posted yet, but the insulators are for a lightning rod ground wire.
How do you know where to dig?
I own a 1880's shed with a 1904 house in a small town in central Oregon and have metal detected the lot but do not know how/where to dig for the outhouse.
You should have found coins, since it was a well, perhaps they did ask for special wishes with coins, no? :>)
It looks like you are digging in a well.
yeah it was definitely a well.. then for some reason they started dumping trash into, and i think they were emptying their chamber pots into it too.. it was really cool being in that thing! thanks for watching
How much for the William a warner bottle?
archaeologists all over the world are going to steal your idea of the pointed stick
Hey you need to put your Sun screen on
I have one of those Dr king's new discovery bottles! Got it from my grandparents. Looked it up and it was made with chloroform, morphine and pine tar 😳 yikes
How do you talk people into letting you dig?
hahaha we just go knock on their door and explain to them what we do.. we've been in a few newspapers so we show them that, bc sometimes i get the feeling they think we are like trying to scam them or something. we explain that outhouse pits were like garbage cans and that threw bottles down them, then we show them some bottles.. then we explain what was on their property and tell them that any damages we do we will pay for, and we will put everything back so it wont be noticable and we give them our card so if the ground settles or the grass dies, we will come back and make it right.. you'd be surprised tho. id say 90% of people we ask say yes.. maybe 80% at the lowest. idk people in the dakotas are super nice.. we have gone to other places and we get mostly no's.. but like small town people, are fucking awesome. idk why they always say yes honestly! it kinda blows my mind.. and they usually will go tell their neighbors about us and we end up getting into more back yards. the first time we show up in a town, it usually takes some time for us to get our foot in the door, but within a few weeks, we will get people inviting us to dig.. its awesome. kinda restored my faith in humanity. people are generally good kind people
Gloves🤢🤷♀️
Thanks everyone for watching, liking and leaving us a comment. You guys are the best!!
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That must be Jake in the pit this time...I think the first I've seen!
Thank you for rescuing our history. Really cool stuff. I would love to see what all that ironware looks like after you piece it together. From Ohio.
well we are actually gonna create a short little book on these stage coach stops that we've dug! so i will be sure to promote the books we make in the future on the channel.. probably wont be til the winter, we are gonna be pretty busy this summer
Really enjoyed this episode, thank you for listing the historical data!
Fantastic finds guys. The river stone privy was very unique.
yeah i know! we think it was a well that they used as a trash pit or put an outhouse over.. the thing is, it was almost as old as the site.. so it must have gone dry right away, or maybe it never filled in.. yeah when we dug it, we know it was something special. thanks for leaving us a comment
I am now officially addicted to your videos. With a touch of anxiety when you are deep in the pit.
Love the video!
Back in the 1960's when I was a teenager, digging bottles in California gold country was an exciting hobby. Brings back great memories. Thank you.
Such a great video! This is the second time I've watched it now, and I'm just blown away. Great finds boys! Keep up the good work!
Would REALLY LIKE to see more of your finds cleaned up! Thank you for showing all you do!!
PLEASE consider the dangers of caveing in on you !
The deeper you go becomes even more dangerous !
Very nice, certainly up their with your best digs. Be safe, have a great summer!
Yeah i agree,. i think this was the best dig that we filmed.. it wasnt the fullest pit, but it had a ton a great stuff. well thank you for leaving a comment and you have a great summer as well!!
Whoa! those sodas were just about the coolest thing I have ever seen. the picture looked amazing too! thanks for sharing it with us. such a great video!!!
oh yeah i know! and thank you! you're awesome dude, thanks for always commenting
Thanks for taking us on another great dig with you!! I love those Dakota Territory bottles!! 😀
Thanks Tammy!!
Wow, Tom, that Dakota hutch was incredible!! So happy to see you pull such a whopper!! Way to go.
haha thank you! yeah it was a really good dig.. we actually got 2 dakota territory hutches! but yeah, the blue one was pretty damn cool. thanks for leaving us a comment!
Amazing dig!!!! Thank you !!!!
yeah probably one of the best digs we've had in awhile! thank you for watching and commenting!
Great dig guys. That old well just kept giving up the goods. Lots of trash yes, but the treasures was worth it.
Love seeing so many old bottles coming out still intact after all these years buried.
yeah i know right. such a strange pit. probably ranged from like 1870 to like 1910.. and they had other pits there that were like only 5-10 years in range.. so they must have been using it as a trash pit while they dug separate outhouses.. when we probed it we hit the rocks and we assumed it was concrete, so we almost didnt even dig it! well thank you for leaving us a comment
That Binghamton NY bottle is very near to me, a new subscriber to your channel
Well thank you for subbing nancy! yeah we come across those dr. kilmer's swamp roots pretty often. arent they just the coolest looking bottle. so ornate! those are one of my favorite mass produced bottles, i actually have one on my shelf! well thanks for leaving us a comment and enjoy the channel! and dont hesitate to leave us a comment in the future
For we novices, what is the difference between tool top and applied top bottles?
well.. tom knows that a little better than i do, so i think i know but not 100%^.. applied tops i think we hand shaped and added onto the motlen glass, and the tooled tops are a generation newer, usually in the 1890-1910 era, and they i think we part of the bottle but shaped by a tool.. applied tops are a little older and cruder. you can tell them apart by the way they look, and the seam running down the side of the bottle. thanks for leaving us a comment
I wonder if in 200 years folks will go through our stuff and get excited? "Oh a Shakira CDRom. I need to access my memory bank... Oh ok. She sang music."
I started looking for your video early this morning glad I finally got to see it I was looking forward to it
haha we try to get the video out on sundays at 6. but sometime we will release it a day late or a day early depending on when we have free time. we like to keep someone available to run the account so we can respond to people in real time
WOW, love these digs! Wish I could get out and do this, but love watching.
well thank you! glad you enjoy the videos and glad we could take you along with us. thanks for watching!
Awesome dig! Cool video
thanks! yeah that was one of the best digs we have had in awhile. thank you for watching and leaving us a comment
I just came to the part where you said that you had found an ‘English’ Whisky. Are you using the word ‘English’ instead of ‘British’? Also Whisky was mostly Scottish at that time. (Different Country)
I know some bottles fetch a pretty penny. I’m wondering, what’s the most valuable bottle you’ve found and where’d you find it? There’s spots in central California where the Chinese mined. If you dismantle the stone mountains they built, you can find some really cool stuff.
Outstanding!! Three different hutches..."territories" no less, (I think you said on two of them). Cool beans! And the biggest smiles I've seen on you.
Just subscribed. Man if the old bottles could talk. Interesting videos. Thanks for your videos. From my hill top in. Sc
I worry of cave ins..esp.if your alone..when perhaps you could tie off yourself...through a pvc pipe tethered to the front/rear of your vehicle..if a cave in occured..you would have air supplied and perhaps be able to free yourself..this is how we mined the back country..it did save us at one time..we never dug deeper than our pvc ..we usually carried a 2" ran a rope through it, secured to ourselves with a carbine and then to a secure item...a 2" 2 ft long then a 1&1//2 to 1 inch fitted together made a size ft air supply yet broke down to easily carry...I really love your content....be safe.
140 years someone could have sat down and enjoyed a root beer whilst leisurely pooping, probably with a paper in the other hand; blissfully unaware that in 140 years someone would be digging in that poop to uncover the same empty bottle of soda! History is wonderful!
Excavations are great. I would expect filling the site once you're done is probably more challenging than most of us would know anything about.
I planned on asking if you fellas sat around in your down time trying to piece together broken dishes & you answered that several times! It would have been kool to see your results! ONWARD!
TYPO! (fix your title) ...In 'A' Ghost Town. You can remove my comment when you're done! Good Luck!
I hope you are given the right to keep what you find. A lot of very old pieces came out of this dig, seems before America was making its own bottles and everyday needs, since some came from Merry Ole England. That old well was known to exist and people over the years continued to use it as a dumping place. Yes, people had to dispose of trash even then.
Cool I remember digging up all kinds of those little medicine bottles and a lot of farm junk in our backyard as a kid in the early 80’s in Andover MN.
Wow! You got another Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root...and a nice hutch...and some other beautiful bottles. Great dig!!
yeah i just wish they could all be that good! and yeah those dr. kilmers are so cool looking. thanks for leaving us a comment
I've heard you'll find soda bottles and whiskey bottles together usually in old pits because a lot of people mixed soda into whiskey. Have you found that to be true?
You guys should wear gloves doing that stuff, you know. You can cut yourself and you never know what is in the soil. Just a thought. Very cool and interesting stuff.
Cool channel man! Not to be a Debby downer but you need to get a safety hoist or some shoring walls brother! You know what I'm saying. But keep up the good work 👍
I feel quite angry and sad seeing those ‘Consumption Cures’. It was so rife and a big killer that I imagine desperate people buying It, when it was false hope.
I remember the time I thought I was prying out a pharmacy bottle and ended up cracking the side of a cathedral pickle jar….
Beautiful Sodas!💟
oh i know right.. i had to mess with the color grading on my videos to make them look like how the looked in real life. yeah that pit was pretty cool. the wells are always interesting. such a range of items in them. thanks for watching and commenting!
You were just about ready to go on Belay! Amazing bottles- I was really excited for you all. LOVE that gorgeous Stoneware!
hahah i actually do rock climbing so i know what youre talking about lol!! yeah that was a great dig. thanks for leaving us a comment
Nice hutch ,good finds
Thanks!
Love watching your videos !Makes me want to get out to do some digging.What do you do with all your bottles
thats one way to create a well...lol
lol.. yeah it was a really cool pit! probably 1 of the best pits i ever dug too! thanks for watching
You find very cool bottle!!! It's a pleasure watching you
I’ll never understand the mentality of throwing your trash in the well…and then drinking the water from that well!
We have a Campbell House Museum here in St. Louis, Missouri. Where is this Campbell House?
How old are you? You're so young, to have all this knowledge! How do you know all this info on those old bottles?
I've just watched itchy boots in Dawson Creek lovely little town
Awesome video guys!
Thanks!