A Massive Sink Spot Leads to a Buried Structure from the 1890s Full of Old Valuables
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of the Ferdinand and Emilie Photenhaur residence in Yankton, South Dakota.
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Your digs are like therapy.
A great escape from this crazy world.
You keep digging and I’ll keep digging it.
Thank you 🙏 ❤
Perfectly stated! 💥👍
That was incredibly soothing. And definitely FUN!
Some good finds. Like it when you have cleaned and show them. Stay safe.
This place has more interesting bottles, always I am looking for your videos.
ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS.
That little bottle is awesome! There was a couple really cool pieces I liked. Thanks for sharing with us!
pleasure watching you amazing
I just discovered your channel about a week ago. It surprises me that pickle jars and catsup bottles, dressings.. the bottles seem so much smaller than ones we have today. Curious as to your thoughts about whether it is because families made their own for the most part or these condiments weren’t used in the quantities that they are today. Or did the bottle manufacturer determine the size of the bottles?
So interesting. Thank you for being enthusiastic and educational. Love your videos.
haha thank you! well.. i honestly think it was more of a luxury item.. not like caviar would be today, but maybe something more akin to a nice bottle of wine, that regular people only have a few times a month. i seem to find more of the condiment bottles in places that served food, and nice households. but yeah, ive noticed that some of them can be pretty small. BUT.. they did make larger bottles, especially once you start getting into the machine made era (post 1910)... i think sometimes the size can be a little misleading on camera. they were for sure smaller than some of the stuff you would find today, but not by a whole lot.. but yeah, ive noticed that some of the earlier stuff we find, tends to be in smaller bottles. it seems counter intuitive, because you would think that the glass bottle would comprise a larger part of the cost of the item, because the manufacturing was more crude, and would have been more time consuming. the only reason i could think to explain this is because basically all items sold in disposable glass bottles would have tended to be more of a luxury, that the average person might only have bought maybe once a month. so i just assume that the small sizes was simply because they were pricey items to begin with, and the seller could get more return on his product if he sold more bottles, with less volume.. hard to say tho! ive got about a million questions id like to ask about the manufacturing process and lifestyles of people back in the day, maybe one day ill come across some book that goes into detail on why they did what they did. anyways! glad you found the channel. thanks for watching
What a Great Haul - nice early Stuff as well - well done and many Cheers from Australia !!!!
Wow that’s an amazing dig with so many different things. Take care and thanks for sharing 👍🙏❤️
I think when I started watching this channel you had msybe 8k subs. And I remember thinking, 'this is such a great channel, I wonder why only 8" Anyway, now youhave 61k and growing fast! I, apparently, wasn't the only one thinking the same! Congratulations...it is an easy road to 100k!
Love the blue
I would love to see all your finds cleaned up!
I was most impressed with the almost intact chamber pot or gazunder as we often call them in the UK. They were so called because almost everyone had one and it guzunder the bed!
Awesome bottles Tom that one with the sun burst is really awesome. I bet you are tired by the time you get the pit done. Then you have to fill it in .love your videos. Never know what you will find
I just came across your videos, LOVE THEM :)
Thank you for showing the Ball Mason jar . That's a glass top,the wire bail is missing that clamps the top down. I asked if you find any and you showed us one.
Great dig! Lots of shoe polish bottles of all sizes !
Thats great!! Enjoyed, hope you got some rest after!! Always great to see the older finds.😊😊💖
Awwww dang, I thought you were going to dig up some underground bunker with a family still living in it from "Blast from the Past"! Now THAT would be totally cool lol.
Thanks guys. Enjoyed the video. As always.
Wow amazing video
Always anxious to watch each video...this was a good one and I love you knowledge and history behind all of them...I love the tiny bottle the best...keep on digging...🥰🥰
I think the mug was a shaving mug, very cool dig.
They sure did a lot of drinking back then considering prohibition was in effect. lol Everything had some liquor in it. Happy digging and have a great day
I’m a potter and last year I started burying all my broken pots or seconds along with fun stuff for a digger to find. I never thought of burning glass but I guess I should. Let’s all start burying fun stuff for the archaeologist?
One of the best sites I have permission to dig is this old trash pit that was from this old farm back in the 30s I've found some great stuff over the years
And bluing was to make your clothes white in the laundry, right?
Yes, I have some and still use it occasionally. It's only used on white clothes.
"Can you imagine what the people that lived here 200-250 years would be thinking, WTF is this guy digging in our outhouses for what we considered trash?"
some very neet finds
Thanks! and thanks for watching!
I seen alot of those bottles in arkansas when i lived there, found some and when to a trade/market and see alot of them. $25. A piece.
could you make a video sometime that shows how you search the property and how you determine where to dig. Would be educational for a how to select a spot. Enjoyed this one!!!!
he's posted some on this. He uses the old insurance maps (Sanborn maps iirc) to get an idea of the property layout, and obviously he's an expert at probing the ground, feeling for softer soil, the crunch sound of glass. The privy was typically in back, near the property line.
@@monkeyb1820 thanks so much, would like to watch him live, would learn a lot.
@@johnwrinkle3443 there's a kindle book "The Essentials of Privy Digging" by Eddie Brater. He was online around 15+ years ago and I used to read his blog about his digs, and he eventually put the basics into this book.
Great job hard work lot of digging.. so all the bottles you found what do you think the whole collection is worth.. is there a couple good rare ones in.. what do you do with all the bottles great job great videos..
David Linck Winter Park , FL
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Why don't you have a webpage where you sell the bottles you find?
I recently went to a yard sale too and only after I measured everything up to make sure my storage shed would fit before I got a concrete pad poured and asked them if they would get all their junk out of there or if I had to, did they say it was basically false advertisement
all of our tree have died, and now we have to remove them. I have to wonder, what may lay beneath the land! we will find out in a few days!
Pop's here. How often do you have to replace the trowels.
Virginia Dare, first child born in VA colony.
Stupid question incoming, why did they throw so much in an outhouse? Was the outhouse being phsed out so it was an easy fill? New here so excuse me if this has been answered.
Not half bad love the oray of different bottles, what fun, I'm sorry we didnt get a glimpse of Jake's sweet little azz, we know he's handling that big ole thing of his,,,,camera,,,,just a shy boy, you two keep up the good work and love you both, take care of each other. Afriend.
Have you ever accidentally broken something yourself just before it came out? That REALLY upset you? I saw the one where the wine bottle blow up in your hands. Lucky dude.
Well Tom and jake that bottle pit was full I always wonder how many bottles you found since you started 🤔 both have a good weekend Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
This pit seems more like a typical household pit of things people actually used..not jist liquor and opiate bar room bottles
1890's outhouse and waste disposal sight.
Where did the "sinkhole" go??
It's a dangerous business being in a hole that deep and not shoring the walls up....known 3 people that lost their life when the walls collapsed....be safe.
Tom, the history of the bottle up at the top is blurry and hard to read.
How much and how would I buy the wild cherry bitters bottle
Why are you not checking the dirt you disturbed with a metal detector for coins??
Everytime you find an antique crock , I say, "what a crock"
I just found and really enjoy your channel! In the early 1990's I worked for a company that was building a new marina on the edge of the Detroit River, north of downtown. They dug up and dredged what what must have been a dump for the city (circa 1890's-1910's) because they unearthed THOUSANDS of intact bottles. I collected a few of the nicer ones and still have an ink bottle. There was every kind of medicine, drug store, beer, liquor, etc. I remember the blue glass bottles and the octagonal-sided ketchup bottles. No fine china though!
Super dig, and brilliant camera work (as always) getting in on the detail especially the tiny stuff. I love when you find the stoppers and lids, little cold cream jar blew me and the tiny ornate white bottle. Wow! Thank you so much, your videos never disappoint. Always hoping the best for you both.
I second that, we love your videos!
I dont remember you ever finding so many different kinds of bottles in one pit before. That was awesome.😊
Love the videos you post, thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Me and the girls taking a shot each time you say tooled top 😂 we love your videos x
U guys will be wasted in no time 😂
Ur not gonna last long 😂
@@joanedwards9380ikr 😂 he sometimes says it twice for a bottle too...when he pulls a plate or pot out we're like noooo 😂
I’m 5 mins in and you folks are already in deep trouble. Lol 🍻
End of the video edit: Did any of you survive? 😝
End of video,you girls gonna have a terrible headache tomorrow 😮😊
Question. Do the land owners want any of the artifacts you find? Love watching you dig!!
I have not seen him reply to anyone.
@teresacastanedacastaneda6555 he has a couple times. Just thought I'd take a chance and ask him. 😊
I did send him an email and it took a couple weeks, but he answered my question
@@marebear606
Well, do the land owners of the land keep anything?
He offers the landowner what they want and gives some to the local and the historic society. What does he do with the rest, idk
Good to see you Tom. Love your videos!
Looking forward to the video! I know it will be good. UK
Love to see your process of cleaning these things up. What do you do with the things you find?
Thank you for sharing your digs. I teach 8th grade history and always start with a unit on primary sources. When we discuss artifacts, I tell my kids to always look where an old outhouse may have been. They think it's gross, but I cannot wait to show them your videos and see what you find.
love ur videos and the research you put in always look forward to the next one😁
Really enjoying the addition of illustrations from the companies. The notes for each one are very interesting. Great job!!
That's hard work digging through decades of compacted layers of soil. I really enjoy reading the history of some of the makers of the bottled products. I have a few small bottles I found in my grandmother's junk pile out back by the shed. That was in the hills of northern Pennsylvania. I'm 75 now, She was born in the late 1880s. So I have no idea of the age of these bottles. Probably circa 1900. Thanks for your interesting videos. I really enjoy them. I live in Italy now btw. You can't dig a hole anywhere here without discovering some history haha. God bless.
...1880's 😉💜‼
@@youn8e Yeah haha 1880s. Hey, I said I was 75 and it's late in Italy now. Done with my excuses. 😉👍
Couldn’t that piece mean East Liverpool Ohio where many dish companies were located
This is awesome, I’d love to know what is buried in my backyard
Worms and rocks lol
I have a very old house in Minnesota. I know there was an out house. I want to see what's buried in it!
@felinefaye8550 how old?
Jimmy Hoffa ?
@@felinefaye8550 walk a straight line out of the back door to the property line. Lots of times there will be flat stones leading from the door to where the pooper used to be. If they're still there they're probably a couple of inches under the grass bow. If you get close to the property line and see a depression in the ground, bingo! You've found at least one. The older the home, the more likely it is that more than one was dug. If that fails, get a probe rod. There are videos on TH-cam about how to probe for privies.
In the mid-60s, I got to do small digs like yours in some of the old mining towns in Colorado.
It was lots of fun and interesting to young man. I really like that you have provided back ground on many of the items you unearthed. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
Whoa , another huge group of awesome glass ! Always amazing watching these unique pieces come out of the ground ! Love it ! Thanks for sharing
My great grandfather built a home in Yankton around 1910, and it is still standing. I also have a photo of the home circle 1915. Might you be interested in checking it out? I would be happy to meet you there or send you any information I have from my family research.
Guys please have a live dig with live chat! That would be awesome 😎 Love your videos 😍
Neat idea but internet 🛜 connection might be an issue.
I’d watch!
Hi Tom, what's the difference between a tooled top and applied top and which came first and then there's the ground top, nice array of finds from a seemingly ordinary group of settlers, cheers!!
I would definitely metal detect as you move layers down, you're probably missing many valuable coins, some coins are priceless, I would definitely detect at the bottom at least👍
What do you do with all your finds?
I was about to ask that. Does the home owner get to keep any of it?
@@acerone10 I'm sure some don't want any of it.... I'd want all of it tho! 😂 I'd also be out there helping him, however. I find this stuff fascinating!
@@2horns8myhalo Me too
They have said they give some to the property owners, some to the local historical society and they keep some!
Just love watching your vids! When you come across "Blueing" liquids, are there any toxic concerns? What is in blueing and what was it used for?
What do you do with all your finds? Do you take purchase requests?
Do you ever metal detect the dirt you dig out? Coins may fall out of their pockets while using the outhouse. I enjoy your videos very much!
That's a great question. Would be wonderful if you could find coins too.
I doubt the coins could survive the acid of the urine.
This would add another level of labor to everything, and be extremely low yield relative to the cost of good metal-detecting equipment. Whereas, he obviously knows that these pits will have a good amount of bottles, so he puts his labor into the latter. I sometimes watch 'depths of history', which is a good metal detecting channel.
Im curious of you test for radon before you dig???
Do you have a video of your best finds over the years? Like a montage of them all and information and value? Would love to see a collab of them all and there worth, would be really cool👍
I learn so much from you videos Thank so much Granny
I live in a 1870 log cabin in Laramie, Wyo. While trying to remove a rather invasive vine I found at 2 feet down was trash/treasure. F the vine, found all kinds of bottles which are now in my museum/house. Anytime I build a permanent structure like a greenhouse I have to do a archeological dig. It's fun. The vine did go. The wedding vine that the UPRR brought from China I think cause it made a great fence. Oops.
Awesome as always tom !!!
I love how neat & tidy you are to be able to leave the place as you found it. Great find!😊
I love seeing the passion and excitement of the guys during the dig! I’m glad they’ve found their calling!
Great bottles wow so many .Can you share with us the best items you have ever dug . Thanks for sharing 👍♥️🗝️🇺🇸😊
Nice to see embossing on some bottles
I'm so addicted to this channel! :)
Awesome finds!
Very nice. Interesting.
Lots of great stuff today.
People think it easy to do what you're doing .but you put a lot of effort to . how many hours did you dig this one for . good luck with your work.
Enjoy the video
Cool dig---but I was underwhelmed by the mug, lol! I liked when you found the lid for the cold cream jar---and the Sunburst flask.
Anytime you want to come dig here in Western New York (Buffalo/Niagara Falls area), look me up! I live in Sanborn which is about 15 minutes from both cities. We have 3 acres of land to dig up!
Nice one!
Hi Tom, I adore your videos this is such a better take on mudlarking when you know where you are going to dig and you have permission to be there. I would love to know what do you do with all the finds thanksxxxxx debbie from UK xxx
i have dug in a 1900 to 1912 dump with the same Mixter of very early machine made and hand-blown stuff. I learned that the Owens and john bull machines were in full production my 1910.
I wish you'd do a video on actually how to find dig areas.
He basically summarized it in the beginning of the video. They showed the map that was used to find the property and showed where he was probing to find the pit. Although a more in depth video might be coming.
Just stumbled on your channel..so interesting...amazing knowledge and enjoy the descriptions provided with each find...fantastic. I particularly love the old advertising you show with finds...and I really like the old china..Best wishes from Australia
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That is only 110 years of soil accumulation.
Now imagine what 1000 years or 10k years or 100k years would be.
Wouldn't even recognize it.
Just a hilltop or mountain.
Neighborhood garbage/cistern pit for decades after Civil War to 1910 when Progressive Movement would have brought public plumbing, trash, sewage, and drainage improvements to area.
I see you found a Parke Davis & Company bottle from Detroit. Have you ever found a bottle from Stearns Brothers? They were another pharm company in Detroit, across from and up a couple miles from Parke Davis. The Parke Davis and Stearns buildings still exist, renovated into condos and lofts.