Find of a Lifetime After Accidentally Digging into an Underground Structure from the 1880s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of the Peter and Theresa Huber residence in Yankton, South Dakota.
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Of course they would let you dig in their backyard. All they have to do is look at your other videos and they will see the attention and respect that you show for their property. Putting the spoils on the canvas so as not to disturb the rest of the yard. Taking care of any buried utilities until you are finished . And lastly bringing the dig site back to its original condition before you leave. DIG ON
i understand if it is a old out house he takes one last dump in it before he fills it in .😃😃😃
Plus, he shares his finds if the homeowner wants any of it.
@@markvanderstelt8999😂 lol
Looks like some one robbed a drug store and buried the evidence.
I love it when there's nothing except the sound of your trowel and the doves calling in the background.
The pliers you found are for extracting teeth. I’m a retired dentist and I recognized them immediately! ❤
Neat!
So are the liquor bottles? :)
This is my great great grandparents house!!
Are we even close to getting an accurate picture of them from their garbage?
Nice! Did any of the Tea Leaf patterned ironstone survive to be passed down? I probably wouldn't use it for food now, at least not before a lead test. But a plate or platter would be nice for decoration.
Cool
My house here in Sweden is from the late 1700’s. (Log house?.., all timber frame) Found a lot of local pottery dating to 1730-1850.
I would definitely be probing your land with a small diameter 6ft metal rod!!
I’m sat with here with popcorn at the end of a long day and loving every minute of this video. You guys really work hard on every dig. I live in a Victorian house in Derbyshire England and I’m so tempted to go and dig up where the old outhouse used to be!
The key is finding a location. Any city first, find the first roads will be by the water and RR tracks. You will also find grave Cemetary.
Some old roads travel from one state to another, gravestones can give the dates.
You definitely should AND you should record it for us to watch!
@@nighthiker8872in the UK, the first roads were medieval and Roman....they came slightly before RR tracks 😂
I've been sorting out my parents home, built in the 1800s, in Worcestershire, UK. They were antique collectors and everything in the home was period and earlier, when I say its taken me 3 years to clear out the house, I'm not joking! I've just started on the garden. My Dad would build a shed, then fill it, then build another, repeat process... I had to give up my full time job, just to do it all. It's been very hard on my own, but I've had some amazing finds along the way.
That lamp is probably the best non-bottle item you guys have found so far. I noticed it was at a house you guys have other videos from too. some of these old places in Yankton have some really great stuff. really appreciate the videos you guys film there
Those people must have been fairly wealthy to be able to purchase and then toss the containers, not reuse them?
Love the morning dove coos early in video.
Is that a dove or a Barred Owl, I wonder.
@kathleennorton2228 While I thought a dove....I'm not an expert on bird calls.
Yes that rectangle hollow glass piece had a picture or advertising inside it. My father had one and I think it was a scenic picture inside with a felt covered bottom used like a paperweight. Good videos. ❤️
Nooo, not now!! I have to much work to do!! Well I guess I take a break and watch before I even start🤣🤣
Your professional attitude and the careful respect that you are showing the place you're digging means a lot... Aren't many people of your caliber in the bottle digging genre like you and your crew.... Kudos 🕊️🙏☝️!!!! PS... glad to see you wearing gloves.. Tetanus and a plethora of other infections are lurking in all the shards and a tiny scratch can lead to big health problems.... ☝️🕊️🙏
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Who would have thought you'd have to take a sht, and you'd find all that. Congratulations!
Are you ever concerned or worried that you could catch a disease or something bad, while digging?
I just moved back to Wisconsin from Yankton, SD. A man at my post office here shared your channel with me--very fun. Too bad I missed the chance to see you all work live!
Didn't read the comments yet, but the glass piece in the beginning is a paperweight. I see these in antique stores all of the time. People would usually customize it by putting a photo or postcard inside facing towards the glass, and then applying a piece of felt to the bottom.
Grandma had one for her bar of soap
You have no idea how much I love your videos!
I'm so hooked!
It's interesting how all these bottles came from back east where it was more populated & where all the manufacturing was. These bottles were merchandise put on west bound trains headed out to what was essentially the wild west where all the brave homesteaders were.
Not necessarily brave....
The aqua bottles are beautiful! The ruby flash pitcher gorgeous! My fav was the procieln baby shoe and the citrate of magnesium bottle with rounded bottom. Never fails to bring an awesome dig to us. 🎉💜
That red oil lamp is total awesome
Very epic digging by the way. And thanks for taking the time to explain everything. I learned something new every dig
I do metal detecting as a hobby and I'll often get the feeling when I'm on a pioneer homestead recovering a relic, that the original owners spirit is looking over my shoulder watching me recover what they lost a few hundred years ago. Do you ever get a similar feeling when you're recovering all of those beautiful relics?
It is more than likely that feeling the law could be on you for criminal trespass.
@@Bonzi_Buddy I hear you bud, that's why I always make sure to get permission before I detect. 😅
@@Bonzi_Buddy Would have been nice if the law was watching when someone cleaned out most of the old bottle dump behind my house last VERY early spring
@@fishinwidow35oop. Is there a story there 😂
I find it amazing how beautiful some bottles look after all those years❤
I love your videos, I am not a bottle collector, but I love to learn and the things you do and show, I think it’s great. I just want to thank you for the time you put into this and the things you take.
And the things you teach, thank you
The cranberry glass piece is really beautiful.
yeah its one of the best pieces ive ever found. This pit was a little newer than id normally like, but im glad i dug it for that thing alone. wasnt even damaged! they must have dropped it because that would have been expensive back in the day
@@BelowthePlains It was probably a real loss to the homeowners when it happened.
That ruby flash pitcher you found is beautiful.
Those little perfume bottles my grandma used to call them 10cent toilet water 😅
Yet another amazing dig! love the lantern base. really cool to read about the difference between cranberry glass and ruby flash. something I knew nothing about prior. thanks for sharing
It’s Thanksgiving week so I just wanted to say thank you to Tom and Jake for putting these videos together week after week! I know winter is close and the ground will be too frozen to dig BUT why not travel to South Georgia and Florida for some digs? It’s warmer here! Plus, it still fits your Below the Plains theme because we are in the Coastal PLAIN Region of the US and so you will still be digging ‘below the plain,’ though the biggest difference is instead of digging cowboy outhouse pits you’ll be digging in “Florida Man outhouse pits,” no telling what goofy and unhinged things you’ll find down under our plains. But seriously, THANK YOU ❤
But how far back does that go?
Great pit guys! It is so amazing to this 64 year old how you discover these great dig sites, well done!❤
That's a really amazing find. they must have dropped that thing in the outhouse and decided "yeah, I dont think im gonna dig that thing out," because I dont really see any way they would have tossed it down without it being damaged. I guess thats why even when you find a new pit, you still gotta dig it! great show
I guess you had to go to the outhouse to have a drink of beer and then get rid of the evidence. 😮
The music reminds me of "that chapter," one of the best true crime channels on youtube. We love ya mike!!
The most bottles i have seen yet!!!! A literal wall of bottles!!! Great finds!!! I really liked those soap dish looking things...I have never seen that before!!
My Saturday night fix xxx😊😊😊❤❤❤
Love the red glass oil lamp font. The malt extract bottles had a cool shape. Fascinating to watch you dig through old poop pits 💩 ! LOL!
Hello Tom 👋 and a hello 👋 jake what a mixture of bottles plentiful of beer 🍺 bottles a really good pit 👌 👍 well done both 👏 Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.
Awesome video and dig guys! Thanks! Take care and I look forward to the next one you upload!
I like the tea leaf pattern cup.
Your knowledge of this stuff is extraordinary!
Good dig Tom, the red lamp base and the red pitcher are awesome 👌. Take care 👍
Okay, I'm hooked! Watched a couple of videos then subscribed half way through the 3rd! Not sure how long I have been watching but I always find it so interesting. I think of the people who tossed those items away and what they would think of what is happening with them now! Do you have a Q&A page? I have so many questions...how did you get started? What do you do with everything you dig? Have you ever thought of writing a book? Have you talked with historians in the areas you dig? Were have you been digging? And so many more questions! Thank you for including the viewers in your adventures and for the knowledge you share! ❤
haha glad you found the channel! and no.. as of now we dont have a Q&A page. maybe we will make a subreddit and then once a week will have an AMA or something. i usually try to respond to comments, but filming and editing usually takes up so much of my time, (especially in the warmer months) but i will try go thru and answer a few of your questions
how did we get started ?
well Tom got started when he was around 10 years old. he move to a farmstead after our town got destroyed by a flood. and after a few years there he was exploring and he ended up finding some trash deposits in the woods, and then he ended up finding the old outhouse and started digging and the rest is history. i think he found a bottle that was actually kinda valuable and he ended up looking it up. so im sure that played a factor.
what would people from the past think about what we are doing?
you know, i think about that all the time. i think they would understand tho. this was the golden age of archeology when stuff like the pyramids and ancient rome were in the news a lot. i think they would understand but i think they would be surprised we cared about the literal trash
what do we do with everything we dig?
we get this question more than anything at all. so to save time i will copy/paste my stock answer below:
The majority of the stuff goes to historic societies, (sometimes museums but they only take the really good stuff) or to the homeowner.. theres usually a local "history enthusiast" who collects old documents and local "treasures" or sometimes they put it in like the town hall or library or community center.. we keep some of it, we re-bury it a lot of the time.. it kinda all just depends on the circumstances but basically we give it to who ever wants it (as long as we think that person isnt gonna just throw it away in a few weeks or something).
have you ever thought about writing a book?
tom wrote 2 books so far. one on north dakota sodas, one on nebraska sodas. and he is writing another one about soda bottles from every state west of the mississippi river. (hes been working on it for like 2 years now) and hes also writing a shorter book on a military fort we dug.
have we talked to a historian?
yeah we do all the time. in fact, a lot of the time they end up helping us. but archeologists absolutely FUCKING HATE US..... its a long story.... but local historians and the people who run local historic societies always love us and are very kind to us, so whenever have contact with them, we usually donate stuff to them
where have we been digging?
all across the dakotas mostly but also in kansas, nebraska, maine, iowa, minnesota and a few other places but those are the main ones. hoping to go more places in the future. England would be a dream trip.
i think thats all of them. glad you like the channel. we really appreicate the kind comments. maybe at some point this winter we will do a live stream and answer some questions. thanks, hope you enjoy all the older videos!
@@BelowthePlainsreally appreciate you replying to all those questions! Most TH-camrs will just do a ‘😂’ or one short three word answer to a very in depth question
@@BelowthePlainsI’m in a small town in England , they know they are a huge ground for all these kinds of things worth digging up. They don’t let up easy on even letting you metal detect on public parks or beaches
Yeah, that was a paperweight. Use to have a photo in the concave side, flip it over the see the photo through the glass. Usually it would be from a postcard. Probably other people said this too.
yeah we got a few comments about it but we appreciate it all the same! when we were putting the video together we came across it in a glass magazine, and it was labeled paperweight too. but i didnt know that about the post card! but like i said, we appreciate it! thanks for watching
At 3:40, Yes that was a paperweight. The bottom often had a thin stencil of advertising, baked in with a thin layer of milk glass. patent date Sept 5, 1882. Yours appears to be blank. Unlikely the bottom advertisement would disappear. Some came with paper inserts in the bottom.
The malt bottles had a really appealing design
The Oklahoma panhandle is a great place to dig! It is a great peek into how pioneers lived!
How much is disputed as Native American land, though?
@@653j521 not this place.
I wish I could dig with you! I’d wash the pieces, whatever is needed. Love your channel.
oh wow those red pieces are gorgeous. Thanks for showing them all cleaned up!
Bravo, great dig, kudos you. Much love. Afriend.
Your Mama must have given you spoon and said go dig in the yard to keep you busy. And it started from there. Hooked at a young age.
haha thats actually not far off from the truth! tom was outside when he was young and he found one of these pits in his yard.. but i think he told me his mom was worried about old diseases so she made him dig with those thick rubber gloves people use for washing dishes! great guess tho! thanks for watching
i've been watching your videos,, too much fun. I had did some bottle digging as a kis, mostly from the mid 1800-s etc. and, ,,, You sare handsome!!!!!!!! lol
haha thanks! glad you found the channel and glad youre liking the videos! and yeah.... we try to get the mid-late 1800s pits, but you never know whats at the bottom until you get there. i honestly wish all the pis we dug were dated to before 1890. well thanks for watching!
Thank You for leaving the captions up long enough for people to read. I am surprised with all the bottles you did not find a single blue Bromo Seltzer bottle, usually a common find. ❤
I believe the small glass blocks are a type of souvenir paper weights, there would have been a picture or photograph glued to the back of it, set it on a desk to keep papers from blowing away. I have had them intact before
This guy finds the find of a lifetime every day
omg thank you! thats so kind!!
that lamp actually ended up in a museum! they were stoked when we brought it to them... you gotta give back to the community. thats the type of society we all deserve. bless you and take care my friend!
I just found poison oak metal detecting and bottle hunting so
Wish me luck !
You find so many interesting items and most people in their sixties and older have their parents items in their house. You identify the bottles quickly as machine made etc. could you one time hold all the different bottles beside each other and explain whole showing the difference of machine made, tool made etc, showing what era
This is strangely relaxing to watch. Really like how you add the history of the bottles you find. Grew up in Nova Scotia and the farm had a few old dump sites full of these bottles. Was my favorite thing to do as a kid was explore them.
That thing is beautiful!
Great finds. A really good show, well done
I really loved the red glass pieces, this was an exciting dig. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! ❤
I’m sure someone commented above about the intact coffee cup that’s ironstone. That is the English Tea Leaf pattern. I absolutely love that pattern.
Oops, a tea cup.
What a lovely couple days, nice to see Tobias and great Roman coins
Two of us dug for three days (him longer, he started before I did) in a Victorian-era landfill. Back then they were called something else but I can't remember what. We found glass bottles for everything from medicine to cleaners to cosmetics. We found all sorts of ink wells. We even dug up remnants of leather lace-up women's boots. We shared our finds. What we didn't keep went on eBay.
That pressed frosting for picture frames back in the day because I have a few
I would be interested to know the Geiger meter reading off that Radium dye bottle.
hahaha... i dont have a geiger meter!
I'm only halfway thru this video wow rock on dude!
love it !
I'm pretty sure that Radium Dye Company was dyes for paint used to pain ceramic and porcelain items, doll heads, etc. I remember a documentary about how ladies would be in factories painting various items and using their tongue and lips to make the paintbrush tip like they need it to be for painting. Unfortunately the dyes were laced with radium and caused many of these women to die horrific deaths from facial and throat cancers. I probably should look it up to make sure as I'm going from memory. They just had this documentary on Netflix not to long ago. I would suspect that is not a toiletry bottle, but a dye used for painting, maybe even for clothing. Perhaps the lady of the house was into painting herself.
They put radium in a lot of products including toiletries It was trendy thing to do for a time before they found out it was dangerous.
Radium pain't was used on clock/watch hands. So you could tell the time in the dark. Also for dials on equipment like airplanes.
The rectangular piece you dug and speculated to be a paperweight is sending picture . But was probably also used as soap dish. Mine has pic of SS Oceanic mounted from dished side smooth side up.
The beer bottle with the Star of David was actually called a brewers star.
Awesome dig, Great fines 🎉🎉
Love watching
Have you considered doing a pinned video or written FAQ to answer what you do with your finds or other stuff. I came to your main YT page because of the sheer volume of finds I see made me curious about what you do with stuff, like if theres a huge market, you end up sitting on stuff, or maybe sell in bulk to folks decorating or even using them in crafts or something. Id actually be interested in hearing all about the state of this type of work you do and the landscape of hunting and collecting this kind of stuff. .. I looked around and I saw someone said to just look on your FB page but I scrolled back and only saw posts of your videos on the YT page and didnt want to read all the comments to find out. Just a suggestion as just scrolling around this and other vids it seems you get a lot of the same questions. If there is a video or FAQ listing it in your about section or pinning it would be great.
The lamp base is pretty awesome.
I hope you grabbed that porcelain topper for that bottle! 😩
So many things that are now part of our history !
Another great dig....
I guess we should all just take this video, and our expectations when we read the title, as a metaphor: “Sometimes in life you will work hard while remaining patient, just waiting to see some kind of structure, but in the end you just find yourself up to your neck in a shit pit, surrounded by empty beer bottles.
Malt extract was used in beer making
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen in a long time. I wish I were there with you.
Brandon's wife Miranda would probably love the shards of blue patterned crockery...the orange floral broken cup too! She makes jewelry from bits. Adventure Archaeology. SCORE!On the cranberry glass lamp!
That bottle with the star on it was interesting and unique
11.27 when he tossed the cup aside 😭😭😭
I wanted to say that looks like fun. I love hunting and digging in the yard. Dang. I wish I had the knowledge to have that much fun. Awesome.
Good luck to you my friend ! 🙂
Great digs😊
A very handsome house.
Love your videos. !!!! Attention to detail. History. Impeccable! Great haul!
awesome video thanks
Someone probably used the red lamp for a nightlight, and somehow it fell in.
Thats exactly what i was thinking.. they dropped it in, and decided it wasnt worth going in for... thank god it didnt break. i was looking up other versions of cranberry glass lanterns from the same era online, and i wasnt able to find anything that was that ornate. might be one of the best examples to survive from that time period! thanks for watching!
Makes me think of all the houses they have built on top of dumps.
At 5:28 there is the sound of either a dove or an owl. It's coo-ing all throughout your video. Most of your videos have this sound. It's kinda like a mourning dove sounds in Wisconsin but not quite. Maybe it's one with a South Dakota accent lol. Anyone? Thank you.
Yep, it's a dove.
Sounds like it could be a barred owl to me. They make different sounds. Sometimes, to me, they sound like they are weirdly laughing.
Your very respectful of people’s values
Man look at that nice dark dirt!! I miss living in South Dakota.
haha i get a lot of compliments on the quality of our dirt up here.. it really makes it easy to locate and dig the pits, not gonna lie. thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m in a desert area now and you can’t grow anything in the sandy dirt!!
@@tjtuttle9475 Cacti?
You and that rod of yours, better than ground penetrating radar!.
Think it's brilliant the way with what you do..get a sample of how people lived God I wish they'd do that in Ireland as you probably know how long we go back.. your doing an amazing job thank you
I find it absolutely amazing what you dig up..
I used t love digging around outside our home. We found all sorts of things. Our house is one of the oldest in the village. Years ago it had a pond outside that allegedly was linked to smuggling. It was filled in and is a public park now. The house was built in the late 16th century and retains some windows dating the house. It's made of solid 18 inch think blocks of sandstone not infilled and faced with stone. Also half a mile up he road an excavation took place in the early 1980s and a Roman villa ground floor was found in the playing fields.
amazing lantern
A life time of bottles in a day...crazy
That bottle Radom Dye concerns me. I would suggest you contact your fire dept.,to find a way to dispose of it properly. Clocks from the teens to the thirties were painted with radon paint to make the numerals glow. Some people collect them, not knowing that they are dangerous. The numbers my not glow any more, but are as radioactive as the day they were painted. Same may be true for that bottle. Love your content, keep up the good work.
According to the EPA, unless they're broken they pose no risk but they shouldn't be used to hold food or drink. They also say that watches and clocks with radium hands and dials are okay as long as they are intact.
and I _love_ your show - Just want you and your team to be safe.
I love watching your videos tom I have heard of those companies my great grandpa used to own a general store in St. Louis Missouri near sportsman’s park called Bueschers market I live in ste Genevieve Missouri which is in southeast Missouri I collect old toys also and like the tin toys and sometimes old bottles that I buy at flea markets and antique malls
HEY! Heck yes! Lets do this!
Thanks for sharing
Yes, that rectangular glass piece was a paperweight. It would have had advertisement, or someones picture in the indented side, facing into the glass, so you could see it through the glass.
haha yeah. we have a bunch of old glass magazines where you could order this stuff back in the day. so when we are filming and we find stuff, we are usually like "no idea what this thing is" but then once we are doing research for the video, we find out.. and its usually something super obvious. thanks for letting us know tho! and thanks for watching