140 Year Old Map Led Us to a Jackpot at the Bottom of an 1870’s Well
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Excavating the well-turned-trash-dump at the former site of Prospect Place, a manor house located a mile outside of Yankton, South Dakota.
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I can't believe nobody has a metal detector lmao. Anything of real value will be made of gold or silver or pewter . Unless you dig up a an gold wrapped in skins in a pot you will just find junk
I really hope in 200-300 years people start digging threw out trash for plastic bottles
nice findings in that septic pit
why do you guys use shovels and break the glass bottles like retards
Your awesome Dude ! I've paid big money for some of the Glass Wear you've Dug.
Hey everyone. thanks for watching! i just wanted to respond to about a dozen or so comments that said what we have in this video is an outhouse pit, not a well.. just to clarify, this was in fact a well. at no point did we find any signs of human waste (rich browish/red soil speckled with seeds).. the entire well was filled with mostly ash and trash, and in some spots it was gravel, likely where the walls had caved it.. it was lined with timber, which wasnt uncommon in the area for wells, and it went down to at least 19 feet, which is far far deeper than any outhouse pit we've ever come across in the dakotas. (we dug down to about 12 feet, and used a 7 foot probe rod at the bottom, and the whole way down was gravel past where we dug.. its likely that the top of the pit collapsed into the hole and it filled the bottom with several yards of debris at which point it wasnt below the water table. i know it may have been a little confusing that we didnt explain why we thought what we thought in the video, and i appreciate anyone who attempted to let us know. again, thanks for watching everyone. have a great day!
How much time did it take you to get all that stuff out of that well and it was a great video thank you
Just watching this and noticed a chamber pot made in Hanley... small world I used to live there lol
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Great videos, I would like to see you doing some shoring as it is quite dangerous and it only needs to happen once.
Tom is a remarkable young man...He is very capable of restoring antiques that appear to be beyond the point of no return...Tom is much more than a guy that knows how to dig holes...I have respect for his work ethic....
What does he do with the artifacts he finds? Does he sell them, have a store, etc?
Material values are a second thought , everything is history of our past, you are great, your joy at every find makes me want to watch more well done Sir, thank you greetings from grandpa Pete from France 🇫🇷 👍👍❤️
Brilliant dig! Thanks for taking us along! One of the few channels that I actually watch the video from start to finish. Thanks again!
hahah thank you! i know how you feel. on some of the other digging channels i just kinda skip around and see what they pulled out and then watch something else. and i was determined to not have people do that to my videos! well thank you for watching and leaving such a nice comment!
It would be interesting to include a segment at the end showing the finds cleaned up so the details are clearer. It’s very interesting to see how the cast-offs and trash of a previous time can be valued as historical and aesthetic artifacts. Thanks for sharing!
One man's trash is another's treasure. Look at thrift stores and what is left out on the curb for garbage collection.
We really enjoy your videos! We learn so much and love the advertising that you find to go along with the bottles. We have a small collection of bottles and advertising cards, so it's fun to see them in your videos. Thanks and keep the videos coming guys!
oh wow thank you! im glad you guys are liking the videos. yeah we are gonna try keep at least one coming out a week for the summer and then hopefully this fall or winter we can ramp it up to 2 a week.. not enough time to dig them and edit the videos in a week tho! thanks for watching
Just mind blowing. Your energy, your understanding of how to accomplish what your doing and your understanding of what you find, and the production of your videos, with historic references, wow. Thanks so much.
Love watching you guys dig up treasures from the past. I find it so relaxing. Thank you for allowing me a glimpse into the past.
That was great! They really loved their horses it seems.
My brother collected and dug old bottles up in some historical areas. I enjoyed digging up bottles too. It was fun to watch you discover them in this pit/well.
well im glad you enjoyed it. i am quickly learning that it isnt as rare of a hobby as i once thought it was. that makes me happy. and yeah its a total blast! thanks for watching!
Thanks for captioning your content, allows me to watch on bus commute. Happy digging. Rich (& Brenda)
Watching you dig up the past sure made me forget about the present days. I enjoyed it. Kind of mesmerizing. I’ll be back for sure.
Thanks for putting your content up in higher quality than 1080p. The fine little details of the stuff you find really shines in 2k and 4K that 1080p wouldn’t let me see
What a deep hole! You are braver than me! Glad you got good stuff for your hard work. It was a very good video 👏 😊 thanks so much!
I love you're channel! Thank you, your videos brighten my day.
Ahhh thank you! THAT brightens my day
Awesome dig and finds cant wait to see the next one.thanks
ahh thank you! well i appreciate the comment! take care!
I like the historical notes you include. Enjoyable watch.
Wow that pit was crazy deep! Great dig guys
That was simply amazing. You are fearless! Very well done. Thank you.
Glad to see your hard work paid off....
What are you going to do next?
I'm hoping you find a canning jar filled with coins...👍🇺🇸
HAHA yeah that would be the day.. i havent even found a single coin before.. other than wheat pennies.. i find those all the time
Iron China 🙌 I have collected it for 50 year’s. Thank you for sharing this.
This one is the deepest I have seen so far. Wow. At least you wont need to fill it back by hand. ThX for the video.
Sweet hole brotha keep up the good work
I really find it interesting that water collects inside those bottles!
spent summers at my grandparent's place a few minutes away from here - amazing to see what is below the plains - thanks!
Wow loved those wonderful pieces along with all the whole ones
Hello I just subscribed to your channel yesterday. I love watching you find stuff. I noticed the Espey's fragrant cream has a date of 1883, at an online image I found. 👍 That's so cool!
WEell im glad you found the channel! and glad your liking it. thank you for subscribing and leaving us a comment!!!
Alright! Fantastic! Congrats!
Thank you! and thanks for watching
Wow what a deep pit I enjoyed your videos thank you for sharing the bottle with the horse on it was awesome I am still looking forward to getting the glass shards or plate shards from just let me know how I need to get them thank you have a wonderful day ♥️👍👍👍🤠🗝️ yeehaw
okay! yeah if youre serious i can do that for you, can you tell me what you're looking for specifically? or just random broken pieces? oh and when you message me back, dont hit "reply" ..just go to our most recent video and leave an entirely new comment. for some reason it doesnt notify me when someone replies to me, it only notifies me when there's a new comment. thanks
@@BelowthePlains I am absolutely serious about glass shards with words plate shards anything I can make jewelry or make other things with I would really appreciate your help 🙂👍👍👍 sorry I can't hardly think right now I have covid and I'm in a fog at this time thank you again
This Video was more interesting than I thought. I watched the whole video till the end. Thank you for the historic informations, the old advertisments and afterpicturs of the cleaned bottles. 👍
If i would find something like that, I would use the bottles as a vase or fill it with coloured water and use them as decoration. :D
You should send that labelled mustard bottle to the mustard museum in Wisconsin!
There is a true legend on our farm right here, about my great grand father was just 16 years old back in 1866 having a ball with some dynamite he and a neighbor kid swiped from the nearby railroad office. The neighborhood kids used to sneak in the railroad office all the time stealing the manager and cashier tele station operators candies food and now and then money because they were certified drunks I was told. Just before 4rth of July 1866 they stole an entire box of dynamite from that place put in their wagon drove it home to our place which was the farthest farm from the railroad office and the edge of town. Afternoon of 4rth of July 1866 my great grand daddy earned himself a real beating from big ole great great grand daddy Heikela after they got carried away with tossing the stuff thru the air to make it explode. However a stick went astray and straight down our well. Our well being about 500ft from feet from a natural cistern fed stream was not all that deep yet deep enough that it had hand made concrete and stone stairs that got wrecked. My great great grand daddy Heikela worked my great grand fathers ass off until late August in 100 degree heat to fix them stairs to like perfect condition in the bottom of the well. Later that summer it was just before the winter they built concrete foundation wooden & tar topped well house over the top of the well to complete it with a sort of huge opening sky light so they could see the water flow in the bottom. It was important to keep fissure open that let the water in the hole and great great grand daddy was anal about that it be clean and clear flowing at all times because sucking stuff up in the well pump pipe. The wells cast iron (stick) pipe that went down from the Ames Pump Head is still there on the outside platform I last made circa 1999 and I have repaired it just like they did all their lives. I have rebuilt the guts of that Ames Pump head twice since I am alive. Last time I made a video with my son so he can remember how to rebuild it and what we bought and used to do the job. The adjustable fletch as we call the threaded pressure rod I hand made from stainless steel all-thread this time. I actually got the dynamite story directly from my grand father when he was alive so it wasn't nothing fabricated I actually found evidence of the explosion since the slate and granite stones that got broken still sit out back of the barn just a little farther away since I moved em because of cutting weeds down when we put the metal siding on the barn no more wood replacements crap for this old cowboy...
Just recently found your channel. Fascinating finds!
well im glad you found us! i hope you enjoy the rest of our videos, some of the older ones are a litter rough. thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!
I know of a couple drinks that call for drops of bitters. What did they use a bottle of bitters that size for I wonder 👍🏻
What are bitters? I think I've heard of it before, but it's been so long ago.
Great video, great finds!
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Once in a lifetime finds.
Now that was a pretty awesome and deep hole great fantastic finds 😀
THAN-Q BROTHER NICE JOB.
No thank you! for watching and leaving us a comment!
Great archeological finds.
Tom :: that was a great dig , some really old bottles, one thing I like about your video is the image stabalazation is great , some people have so much movement in the vids i get motion sickness and turn it offand dont bother subscribing -- those territory bottles are exiting to see comming out
oh yeah i know. these wells are so fun to dig bc they have the most random stuff in them. they are almost always good! and thank you. we actually bought a handle for our camera that helps it stay stable.. i dont really use image stabilziation when im editing unless its kinda shakey, bc you lose the edges of your video and the quality goes down, so we just try to keep it as stable as we can in person. lot of learning as we go on what we did right and what we did wrong. and thank you! thats awesome. it always makes my day when people tell me what they think of my videos. i appreciate that.
We used to put lime in our outhouse to help keep the products decomposing, and to keep the acid smell to a minimum. I was only 4 years old when i watched my grandma dump some lime in the outhouse of our summer home before we left to go back to reality.
a fun time for us to watch.
That was a amazing dig!! Thank you!!!
yeah it was a pretty good one. great location. thank you for leaving us a comment!
It was an amazing time watching you excavate! It was also great to have your commentary.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
hell yeah brother! thanks for watching
These videos are fun to watch! I love treasure hunts!
Thank you for providing this video. These are interesting and your knowledge of the artifacts are impressive! (especially for a youngster). I love finding old bottles and would find them helping my dad and relatives on old houses. We would find them under the porch. So interesting and uniquely shaped bottles, back when products were made with pride and style.
The outhouse used to be people's dumps hence the depth. Nice to see many artifacts survived. I hope he washed his hands afterwards
I entered a trance somewhere in the beginning, I can't believe I watched the whole thing.
My brother went behind my barn the other day and said one of my pigs had a really bad rash so ran to his truck and took out this ancient old bottle of Oinkment and gave it to me for my pig...
We was diggin out on the neighbors farm like that lookin for treasures and after giving it hell all day long we found a nice pair of horse shoes. Problem was getting the rest of that horse up out of that hole.
Do you ever sell or give away any bottles you find I'm a bottle digger from way back I really enjoy watching what your doing here those are some awesome finds the drug store with the mushroom is pretty cool for a common one. Stay elevated ✌️
well we dont really sell any but we give most of them away.. usually to the owner of the property, or to the historic society.. i mean i really like giving them away bc they are such a cool representation of our local history.. and i just dont have enough space to house them all... we both have a fairly small but decent quality collection. Tom writes books on these sites.. but i mean, selling them just seems like kind of a hassle.. all of the expensive ones are the ones we wanna keep and if we were to ship any of the cheaper ones, it would probably just cost just as much to send as we'd make.. i mean id give most of them away for free tho, if i thought they were going to a place where they will be cared for. well thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!!
@@BelowthePlains that's awesome guys I love the channel, I'm digging in an old homestead dump from early 1900s where I live her in deadwood Oregon I've found a few really awesome ones, I collect the old soda bottles and keep most all the glass bottles I found if you ever feel like sending one my way it would be greatly loved in my window reflecting sunlight with my best find an old nehi soda from Eugene Oregon bottling co 1925 it's flawless and I'm so thankful I found it a few feet under the dirt, I'll be watching all your videos I really enjoy the work you are doing to preserve and appreciate historical glass and how what was once thought of as trash is treasured by so many of us now. Keep on digging brothers ✌️❤️
How do you get people let me dig on their property?
@Tom A pretty cool man keep up videos interesting to see watch
Thank you!
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Fascinating
They Dug up and Old well near my parents Town in Mexico. Had Slight oil slick and smelled a little weird. Turned out it was a property that had been abandoned many years ago and the Baddies were using it as a clandestine Graveyard.
Dry wells that did not produce water or tan dry were the next out house hole. Any thing that couldn’t burn or the kids and dad didn’t want mom to see went down the poop hole so mom wouldn’t find out like moonshine jugs and the families fine China because mom would never look down the hole. Booze and beer bottles also went down the hole. I remember my grandfather telling me these old stories when he would help his father dig wells and outhouse pits for rich families in Texas. Either way it’s cool to see the old bottles and trash items people thru away.
Are you sure it was a well and not an outhouse? In the Midwest people didn’t throw garbage in their well, but into the outhouse pit. An antique store owner in Nebraska told a friend and I we should dig in old outhouse pits for apothecary bottles
yeah, i mean i understand why you would think that.. but there just wasnt any human waste,.. it was about 90% ash and trash and about 10% gravel.. the waste has a very distinct look to it.. it looks like a very rich orangish brown soil that is speckled with thousands of seeds per every cup or so.. its very distinct.. this pit was pure ash, something ive seen before in other wells.. but ive also seen wells that were converted into outhouse pits.. i assumed because the well went dry and they had a pre-dug hole in the ground. and wells going dry was a common phenomenon, sometimes wells would even dry up in less than a year of use, and would basically never produce water again.. but like i said, i understand why you would think that, and i think that if you had been there in person, you would agree.. it was pure ash, and it was a nightmare to dig up and breathe in.. but i appreciate the comment! and thank you for watching, have a great rest of your night!
Weird, every old well I've dug in the Midwest was full of old trash.
The two pieces you pulled out were parts of same lamp shade, that style was used on pressure gas lamps. So there was no curbing to that well? Seems unusual that if it was a well or if it was a cistern, that there's not some wall to the hole as wells and cisterns were always walled. When I was a kid over half a century ago, every house in town had a cistern but city water had come so those cisterns were all filled in with furnace and stove ashes and whatever junk you could throw down that hole that "would not attract rats" so it was pretty much pottery, glass, and metal. Gobs of old houses with cisterns and toilet holes behind these old homes. One victorian home I knew had the same outhouse forever, was still used in the 70s. Outhouse was built into another building on the place but they would throw lime down the hole to eat up the "product" and they never threw anything down the hole that would not deteriorate so whomever would come across that hole now the cobshed is gone, won't find anything in it as there was never a bottle dropped down it.
Haven't dug any wells yet, I have done privy, cisterns and ledge dumps ....I wish you guys lived closer ... it's hard to find people who have that drive....those who trained me are too old now.
Just go in South Minneapolis near Lake Harriet. There's an old dump of medical glass and other glass about 2 - 5 ft underground.
Recently discovered your channel, and have been enjoying it. When I was in high school i took historical artifacts class and went on a dig at Jenkins ferry and found arrow heads and pottery sherds. It was so much fun. I will subscribe to your channel and keep on watching.
well thank you. yeah not gonna lie, once you start finding stuff, its a blast, and the work doesnt feel so hard. glad you found us. thanks for subbing
Meds come in those old bottles.wow
Just stumbled on ur video here... When you guys find blue or red glass save it, even if it's broken. You can sell that to people who want to tumble the pieces. Blue and red glass is really rare to come by especially people who like to search for sea glass on the beaches. Yes the lure to sea glass is to actually find sea glass, but if it's old glass and you know it's old glass The lure is there to also tumble it.
You could maybe sell the les valuable bottles by the dozen. I love having little collections of them scattered all over the house.
Bet that took a while to Back Fill! LOL Nice JJ
lol. the guy who owned the property filled it in with his tractor, but that still took like an hour. thanks for watching
@@BelowthePlains YW Friend!! JJ
Do you sift the dirt for coins, buckles or buttons? Be interested in seeing the smalls of your haul.
Nice!
26:15 You should send this to one of the Restoration TH-cam Channels. Would be cool to see!
If going any deeper you need an A frame with pullies
haha we have had a few holes where we've actually had to do that! its a nightmare and slow going but the deeper pits are always the goldmines! thanks for watching
I had a thought when i saw you were doing a well. If people originally threw breakable things down, they would break from the fall on other things right? Except small bottles.
Just hope they didn't put there loved one down there . I heard in the day not sure exactly where they did bury them under the house they built? Just hear say?
umm.. i think it was pretty common to put them into a cemetery if they lived in or near town, but yeah, absolutely on remote farmsteads and stagecoach stations, the would usually just bury them somewhere in the yard. i have yet to come across a grave yet, thank god. well i appreciate you leaving us a comment and watching!
All the broken stuff indicates an old out house pit, one wouldn’t throw trash in a well. When a pit got full the out house would be moved toward the house. Dishes were placed in flour sacks as an incentive you can check the pattern to date the shard. Pioneer flour company for example.
yeah this was a well, ive gotten that comment about a dozen times. we should have clarified in the video why we thought that. the entire hole was filled with ash and trash, and then gravel at the bottom. it likely collapsed near the top and the new bottom of the well was above the water line, and the ground was too unstable to re-dig.. and it was very common for a well to be filled up with trash after it went dry. sometimes they would pull the outhouse over the well hole, which saved them alot of time and energy having to dig a new privy. ive probably dug about a dozen wells in my life, and id say those are probably the best pits to dig, bc they are so deep, that it likely took them a few decades to fill.. and anyone with a well in their yard in north/south dakota was fairly well off.. but thank you for letting us know, and thanks for watching. have a great day!
A most fascinating presentation. Je vs remercie!
Speaking of bottles:
My most cherished bottle provides an intact cap and quite legible label...yet filled with a usually amber marginally carbonated fluid. I quite regularly find these in cardboard carriers holding some six of these collectibles. I usually find them in my refrigerator...often by my sofa or bed.
I have identified my cherished finds as ,,Michelob", ,,Heineken", ,,Bud Lite", etc. Are these companies the glass blowers?
It’s a shitter boys lol lime is the give away good stuff probably a two seater I’m probably wrong but it sounds good anyway lol have fun 🤩
We use deer antlers to dig quartz because metal will cause damage I wonder if it would work for what you do
10:00 mins in and you guys found more cool things then aim oak Island. 😂
Surprised me y'all dig up a out house hole, n even more surprising is all the finds. Hope the boots are good
i feel like you all dig up and look through his garbage from 1800's
haha yeah thats kind of exactly what we do! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment
This doesnt look like what somebody would do to an old well. This looks more like what youd find in an old outhouse. That would explain the lime and soil.
Youd put old broken stuff in the outhouse hole, the soil and lime would be put in to keep smells down and help break down the bodily waste. Then once its filled up, you finish filling the hole and dig a new outhouse.
Did you use safety shoring as you descended deeper into the well?
You should get an archaeological sifting screen.
lime to control the door in an outhouse pit.😊
Please tell us how you clean these bottles into pristine condition! Thanks!
What do you do with the broken glass. I would love to see your collection
Better get a bucket
Gloves : on both hands, #2--------- #1 is safety... OSHA state that a hole or a trench over 5 ft deep must be shorizontaly shored if not pulled back, terraced on all sides with a guardrail at top , 6 ft back from edge of hole... so, look it all up// it only caves in once......on YOU.
Tom, if you would be interested in selling one of the small "Yankton Dakota Territory" bottles let me know,. Great video!
Hi guys just a suggestion not sure what you do with the broken China but there’s a lot of jewelry makers that probably can us them for their jewelry. Also bottles that are whole in the bottle but the neck is broken they can be made into vases. The bottoms that are broken with embossed info can be use for arts and craft. Just say. I see beauty in everything vintage
I swear the label on that one bottle said, "Laudanum".
Wow
Tom or Jake, I'm sure the thought has crossed y'all's minds but if you're going down this far, you might want to consider tapering out your excavation walls to prevent a collapse. I'm speaking as a fireman that has seen cases of men dying in not-so deep holes. I know it's already laborious enough to did what you do but it's just something to think about 🤔. Love your work, keep'em coming!
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I think you broke the chamber pot! BTW, Do you sell any of what you find, because I am interested! Let me know. Thanx!
What was the little tin box you pulled out?
Btw, The grey ground is not ashes, It's decomposed...
Find any Dr. JH McLeans Volcanic Linement Bottles found some in WY.
Just wondering, what is done with the things you dig up?
Cool finds, how much do you make off the finds?
I really like the video format, I don't want to see anyone get hurt though. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get some cribbing, even if it's just some cheap osb and 2x4's to prevent getting buried. It can happen soooooo fast
yeah we usually board up the sides if we get down that low. not gonna lie, it was pretty sketchy. that was the spring, and the farmer has given us 2 days out there to find the stuff, and dig them. and this was the last day. we almost didnt dig this one, we had found 5 newer pits out there, and this one we thought was just a trash dump.. so we had no plans on going down lower than 4-5 feet. and it just kept going and going, and by the time we were 10 feet down the sun was already getting low in the sky, and so we just decided to push it, because the stuff was just starting to get good. but normally we wouldnt go down this low without bracing, there just was no time and we decided to roll the dice. but in the future, if we get down past 9 feet, we will start boarding it up. thanks for watching, glad you like the videos!
Great video! Very satisfying! New subscriber! So I have a couple of questions what do you do with the salvageable items that you dig out and are you a collector of these type of finds? Stay safe and healthy! Take care!😊