Surprising Finds - Bottle Dump Digging, Scotland, Fife, Near Edinburgh - Ep 91
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Some exciting, bizarre finds at the bottle tip this week. And there's something Willie has NEVER even heard of before!
In the 'Rainy Days' section, see Willie restore the beautiful ship tile that he found on the Edinburgh tip!
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Fabulous restoration on the tile Willie, you would never know it was ever damaged. A credit to yor patience and skill. Lovely and unusual finds this week, brilliant entertainment as usual.
Nice job again willie the black glass plate would be the best skimmer
Hi Jonah - you're right! It would go for miles! Willie :)
@@dirtysecretsofscotland it is nice when you refilled the holes
Use the bottle, missing the bottom, as a chimney, over a tealight. Or, cut the top off as well and use over a tea light or votive candle.
Once again a great dig. Cream pots are very impressive and the sauce with the wonderful drippy lippy. So enjoy watching.
I am always awed at your ability to match colors for your restorations. Wonderful job on the tile!
Wow Willie! That tile is beautiful! Great job!
Thanks Terri - thought you'd enjoy this repair! Willie :)
Willie, I wanted to take a moment to thank you so much for the "Belter" cream pot i recently purchased from the time that you found four in one day. I am so proud to own a little piece of your history. It is perfect and arrived in perfect condition and was packaged so carefully. I encourage anyone who is thinking of purchasing on of your fabulous treasures, they will not regret it. Thanks again. 🌻🐕🥰🇺🇸
Thanks Guadalupe. Very kind words and they’re very much appreciated. I hope your own treasure brings you lots of happiness. It certainly brought me happiness when I found it. I like to think that will stay with it in some way.
Thanks for your support. Willie 🙂
Always enjoy your digs...thank you, and for the lovely tile restoration, too.
Thanks Colleen - glad you enjoyed another adventure! Willie :)
Wow wullie that tile is a complete BELTER! Totally amazing well done I was shocked to see the celluloid had survived that long the metal had disintegrated that makes you really aware of the damage of plastic saying that I can't wait to see what you can do to make it come back fresh, lemon cream puffs were my favourite biscuits when I was a wee lassie in the 60's much love to Sarah Jack and yourself Alex x
very beautiful tile, great repair, and restoration, certainly the original artist would be quite impressed and proud!
Thanks Martine - what a nice comment to read! Willie :)
Amazing repair on the tile Willie, you are so talented! Thanks for bringing me smiles.
Great job on that tile!!!! Looks beautiful!!!
Thanks - glad you enjoyed seeing the repair. Willie :)
The squawking bird sounded like a hawk. Hearing Dave was a treat as well!---If you would please, I enjoy seeing the discard pile, so flash a glimpse of that before you fill in the hole!
Hi Alana - it was at least 3 buzzards that were squawking. That pesky Dave - he makes lots of noise, but I rarely get a glimpse of him now!
And sure, I can show the discard pile. I do worry a bit that I'll receive lots of comments asking why I don't take everything home though. The truth is, I just don't have the room to take everything I find. Willie :)
@@dirtysecretsofscotland Understood. I'm just curious about how much harder you work at it than is visible with the special stuff you bring up.
Usually there is an enormous pile of broken and unwanted items. A guess would be roughly 10-1 of junk to decent finds. I think I probably move around 2 - 3 tons of earth/ash on the average dig also. And of course, that gets moved twice when I backfill the hole. 🙂
@@dirtysecretsofscotland If I may, I'd love to have you include somewhere how long you spend at the dig sites, either in your exit review, or in the description paragraph..."All total, I spent such-n-such time at this dig"...sort of thing!
the tile is gorgeous, amazing job! cant wait to see the table!
Great dig today and loved the work you did on the tile , you couldn't tell that it had been broken into. I love the bloopers that you added at the end. Keep up the good work that you are doing.
Thanks Deborah - always great to read your comments - glad you enjoyed another episode! Willie :)
What a fun and exciting dig! You just never know what's going to pop out next! Hello, Willie, Sarah and Jack Spaniels from Ohio!
Waiting for the Belter Boogie. ⚡😂
Awesome fix on the ship tile, Willie! And, that quick look at the other salvaged tiles with it, gives the impression that you’re going to have a beautiful little table eventually.
I really enjoy watching your restoration videos and you've done a very skillful job on that pretty tile. And Sarah's calendar looks lovely and I shall be buying one!
Thanks Sue - that tile was just crying out for a repair job. Glad it turned out like it did. And thanks for buying a calendar - it really helps Sarah's channel. Willie :)
great colour on that symingtons (and the blue) and lots of unusual variants. really interesting dig
Thanks - glad you enjoyed seeing the finds. Even the slow digs throw up interesting finds on this tip. Willie :)
Awesome job on the ship tile Willie! Glad most of your digs are a little bit better, but enjoyed it anyway. Thanks.
Thanks Debbie - glad you enjoyed the repair and dig. Sometimes digs are a bit sparse, but I think it's worth putting them all on here. Otherwise I wouldn't be showing a fair representation of how it is. Also, seems you and others enjoy them all the same. Willie :)
@@dirtysecretsofscotland Yes Willie, we enjoy you belter finds or not.
I love these videos you do, Willie! They remind me of when my brother and I hunted antique bottles on an old estate a couple of blocks from where we grew up in Maryland in the 1960s and early 70s. We weren't supposed to be there, but you know kids. I remember a blue milk of magnesia bottle and an amber clorox bleach bottle, among others, all in perfect condition. My parents recognized the designs from when they were growing up in the 1920s. My brother and I never dug - just found what was sitting around in the woods and undergrowth. The bottles are gone long ago, alas. There was no internet to look them up on, but I imagine they were from the 1920s and 1930s, knowing something of the history of the estate.
I can't wait to see what you do with the Crawford sign. Abra Cadabra on the Tile! Someone 100 hundred years from now, digging in that dump site is going to find your brush!
A challenge. Those bottles with no bottom. Cut it nice off smooth leaving as much as you can, create a wooden base maybe with fitted groove. Now you have a tea light candle dome no cork for air. The advertising can glow
Also I sure need one the same thing can be used to water your plant soil. I had to cut a plastic bottle to water the deep soil in my pot. The water was just running out so fast it really did not water. So since I didn’t have an automatic bubble I had to improvise. Bypass the top soil water the cup.
Look forward to the quote mate 😃👍🏻👍🏻
Will get on that soon Dave - thanks. Very, very busy at the moment, but it will slow down a bit soon. Willie :)
Thats a cracking tile Willie, what a resto. Also another great dig.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed the episode! Willie :)
Almost everything I know about bottles has come from watching BD Tom, I love his videos. Also, I haven't seen a clear poison bottle like that before either, very unusual! Awesome job on the tile, it looks amazing! I hope the 'lemon puffs' sign made it home ok and you can restore or preserve it, it's fabulous 😃💗 x
The tile restoration was amazing!
Hi Willie. That was an Angle Shades moth you encountered. Great hearing the buzzards too, they sounded so close. Fabulous lot of finds again!
Early on, when you found the black glass, I saw a portrait of someone when you said “melted” and were turning it slightly… please check it out. Loved every find today and the moth relocation too! ❤ your amazing work on the tile - that ship is back to sailing the high seas with ease - good on you mate!
3:15 - I saw an outline too!
Thanks - I'll go and check this again - I didn't notice an outline - I will study it to be sure! Glad you enjoyed the repair too. Willie :)
Geweldig wat een superrestauratie en voor de rest weer mooie vondsten !
Liefs van RINI !
❤️🥰❤️
That tile came out awesome. That will make a great addition to your table
Totally enjoy no matter how much you find.
From watching your channel as well as Sarah's, I have learned about Scotland and then when I read the archeology articles about stone circles and Roman settlements, and the continued exploration of your country. I learn so much from all of you (the british mudlarks and treasure hunters)! It makes our world so much smaller and friendly. So you are carrying the torch to pass it on to the next treasure hunter. Even here if you don't like the weather, wait a few, it will change. I was always told when its sunny and raining.... the devil is beating his wife. Not politically correct now a days, but that's what I heard as a child. Great job on the tiles. One mudlark collected numerous blue and white shards and re-tiled his loo floor. So I can't wait to see the table.
Amazing work done on the tile with the ship. Your attention to detail really shows. 👍👏🌻🐕🥰🇺🇸
That celuloid sheet that you found was most likely from the large like 10Lb tins of biuscits that were supplied to Grocers shops and bakeries to be sold loose the last time I remember them would be in the late 1950's.😄
Thanks John - that's a good shout! This tip was used until the 1930s, so not a mile out on age range there. Could be just as you said. Willie :)
Wunderschön,sehr sehr gut gemacht!!!!i Ich bin begeistert!!🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍
Your restorations are top notch. Blessings on your digs.
Very nice - the video, the finds, the history bit, and the repair. I haven’t mentioned your music lately, but I do enjoy it. You are a very talented , Willie!
Your repaired tile looks fantastic, it will make a lovely centrepiece for the future table.
Brilliant tile restoration and interesting finds as well!
Love your repairs- absolutely amazing. We are going to open the farm tip on our place that was closed up around 1960. It was the township dump forever before that. We haven't located the original tips from around the house yet- it was built as a log cabin in the early 1840's. (We are in the USA) So exciting!
Thanks Woolamina - glad you enjoyed watching the repair.
Your tip sounds great! I hope you find the earliest part - there would be some belters there for sure! Willie :)
Beautifully done on the ship tile ❤❤ you found a lot of beautiful bottles and jars.
Wonderful finds! I think the long neck bottle would be great repurposed as a vinegar/ oil bottle. the small plain cream pot looks like a mustard jar, but I just love the color and shape of it! I absolutely love the ship tile! you did a wonderful job of restoring it! You are very talented! So many people don't realize you can buy plain unglossed tiles where you can put your own designs on them and glass them. I can imagine that tile in a master bathroom or sitting area.
Another nice cache. A wonderful job on the tile.
Love watching your channel. You get it done ! and you're funny, bonus ! .......and good lookin and if you're doin the singin you sing great ! All GOOD ! ! !
What a lovely comment! Thank you. 🙂
Hi, not a prolific haul but super interesting, I remember Crawfords biscuits and as a child lacking the cream out of the middle of the custard creams, ha ha. Excellent job on the tile, I can imagine you and Sarah side by side painting away and being creative 😀 🖌🖌 with Jack sat by the door wanting to go out. Have a great week.
Wonderful video, Willie! What a brilliant job on that tile!
Yaaay!!! Dirty Secrets 🤭 is on! 😊
As always! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ thanks for taking us on your adventure! 🥳
What an unusual and beautiful tile loved the restoration job can't wait to see the table!!
Thanks Helga! 🙂
Awesome work on that tile. Good tip from S on the makeup sponges.
Willie,
You do a great job of touchup.
I did painting restoration and you have an excellent colorsense.
I also have one and it helps a lot.
I used colored furniture restoration waxes to fill damaged area on porcelain and other ceramics.
It filled well, sanded very easily and offered a feeling of transparency.
After completion I also glazed the surface and you couldn't tell it had been damaged.
The paintings and objects I restored had to be reversible, but your do not.
Way to go!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
I enjoyed the video even with fewer finds than usual. That poison bottle is an excellent find worth of a video but I especially like the creamers. Have a great week and keep safe. 😊🇨🇦
Fabulous repair. You have a very good eye for detail. Really love that tile.
It's amazing how some people have grown during this epidemic developing other skills such as your repairing the bottles and making drinking glasses out of some you are an excellent singer and composer I'd guess that with the lock down having concerts ended or local performances you have turned this tragedy into a way to survive. Well done Sir I do enjoy watching your working out in the woods it's interesting because you don't know what to expect and I like Learning about the history of the items that you find
Thanks Rodrick - what a lovely and encouraging comment! And you’re right too - all this was due to the lockdowns happening. Willie 🙂
awesome finds.. great video again Willie. i have a calender on route yay! cant wait x
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for buying the calendar - it really helps Sarah's channel. Willie :)
Awesome video with some very different finds, good luck with the sign I hope you show us. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️
That nice pictorial bottle with the busted bottom could be evened up and sanded, then used as a night light. Just pop a candle or string of battery operated lights inside. Be great for etsy 😉
Great restoration as always!
Another wow
Great job on the tile love it as well as the finds
Incredible restoration.
Used to love lemon puffs. ❤
I love all the finds and I really love the tile you repaired! I really hope you make a full length video of the repair job that (Dave) lol contacted you about.
Hi Kristi - glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully will get the repair on my desk soon - we shall see. Willie :)
@@dirtysecretsofscotland ❤️
Amazing restoration!
The finds may have been few but they were very nice ones. The repair was amazing. Shame that you didn't take the bottle with the broken bottom. It would have made a great bell.
another fun dig with some real gems. the restoration is amazing! lots of funny moments, including the bloopers (Beatles). nice to hear from Dave. shame you couldn’t translate the bird conference tho. 👍🏻
Julian Baumgartner would be very proud of your work!
Pretty sure Willie's materials are not reversible though.
Willie's restorations remind me of Julian as well 😂
Thanks Susanne - very encouraging and kind words! Willie :)
@@samlomb2093 but no staples involved!
Can you also smoth the bottom of the broken bottle? It might make a beautifully glowing green lampshade...just an idea...
Nice job on the tile!
Thanks for the tip on lines on necks of bottles I only been digging 2 months so still a noob here haha and congrats on the not to be taken and the sign would look great behind a bottle collection
Great channel Willie, looking forwards to what you do with that Crawfords' biscuit cover. The moth by the way was an Angle Shades
Amazing work sir!
Really enjoyed that dig. I know u said that u didn’t find as much as usual but it was pretty good to me. The tile restoration was awesome
Beautiful! But where ate the happy little trees🤪😊
I'd love to try lemon puffs
Brilliant video as usual, funny how different areas produce more of some things, we live in Devon the home of cream never found a cream pot in the 2 years of doing this, and yet found a lot of the clear not to be taken bottles and you find loads of cream pots. keep them coming
You may have already done this but if not I was wondering if you could cover the history and manufacturing process for the cobalt blue glass you love so much. Also poison bottles carry a warning “not to be taken” so what were the contents and what were they used for?
Great repair job x
Thanks Lisa. Willie :)
I might have an odd question, I have been a regular viewer and enjoy the restoration part, when your put out your paint palette do you work on more than one project it seems like a lot of paint to put out for just say one tile for instants. Thank you very much for your and Sarah‘s videos too!!! 💕💕WV❤️
From Canada. The Nujold bottle may have contained mineral oil.
Thanks Sheila! 🙂
If you wanted to, could your desk/work table be moved over to under the window?
If it was possible, that way you wouldn’t have to move away each time when mixing or viewing your colour/work.
Hello Willy I've been watching Northern Mudlarks Channel and they asked me to subscribe and to come and watch all your great secrets and everything that you found and your music and here I am a new subscriber and I know it's been a long time ago but I hope your mom is doing fine
Thanks for jumping on board. You’re most welcome!
Mum is fine thanks - she had it pretty bad, but she’s ok now. 🙂
@@dirtysecretsofscotland Going to love watching your TH-cam videos thank you for taking the time to share them I'm from Salem, Wisconsin USA... cheers
Su baile me hace olvidar por un momento mi dolor , mi perrita murió el jueves, después de 14 años, la extraño mucho
Oh no, lamento mucho tu pérdida. Perder una mascota nunca es fácil. Willie
Miss the bottle digs since you moved to Skye
You never know, maybe I’ll do them again someday. It’s just tricky finding a place to dig now.
Since you get ash layers, could it be a spectacle lens that got caught in a fire? Also, have you managed to resolve Dave’s pay yet?
Hi Sarah - yeah, that's a possibility. Maybe an early form of sunglasses lens?
Dave is so pesky! He makes his presence known, but rarely makes a physical appearance. Soon there will be no leaves on the trees, so it'll be harder for him to hide! Willie :)
The round black item may be slag.
Might you be able to turn the bottles missing their bottoms into fairy lights?
Just curious about whether there's any damage to the soil/environment digging holes all over the place?
Hi - I only dig holes of this size in old landfill sites. The ground is already very damaged by the rubbish and ash that were tipped into it. By removing this rubbish and disposing of it properly, if anything, I'm actually improving the soil. Also, I always back fill the holes to prevent any creatures or people from falling in to them.
@@dirtysecretsofscotland excellent 👍
Veno’s became lightening free due to shocking complaints
Clearly it shouldn't be taken 😏😂 ... 😬
Just wondering how many people know who Bob Ross was.
Clearly a poison🤔👍
Very good Richard - very good! Willie :)
Do you find wee things like marbles, doll pieces, coins? Doesn’t seem like there’s much metal, or ceramic? Do you just not show them?
Hi Melissa - yes, I do find small items too, but this particular tip isn't so prolific for them, compared to others I dig. I have found a few doll heads there though - they're in some of the previous videos.
As for metal, it is mainly just crumbling rust now, having been in the ground for over a century - not really much to show. That said though, I did just find a brass bell that will feature in a couple of weeks from now. Willie :)
Amazing job on the tile.
Thanks Cathy! Willie :)
Some poisons do smell sweet.
Why does everyone make fun and pick on Bob Ross. He was a kind man.
Hi Sherry, I wasn't mocking Bob Ross - I was just laughing at (my own) suggestion that I sounded like him - my Scottish twang clearly sounds nothing like him. He's a hero of mine - an incredible talent - I would never mock him. Sorry if I wasn't too clear on that. Willie :)
Benzene smells sweet and good on you that you c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y smelled it!
Could well be right there. Sniffing the bottles from afar shouldn't be too risky (I hope!). Willie :)
Great finds Willie! Very nice repair on the tile!