The horse is definitely part of a children’s toy. It would’ve gone on a buggy. The hole in the side of the horse is where it would hook onto the trace or the poles that stick out from the buggy
I see a common thread in us "treasure hunters" ...the order is the only thing that varies. I started out hunting "arrowheads" ...then bottle digging...and finally metal detecting. Whichever we may have started with first...we eventually seem to touch on them all. Thanks for taking us along on the adventure once again Brad.
I agree. They seem to all be in a category of their own. For me, I always have thought of them as being lumped together. If you did one you did them all. Arrow head hunting for me, I think of it as artifact hunting. You almost always end up finding something else from the same period as many of the arrow heads we find. I found a black onyx spear head on one of my outtings and it is gorgeous. What a work of art it is. I imagine the owner wasn't to happy about loosing that one. That is if he hadn't been killed by man or beast.
In the 50 years I have been bottle digging, I have dug up at least 2 dozen of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root bottles, but never in all of that time, have I ever come across a sample bottle like the one you found. Sample bottles in general are rare, especially in a cylindrical shape! Congratulations what a find!!
I adore the ink bottle. I collect vintage art supplies and tools. My ink bottle collection dates to the early 1900s to modern times. History is so interesting. You make my Fridays fun. Hi to Greg!!!!
I love watching your videos!!! The first thing that I reach for when my kidneys are giving me a problem is “swamp root!” You look as if you are always having a good time and the treasures that you find are so wonderful!!! Keep the videos coming!!!
" Olden days"? I learned to iron as a young lad, using one of those flat irons. All heating, cooking, and hot water was supplied by wood fires. We ironed in the kitchen next to the stove/ oven. There was a large fountain/ kettle, which kept water hot, and almost always something cooking in the oven. I don't remember an iron holder, as we put the irons back on top of the stove to reheat, but we probably had one. I still have a couple, plus ones you filled with hot coals.
Gr8 video. Like a few comments, I love the swamp root bottle. Interesting stuff. Looking forward to next Friday's show. Have a great week and make it productive. Till then 🖐
I enjoy all your posts. The bottle digs remind me when I assisted my maternal grandmother digging bottles on the off side of her stonewall. Happy times.
Horse was definitely on a weathervane. My grandparents had one with that exact horse on top. Weird, there's 2 things I recognized immediately in this video.
@impunitythebagpuss they surely come in various sizes. Seems like I remember one that had multiple animals/horses on top of one another. Tbf though memory is a tricky thing.
Some great bottle videos, Nicole White, Bottle Ned, Under the Plains, Adventure Archaeology. Enjoy, glad to see that Greg and you have become so enthusiastic. Need to bring in young people to stir more interest in preserving history. Some "medicines" contained opium or alcohol! Be safe and be mindful of ticks. Wear your gloves!❤😊
Thank you! I really enjoy digging with Brad. It's unbelievable the things we've found in that small dump site. On a side note I used to work at a college in town until they closed 4 years ago as the controller. I managed the financial part of the grants for a biology professor that I became good friends with that is doing a multi year study on ticks and lyme disease, about 10 years so far. He has used my 13 acres as one of his collection sites since he started. The last time he reported to me about 25% of the ticks he has found on my property have lyme disease, a little less than some of his other sites around the county. I always check for ticks after but it was more of an issue when I was making maple syrup in the spring, not so much at this time of year or in the summer.
Well you inspired me today, so I went down the Google rabbit hole. My search was to see if anyone had ever posted a medicine bottle from my great grandfather’s pharmacy in Montreal. It was there! Embossed with his name and a goats head! Great looking bottle from around 1900. Thank you.
The iron rocking horse turned out great after you cleaned it up! I love seeing all the different bottles you and Greg dig. I also remember the first Frozen Charlotte you dug. I got that answer right in your livestream with Eddie!
Very interesting dig. That Foss has some interesting history and a unique building associated with it in Portland. As for the Swamp Root history, that is truly amazing and worth the read. Thanks for leading us to the treasure!
Really cool finds Brad, I used to go bottle hunting with my brothers. All the old places are gone now, we once dug in our Grandmother's back yard and found an old car from the late 1930s, it was all there too. She made us cover it back up because she didn't want some old junk messing up her lawn. Hope you go back soon, it looks like you hit the jack pot.👍❤️🇺🇸
I love old bottles and have lots around my house. My six year old granddaughter daughter loves looking at them. Have even had her watch videos with me. You definitely need to return to this site!
Love the bottle digging with Greg videos! If you get that insulator with the wire still wrapped around I'd pay shipping for you to send it to me even though it has a chip. Maybe it will still be there if you left it behind. Thanks for taking us along.
A lot of unique things, not just bottles plus a few things that we had found before. The best find I think was a new area to dig in that is bigger than where we had been digging! My wife loved the horse when we watched the video together!
Metal detecting is first on my list, but bottle collecting is definitely 2nd. Awesome finds, throughly enjoy watching your videos‼️ Being all my family is from Vermont, I might be a bit biased 🙂
I have bottles from years ago digging with my dad. You're finding pretty much exactly the stuff I found. Same bottles. Armless babydolls. My dad even found a silver dime and we didnt have a metal detector back then. I found a miniature tea cup with saucers and I keep the tea cup on my shelf, its been there for probably 8 years or so
Those wee shoes are just so neat. Imagine the child that ran around in them. Did they play with that iron horse? Who did they become? What life did they live? Who lives now that's related to them?
According to Google, when someone asked why the two different spellings, spokesperson Mr. Heinz said they spelled their product Ketchup to distinguish theirs from other brands - starting in 1876. Hunts didn't change theirs to Ketchup from Catsup until 1986 when the prefered spelling of the consumer was ketchup. Thanks for sharing your fun with the rest of us!
I was scuba diving off of Bristol Rhode Island where there used to be a shipbuilder and I found tat same bottle in worse shape. Dr. Kilmer Swamproot Kidney Cure Binghamton NY.
What a find this "dump" has been....keep digging and I'll keep watching! I loved the non-bottle finds too. The horse especially and the small doll, but perhaps the most fun for me personally is the mention of the Ponds cold cream jars. My mother died last year at 98 and used Ponds every day of her life (and her complexion was beautiful throughout her life!). Thanks for such fun adventures.
Hi, wonderful finds and a great adventure too! Brad, one of your early finds was called a "Tablespoons" or "Teaspoons" depending on the embossed measurement lines on the sides of the bottle. Keep digging this amazing dig site that Greg has! 😊
Ah ha! Im not the only one late today! 😂 I literally watch this every Friday morning but I woke up late soo at work now (lunch) and I’m enjoying it now! Thanks Brad! ❤
Love days like this. That little flat white container you showed...2nd or 3rd bottle filmed...I have one just like it but it was embossed on the bottom"Vaseline Cheesburo...
Keep digging until it’s completely excavated. It’s worth it and great content. Grab a skid steer and clean the top off and begin…but be sure and film & share it. Thanks
I love these what I'll call bottle dumps and garbage pits! I remember back in the day, if you had a sinkhole on the property, that's where you would dump the things you couldn't burn! Keep on digging...
Love this stuff just got me and my son metal detector we live in Maine i used to bottle hunt with my brothers when I was a kid you definitely got a honey hole 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
Dumps like that (with a high density per square meter) will have to be big. Because they'd dump stuff in one area, then move to the next convenient spot so they don't have to move the cart or wheelbarrow too oddly, so the next spot gets packed and they slowly pocket the whole area. Stuff that gets decomposed gets decomposed add some vegetation and you're back to today. For example, my family has owned the same piece of land for nearly 8 generations. Our old house is in the hundreds. The dump area we've slowly dug up is massive in scope, from each generation either overlapping or getting to a new spot or doing both. It all boils down to one thing, if you have a dump on your land. You don't want to see it, so the concept of modern junkyards where things measure in the mountains and you see those big Caterpillar D10s move things to flatten or crush things... that doesn't apply here. So they did it in a fashion that allowed things to become overcome over time, muted, hidden by bushes then vegetation. The detritus from food stuffs alone would've been a good incentive for weeds and other things to grow over the area. So depending on how old the group that owned that place is, how long they did it for... it could easily be 10 m across even more. I'd dig test pits if i were you, it's probably big given the sheer density of this video alone.
You can use a plastic bristle (preferably with long bristles) to clean bottles easily and effectively. The brushes used for carpet cleaning are great as they're not too hard to break an already broken bottle (if you use sodium silicate you can fix chips and cracks - you put vacuum on the bottle, and pour sodium silicate on the cracks) but they're firm enough to dislodge any stubborn patch of dirt from features.
Brad, find yourself a old tobacco stake for digging the bottles out once you have your hole started. That way ya don't have to worry about the shovel damaging the glass.
I immediately googled swamp root because I am very much into learning what plants work for what aliments. Not quacky at all!! Every plant on Earth has a use.❤❤😊
OH, THAT HORSE!!!!! WOW Amazing bottles too. Glad Greg lets you hunt with him and take us along!
The horse is definitely part of a children’s toy. It would’ve gone on a buggy. The hole in the side of the horse is where it would hook onto the trace or the poles that stick out from the buggy
@@markkuleta3571 Thank you, it is beautiful and now is on my bucket list to find!
I see a common thread in us "treasure hunters" ...the order is the only thing that varies. I started out hunting "arrowheads" ...then bottle digging...and finally metal detecting. Whichever we may have started with first...we eventually seem to touch on them all. Thanks for taking us along on the adventure once again Brad.
It's the hunt and the history, winning combo!
And mudlarking and beachcombing!
I agree. They seem to all be in a category of their own. For me, I always have thought of them as being lumped together. If you did one you did them all. Arrow head hunting for me, I think of it as artifact hunting. You almost always end up finding something else from the same period as many of the arrow heads we find. I found a black onyx spear head on one of my outtings and it is gorgeous. What a work of art it is. I imagine the owner wasn't to happy about loosing that one. That is if he hadn't been killed by man or beast.
I wish there were time glasses that you could put on and see back in time when these treasures were lost.
Nice hunt love the variety in the bottles. 🇺🇸
Time glasses👍👊
Me too! Make mine so they tell me exactly where the lost treasure is, and tomorrows winning lotto numbers. Those would be some good glasses.
Agree 💯
Treasures weren't lost itvis a trash dump
In the 50 years I have been bottle digging, I have dug up at least 2 dozen of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root bottles, but never in all of that time, have I ever come across a sample bottle like the one you found. Sample bottles in general are rare, especially in a cylindrical shape! Congratulations what a find!!
So how far is Vermont from Alabama…. Asking for a friend 😂😉
About a 2 drive!
Bottles!!! Love it!!!! Sweet!!!🌞
The horse is a nice find. Good video
I adore the ink bottle. I collect vintage art supplies and tools. My ink bottle collection dates to the early 1900s to modern times. History is so interesting. You make my Fridays fun. Hi to Greg!!!!
Another good video. I'll pass on that radiated water. But I sure will drink some of that swamp route. Have a nice day
Get back in there! LOL great job guys
I love watching your videos!!! The first thing that I reach for when my kidneys are giving me a problem is “swamp root!”
You look as if you are always having a good time and the treasures that you find are so wonderful!!! Keep the videos coming!!!
" Olden days"?
I learned to iron as a young lad, using one of those flat irons. All heating, cooking, and hot water was supplied by wood fires. We ironed in the kitchen next to the stove/ oven. There was a large fountain/ kettle, which kept water hot, and almost always something cooking in the oven. I don't remember an iron holder, as we put the irons back on top of the stove to reheat, but we probably had one. I still have a couple, plus ones you filled with hot coals.
Always up for a Brad & Greg dig! Keep 'em coming!
Great video and awesome bottle finds! Still laughing about the Swamp Root …. Doesn’t sound so good lol 😝
Gr8 video. Like a few comments, I love the swamp root bottle. Interesting stuff. Looking forward to next Friday's show. Have a great week and make it productive. Till then 🖐
Love the bottle digging almost exciting as detecting....almost. Nice finds.
Hey Brad. I love this episode of the bottles. I love old bottles. Hi Mr. Greg. So nice of you to let Brad hunt with you, Have a great day.👍😘
Let’s go, let’s go treasure and adventure💕🌺👵✌️
Another great video. I enjoy watching while I am drinking my morning coffee on Fridays morning. Thanks again, and keep up the great videos.
I love watching what you pull out .thanks to you and Greg..
I enjoy all your posts. The bottle digs remind me when I assisted my maternal grandmother digging bottles on the off side of her stonewall. Happy times.
Great bottle hunt keep digging 👍
Love the bottles ! And Vermont sure grows some handsome men. ; )
The horse is awesome!!!!! What a honey hole of a bottle dump! ❤
Love the bottle digging videos once in a while. Thank you!
Horse was definitely on a weathervane. My grandparents had one with that exact horse on top. Weird, there's 2 things I recognized immediately in this video.
Same typical shape but a bit tiny for a weathervane don't you think?
@impunitythebagpuss they surely come in various sizes. Seems like I remember one that had multiple animals/horses on top of one another. Tbf though memory is a tricky thing.
I have the top to our old weathervane and it’s a larger version of that horse!
Some great bottle videos, Nicole White, Bottle Ned, Under the Plains, Adventure Archaeology. Enjoy, glad to see that Greg and you have become so enthusiastic. Need to bring in young people to stir more interest in preserving history. Some "medicines" contained opium or alcohol! Be safe and be mindful of ticks. Wear your gloves!❤😊
Thank you! I really enjoy digging with Brad. It's unbelievable the things we've found in that small dump site. On a side note I used to work at a college in town until they closed 4 years ago as the controller. I managed the financial part of the grants for a biology professor that I became good friends with that is doing a multi year study on ticks and lyme disease, about 10 years so far. He has used my 13 acres as one of his collection sites since he started. The last time he reported to me about 25% of the ticks he has found on my property have lyme disease, a little less than some of his other sites around the county. I always check for ticks after but it was more of an issue when I was making maple syrup in the spring, not so much at this time of year or in the summer.
Well you inspired me today, so I went down the Google rabbit hole. My search was to see if anyone had ever posted a medicine bottle from my great grandfather’s pharmacy in Montreal. It was there! Embossed with his name and a goats head! Great looking bottle from around 1900. Thank you.
Thank you Brad and Greg for the adventure and seeing some nice finds !
The iron rocking horse turned out great after you cleaned it up! I love seeing all the different bottles you and Greg dig. I also remember the first Frozen Charlotte you dug. I got that answer right in your livestream with Eddie!
Poor late dinner...Priceless entertainment by Brad. Thank you!
Great episode. Thank you. I’m convinced the horse is from a weather vane. Love your channel. From California.
Amazing dump that keeps on giving & growing! Go for more!🙌 Fun to watch!
Very interesting dig. That Foss has some interesting history and a unique building associated with it in Portland. As for the Swamp Root history, that is truly amazing and worth the read. Thanks for leading us to the treasure!
Amazing finds. Thank you for sharing your adventure. Thanks to Greg for the permission to detect and dig. Peace
Cool horse
Really cool finds Brad, I used to go bottle hunting with my brothers. All the old places are gone now, we once dug in our Grandmother's back yard and found an old car from the late 1930s, it was all there too. She made us cover it back up because she didn't want some old junk messing up her lawn. Hope you go back soon, it looks like you hit the jack pot.👍❤️🇺🇸
I love old bottles and have lots around my house. My six year old granddaughter daughter loves looking at them. Have even had her watch videos with me. You definitely need to return to this site!
Swamp root !!! ❤
Wonderful finds. It's hard for me to wrap my head around making such discoveries in the middle of nowhere.
WOW, didn't know you could move so fast! LoL Great video, we love bottles!
I enjoy bottles hunting ' thank you for sharing with us.Good luck to you.
Love the bottle digging with Greg videos! If you get that insulator with the wire still wrapped around I'd pay shipping for you to send it to me even though it has a chip. Maybe it will still be there if you left it behind. Thanks for taking us along.
A lot of unique things, not just bottles plus a few things that we had found before. The best find I think was a new area to dig in that is bigger than where we had been digging! My wife loved the horse when we watched the video together!
Adore your adventures. Thank you Greg for allowing us all to come along!
I love seeing the bottles you find. Love the horse!
Awesome day to be out there doing the best time for you guys outdoors in the woods 👍
Metal detecting is first on my list, but bottle collecting is definitely 2nd.
Awesome finds, throughly enjoy watching your videos‼️
Being all my family is from Vermont, I might be a bit biased 🙂
I used to dig bottles in Wisconsin as a kid, always loved it.
The Horse is fantastic. Favorite find for sure. Cathleen
Great pad lock and bottle finds ty for sharing
I have bottles from years ago digging with my dad. You're finding pretty much exactly the stuff I found. Same bottles. Armless babydolls. My dad even found a silver dime and we didnt have a metal detector back then. I found a miniature tea cup with saucers and I keep the tea cup on my shelf, its been there for probably 8 years or so
i used to use a potato rake when doing dump sites and a hand rake and trowel for close-in work, instead of a shovel
Those wee shoes are just so neat. Imagine the child that ran around in them. Did they play with that iron horse? Who did they become? What life did they live? Who lives now that's related to them?
According to Google, when someone asked why the two different spellings, spokesperson Mr. Heinz said they spelled their product Ketchup to distinguish theirs from other brands - starting in 1876. Hunts didn't change theirs to Ketchup from Catsup until 1986 when the prefered spelling of the consumer was ketchup.
Thanks for sharing your fun with the rest of us!
Such cool finds! Can't wait to see what you find on your next trip.
Nice work boys!!!!
Hi Greg! Happy Friday everyone!
Hi Jennifer
That was fun. It would be a treat if I were to find a dump site like that.
Absolutely love bottles. Thanks for taking us along.
I was scuba diving off of Bristol Rhode Island where there used to be a shipbuilder and I found tat same bottle in worse shape. Dr. Kilmer Swamproot Kidney Cure Binghamton NY.
What a find this "dump" has been....keep digging and I'll keep watching! I loved the non-bottle finds too. The horse especially and the small doll, but perhaps the most fun for me personally is the mention of the Ponds cold cream jars. My mother died last year at 98 and used Ponds every day of her life (and her complexion was beautiful throughout her life!). Thanks for such fun adventures.
Hi, wonderful finds and a great adventure too! Brad, one of your early finds was called a "Tablespoons" or "Teaspoons" depending on the embossed measurement lines on the sides of the bottle. Keep digging this amazing dig site that Greg has! 😊
Use your detector to find isolated bottle locations, there is usually metal in the same area.
What fun !!!
Brad,
Where's your TROWEL???
That is required by all bottle diggers, except you... you REBEL!!!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Ah ha! Im not the only one late today! 😂 I literally watch this every Friday morning but I woke up late soo at work now (lunch) and I’m enjoying it now! Thanks Brad! ❤
Bottle dumps are so much fun! Great vid Brad we love the bottle ones!
I would go to the dump with my dad. We found incredible finds. Great videos.
Dude, I found that exact same style padlock. The key hole is solid brass. Very well made. What have you found out about it?
Love days like this. That little flat white container you showed...2nd or 3rd bottle filmed...I have one just like it but it was embossed on the bottom"Vaseline Cheesburo...
Keep digging until it’s completely excavated. It’s worth it and great content. Grab a skid steer and clean the top off and begin…but be sure and film & share it. Thanks
Wonderful!!
As always, Brad great video
Nice dig 👍👍❤️
Yes please go back! good stuff! so much to find. Maybe an old local dump? Seems like a lot for one family.
Love this. Great video
I love these what I'll call bottle dumps and garbage pits! I remember back in the day, if you had a sinkhole on the property, that's where you would dump the things you couldn't burn! Keep on digging...
LOL When I see something that starts "We found hundreds. . ." I think, "Their spouse better be involved or there's trouble on the horizon".
Very nice digging area for all kinds of treasures 😊 as always thank you for bringing us along
Love this stuff just got me and my son metal detector we live in Maine i used to bottle hunt with my brothers when I was a kid you definitely got a honey hole 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
I love the old quack medicine bottles. Things never change with the cures in a bottle mentality.😄
When I was young (in the '50's and 60's) my parents purchased Catsup in place of Ketchup at the grocery store.
Love old bottles!
Hey!! The malted milk bottle from Racine WI !!! That's about 30 min south of me 💗 Awesome!
Mr. Horlick was a prominent man in Racine. They even have a high school named in his honor. History in those bottles!
@@tonytiger7777 Yep!!!!
Oh darling Brad!! You take me home to Vermont..
Nice Dig GUYS!! Cheers JJ
Dumps like that (with a high density per square meter) will have to be big. Because they'd dump stuff in one area, then move to the next convenient spot so they don't have to move the cart or wheelbarrow too oddly, so the next spot gets packed and they slowly pocket the whole area. Stuff that gets decomposed gets decomposed add some vegetation and you're back to today. For example, my family has owned the same piece of land for nearly 8 generations. Our old house is in the hundreds. The dump area we've slowly dug up is massive in scope, from each generation either overlapping or getting to a new spot or doing both. It all boils down to one thing, if you have a dump on your land. You don't want to see it, so the concept of modern junkyards where things measure in the mountains and you see those big Caterpillar D10s move things to flatten or crush things... that doesn't apply here. So they did it in a fashion that allowed things to become overcome over time, muted, hidden by bushes then vegetation. The detritus from food stuffs alone would've been a good incentive for weeds and other things to grow over the area. So depending on how old the group that owned that place is, how long they did it for... it could easily be 10 m across even more. I'd dig test pits if i were you, it's probably big given the sheer density of this video alone.
You guys did good,blessings
You can use a plastic bristle (preferably with long bristles) to clean bottles easily and effectively. The brushes used for carpet cleaning are great as they're not too hard to break an already broken bottle (if you use sodium silicate you can fix chips and cracks - you put vacuum on the bottle, and pour sodium silicate on the cracks) but they're firm enough to dislodge any stubborn patch of dirt from features.
great bottle dig..
Sorry about the rough day. Keep diggin should be some good bottles in there somewhere.
Love when you go bottle hunting Exciting
that was a amazing video Brad keep up the good work
HEY! Good morning Brad and thumbs UP!!
I'm from binghamton ny, thought it was cool when you pulled that "swamp root" love your videos man! Big time detector myself
Brad, find yourself a old tobacco stake for digging the bottles out once you have your hole started. That way ya don't have to worry about the shovel damaging the glass.
I immediately googled swamp root because I am very much into learning what plants work for what aliments.
Not quacky at all!! Every plant on Earth has a use.❤❤😊
The Larkin building is about a mile from me. Cool finds.
Man, your videos and editing are top-notch.
I did enjoy it very much. Great stuff thanks