All of This Had Been Buried in Their Backyard for over 100 years
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Excavating one of the privies at an 1870s brick house in Yankton, South Dakota.
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Just found your channel a few days ago. I subbed. Been digging dumps and privies since 1974. Your right you never know what you might find. About 25 years ago I dug a Van Cleef and Arple 18k cigarette case in awesome shape. It was art deco from the 20s and weighed 215 gram's. Sold it at auction for $7650. Keep digging and I'll keep enjoying.👍👊
oh wow.. we have found a about a dozen of those before, and theyve all been heavily eroded.. to the point where theyre basically just rust.. those things are super cool
The history you provide sets you apart from other channels and is very interesting. Thank you.
no thank you! we really appreciate you letting us know that and leaving us a comment.. glad you enjoyed!
I'm sure whoever buried their trash never thought in a million years someone would come along 100 years later and dig it all up
It was in the toilet.
Just think about those in the future digging in our dumps! I heard a comedian long ago refer to this very thing and what they would think of us laying eggs in rows! Of course many of you are too young to remember the “Leggs Pantyhose and tights” they were packaged in a plastic egg and the display in the store was circular with the “eggs” displayed in rows. Just thought of that when you said this!😂
@@mimimitch327I wore those panty hose. I’m 76😊
Hey everyone! we released a youtube short a few minutes before we released this video. Question for anyone who has notifications turned on for our videos: Did you get a notification for the youtube short AND the regular video? thanks in advance
Yes I got the notification. Another interesting excavation.
thanks.. i was just wondering if it gave notifications for both.. i didnt wanna put out a #short and have a bunch of people get a notification, then go check and its only 58 seconds.. thats why we released both at the same time
@@BelowthePlains I got 1 notification for just the regular video.
Yepper !!
Did not get the notification for the short, will go and find it though
I have a friend who lives in Yankton. She moved there about 20 years ago.And up until recently while watching your videos, I never know this place had so much history. Now I'd love to be there visiting...and digging for bottles, even though she's more of a rock hound.
haha yeah i didnt even know the town existed til i was like 24! theres actually a decent chance that ive met her before.. we've met a lot of people in yankton. great town, great people. thanks for watching and commenting!
@@BelowthePlains whoa, that's Yankton, SD? I'll show this video to my aunt, Rose, who lives there.
My Friend Daniel was (and may still be) running a Body Shop there.
Super glad to see you saving the old bottles and other relics. Your channel is a no gimmick, no fluff channel and I like it that way. Just good old digging technique and knowledge you so generously share with us. I like that you use wood to dig, because as you know it is so much gentler on the treasures you find, whatever they may be. Keep On! ( :
Back in the day....
My dad always had trash pit on the farm I grew up on. So did all the neighbor farms.
Fancy homes are sitting on the land now.
I went to yard sale once at one of these homes and told the owner that I grew up on his property and he said that every time he digs a hole he finds stuff buried. No kidding!
yeah, ive actually heard a very similar story to that from a bunch of other people. i guess its just commonality of life these days.. it really makes me wish i could dig up some of these downtown areas in cities, but its so heavily cemented over and its almost certainly owned by a business or its an apartment, and those people are never going to let anyone dig.. and thats even if theres still a pit under the ground.. ive seen city projects building dikes in a town by me, and i walked along the construction one weekend when no one was working, and i literally saw hundreds of these sites half exposed.. they were just ripping them out and putting them in a landfill.. bulldozing it..
I appreciate your guys's knowledge and zeal for what you guys do it's freaking awesome. I remember finding a brass bell with a date 17 86 in my backyard garden in 19 86. Sad to say it was stolen right out of my hand and I never saw it again
At the end of this video there is a cast iron boot remover under the metal hoop. I have one. Mine is a cockroach/ bug. My grandfather worked for a time in the mill that made them...in Lewiston, Maine. He gave it to my dad who then gave it to me. Exciting to see that item and the lamp. Love your hard work! Continuing to watch...
oh thanks! and yeah, i had no idea what that was at the time, but then when we release that video, for some reason it got a ton a views, and we got several comments telling us what it was. i had to go back and look at it, and then look it up on google, and yeah, thats definitely what it was.. i honestly dont even remember digging it up tho. well thanks for watching, and glad you like the channel!
Many were crickets. Crickets were a theme at one time for home and heart. Dickens wrote a novella turned into several movies, The Cricket on the Hearth.
I love your channel. Never boring. So fascinating to see what you dig up next. Glad your here👍😊❤️
I like the old houses and buildings, also. Old maps, too. I like how you respect the objects and the owner’s property before, during & after the digs. 👍🏻
Thanks everyone who watches, likes and/or leaves a comment
Awesome adventure! Thanks for sharing it with me
ah thank you! and thanks for leaving us a comment!
I really appreciate your intro music... I'm an old timer (74,)
The smooth home style guitar.music brings me back to days gone by...
Thanks guys 🕊️
yeah! we wanted something that was appropriate to match the tone of the video. glad you like it! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!
Some of these items look like they didn't deserve to be trashed. Loved the bakelite bow and the lamp. Nice to see how even ordinary stuff looked stylish back then.
oh yeah i know right! makes me wonder what was wrong.. maybe the bow fell by accident, but i doubt the lamp did as well.. yeah i was looking at that bow, and it still clamped together in the back.. thanks for leaving us a comment!
Best treasure video EVER! Why doesn't this have 1 million views?
haha you're too kind.. i wish the pit had been a little older.. we got some really good stuff coming up in the next few weeks, so stay tuned! thanks for another great comment
I still use my 100+ year old Rayo center draft lamps and find them soothing in the winter here in rural northern MI. They can burn kerosene or lamp oil (I use oil), give off about 40 watts of light (have a round wick, which are still being produced) and quite a bit of heat for their size. Great for when the power goes out or when you just want some extra warmth and light on cold dark days. I use frosted chimneys on mine, without the shade, to defuse the firelight. The lamp you found didn't have all its working parts, so maybe that's why it was thrown away. Happy hunting!
yeah it was pretty corroded.. we find a bunch of glass lamps, but almost never any metal ones that are in that good of condition.. and even that one was pretty rough. super cool tho. i think we got like 3-4 lamp bases intact but with the brass parts corroded away.. we always find those brass parts intact, but so corroded that they have fused into one lump.. and i bet ive come across about 10,000 broken chimneys.. i think one time we found 2 unbroken ones in one pit, but i think thats the only time.. thinking of reassebling one someday. they're just cool
The rusty metal things pile had a boot Jack in it. Used for helping you remove your dirty boots. Farmers use them today as well.
Nice finds, I love the extract bottle with the owl ! 🦉 😍
yeah its a semi-common symbol that shows up on medicine bottles, but id never seen it on an extract before. thanks for the comment!
Another masterpiece of educational material. 👍 It wasn't a coffee creamer...it was a cruet.
haha thanks! well im not even sure ive ever heard of a cruet before! thanks for the comment!
You need a brush for cleaning off the dirt.
Great video guys. The UHD footage looks great and you've got much better documenting your digs. This was by far the best video from ya'll yet. Keep it up, can't wait to see more
ah thanks man!!! god thats nice.. i actually said that too about this video.. that it was one of our best.. i only wish the pit had been better!! but we got a few more coming up where we did thing this way, im editing them now actually.. yeah i look back at my early videos (which was only 4-5 months ago) and i cringe at the stuff i did wrong.. just took my some time to learn the editing software. but yeah im really glad about how the video turned out. So thank you for noticing and saying that! that actually made my day.. dont hesitate to comment in the future and let me know what you think of our upcoming videos
@@BelowthePlains no problem buddy... I try to comment on all of 'em to help the algorithm promote ya anyway!
My dad lived in a house without indoor plumbing with his grandparents, on their farm when he was little. They always told him to relieve himself before going to bed. He fought them, because of the cold or wet walk to the outhouse. One night woke up because he needed to go, but didn’t want to go to the outhouse. So he used the chamber pot. He regretted it for the rest of the night. His room smelled like poop!
That lantern you found. I saw the holes and thought you guys had accidentally poked it. But then we got a closer look, and the hole was made from the inside-out! I think the lantern became defective, and was disposed of, after being used for target practice. Pretty cool artifact!
Just subscribed! My brother use to dig old sites he remembered seeing alongside roads ,once he discovered the town at one time had a cola manufacturing company. He found bottle after bottle that said, Madison Cola. No one around even remembered the place being there. He started off finding bricks, so he knew something had been there. A big part of Madison, Ga history had been forgotten. Don't know if he still has any of the bottles. Says there's got to plenty more, but you can't go in the wooded area anymore. Whoever owns it now, maybe they will dig and see what type of machine's were used back in the day. My brother is also a collector of Indian artifacts. He's been doing that since he was a child. A true archeologist, he has a huge collection of both Indian an early American artifacts.
Always love your videos, thank you for sharing.
Really enjoyed watching you guys dig up all of those old items. The large brown glass bottle looks like the antique bleach bottles that I have.
I remember an old abandoned outhouse in Ketchikan, Alaska at a place I was staying in 1999. I remember thinking then the treasures that could have been found....
p.s. I prefer gold nuggets vs brown nuggets! :o
if I wasn't already in the hobby your videos would make me want to be .lol. nice finds stay safe,God bless
thats awesome dude! thank you! you take care too!
I worked for a small mom & pop phone company in western Colorado. The Morgan family that owned that small phone co used to have the central office switch in the livingroom of their small home. The mom and older kids worked as the operators and would switch calls when someone cranked the phone and told them who they were trying to reach. Dial phones were invented at that time but many rural and mountain communities across the US still had the old timey crank phones.
In the late 50's and early 60's they finally were able to upgrade everyones phones to the new rotary dial type phones. It took a while to get everyone switched over but they would remove the old crank phones and put the new dial phone in. Their little company had about a thousand customers spread out between a half dozen small towns there along the Arkansas River in western Colorado. The old crank phones werent worth anything back then so there was no market for them and when they would remove them Mr. Morgan had the kids throw those old phones down the outhouse holes.
Long story short I know where there are about a thousand old timey crank phones are buried. Haha. The wood on them has no doubt rotted by now but the metal parts, generators, bells and handsets are still there. Lol. Im not interested in digging them out. But the point to tgis is it was very common back in the day to throw your junk down the outhouse hole. Once a hole was full they would just dig another hole and move the old outhouse over the new hole. And thats why sometimes when you dig up old stuff its concentrated in a small but deep round hole. Kind of an cringey thought for old buried antique treasure hunters but that's the reality.
Happy hunting! And God bless.
It’s awesome how you guys put up the years and the information on the stuff that you find keep up the good work guys
The "Ring" looks like it came off of a "Wine Barrel".
I enjoy reading all the backround story information Its very interesting TY
Love the sound of the train. In Canada here we had our touched in the head government take out the railway in my home town, when i was a kid over 35 years ago. Miss that sound. The train use to pass my grandmother's property and the trains conductor use to throw me an 🍊. Good memories.
Another GREAT dig guys!!!!!
ah thanks! we appreciate you guys always leaving us a comment!
You were saying it was some kind of a statue. Didn't you hear me yelling it's a turkey tail?? 😂😂
ohhh thats what it was! thanks for letting us know.. duh, seems so obvious after you point it out. thanks for watching!
That’s amazing what you will find awesome finds too , it gives you a picture of what life was like and the status of the household 💥💥👍🏻
Whoa! Fantastic viewing guys! Keep it coming!
Your adventures are great to come along,i am new to finding your channel, Thumbs up
thank you, glad you found the channel. i really appreciate you letting us know, and leaving us a comment
New sub, came over from Reddit. Loving the channel so far! Keep up the good work guys, the videos are great 😃👍
awesome! well enjoy, and leave us a like. thanks for. the comment!
Amazing ...love the lamp...🥰
awesome digs guys, always fun watching what will pop out next👍
Thanks man!
I love your channel. I keep telling my friends to check out your videos. Keep making the great content!!!
ah thanks man! thats awesome, that really makes me happy that someone would actually recommend our channel to someone! well i appreciate the comment, thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing this video
I just subbed yesterday, it's great to see all of the treasures of the past. I live in a bone that is 119 yrs. old, there are a few places in the yard I would love to dig up, I might have to start that project.
Tom very nice finds. I enjoy how you explain what the items are and the age. The marbles were cool. Happy Digging.
yeah, well we gotta do something to stand out! and we're glad you appreciate it! thanks for always watching and always leaving us a comment.. go vikings!
Great watch !!! love the on screen item info 🤗
Yay, new video 👌👌👌👌
haha thanks for leaving us a comment! theres actually 2 new videos, you have to go to our channel, we released a youtube short, its only 58 seconds, but its a really great dig.. only with i had recorded more of it
All really good finds. Would like to seen more of the boot jack you had lieing out with iron hoop which most likely came off a bucket or keeg. Good stuff.
Another great video! Keep up the good work guys
ah thanks! glad you liked it!
❤❤❤ I love your channel - super chill and relaxed .. almost like Christmas presents lol you guys most definitely have to send me a doll head and Sign it that would be so sick!!!!!
Hey guys, Great channel interesting to see thee history you uncover, my question is, How do you know where to dig? Obviously you know where the old property was, but how do you know where they have dumped trash, bottles etc? Could you or do you have a video investigating a new place for the old home site?
I wondered the same thing.
What a gem of a video. very interesting hobby!
This was fun to find all this old stuff
Awesome cool finds! Keep Diggin!
haha thank you! will do!
Great Video really enjoyed it. Thanks
Awesome! glad you liked it! thanks, that really does make me feel good! thank you for watching!
G'day from Australia.
I love your knowledge ! Thank you.
hello from america! ah thank you! and thanks for watching and leaving us a comment
You guys would love it this side of the pond, 🤠❤️🇬🇧
AMAZING HOW DEEP PEOPLE BURIED THEIR TRASH,,,,,,CRAZY
haha yeah. but ive dug some pits that are 2-3 times deeper than that.. it was actually scary being that far down
Cool video guys. The nickel lamp is cool. And I loved the extract bottle with the owl on the moon, it's very collectible. I hope you were talking about me when you mentioned the seeds, cause I want to try a grow whatever the seeds are from. Take care guys.✌
haha no it was someone else, who asks me every week.. i left them in toms car tho.. but i can definitely get more and send you some.. im kind of curios about trying it out myself.. the. ones i had looked super dry and rough, but ive seen better seeds in other pits that look a little healthier.. well let me know! thanks for leaving us a comment
Hi Tom, I'm down here in KS near Wichita, I would love to see a video of your finds a maybe you talking about some of the older bottles and finds. Really like to hear the history of where found items came from and used for. I just subscribed and will be watching all your videos and be catching all your new ones. Thanks and take care be careful and stay healthy.
Keep up the great work guys
will do! thanks for the comment!
Just stumbled across this channel and subbed...very interesting stuff and commentary 👍.
The bottles and all were super cool, but that lamp was bad ass!
I find this channel very interesting. And for such a young fella to be into this hobby. Fantastic, I just came across this channel last evening. I do believe I've watched atleast a dozen videos already. I have my own bottle dump site. I found it last year in a bank along an old river. The area I hunt was established in 1605 by the Acadians. Above the bank was a property of an English governor who settled here in the mid 1700's and I've found some fantastic relics coins black inch thick bottles and silverware. To all those who love the hunt, hunt on my friends and good luck.
Hi Tom Jake and Todd, you make my back hurt just sitting in my chair😊 I’m a 76 year old grandma from MN. Just found you and binge watching. How many people on your crew?
Nan from Florida: wow!! That kerosene lamp was gorgeous!!!!👏👏👏
Great finds!
thank you! and thanks for commenting!
Very PROFESSIONAL 👍
Nice dig's.....
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THANKS!!!
I have 2 bottles of side show medicine with original labels and contents of one bottle intact. I quickly sealed the bottles in plastic bags to prevent loss of contents.
Active ingredients 80% alcohol 15% coal tar and 5% other active ingredients.
I found that way back at a doctor's office they were tossing out at the curb back in the early 1980's but the bottles date back to the late 1880's.
I recognized the metal object with the horns on the end. It's a cowboy boot puller for taking the boots off. My sister had a brand new one when she took horseback riding lessons.
Great video guys 👍
thanks! appreciate you leaving us a comment!
Enjoyed the video well
Done
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I Did not realize how deep you have to dig for artifacts it just amazes me good job guys very very interested thank you
I didn't either. I have an 1889 house that I've metal detected. Found single and double headed axes(there was logging in the area) and railroad spikes. I keeping finding pieces of glass and pottery, all at the surface. Guess I need to dig down 3 to 4 ft where I found the glass.
Remember these guys are digging in outhouse pits, that’s why they are so deep. People are throwing things away in pre-dug holes
Love them old bottles. When i was a kid i found an old bottle stash/trash that was washing out of the bank of a creek. Probably 20 different kinds of pop bottles. You'd think they would have had a deposit on them. We lived in the country about 10 miles from the Streator (IL) bottling works maybe that had something to do with it. Lots of mason jars, milk bottles, all with different names on them. Was fun!
yeah theres a good chance they would have dumped them into a creek. on our excavator video we dug up an old bottling works. and it was right on a creek.. rumor is that in the 80s they had the prisoners from yankton do a city clean up and they removed 10s of thousands of bottles in the creek.. i wish i could have been there.. creeks in towns were notorious dumping sites.. thanks for the comment!
I just started watching you guys and you both are always able to easily identify your finds - is this knowledge from experience, education, or both? Nice Work!
uhh, mostly experience. we do a ton of research tho, so if we ever come across anything new, we make sure to learn all about... it doesnt happen very often tho, but yeah its mostly out of a genuine interest more than anything else.. but for the most part its Tom that knows everything about this... but thanks for leaving us a comment, i hope that answers your question! thanks for watching
Such TREASURES ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The site I dig here in the east is quite shallow (
Was diggin up the back garden with my dad in the late 80s and found a pub lamp and a full iron fireplace a few busted bits of crockary and a few coins mostly pennys and a single thrupence and a silver sixpence that iv kept in my wallet all these years (im in the uk)
It was common to bury things in the uk my freinds neibour buryed a motorcycle and sidecar in a big pit in the 70s lol .
Great vid and intresting discoveries fellas im gonna hit subscribe after writeing this 🤘
Stumbled across your channel. Love your videos its just amazing and fascinating. 2 questions please? What is the most valuable piece you ever found? And what is the strangest thing you ever found? Keep up and keep strong ❤ from South Africa
Be careful around those lines guys! Great new video. The quality has really improved I`ve noticed
always! thank you, glad you noticed
very nice!
ah thank you!
Cool Dig. I found the Dr. Kilmer's frequently in NH back in the 70's. The small sample bottle was more rare to find back there.
yeah they were active for awhile.. we come across them every now and then. thanks for leaving us a comment!
Good job little brother!
thanks!
Have you ever saved the old window glass and made a mosaic-stained glass article with it. With the swirls and imperfections in the old glass I think it would be glorious and the sun would fire through it like crazy. Heck you might ask your followers if anyone would be interested in purchasing lots of the window glass you might be surprised out the answers. Especially those people that do art glass pieces and stained glass pieces with the lead. I always enjoy watching history come out of the ground. The Dr. Kilmers swamp root sample bottle is found quite often in the UK diggers holes. It’s crazy how some bottles and produce made it over seas and a lot of others didn’t. Same goes for products made in the UK some made it to the states but a lot didn’t. Like the Cobb bottle have you ever found one of those here in the states? I love the lamp you found, nice. Nice pictorial bottle at the end of the pit. I just commented on another video about how we don’t have pictorials like the UK our is very sparse where over there they are pretty well plentiful. Meaning there’s a lot of companies that had pictorials on their bottles. Just like they had tons of stone ware bottle of all kinds and shapes. But it is fact that they are the old world and existed long before us in our country. They find whole pieces of Roman pottery and also fragments. Onion bottles from the 1200s and later. The piece of metal under the metal ring looks like a devise used for pulling your shoes off or boots off. The Dr. Kilmers bottle looks to manganese glass. With its purple tint.
Yes, the green glass was the base of a cake salver/stand. The oil lamps you often describe as "lanterns" are known more commonly as lamps when they were used in a household or restaurant... Lanterns term refers to mine and railroad lighting/lantern. I have vast collections of both 1800 cake salvers and oil lamps. What you referred to as a broken creamer pitcher is known as a cruet, usually oil and vinegar. I have vast collections of those too.
Unbelievable 👍⛏️🇦🇺😊🙋
haha thanks!
Wow!!!!
I have got to get me an old piece of property. I could spend my final days just digging holes all over the backyard. That would be so much fun.
I’d like to see your personal collection I bet it’s pretty amazing. Great content keep it up…
well i just collect little bottles.. i think theyre super cool, but theyre not like super valuable.. toms got a really good collection tho!
@@BelowthePlains and tiny tea sets...
Another nice dig guys. Shame the old lamp, and chamber pot wasn't in better condition, Those would have been amazing.
And Jake...... Saw another Watkins bottle. Saw you replied to my comment on another video earlier about Watkins. And yeah, not really gonna find them in any store.
Pretty much the same as they used to be. Door to door sales mostly, and or, online websites. Like the Avon Lady...............
ohh weird! i didnt even know that was still a thing! that makes sense tho.. kinda seems like a product that would be sold door to door.. well thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!
My hometown,still live close by. We had an outhouse when I was kid.
yeah we still had one when i was a kid in the 90s.. but im sure that there would have been a much earlier one.. probably the same with your place too
Keep Yankin them bottles!!!
haha well yeah i was in Yank-ton.. thanks for watching!
I think that broken ceramic at 21:00 is a Turkey tail. Thanks for the great videos!
yeah np... yeah i think you're absolutely right.. youre the 2nd person to say that now. and now that i see it, i cant see it being anything else
Hey! That looks like a turkey tail! Or chicken.... maybe a fancy serving type dish? Cool!
Wonderful waterless dig. I've never seen videos like this, very interesting! If you ever come across a container and if by chance it has gold coins or gold jewelry inside remember to hold your breath and step away after you open it. let the chest or vault breathe for an hour or so ...I've read that gases build up. But I'm sure you may known that lol
I have to ask a morbid question. I am a floral designer and work in a funeral home..I was telling my coworkers about your channel...The elderly FH owner told me a story that when they updated the Fredericksburg VA train station they cleaned out the old out houses...sadly they found a new born baby in a carpet bag..rumor is she was wealthy and went from DC to Richmond.. sadly have you ever come across something like this??
Ive seen home and attic find catsup bottles with full label...really cool... As bottle you'd want to keep
yeah, we've found some better condition on paper lables, but for the most part, the only ones with paper labels still intact, are the ones that never went into the ground.. they're still really cool when they have the paper label tho, and if we ever find a good one we make sure to save it.. you can literally just wipe them away if you arent careful.. thanks for leaving us a comment and thanks for watching!
Wow nice hunting sir congrats continue more content sir
haha of course.. we release every week, usually on the weekends or mondays! got one coming out at six tomorrow!. thanks for watching and thanks for leaving us a comment
thankyou. excellent dig! Q: was the hole originally a privy/ toilet pit and later used as a rubbish pit?
Thanks man! and thanks for always leaving us a comment!
God bless y’all
that strange thing under the wheel band is a boot jack