Greetings youngman. I live on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Rez in Flandreau, S.D., In my back yard is the site of Joseph Lafromboise trading post @1830s-40s. This was the first white post of any kind in the Dakotas. Take care and keep up your work its important!
I went to your old channel and ask if you were ok…they sent me here! I don’t know why digging old bottles is so cool….but I enjoy it. I am in mid 70’s. When you say “this thing is old” I just laugh……
Tom you are such an inspirational young man in that you are a self taught historian,& archeologist,Thank you for being the good man you are & sharing all your knowledge with us!
I'm impressed with how you can stick a pole in the ground and hear that it is a place that you can dig in and find such wonderful treasures! Thank you for taking us along Tom.
Me too, and I agree. I've always wondered how he knew where to dig until he mentioned the plunging rod (whatever it's called) and how it helps reveal the contents of the soil to determine where to dig. I'd never even heard of that type of tool, but it makes sense. And of course, it works! I love simple ideas and concepts that actually work, and without costing a fortune to buy or use. Something as simple as dousing rods to find a place for a well. Just holding 2 bent rods, that turn toward each where there's a water source. How did someone discover that would work? Amazing...
Thank you, Tom, for taken us on your journey. And Telling us what you find in what It was and how old it is. I've always loved history. And you are literally telling history by finding these amazing things. You were definitely talented. And I look forward to each and everyone. You're videos because they are amazing.🥰
75 years ago, I remember my great grandmother had a set of coffee/tea cups with no handles. She would pour the coffee in the saucer to cool off and sip it from the saucer. Apparently, from another source, I read in certain areas it was considered hospitable to serve a guest coffee that was already "saucered and blowed".
Hi Tom 👋 👋 another fantastic bottles dig 👌 👏 and I am always interested in early bottles 😊and you make interesting videos always enjoyable to watch tom your the best 👌 👍 have a good week 😀 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
I just want to say that I enjoy your channel so much. I love how you include explanations about the bottles that you dig up. It is amazing that there was actually an old town in this field in the middle of nowhere. You could probably go on and on looking for outhouse pits from other establishments or homes in this place.
I dig this dude. ❤ He's doing exactly what I'd love to be. I do metal detect, but I haven't found too many interesting things yet!! I will. Gotta keep the faith.
Hello Tom. Great video. Lots of interesting finds close together, kept me interested. Excellent presentation of information too, complete with graphics. I have subbed. I’ll see you in the next one. Thank you. Every blessing!
Gotta say it again, you just sound so happy and excited these days!!! I love it. Things aren’t going so great for me right now, and watching you have so much fun just brings a smile to my face and I appreciate it. So I’m probably going to keep telling you each video lol
Your channel reminds me of the days when we would dig out old cysterns looking for old beer cans (mid 70s). Didn't care about the old bottles. Wanted those old cone-tops. Can't say how many old bottles we threw away. Love your channel!
I love the Hutch soda bottles and the ink bottles. Always love when you find Hutch soda's. They are so unique and beautiful! How soda bottles have changed since the early 1900s. Maybe not for the better. Thanks for the amazing videos you do.
Another great (dry!) dig Tom - when you turned up that wee little chipmunk I was waiting for you to tell us you’d never dug one like that before. I really look forward to your videos 😊
Silly question but did they sell the whole flask?? I mean our Jack Daniels bottles are so large. My hubby has a few silver flasks that are the same size as the bottles. I love your excitement!!! Sleep well chipmunk
Hi Tom, i unsubscribed from underneath the plaines, because i don't agree with someone using your work and image when you have clearly parted ways. I hope the other followers make it over here to see what treasure you find. G-d bless.
Great dig Tom! Just before you found that chipmunk I was wondering what all that hay or grass looking stuff was. Is it a normal time in ND for them to be hibernating? Keep on digging! Can't wait to see your video with the excavator and artesian well!
Tom your videos are always so informative. I like that you place pictures of what an item was before it ended up in a dump. It's crazy to think that in an open plains area, the piece of cloth is still intact. Though some items from the Galloway Hoard, estimated to be about 5000 years old, still had remnants of cloth wrapped around them. Mother Nature, gotta love her. The soil is so full of ash and soft digging. You caught a break this time.
The reason you are finding that style of comb thrown away in good shape is they were used to remove head lice and nits (eggs) from the scalp, this style of comb is still used today for the same reason.
I love your videos. I like to imagine what the people were like back then. The thought no one has touched the bottles for over a hundred years until you came along…
It really surprises me when you're doing something you've been doing for years. But other people will try and tell you how to do it differently. And say it's sad because you don't do it their way?? That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. And that's what makes the world In amazing place, because we are all different and do things differently. Doesn't make what we're doing wrong. It's like somebody trying to tell me how to make jewelry. Something I've been doing for years. Doesn't mean I'm doing it wrong just because I don't do it. Somebody else's way just saying and thought. I would put this comment here because of some of the Comments I have seen on multiple videos. It's not sad, it's great that we are all different in different ways. Just saying🥰
I’m going to try to look at it your way from now on. Usually I read those comments and think “yeah, he’s the professional…how many books you written, how long you supported yourself doing this…” and so on. But I do get protective of “my” people sometimes lol - so I’ve screenshotted your comment and whenever I get snippy feeling about a comment I’ll reread it. NOTE - I NEVER post those snarky comments, they just run through my somewhat hollow head!
Tom, phenomenal digs. Nice dry soil to work in. I enjoyed the amber flasks with stoppers in them. Nice embossed bottles and the hutch was awesome. That looked like a striped gopher nesting, so unexpected I am sure. Awesome video, great camera work. 😀👏👍👏
Wouldn’t want to stay at that hotel. Too much lice! 😂 That chipmunk is going to have to find a new home. I breathed a big sigh of relief when I realized it wasn’t a snake.
Hi there Tom,maybe if you can build your own home, you can use the coloured beautiful bottles in it, just a idea. Have a lovely, peaceful, safe, Monday and Week, and I hope that you will find something really spectacular, maybe gold or even diamonds. Aaah that's me dreaming, sorry, lol 😊😂😂😂.Friendly greetings Anne from Amsterdam. 🖐😘👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Tom! Wow that little critter who was sleeping...that was funny! So I have a question. Those huge early beer bottles...was that considered one serving or did the bar keep pour several glasses from that? Just super curious!
Tom, I just found your new series of videos. Lots of Bonnie Bros. in that hole! I collect bottles, stenciled jugs, and old tokens (mostly saloon, drugstore, and general store). Have you ever found tokens during an outhouse dig? When a saloon (or other) proprietor went out of business, they wanted to make sure those tokens were never seen again! An outhouse would have been a great place to dispose them. And so, I ask.
I’ve dug roughly 2,000 privies and have only found one legible token, from the Gem Pool Hall in Hillsboro, North Dakota. I’ve found a few others but they’re usually in cull condition, as are the coins.
We were digging a trash pit similar to that one last year where the bottles and cans were stacked in that dry soil leaving lots of crevices perfect for winter hibernation. Sure enough, eventually, a couple copperheads dropped out of those crevices while pulling bottles out! That was the end of digging that trash pit out!
The next time you're heading to Bottinue..get ahold of me!! I wanna go!!! I'm in Rugby and I'm from Washington State. We go on great dogs by Mt Rainier...hot spots😂
Tom, I about lost the lemonade i was drinking when you said that this was a very well used pit, typical of a hotel. Those seeds are everywhere, that was to funny how you just came out of nowhere with this was a very well used pit lol. G-d bless.
Greetings youngman. I live on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Rez in Flandreau, S.D., In my back yard is the site of Joseph Lafromboise trading post @1830s-40s. This was the first white post of any kind in the Dakotas. Take care and keep up your work its important!
First chipmunk I’ve seen come out of one of your digs! How funny!🐿
I went to your old channel and ask if you were ok…they sent me here! I don’t know why digging old bottles is so cool….but I enjoy it.
I am in mid 70’s. When you say “this thing is old” I just laugh……
Lice and bedbugs were common even then, so the nit combs make sense. Great work!
I’d like a shirt that says “ this pit is loaded” 😂
Or “Use layer.”
Front: THIS PIT IS LOADED Back: THIS PIT IS DONE
I'd buy one!!!
@@mandyfr Hey Tom, are you taking notes!
Me too
Poor chipmunk! Early wake up call. Love how excited you get in these videos.
Yeah, but isn't it a weird time of year to be hibernating ???
@@MarciaShackelford-st5bt They sleep underground all year long.
ya he Did Not Give the Year On the Chipmunk.😄😄😄
Tom you are such an inspirational young man in that you are a self taught historian,& archeologist,Thank you for being the good man you are & sharing all your knowledge with us!
Cool beans and a hibernating chippy! Love the cleaned up bottles at the end also! Thanks for another fun adventure, Tom!
whoa! 😂a hibernating chipmunk 🐿️ that’s cute 🥰👍🏻🤗
Thanks Tom for another great video, the chipmunk was adorable!
Those delousing combs reveal what must have been numerous lice problems - very difficult to get rid of once in the hotel...
ya now it is Bed Bugs ☹☹☹
@@markvanderstelt8999. without a host lice only live 24 to 48 hours unlike bed bugs
Public lice
Nice to see you didn't need scuba gear for a change!
Really!
Now I'm worried about that Chipmonk. I hope you were able to relocate him nest material and all. I didn't realize how deep they tunneled.
I'm impressed with how you can stick a pole in the ground and hear that it is a place that you can dig in and find such wonderful treasures! Thank you for taking us along Tom.
He has a knack
Me too, and I agree. I've always wondered how he knew where to dig until he mentioned the plunging rod (whatever it's called) and how it helps reveal the contents of the soil to determine where to dig. I'd never even heard of that type of tool, but it makes sense. And of course, it works! I love simple ideas and concepts that actually work, and without costing a fortune to buy or use. Something as simple as dousing rods to find a place for a well. Just holding 2 bent rods, that turn toward each where there's a water source. How did someone discover that would work? Amazing...
Always exciting to see a new episode posted!!
Makes my day, 🎉🎉Thank You!!
Thank you, Tom, for taken us on your journey. And Telling us what you find in what It was and how old it is. I've always loved history. And you are literally telling history by finding these amazing things. You were definitely talented. And I look forward to each and everyone. You're videos because they are amazing.🥰
Holy chipmunk TomMan!!! great digs🐿😍
Okay. Now all I can think about is the poor little chipmunk! I didn't realize they burrowed that deep!
Epic dig from the master of Bottle Seekers 👍💂 UK 👍👀
I love this new channel of yours you seem so much churpier nice to see you smile at the beginning x
Excellent video Tom!! You pulled up some nice bottles!! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you!!
75 years ago, I remember my great grandmother had a set of coffee/tea cups with no handles. She would pour the coffee in the saucer to cool off and sip it from the saucer. Apparently, from another source, I read in certain areas it was considered hospitable to serve a guest coffee that was already "saucered and blowed".
My grandmother tipped the cup & drank from saucer, too
Hey Tom, Great dig, and the bottles clean up nice. Love the chipmunk 🐿 ❤️
Another fantastic video Tom!! The chipmunk was a cute surprise too! Thank you for taking us on the dig with you!
Hi Tom 👋 👋 another fantastic bottles dig 👌 👏 and I am always interested in early bottles 😊and you make interesting videos always enjoyable to watch tom your the best 👌 👍 have a good week 😀 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
Appreciate how you talk about each bottle.
Wow Tom so many awesome bottles. Love the ink bottles. So pretty
Your show is so real. Nothing fake or pretentious as there are with others. It’s great watching your work!
I appreciate the kind words!
Great program Tom. Take care and stay safe. 👍
You keep me intrigued from start to finish one of very few channels i dont skip threw yo make me feel like im in the hole with you ty tom
I just want to say that I enjoy your channel so much. I love how you include explanations about the bottles that you dig up. It is amazing that there was actually an old town in this field in the middle of nowhere. You could probably go on and on looking for outhouse pits from other establishments or homes in this place.
Awesome Tom , love your channel
I dig this dude. ❤ He's doing exactly what I'd love to be. I do metal detect, but I haven't found too many interesting things yet!! I will. Gotta keep the faith.
hey tom, happy saturday!
Thanks so much for taking the time to show the ironstone and dinnerware. I like the bottles, but adore the dinnerware.
Thank you for your down-to-earth show. No pun intended, actually. I'm just happy to see it in this time of politics. Thanks again.
Me too! A nice escape.
Hello Tom.
Great video. Lots of interesting finds close together, kept me interested.
Excellent presentation of information too, complete with graphics.
I have subbed. I’ll see you in the next one. Thank you.
Every blessing!
Gotta say it again, you just sound so happy and excited these days!!! I love it. Things aren’t going so great for me right now, and watching you have so much fun just brings a smile to my face and I appreciate it. So I’m probably going to keep telling you each video lol
I love the little cold cream container😀
Great digs Tom! Thanks for posting! Take care and I like forward to seeing the next!
Soda bottles are really pretty. Thank you for all your hard work making these videos Tom❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Absolutely the best hour I've spent today! Thanks little brother! ♥
That means a lot! Thanks for watching!
That blue ink bottle is beautiful
Tom, I'm glad you got clear of the problems on "Beneath the Plains" and you're cranking out the work like always.
Your channel reminds me of the days when we would dig out old cysterns looking for old beer cans (mid 70s). Didn't care about the old bottles. Wanted those old cone-tops. Can't say how many old bottles we threw away. Love your channel!
Congrats on your new channel!!! I'd follow you anywhere! Your knowledge amazes me!!
Always good to watch always delighted to see the next one!
Great finds great video again as always
I love the Hutch soda bottles and the ink bottles. Always love when you find Hutch soda's. They are so unique and beautiful! How soda bottles have changed since the early 1900s. Maybe not for the better. Thanks for the amazing videos you do.
Hey!!! Awesome smile and animation in your intro!! Hubby and I love your channel. I'm always impressed with your knowledge of the artifacts.
Thanks!
Another great (dry!) dig Tom - when you turned up that wee little chipmunk I was waiting for you to tell us you’d never dug one like that before. I really look forward to your videos 😊
Thanks for watching!
Love the hutches! Amazing dig as always sir!
Silly question but did they sell the whole flask?? I mean our Jack Daniels bottles are so large. My hubby has a few silver flasks that are the same size as the bottles. I love your excitement!!! Sleep well chipmunk
Thank you for your hard work as usual 😊 UK.
Awesome video...and you found hutch ..great...🥰🥰
Another great dig love love love those soda bottles
At 16:31 your glove print actually looks like it formed a BRUNETTE POSING WITH A SMILE on the front of that bitters bottle 💯 👀
Super stoked for all the fantastic findings.
Neat stuff! Enjoyed watching!
Hi Tom, i unsubscribed from underneath the plaines, because i don't agree with someone using your work and image when you have clearly parted ways. I hope the other followers make it over here to see what treasure you find.
G-d bless.
I did too
Great dig Tom! Just before you found that chipmunk I was wondering what all that hay or grass looking stuff was. Is it a normal time in ND for them to be hibernating? Keep on digging! Can't wait to see your video with the excavator and artesian well!
Tom your videos are always so informative. I like that you place pictures of what an item was before it ended up in a dump. It's crazy to think that in an open plains area, the piece of cloth is still intact. Though some items from the Galloway Hoard, estimated to be about 5000 years old, still had remnants of cloth wrapped around them. Mother Nature, gotta love her. The soil is so full of ash and soft digging. You caught a break this time.
thanks had fun watching you
Some great finds!
The reason you are finding that style of comb thrown away in good shape is they were used to remove head lice and nits (eggs) from the scalp, this style of comb is still used today for the same reason.
It's amazing how you know where to dig...👍😍
I love your videos. I like to imagine what the people were like back then. The thought no one has touched the bottles for over a hundred years until you came along…
I’m surprised the Out House was that close to the well👍🏻
New subscriber here. Absolutely fascinating channel you have!
Awesome video, great haul!!! I love the hutch!!!
It really surprises me when you're doing something you've been doing for years. But other people will try and tell you how to do it differently. And say it's sad because you don't do it their way?? That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. And that's what makes the world In amazing place, because we are all different and do things differently. Doesn't make what we're doing wrong. It's like somebody trying to tell me how to make jewelry. Something I've been doing for years. Doesn't mean I'm doing it wrong just because I don't do it. Somebody else's way just saying and thought. I would put this comment here because of some of the Comments I have seen on multiple videos. It's not sad, it's great that we are all different in different ways. Just saying🥰
I’m going to try to look at it your way from now on. Usually I read those comments and think “yeah, he’s the professional…how many books you written, how long you supported yourself doing this…” and so on. But I do get protective of “my” people sometimes lol - so I’ve screenshotted your comment and whenever I get snippy feeling about a comment I’ll reread it. NOTE - I NEVER post those snarky comments, they just run through my somewhat hollow head!
In the southwest it wouldn't be chipmunks. It would be scorpions.
I love your videos, you are very interesting.
Tom, phenomenal digs. Nice dry soil to work in. I enjoyed the amber flasks with stoppers in them. Nice embossed bottles and the hutch was awesome. That looked like a striped gopher nesting, so unexpected I am sure. Awesome video, great camera work. 😀👏👍👏
Thanks!
Always interesting to see glimpses of the past.😊
Wouldn’t want to stay at that hotel. Too much lice! 😂 That chipmunk is going to have to find a new home. I breathed a big sigh of relief when I realized it wasn’t a snake.
Hi there Tom,maybe if you can build your own home, you can use the coloured beautiful bottles in it, just a idea. Have a lovely, peaceful, safe, Monday and Week, and I hope that you will find something really spectacular, maybe gold or even diamonds. Aaah that's me dreaming, sorry, lol 😊😂😂😂.Friendly greetings Anne from Amsterdam. 🖐😘👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Those combs may have been complimentary gifts for the hotel's guests; promotional advertising for the manufacturers.
The combs were to remove lice and their eggs (nits).
Love the little bottles😊
Hi 👋, I found ur channel thank u for the education of bygone stuffs
Hi Tom! Wow that little critter who was sleeping...that was funny! So I have a question. Those huge early beer bottles...was that considered one serving or did the bar keep pour several glasses from that? Just super curious!
Love the coffee cups and that pickle jar...nice design...
My mom was born right around Omemee…..haven’t heard about it in years. Interesting video!
Thanks Tom always great content
Didn’t realize chipmunks hibernated, but was clearly not awake.
Tom, I just found your new series of videos. Lots of Bonnie Bros. in that hole! I collect bottles, stenciled jugs, and old tokens (mostly saloon, drugstore, and general store). Have you ever found tokens during an outhouse dig? When a saloon (or other) proprietor went out of business, they wanted to make sure those tokens were never seen again! An outhouse would have been a great place to dispose them. And so, I ask.
I’ve dug roughly 2,000 privies and have only found one legible token, from the Gem Pool Hall in Hillsboro, North Dakota. I’ve found a few others but they’re usually in cull condition, as are the coins.
Love your videos!!
A great adventure, who would have thought a town was there without doing the research first
Great digs !! Nice soft dirt and thank got not soaking wet !!
Old Glory in the glory hole! Keep up the great work!
Another great video 🎉
"This pit is done." are my least favorite words in your video's. I'm so glad i found your channel again.🔎
We were digging a trash pit similar to that one last year where the bottles and cans were stacked in that dry soil leaving lots of crevices perfect for winter hibernation. Sure enough, eventually, a couple copperheads dropped out of those crevices while pulling bottles out! That was the end of digging that trash pit out!
The next time you're heading to Bottinue..get ahold of me!! I wanna go!!!
I'm in Rugby and I'm from Washington State. We go on great dogs by Mt Rainier...hot spots😂
Did the little chipmunk get relocated? Been wondering what kind of critters you come across in your treasure hunting. Love your excitement!
We put it in the grass under some trees. There was some time left in the year before freeze up.
Tom, I about lost the lemonade i was drinking when you said that this was a very well used pit, typical of a hotel. Those seeds are everywhere, that was to funny how you just came out of nowhere with this was a very well used pit lol.
G-d bless.
Tom, what do you do with all the bottles? I hope you have a store front or some sort of business. Many thanks for sharing.
It was a nice dry dig today 😂 Have a great weekend
I'm surprised that you didn't get the wheel out for decor in the yard or something. Lots of great bottles though.😊
You should have included the chipmunk in the best finds wrap-up! What a funny thing to have happened.