To all our Scottish viewers!!!!! We mean no offense by the "Glasgow, England" we wrote on those stoneware bottles! we were just writing what they say on the bottles! we are very aware that Glasgow is in Scotland!, and we respect you! and all our English viewers too!
I'm a huge fan , subscribed to channel before you had 10 subscribers! From Minnesota Trump 2024! A bow to you and your camera man! 🤠Your catholic subscriber! ✝
haha thank you! wow you've been watching that long? i always wondered who was the first to subscribe lol! well thank you for giving us a shot when we were small! hope we made you proud!.
Thank you marykaytreasures! thats a good find from a thrift shop. the only place i have ever seen any good bottles, the owner always had them at market rates, so i've never bought them.. hope you got a good deal!
@user-os8hm9vr3r A true catholic wouldn't support a 3x married cheating con man who rapes & assaults women and insites an insurrection against the government. But you keep on being you 😂
Am 71 and just sold off a bunch of stuff I dug in the 70s. Some of the bottles I left laying on the ground because they were not perfect are worth some bucks now
Especially the dirt they're digging in. I was born in Fargo and lived in Burnsville by Moorhead. Gotta say the dirt there is rarely clay and always made the best mud pies.
My grandfather was born in 1882. I really enjoyed listening to his stories about life in the late 1800s. Watching you dig this stuff up helps me understand his experience even that much more vividly. On another note, I would love to own one of those stoneware beer bottles. As a potter, I can tell you bottles are NOT easy to throw - at least not consistently.
Thank you for leaving the text up long enough to read while video is being played at double speed! It is greatly appreciated! Love watching you rediscover this history.
Been a fan for awhile.... This is probably the best episode y'all have uploaded. Thank you for the hard work.. Tom& Crew, this is a great example of why I enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🤠
Your proably digging in their rubbish dump. when I was a kid 1962 I moved from the city to the country . I found at the back of a few hundred acre old farm house a 70 year old rubbish dump over the side of a hill . I found colored bottles ,medicine bottles with wire holding the glass caps on . Bottles with glass plugs with old rotten cork on the plug. old rotten wooden buckets ,old pieces of farm ,equipment. Pots and pans ,forks, kives spoons. broken platesand bowls. I saved some of the bottles for years. One of my X wives threw them out .She called them old junk. After watching you date these bottles I wonder if the dump i was looking at might have been older than I realized . Thanks for the video brought back fond memories.
haha awesome! we have 2 more pits from the same site, but not gonna lie, this one was probably the best. the other 2 are good tho! thank you thank you thank you! thats so kind!
Tom - i feel that this is your best dig ever! I have been following you for a while now, and you have gained tremendous knowledge about the artifacts. You are demonstrating maturity and professionalism. Thank you for what you do!
I think the circle with hearts you found is a cookie/donut maker. My grandmother had something like it where she would make a batter then dip the iron in it then drop it in hot oil, and the batter would come off the iron/design. There were others and it had a long handle that screwed into it.
This is EXACTLY what I came to say!! I think it’s a rosette iron! It would have had a stem with a handle, you dip the shape in a batter and dip that in hot oil. It comes off the iron, and you’re left with a crispy, delicate treat that you sprinkle with powdered sugar! (Now I want to go make some!)
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Love your videos! I was wondering if you read the Facebook messages you receive? I sent you one several months ago but got no response. It was about a potential site in a railroad town in central Montana where my great-great-grandmother ran a restaurant in the early 1910s. The block of buildings also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop in 1916. It was built in October 1911 and burned down in June 1931. Just checking to see if you saw it!
kathyastrom: yeah i usually read them in bulk, but we do get a ton of messages so its possible the message was opened and it wasnt responded to. there are two FB links in the description, you could try add the channel one and talk to me, or you could message tom on his personal account. but if you want to send another message and let us know. its really hard to have a conversation thru the comment section of our videos, so facebook is for sure the best way. Im gonna be honest with you tho, the best way to get our attention is to just be persistent.. we ended up getting way more messages than we expected when we first set it up, and things just kind of get lost in the shuffle sometimes. sorry about that! but yeah, you can send another message, or maybe even a few of them over the course of the next few months... ill try to get back to you! sorry if it takes awhile, its just overwhelming sometimes
@@BelowthePlains Will do! Thanks for responding here. I’ve got the address, names of the current owners of the land, a link to the 1916 Sanborn map, and a photo of my ancestor and family in front of the building in 1915-ish. I’ll include all of that in the message(s).
I’m definitely spoiled by your channel you provide so much information and history. Thank you for taking the time making us feel like we are there with you guys!
I don't know why, but I just love your videos. They remind me of the late 1970s. My grandmother's house, in rural California (remote) was rented out to another family, who burned it down. My parents were forced to take a mortgage out on their house (a second mortgage) to help pay off the lawsuit that dad's mum lost because apparently there was no screen on the chimney. Dad took us kids hiking to the burned out remnants of the house. (probably burned down in 1975, when I was seven).... and I remember camping out in the rubble of the burned out house. We returned many times, and dad spent his time cleaning out the detritus. It was a three mile hike to the house, with no passable roads. I would scrabble around amongst the ruins and find all kinds of treasures. Coins, perfume bottles, other stuff. Those were some of my dearest memories of that piece of property. Alas, grandmother went senile, and signed it all away to scammers, so that 150 acre chunk of California Real Estate in Santa Rosa went out of the family. But it was an integral part of my childhood.... digging for treasures. I have to wonder if the latrines of California would be as productive as those of more eastern locales.
Sometime co0rts are heartless in US. The whole concept of tort law is flawed, specially when juries know no bounds to common sense when setting amounts of compensation. Then the whole system of (get the lawyer rich) through ppeals and changing venues and on and on, until only the lawyers get compensation. Arrrrgh !
Most definitely my favorite video of yours that I have ever watched! I love learning about your finds when you dig! Makes me want to dig on my ancestors' farm land!
What an exciting video! Pharmaceutical bottles are some of the ones that first sparked my interest in bottle digging. I love the food jars as well. Such colors and those droopy lips! Fun Mexican Mustangs, the Squib and US army meds...the beautifully glazed jug...the plethora of stoneware beer bottles... the igloo and then pyramid ink! The treasures just kept coming: congratulations! I am happy for you.
What a wonderful dig, plenty of a hall, plus great peaces and even better your not a mucked up mess, I just fell bad for you when your pit turns into a swamp. Love the finds. Much love. Afriend.
haha yeah it is honestly brutal when you get into that wet clay.... not even that its gross, its just hard to work in that! its harder to get the mud off the shovel than it is to scoop it up!! but yeah.. nice and dry! thanks for watching
An absolutely stellar dig. So many treasures. How I wish you had a channel from which we could purchase some of our history. I would even be interested in the broken pieces. My grandfathers both worked for the railroads, and the train whistle in the background made me nostalgic. My father and I both served in the US Army and even took basic training at the same camp, although 30 years apart.
I am British, now in Canada and those brown and white stoneware bottle held Ginger Beer. It is a sparkling soft drink made from Ginger and very fiery. The more modern have a stoneware screw top with a rubber sealing ring. It is great with whiskey. I have been to Burslem, and Hanley (The Potteries) and mother did jam in Kilner Jars. I am very old, 71 yesterday 😅28:20 looks like a pot trivet to stop your hot pans marking the table. You are one of the few people on this side of the pond that pronounces Worcestershire correctly. 😀The was a great dig and so much was intact, very interesting.
We just can’t imagine what life was really like back then but by you digging through these pits the really can bring history to life. We can imagine how tough life was like for them seeing that they ate and what preservatives (pickles, sauces) they used and what they drank to relax. This is an amazing channel. Thanks guys x
Gotta love a packed and DRY pit. So many good finds, that was huge fun watching you dig, except I wish I was there! Still hoping for the “how to clean your bottles” video. 🤞
Dances with Wolfs Military Camp. So Awesome!!! An Outpost out in the wilderness!!! Every pull is just blowing my mind!!! Great Job, ThX so much for this video!!!
Wow .. what an amazing video!! You amaze me with the amount of knowledge you have regarding the different things you find. Your hard work and that of the folks helping you put the videos together is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for sharing your treasure hunts with us all.
What a great pit! It showed the difference between a military and a non-military pit of the time. You can imagine the higher ranking people of the time ordering in things that most wouldn't have access to. Nothing has changed over the years really, it's nice to see how long it has been going on. Thanks for the great video!
If it is, it will have a threaded hole in the back where a thin metal handle was screwed in. This handle allowed a user to hold the "rosette" in the hot oil. When browned, it was pulled out & sprinkled with sugar. While rosette molds were commonly used at that time, the idea of soldiers eating rosette cookies around a campfire is a really different image. Maybe, it was used in the officer's mess.
Hopefully, all of the glass and other articles can be picked out so the property owner can fill in the pit and work the field without glass and stuff getting churned up. That way, people can enjoy the old findings and the freshly cleaned up land. A win-win.
A particularly magnificent haul. Exciting stuff! Glad the "English" bottles hadn't caught you out. You have a huge bank of knowledge in that head of yours and no-one could fail to be impressed by that. I am an avid viewer and a proud Scot from the Isle of Skye.
Hi Tom and jake what a fantastic early bottles pit it's great to see some British bottles the stone beer bottles are very common find in Britain sometimes they have got the makers printed on them there are quite collectable some are ginger beer ones you and jake will have a feel day in Britain digging for really early bottles going back to 1700 hundreds and early 1800 hundreds like I said Tom you have made history there, all the best Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
What a haul guys. Amazing !!! Some of the best history found. Been watching you start you. Are the best on you tube!!! I'm hooked. My dad is an archaeologist and worked on henry the 8's war ship Mary Rose and helped with. Fishbourne roman Palace in. The uk
OMG thats amazing! god you guys have some real amazing history over there. im honestly kind of jealous! its actually a dream of mine to make it over there some day and just get ONE good dig!! thank you! glad you liked the video!
@@BelowthePlains my home was built in the late 17th century. Its 2 story and made from solid sandstone blocks the walls are 18 inch thick. We had a dig in the playground behind the house I helped with in the 80s and found a Roman villa with a mosaic floor mostly intact. Happy digging
@@BelowthePlains The people to talk to are Simon of the Sci Finds channel in London UK and Nicola White . They both have a special permit which enable them to get access to all sorts of interesting places on the River Thames,such as islands not normally open to the public (and are so far from the shore and surrounded by deep mud that they use a hovercraft to reach them), Simon and Nicola White have found artifacts going back before Roman Times.
igrewup in worcestershire england and spent my early childhood 9/10yearpld diggind old victorian rubishpitts looking for old bottles/treashure and thought myself lucky too find a whole bottle,never did i find dozens in one pitt.im jealous but happily taken back too my childhood. happy and carefree days,such simple days digging in the mud,how the world has changed in 40 years. i wish i could go back in time!!! thankyou for taking me back and such a wonderfull hoard you found!!!😁😁
The circular heart object could be an item used to sit a hot cooking pot/dish ontop of it to prevent burning a table cloth.....❤ Really amazing finds, the best you've ever dug up. I enjoyed all the English found items. I'm half English, nice to see what the English crafted n produced back in the day. I wouldn't sell any of the items. I would clean All n place all within a lovely curio cabinet on display under lock n key in for my private collections.😊 Enjoy, lovely.
What an absolute pit of pleasure and exciting watch. There are so many finds that are in one piece, especially the larger ones. Loved the stoneware. I am very pleased I have found your channel.
Superb video. Very interesting to see how our British items were exported in such large volumes back in your early history. That must have been one of your easiest but most satisfying digs yet.
Brings back memories......I dug at Natchez-under-the -hill in the 70s and 80s......found lots of the same stuff.... some older stuff also. No pits where I dug.....just the city dump along the Ms River......love your presentation
So cool. Digging up history! I can watch your vids for hours. Keep up the good content! Would love to see one dug out east to see some really early stuff!
We are planning on going out east this year. we were gonna do it last year, but we had a bunch of stuff come up. Tom has family out in Maine... so if it thaws out there first, we are gonna be headed that way. we are actually really excited! thanks for watching, hopefully we will have that video for you late this spring!
It's late night as I'm watching -- had to up the speed to 2x normal to get through this quickly -- and it was more fun than hunting Easter eggs, watching you pop one amazing item after another out of the pit! So awesome to see them after cleaning, too! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! 🪅
We live in a house built in 1898--I want to dig up the whole yard! Actually, I got a metal detector for Christmas and can't wait for spring to begin using it.
haha yeah i gotta buy myself a new detector! and yeah i hear you..... well i can tell you that theres like a 95% chance that there is a pit somewhere in your yard. the thing is, that often times people put garages or sheds or additions to the house that cover the pit... you should try to look for sink spots in your yard. we use these probe rods to find them oldwestbottles.com/probes.php we get the 4 foot rods.. i know they are kind of expensive for something that you probably wouldnt get a lot of use out of but i thought i would link it anyways. when we probe the yards, the way we know when we found it is, the probe will all of the sudden make a crunchy noise... thats stove ash that they would almost always dump into the pits... it has a distinct sound and feel to it... but good luck if you decided to look for it!! around here, they would usually put them 30 paces directly out the (original) back door (sometimes they door would be moved or additions were added to the house) but in warmer climates they would typically put them at the far back of the lot, usually within 10 feet of the back of the lot.... but if you like out in the country, the outhouse could be anywhere within 150 feet
What an amazing find! I have to say I'm a little Jelly! So exciting! I would love to purchase one of the medicine bottles!! Thank you for these great videos! Yall are awesome!!
haha i was thinking about that movie when i was editing the video. something about a lonely outpost hundreds of miles away from the nearest town.. something romantic about the idea.. sometimes we go dig these places and we are so far away from civilization, i look out over the hills and i think "this is probably the same scene they were looking at 150 years ago" ...thats one of the parts i like about this job, i get to go and get an intimate look at little pieces of the country and especially north dakota... theres just something about experiencing the solitude that i just cant get at home.. you're never further than 1/4 mile away from the nearest person here. thanks for watching!
That Fort Sedgwick scene in Dances With Wolves was filmed to the northwest of Fort Pierre, South Dakota. They have signs on the highways calling it out. What they don't mention is that the site had previously been the location of the Angus SD post office. I was recently able to acquire a postmark from there.
Love these old things... Just waiting to be brought to life again by you. I like to think of the people who used the items... From their hand to yours.
My heart is about to stop every time you start to pull and bend objects out before the dirt is removed. Please don’t ever do that in older pits. You’re going to break something sooner or later.
1870 is not an early settlement. Let’s at least give a nod and thanks to the people whose settlements go back 1K years and many more. Thanks for leaving the captions up long enough to read. Puts your channel in the top tier.
HAHAHA i will add that to our hashtags! haha i think ive actually gotten that comment a few times now. i have absolutely no problem with that tho!! we are open to everyone!
@@BelowthePlains the asmr stuff people do with tapping and whispering is utter pants (in my opinion, anyway) I'm all for the unintentional stuff and I was way before there was even a name for it! I just used to call it people watching as a kid lol
haha i agree... one of my friends told me to check out asmr to relax one time, and i checked it out.... it made me feel really uncomfortable! haha... its not my things, but no shame!.. but yeah, i could see what you mean... there is this channel i used to watch, i cant remember the name, but this guy goes around cleaning the sticks and stuff out of drainage ditches... he gets like a million view per video.. idk, it was just captivating! i remember it has the number "10" in the title
I live in Canada, just north of the St. Lawrence river. I used to dive recreationally in the 70's and 80's. This is a very British area, and a place that Empire Loyalist migrated to after the war of Independece. I've only ever come across one stone beer bottle in all my years of diving, to watch you dig up so many so far from the east is stunning. It seems like although the Soldiers / settlers had rejected being British subjects, they retained a taste for english beer. lol Great find, very entertaining, keep up the great work your doing.
Just found your channel. HUGE history guy. To think the last hands to touch these objects were in the 1860s, 70s, 80s, and the very next hands to touch them were yours! To think of the history these things have seen! Definately subscribed! Keep doin what you do man! Love it!
Wow!! I was just telling my friend I think I was born in the wrong era...I love stuff like this far more than modern day riches. This was an excellent and fun dig to watch!!
THAT IS SO AWESOME!!! WHAT A FIND!!! AMAZING HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY SURVIVED INTACT!!! I BET A WHOLE LOT OF COLLECTORS ARE GUNNA WANNA HAVE SOME OF THAT!!!
I'm thinking that a lot of the stuff in this pit came from the officer's mess - all those imported English preserve bottles, wine, champagne and ales - the officers would dine together, usually served by stewards - I don't see the soldiers being able to afford all that imported stuff. I'm thinking the officer's mess stewards were clearing off the tables & chucking the empties into the privy. I think the cast-iron piece with pierced heart design is a trivet for placing hot pots or pans on. All the medicine bottles probably came from the surgeon attached to the fort.
Wonderful and wonder filled dig! Thanks for another intriguing post. Loved the stoneware bottles - I used to have a stoneware glazed gin bottle from Holland which I treasured but was destroyed in a fire. Keep on digging, my friend!
ive seen some that are tug-boat shaped.. thats the only way i know how to desrcribe it lol... but they have a little bump on them where you could set the quill down on it, so it wouldnt touch your desk and get ink everywhere., but i think these ones didnt have it on them. but i have seen that before! thanks for watching!
To all our Scottish viewers!!!!! We mean no offense by the "Glasgow, England" we wrote on those stoneware bottles! we were just writing what they say on the bottles! we are very aware that Glasgow is in Scotland!, and we respect you! and all our English viewers too!
I'm a huge fan , subscribed to channel before you had 10 subscribers! From Minnesota Trump 2024! A bow to you and your camera man! 🤠Your catholic subscriber! ✝
Wow so many Ginger Beers I have a few I purchased at a thrift store Thanks for sharing What a fun dig 👏👏👏🦆🦆♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️❤️⚒️🇺🇸🗝️
haha thank you! wow you've been watching that long? i always wondered who was the first to subscribe lol! well thank you for giving us a shot when we were small! hope we made you proud!.
Thank you marykaytreasures! thats a good find from a thrift shop. the only place i have ever seen any good bottles, the owner always had them at market rates, so i've never bought them.. hope you got a good deal!
@user-os8hm9vr3r A true catholic wouldn't support a 3x married cheating con man who rapes & assaults women and insites an insurrection against the government. But you keep on being you 😂
I have to say, at almost 63 years old, you make me want to go play in the dirt again!! ☺️
lol me too!!! My back only allows my to dig deep by proxy ! Used to urban explore too
I hear ya!
Am 71 and just sold off a bunch of stuff I dug in the 70s. Some of the bottles I left laying on the ground because they were not perfect are worth some bucks now
Especially the dirt they're digging in. I was born in Fargo and lived in Burnsville by Moorhead. Gotta say the dirt there is rarely clay and always made the best mud pies.
Me tpp
My grandfather was born in 1882. I really enjoyed listening to his stories about life in the late 1800s. Watching you dig this stuff up helps me understand his experience even that much more vividly.
On another note, I would love to own one of those stoneware beer bottles. As a potter, I can tell you bottles are NOT easy to throw - at least not consistently.
Thank you for leaving the text up long enough to read while video is being played at double speed! It is greatly appreciated! Love watching you rediscover this history.
Been a fan for awhile.... This is probably the best episode y'all have uploaded.
Thank you for the hard work..
Tom& Crew, this is a great example of why I enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🤠
hell yeah! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 thank you! glad you liked the video! i knew this one was gonna be a hit! thanks for watching and thanks for being a fan!!!!!!!!!
Your proably digging in their rubbish dump. when I was a kid 1962 I moved from the city to the country . I found at the back of a few hundred acre old farm house a 70 year old rubbish dump over the side of a hill . I found colored bottles ,medicine bottles with wire holding the glass caps on . Bottles with glass plugs with old rotten cork on the plug. old rotten wooden buckets ,old pieces of farm ,equipment. Pots and pans ,forks, kives spoons. broken platesand bowls. I saved some of the bottles for years. One of my X wives threw them out .She called them old junk. After watching you date these bottles I wonder if the dump i was looking at might have been older than I realized . Thanks for the video brought back fond memories.
Holy crap what a pit!!! This has to be my favorite dig yet. Thank you for all the entertainment and history lessons you bring us with every video.
haha awesome! we have 2 more pits from the same site, but not gonna lie, this one was probably the best. the other 2 are good tho! thank you thank you thank you! thats so kind!
@@BelowthePlains. Can’t wait to see them! Like aleksanderpopov5060 said, Thanks for sharing!
I'm 68 years old and it's nice to see somebody digging up history
These should be boring videos, but can’t look away !! I watch mudlalarking videos from England , but this is just as exciting 😊
Tom - i feel that this is your best dig ever! I have been following you for a while now, and you have gained tremendous knowledge about the artifacts. You are demonstrating maturity and professionalism. Thank you for what you do!
I think the circle with hearts you found is a cookie/donut maker. My grandmother had something like it where she would make a batter then dip the iron in it then drop it in hot oil, and the batter would come off the iron/design. There were others and it had a long handle that screwed into it.
We called those pastries “rosettes.” I’ve made them before, but I’m not sure where my rosette irons are right now.
I was thinking the same thing I used to make them with my mom as a kid but I believe they were called Rosettes.
YES! I have a modern one. That looks like a "rosette" doughnut fryer
This is EXACTLY what I came to say!! I think it’s a rosette iron! It would have had a stem with a handle, you dip the shape in a batter and dip that in hot oil. It comes off the iron, and you’re left with a crispy, delicate treat that you sprinkle with powdered sugar! (Now I want to go make some!)
@@heathergreen4184me too😅😅😅😅
Way to go Tom!!! I root for ya every week to find stuff older than 1900! Very, very cool to see you land on an older site! Hell yeah!
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Great, great dig! Love to see the very end with all your finds cleaned up.
So very cool!
Love your videos! I was wondering if you read the Facebook messages you receive? I sent you one several months ago but got no response. It was about a potential site in a railroad town in central Montana where my great-great-grandmother ran a restaurant in the early 1910s. The block of buildings also had a hotel, drug store, and barbershop in 1916. It was built in October 1911 and burned down in June 1931. Just checking to see if you saw it!
kathyastrom: yeah i usually read them in bulk, but we do get a ton of messages so its possible the message was opened and it wasnt responded to. there are two FB links in the description, you could try add the channel one and talk to me, or you could message tom on his personal account. but if you want to send another message and let us know. its really hard to have a conversation thru the comment section of our videos, so facebook is for sure the best way. Im gonna be honest with you tho, the best way to get our attention is to just be persistent.. we ended up getting way more messages than we expected when we first set it up, and things just kind of get lost in the shuffle sometimes. sorry about that! but yeah, you can send another message, or maybe even a few of them over the course of the next few months... ill try to get back to you! sorry if it takes awhile, its just overwhelming sometimes
@@BelowthePlains Will do! Thanks for responding here. I’ve got the address, names of the current owners of the land, a link to the 1916 Sanborn map, and a photo of my ancestor and family in front of the building in 1915-ish. I’ll include all of that in the message(s).
Do you sell any bottles on ebay or etsy?
Worth the wait! Fantastic finds!
Look forward to your videos every week, and never disappointed!
awesome! glad you liked it! thank you, thats great to hear!!!!!!!!
Love the sounds of the trains in the background! Just magnificent!
hahah yeah, i was thinking about reducing their levels when i was editing but i liked the way there were sounding!
This is one of my favourite digs you’ve done. The variety of colours was super. Thank you for sharing.💕🏴💕
Thank you! glad you liked it!!!!!
Wow! wow! Wow, What a great haul. Love watching your digs. This old Aussie bottle digger is so envious
Wow, that's a pit that kept on giving. Love the ceramic beer bottles and redware jug. Congratulations!
probably the best bottle finding video ive ever seen. great finds
I’m definitely spoiled by your channel you provide so much information and history. Thank you for taking the time making us feel like we are there with you guys!
Definitely love love love the feeling of being a part of the digs! Tom....future Indiana Jones. 😉🙂😍
Tom at his best... un-earthing history.... Thanks, man.
I don't know why, but I just love your videos.
They remind me of the late 1970s. My grandmother's house, in rural California (remote) was rented out to another family, who burned it down. My parents were forced to take a mortgage out on their house (a second mortgage) to help pay off the lawsuit that dad's mum lost because apparently there was no screen on the chimney.
Dad took us kids hiking to the burned out remnants of the house. (probably burned down in 1975, when I was seven).... and I remember camping out in the rubble of the burned out house. We returned many times, and dad spent his time cleaning out the detritus. It was a three mile hike to the house, with no passable roads.
I would scrabble around amongst the ruins and find all kinds of treasures. Coins, perfume bottles, other stuff. Those were some of my dearest memories of that piece of property. Alas, grandmother went senile, and signed it all away to scammers, so that 150 acre chunk of California Real Estate in Santa Rosa went out of the family. But it was an integral part of my childhood.... digging for treasures.
I have to wonder if the latrines of California would be as productive as those of more eastern locales.
Wow! Such hardship in your family and the sad loss. Thank you for sharing.
I would sure think they would be productive in CA as there is as much or more history in CA then in ND.
My heart goes out to you on such a sentimental loss. Physically as well. Darn courts should have thrown that out.
Sometime co0rts are heartless in US. The whole concept of tort law is flawed, specially when juries know no bounds
to common sense when setting amounts of compensation. Then the whole system of (get the lawyer rich) through
ppeals and changing venues and on and on, until only the lawyers get compensation. Arrrrgh !
@ihcman9130 not necessarily so...😮
Most definitely my favorite video of yours that I have ever watched! I love learning about your finds when you dig! Makes me want to dig on my ancestors' farm land!
What an exciting video! Pharmaceutical bottles are some of the ones that first sparked my interest in bottle digging. I love the food jars as well. Such colors and those droopy lips! Fun Mexican Mustangs, the Squib and US army meds...the beautifully glazed jug...the plethora of stoneware beer bottles... the igloo and then pyramid ink! The treasures just kept coming: congratulations! I am happy for you.
What a wonderful dig, plenty of a hall, plus great peaces and even better your not a mucked up mess, I just fell bad for you when your pit turns into a swamp. Love the finds. Much love. Afriend.
haha yeah it is honestly brutal when you get into that wet clay.... not even that its gross, its just hard to work in that! its harder to get the mud off the shovel than it is to scoop it up!! but yeah.. nice and dry! thanks for watching
An amazing variety of "new" old treasures. Thanks for the detailed descriptions. I always learn something new.
The most amazing dig I have seen in a long time! Thank you for your hard work and sharing
An absolutely stellar dig. So many treasures. How I wish you had a channel from which we could purchase some of our history. I would even be interested in the broken pieces. My grandfathers both worked for the railroads, and the train whistle in the background made me nostalgic. My father and I both served in the US Army and even took basic training at the same camp, although 30 years apart.
I love the history of everything you find. I have been a metal detectorist for
over 51 years.
Wow what a dig! Amazing finds! Love all the stoneware beers!
I am British, now in Canada and those brown and white stoneware bottle held Ginger Beer. It is a sparkling soft drink made from Ginger and very fiery. The more modern have a stoneware screw top with a rubber sealing ring. It is great with whiskey. I have been to Burslem, and Hanley (The Potteries) and mother did jam in Kilner Jars. I am very old, 71 yesterday 😅28:20 looks like a pot trivet to stop your hot pans marking the table. You are one of the few people on this side of the pond that pronounces Worcestershire correctly. 😀The was a great dig and so much was intact, very interesting.
71 not so old! I’m 73! Gotch beat!
We just can’t imagine what life was really like back then but by you digging through these pits the really can bring history to life. We can imagine how tough life was like for them seeing that they ate and what preservatives (pickles, sauces) they used and what they drank to relax. This is an amazing channel. Thanks guys x
They ate & drank then buried their rubbish in the ground and moved on just like a travelling Gypsy.
I watch every second! Haha.. love watching you carefully dig and highlight each piece. So wonderful!!
Thank you! thats so nice!!! glad you like the videos!
@BelowthePlains yes your knowledge is impressive and greatly appreciated 👏
I'm blown away. What a pit. Glad I got to see it. Keep up the good work!!!!
thank you so much!
Gotta love a packed and DRY pit. So many good finds, that was huge fun watching you dig, except I wish I was there! Still hoping for the “how to clean your bottles” video. 🤞
Dances with Wolfs Military Camp. So Awesome!!! An Outpost out in the wilderness!!! Every pull is just blowing my mind!!! Great Job, ThX so much for this video!!!
Just going to say, John Dunbar was very fastidious!😀
EXCELLENT ADVENTURE!! Thanks for sharing.
I think it’s safe to say you found the honey hole. Incredible man congratulations!!
haha yeah! god, if only they could all be like this! thanks for watching!
Wow .. what an amazing video!! You amaze me with the amount of knowledge you have regarding the different things you find. Your hard work and that of the folks helping you put the videos together is greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for sharing your treasure hunts with us all.
Now THAT was amazing. Thank you Tom & Jake!
Thanks for watching!
What a great pit! It showed the difference between a military and a non-military pit of the time. You can imagine the higher ranking people of the time ordering in things that most wouldn't have access to. Nothing has changed over the years really, it's nice to see how long it has been going on. Thanks for the great video!
I think the cast iron, round with hearts that you asked about, is a pastry mold for deep frying. Love your videos Tom. Wow, this pit was amazing
If it is, it will have a threaded hole in the back where a thin metal handle was screwed in. This handle allowed a user to hold the "rosette" in the hot oil. When browned, it was pulled out & sprinkled with sugar. While rosette molds were commonly used at that time, the idea of soldiers eating rosette cookies around a campfire is a really different image. Maybe, it was used in the officer's mess.
That was what I thought, too. And the wives of ranking officers might have been keeping house at the fort.
Looks like a rosette iron
That was my thought as well.
No it's a child's pull toy it would have 2 wheels and a bell in the middle of the axle
Another awesome and fascinating dig. Those preserve jars would make great vases.
Fantastic day my friend thanks for sharing this video
Thank you!!!!
I get so excited when you dig up the Mason / Ball jars! I love the set of stoneware beer bottles! Just amazing!
So stoked to see another video , and like always.. Tom? You Rock all things?
Hopefully, all of the glass and other articles can be picked out so the property owner can fill in the pit and work the field without glass and stuff getting churned up. That way, people can enjoy the old findings and the freshly cleaned up land. A win-win.
A particularly magnificent haul. Exciting stuff! Glad the "English" bottles hadn't caught you out. You have a huge bank of knowledge in that head of yours and no-one could fail to be impressed by that. I am an avid viewer and a proud Scot from the Isle of Skye.
Hi Tom and jake what a fantastic early bottles pit it's great to see some British bottles the stone beer bottles are very common find in Britain sometimes they have got the makers printed on them there are quite collectable some are ginger beer ones you and jake will have a feel day in Britain digging for really early bottles going back to 1700 hundreds and early 1800 hundreds like I said Tom you have made history there, all the best Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
The cast iron pot is restorable! Great stuff you're finding!
Indeed yes!
You are the 'Tops'. U.K. What a Fantastic Pit! Our English diggers are so jealous! ! ! Well done.
hahaha well im pretty jealous of them! and thank you!
What a haul guys. Amazing !!! Some of the best history found. Been watching you start you. Are the best on you tube!!! I'm hooked. My dad is an archaeologist and worked on henry the 8's war ship Mary Rose and helped with. Fishbourne roman Palace in. The uk
OMG thats amazing! god you guys have some real amazing history over there. im honestly kind of jealous! its actually a dream of mine to make it over there some day and just get ONE good dig!! thank you! glad you liked the video!
@@BelowthePlains my home was built in the late 17th century. Its 2 story and made from solid sandstone blocks the walls are 18 inch thick. We had a dig in the playground behind the house I helped with in the 80s and found a Roman villa with a mosaic floor mostly intact. Happy digging
@@BelowthePlains The people to talk to are Simon of the Sci Finds channel in London UK and Nicola White . They both have a special permit which enable them to get access to all sorts of interesting places on the River Thames,such as islands not normally open to the public (and are so far from the shore and surrounded by deep mud that they use a hovercraft to reach them), Simon and Nicola White have found artifacts going back before Roman Times.
igrewup in worcestershire england and spent my early childhood 9/10yearpld diggind old victorian rubishpitts looking for old bottles/treashure and thought myself lucky too find a whole bottle,never did i find dozens in one pitt.im jealous but happily taken back too my childhood. happy and carefree days,such simple days digging in the mud,how the world has changed in 40 years. i wish i could go back in time!!! thankyou for taking me back and such a wonderfull hoard you found!!!😁😁
The circular heart object could be an item used to sit a hot cooking pot/dish ontop of it to prevent burning a table cloth.....❤ Really amazing finds, the best you've ever dug up. I enjoyed all the English found items. I'm half English, nice to see what the English crafted n produced back in the day. I wouldn't sell any of the items. I would clean All n place all within a lovely curio cabinet on display under lock n key in for my private collections.😊 Enjoy, lovely.
What an absolute pit of pleasure and exciting watch. There are so many finds that are in one piece, especially the larger ones. Loved the stoneware. I am very pleased I have found your channel.
You guys fucking rock!! you got me excited with that title!
Thanks!!
This video is one of your very best, love the bottles from the 1800’s!
yeah it was a fun one to dig! thanks for watching!
This is an amazing dig! Really enjoyed it.👍from Kentucky
That haul took my breath away!
haha thank you!
@@BelowthePlains you were breathing hard too after all that digging coupled with the excitement of discovering items long gone
Superb video. Very interesting to see how our British items were exported in such large volumes back in your early history. That must have been one of your easiest but most satisfying digs yet.
haha yeah it was a really good one! glad you liked the video, thanks for watching it!
What a dig!! I have one A+DHC bottle here at the house. They made some great glassware. Thanks a bunch for sharing that dig.
Brings back memories......I dug at Natchez-under-the -hill in the 70s and 80s......found lots of the same stuff.... some older stuff also. No pits where I dug.....just the city dump along the Ms River......love your presentation
That cast-iron pot is intriguing, I'd like to see how one would stabilize/restore it.
Completely amazing views of some amazing stone wears and glass ! Thanks for sharing
Im from Pittsburgh, Pa. Very cool to see some glassware that age all the way over there! Love your videos!
OUTSTANDING MY FRIEND!
Have not been Exited in along Time….
I love this, Cheers~
Hello Tom, what amazing finds, great job. Stay safe and take care.👍👍
Hello! and thank you, and will do! thanks for watching!
It's amazing to see this. My Grandfather worked as a builder for the rail system.
So cool. Digging up history! I can watch your vids for hours. Keep up the good content! Would love to see one dug out east to see some really early stuff!
We are planning on going out east this year. we were gonna do it last year, but we had a bunch of stuff come up. Tom has family out in Maine... so if it thaws out there first, we are gonna be headed that way. we are actually really excited! thanks for watching, hopefully we will have that video for you late this spring!
Wow what a beautiful bunch of awesome bottles. Love that big jug. Awesome video
I'm in awe at what you found man!! Good God!!! Congrats!
Thanks 👍
So glad to see you make some more awesome finds! Good job!
Fun dig. Great cache of beer bottles!
Thanks for watching!
It's late night as I'm watching -- had to up the speed to 2x normal to get through this quickly -- and it was more fun than hunting Easter eggs, watching you pop one amazing item after another out of the pit! So awesome to see them after cleaning, too! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! 🪅
We live in a house built in 1898--I want to dig up the whole yard! Actually, I got a metal detector for Christmas and can't wait for spring to begin using it.
haha yeah i gotta buy myself a new detector! and yeah i hear you..... well i can tell you that theres like a 95% chance that there is a pit somewhere in your yard. the thing is, that often times people put garages or sheds or additions to the house that cover the pit... you should try to look for sink spots in your yard. we use these probe rods to find them oldwestbottles.com/probes.php we get the 4 foot rods.. i know they are kind of expensive for something that you probably wouldnt get a lot of use out of but i thought i would link it anyways. when we probe the yards, the way we know when we found it is, the probe will all of the sudden make a crunchy noise... thats stove ash that they would almost always dump into the pits... it has a distinct sound and feel to it... but good luck if you decided to look for it!! around here, they would usually put them 30 paces directly out the (original) back door (sometimes they door would be moved or additions were added to the house) but in warmer climates they would typically put them at the far back of the lot, usually within 10 feet of the back of the lot.... but if you like out in the country, the outhouse could be anywhere within 150 feet
@@BelowthePlains Thanks for all the info!
I really enjoyed this episode. I kept saying "wow!" Or "holy cow!" Out loud when i was watching. Could tell you were really enjoying the dig.
Wow! Amazing dig!
thanks for watching!
What an amazing find! I have to say I'm a little Jelly! So exciting! I would love to purchase one of the medicine bottles!!
Thank you for these great videos! Yall are awesome!!
‘Dances with Wolves” comes to mind as I see you raising the debris of the past in this location. Amazing.
haha i was thinking about that movie when i was editing the video. something about a lonely outpost hundreds of miles away from the nearest town.. something romantic about the idea.. sometimes we go dig these places and we are so far away from civilization, i look out over the hills and i think "this is probably the same scene they were looking at 150 years ago" ...thats one of the parts i like about this job, i get to go and get an intimate look at little pieces of the country and especially north dakota... theres just something about experiencing the solitude that i just cant get at home.. you're never further than 1/4 mile away from the nearest person here. thanks for watching!
That Fort Sedgwick scene in Dances With Wolves was filmed to the northwest of Fort Pierre, South Dakota.
They have signs on the highways calling it out. What they don't mention is that the site had previously been the location of the Angus SD post office. I was recently able to acquire a postmark from there.
oh wow thats really cool! and yeah, you know they excavated Fort Pierre with a bunch of archaeologists? theres an entire book on it! cool stuff
@@BelowthePlains I did some of the excavating. I found nothing cool.
I thought of "Hell on Wheels" too.
Love these old things... Just waiting to be brought to life again by you. I like to think of the people who used the items... From their hand to yours.
My heart is about to stop every time you start to pull and bend objects out before the dirt is removed. Please don’t ever do that in older pits. You’re going to break something sooner or later.
1870 is not an early settlement. Let’s at least give a nod and thanks to the people whose settlements go back 1K years and many more. Thanks for leaving the captions up long enough to read. Puts your channel in the top tier.
Y'all should hashtag this with "unintentional asmr" cos this is asmr how it should be done! 😊
HAHAHA i will add that to our hashtags! haha i think ive actually gotten that comment a few times now. i have absolutely no problem with that tho!! we are open to everyone!
@@BelowthePlains the asmr stuff people do with tapping and whispering is utter pants (in my opinion, anyway) I'm all for the unintentional stuff and I was way before there was even a name for it! I just used to call it people watching as a kid lol
haha i agree... one of my friends told me to check out asmr to relax one time, and i checked it out.... it made me feel really uncomfortable! haha... its not my things, but no shame!.. but yeah, i could see what you mean... there is this channel i used to watch, i cant remember the name, but this guy goes around cleaning the sticks and stuff out of drainage ditches... he gets like a million view per video.. idk, it was just captivating! i remember it has the number "10" in the title
@belowthePlains, the channel you are thinking is is Post 10 and it’s still going strong!
@@BelowthePlains yep, post10 Ive watched him too
You are so lucky to be doing this. So amazing
Wow this is awesome i love old military 🪖 stuff that's been hidden in the ground for 100s of years thanks for sharing all this history with us
I live in Canada, just north of the St. Lawrence river. I used to dive recreationally in the 70's and 80's. This is a very British area, and a place that Empire Loyalist migrated to after the war of Independece. I've only ever come across one stone beer bottle in all my years of diving, to watch you dig up so many so far from the east is stunning. It seems like although the Soldiers / settlers had rejected being British subjects, they retained a taste for english beer. lol Great find, very entertaining, keep up the great work your doing.
Just found your channel. HUGE history guy. To think the last hands to touch these objects were in the 1860s, 70s, 80s, and the very next hands to touch them were yours! To think of the history these things have seen! Definately subscribed! Keep doin what you do man! Love it!
Wow!! I was just telling my friend I think I was born in the wrong era...I love stuff like this far more than modern day riches. This was an excellent and fun dig to watch!!
HAHAHA i've actually said that before myself! yeah... id pay $1000 to just go back and spend one day living like they used to! thanks for watching
What a great dig , loving all the mason jars , stoneware etc.. well done guys and gals , watching from England..
How all bottles were not broken is amazing. Nice finds.
Weird how carelessly he goes at it with his trowel. But I guess he knows what he's doing.
Hello from Brunswick, Maine, US..
I was hatched in Fort Gary, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada, in 1952.
Finding goodies!!!👏
THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!
WHAT A FIND!!!
AMAZING HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY SURVIVED INTACT!!!
I BET A WHOLE LOT OF COLLECTORS ARE GUNNA WANNA HAVE SOME OF THAT!!!
I'm thinking that a lot of the stuff in this pit came from the officer's mess - all those imported English preserve bottles, wine, champagne and ales - the officers would dine together, usually served by stewards - I don't see the soldiers being able to afford all that imported stuff. I'm thinking the officer's mess stewards were clearing off the tables & chucking the empties into the privy. I think the cast-iron piece with pierced heart design is a trivet for placing hot pots or pans on. All the medicine bottles probably came from the surgeon attached to the fort.
haha i would venture to say that you are probably right! i came to a similiar conclusion. thanks for watching!
This was super exciting to watch! Congrats on a super haul!
Im 65. From Indiana. Guess its the Midwest. Just found you. Subbed.
Thank you! glad you found the channel! and yeah, id definitely consider Indiana is a part of the Midwest
Wonderful and wonder filled dig! Thanks for another intriguing post. Loved the stoneware bottles - I used to have a stoneware glazed gin bottle from Holland which I treasured but was destroyed in a fire. Keep on digging, my friend!
Does any inks have a thin strand of glass for the quill holder, don’t brake it while cleaning?
ive seen some that are tug-boat shaped.. thats the only way i know how to desrcribe it lol... but they have a little bump on them where you could set the quill down on it, so it wouldnt touch your desk and get ink everywhere., but i think these ones didnt have it on them. but i have seen that before! thanks for watching!
I get as excited as you do when you find something extraordinary. I hear it in your voice. ❤
Wow, you got jackpot 👍🙏
thanks!