120 Year Old Map Helped Us Find This Dig Site.. It Pays Off

[@alanatolstad4824]

The Kelly Hotel was still standing when I was a little kid, mid-50s. I got to go inside once, no memory of who I would have gone in with or why we were there. It had been empty many years by then. And, the gas station was still up in the early 70's. There was a street fair once (again mid-50's) and both sides of the street still had buildings.---I'm happy to watch you dig in the old town. My Grandparents' homes, as well as those of other relatives, are still standing. Some are even occupied!

[@BelowthePlains]

oh yeah? maybe we will dig one some day.. we actually met a bunch of people in that town, and we still even talk to a few of them. havent been back there in a year but, id really like to go back there. i think we have most of our videos so far from dazey. we did dig one house there. supposidly it was the first house built in the town and its still occupied and standing. somewhere in our videos you should be able to come across it! it was a really good place to dig, unfortunatly we didnt record very much of it, so we were only able to cut a video that was under 10 minutes

[@daveblackburn5393]

Tom real nice video. I enjoy watching what u find when u and your friends are digging. I don't collect bottles but I enjoy watching your videos of your hobby. Thanks for sharing take care and god bless Dave blackburn

[@loripretti843]

That was definitely a Great Day!!! Nice finds!!! God Bless!!!!

[@danarandol164]

I love your sense that the pits talk to you and send up clues to what they hold; very fun

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Great finds really enjoyed the video

[@jerryblum277]

That was an amazing haul Tom!

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks for watching!

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

Tom I realy liked that pumpkin flask, and that quill pen where really cool to see Thanks

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks for watching.. i agree, it was very cool

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

@@BelowthePlains Tom I was reading the comments and you have some well known diggers watching you, S S and LDD hope to see Rocks comment soon

[@seastheday2020]

Very cool! Fun watching you pull those out!

[@debraporch7888]

Tom and Jake, Splendid video!!! The glass pen is absolutely beautiful. I wish we could have seen it all cleaned up. I loved all of the bitters bottles. I wish they were in my collection. Who is the bottle collector or are you both? Was there any fresh water in the area during the time when the hotel was up and running? Jake when you start digging again would you please save me some seeds from the dig, I would like to try to grow them? Thank you for the knowledge. Jake I'm glad your name can be seen so you get credit also. Take care and be safe.✌

[@digginghistorylittlejimmy9960]

Nice haul .Thanks so much for all these videos.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha no, thank YOU for commenting and watching!

[@389rockford]

love your channel bro!

[@ValerieDee123]

Amazing bottle finds. I've never seen anyone find a quill. That was amazing!Amazing! As always my favorite the seeds!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah the seeds.. we were never completely sure what that thing was, but we just kind of assumed it was a writing tool.. but it was glass.. the whole thing, is one solid piece of glass.. crazy how that survived

[@tammyaskjem9871]

Another great vid and dig! Thank u!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thanks tammy!

[@chriskoch1241]

Some of those drug store bottles, especially from the 1800s, were for laudnum - a mix of whiskey and opium - which was the only painkiller stronger than the aspirin available from 1815 forward. Local archaeologists find lots of laudnum bottles in privey pits. As you can imagine, that stuff was addictive as hell.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah i can imagine! hmm. i had never heard that before.. i always assumed that it was either cocaine, opiates, or alcohol but i guess i never knew that they had a specific name for it.. sometimes we dig them out and there is a yellow or white residue in them.. ive never like tried it lol.. but i always wonder if id get in trouble if i got pulled over on the way home ands the cops did a test on it..

[@danarandol164]

From watching your videos I’d guess the West was “won” with whiskey, guns, and patent medicines😲😂

[@lisacates4185]

Tombstone,,matty was addicted to lawdum

[@cherylsibson2529]

@@BelowthePlains Although the bottles were probably rancid by the time you'd get them tested, you could ask to get them tested before you got pulled over.

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom a fantastic location. It was so awesome to see so many bottles stacked in there.

[@SteveFBS]

Wow. Great finds!

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks! thanks for watching and commenting

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety]

wow was like flask heaven in there🙂liked the druggist's bottles, the bitters bottles, really liked the pen and the pocket pumpkin seed flasks👍 never seen those before, great work Tom and associates👍

[@carolynsimone8647]

Was that Mary's lamb.??.😅..this just kept on giving...enjoyed video ...🥰

[@mandybrown7758]

Nice that you got an intact Hutch

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah.. too bad it was a chicago, which is super common in the midwest, but.. they're beautiful bottles, the hutches

[@altpropaganda7293]

The glass pen was an amazing find, so cool :)

[@laurelshugars2866]

Ha! "That about sums it up". What an incredible dig.

[@Scano41]

Wow they coming out so clean

[@williamfoster7165]

whoa that hole was stuffed! great video!

[@garyg8425]

What a great dig! Congrats!

[@BelowthePlains]

we appreciate you checking it out, and commenting!

[@philipcallicoat3801]

This site is a welcome oasis in the vast wasteland of KZbin ❤️... Well done 👍

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha we have gotten a lot of really nice comments, but i think thats my favorite one so far! we might just have to make that our slogan!!! well thanks alot for watching, and thanks for the comment

[@lukependleton2589]

Thanks again for some great content! If you have time I do have a a couple questions. Also with the understanding that I have never dug a privy or a trash dump. Are the privies not deep enough to worry about a temperature difference to crack the bottles if taken out to quickly? What depth does that occur? I imagine it may be a bit different from region to region. Thank you for you time.

[@BelowthePlains]

yes the bottles can break if the temperature changes too quickly.. i believe its more dangerous to the bottle to have them at room temp, and then get them cold quickly.. but yeah they could potentially break if they change temp too fast, but the ground and the air temp was probably only about a 20 degree Fahrenheit diggerence, it was a fairly cool day for mid summer, and the ground that low was was cool, but not cold. but absolutely they can break if you are not careful.. if its super hot out, we will leave the water inside them, to prevent any quick temp change.. but its my understanding that the ground wont freeze too far down.. probably 5 feet down at the height of winter. this was in NE north dakota, where its one of the coldest places in the continental US, but by the time it gets to summer, the ground is cool, but never cold.. and i honestly have never dug after the ground has frozen, so i have no idea what its like below the ground, but i do know that after the snow melts (usually in april) the ground below the surface thaws out fairly quickly.. but yeah i imagine that the bottles towards the top wont survive forever with such harsh freeze/thaw cycles... its almost universal that the bottles towards the top are likely to get broken/cracked as compared to the bottles towards the bottom, which are usually in way better condition.. i hope that helped, and if you have anymore questions, feel free to ask again! thanks for watching

[@lukependleton2589]

Yes. Thank you for the response. Hopefully one day I'll find some privies to dig here in Kansas so the more information I can gather the better. Thank you again

[@cdd4248]

With opium...those are 'one minute' anything cure! Nice work you two!

[@ericmason5226]

wow that's crazy. was that a pen? awesome video!🤟

[@BelowthePlains]

im not actually sure! thanks for the comment

[@sarahnormally5508]

Wow!😍

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thanks

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

How do you do this from the idea, to searching and testing the ground to researching what you find? Amazing work!!

[@teresasallam9526]

So you have to obtain permits to dig in those sites? I'm curious how you find these sites you dig at. I would just love to do that here in NC

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah i dont know, i believe every state is different. you'd just have to look it up..

[@mayaozen3582]

I hear "privy" and it comes to mind an outside room with a hole in the ground which people use as a toilet. Are these holes that?

[@raddadchad]

I really enjoy these; it makes me want to just go in my backyard and dig, haha. I can tell by your maps that you plan these , just remember 1 cubic sq of dirt is about 80 lbs, you dig pretty deep muchacho, I hope you look into some type of shoring so you decreases your chance of getting hurt

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah the dirt up here is pretty solid but.. yeah when we get down past like 8 feet, then yeah we take precautions. but we've gone south or have seen some sandy areas around here, and they just didnt seem to dig them as deep when the soil was likely to just collapse.. but thank you, glad you enjoy the videos, and thanks for leaving us a comment

[@pauljefferies2091]

The Umatilla Hair Restorer is the best bottle you dug. I found one in Pendleton Oregon and instantly thought it was a local bottle because the Umatilla are from that general area. I was surprised to see that is was from Detroit! Still a pretty dang rare bottle!

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah we set that one aside, i agree, probably the best bottle of the day

[@georgiaware3248]

Nice bottles, like those pumpkin seed flasks.😊

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah i know, we dont see those alot, they are very cool looking bottles. thanks for commenting

[@miningmonkey760]

Pretty cool stuff, have you tried any of the whiskeys?

[@BelowthePlains]

lol no... im not even sure if its even whiskey in those, or just ground water.. some of the bottles we have found with a cork in them, we've unsealed and it was the worst smelling thing you can image.. and theres also alot of deadly stuff if potentially ingested, in these pits ie. poison, lead paint, bacteria, mercury, heroin, opium, etc.. but we have joked about trying it.. none of us ever have tho

[@miningmonkey760]

@@BelowthePlains so true so true z thanks for playing it safe man,very cool finds.true alcohol would have survived that, it even still imagine arsenic poison in a whiskey 🤦

[@barrywainwright3391]

Before removing the sod you should metal detect it because there could be some old coins there. I never got into privy digging because I'm too spoiled. I dig big town dumps that are just loaded with stuff and I find a lot of things a lot quicker.

[@BelowthePlains]

hahah yeah ive dug a few dumps.. they're pretty awesome to dig. just the most random stuff. yeah we have a metal detector but we should probably use a little more.. some of these pits just have so much rust in them that they set off the detector pretty much nonstop

[@swbottles]

They made the Chicago hutches bullet proof. They never broke.

[@BelowthePlains]

hahahaha! yeah i know right. thanks for commenting

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

Love your channel too!! S S

[@EmeLightheartArtisanDesigns]

Nice bottles

[@judylutz1702]

Can go sell the slick drugstore bottles from 1900 or are they just paperweights?

[@vanlifeinthecity9798]

The ones you just find the bottom of, they can be cut down and make good whiskey or shot glasses. Great video

[@stevenm3141]

I'm surprised you run across knives forks and spoons. Also, metal picture frames . With all the bottles makes you wonder where they laying on the ground and just got buried ? Or did they go into a big hole in new construction.

[@BelowthePlains]

oh no, these were the outhouse pits. they would just throw their trash down the hole when it was something they couldnt burn.. then they buried the top of the pit

[@lisacates4185]

Wow ❤️👏👏👏👏

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I dig bottles and have found quill pens, never glass. I do pen and ink artwork and use old ink bottles. I'd buy that pen in a heartbeat to do my art with. Beautiful

[@kimk8365]

I'm a recent sub, I see your now over 8k subs, keep those digs coming!

[@Dasha17177]

Man you dig a heap of bottles but i feel your pain digging all the plain skin chemist bottles. Love your videos.

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks! glad you enjoyed.. yeah we do get a ton of those plain ones.. theyre probably like 35% of every bottle we find lol.. thanks for commenting

[@aldobottle937]

That was a great pit to watch Being dug🍾💚

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thanks, yeah it was a fun one to dig.. wish we would have filmed more, but it was filmed before we knew what we were doing, so.. the videos in the future are gonna be way better.. thanks for watching/commenting!

[@jessehughes6939]

I have found two of those kellerstrass bottles. I'm about an about and a half north of kansas city

[@thomaskeil1437]

Barehand extrication seems hazardous, especially after being aware of broken glass discovered only moments prior.

[@Missangie827]

back in the day people would use cans and bottles for target practice-imagine all the bottles that were blown to bits!

[@richardbeee]

You know your bottles, like i know my gold.

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks!

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

My favorite bottles are bitters bottles

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah those are really cool.. i have a theory.. they are sqaure right? so the reason they always seem to be broken is bc a circle is a stronger shape that a square.. and those large flat panels only need a little tap by something hard and theyre gonna break.. yeah those electric bitters are so cool. not worth much but.. thats just a cool sounding name! thanks for commenting

[@johnshackelford6965]

Wilksberry garbage dump shrine 1/2 pint. Betsy Cockey Cockeysville MD blue cobalt.

[@Prettyboy3356]

What do you find the maps

[@greenrockgarden2851]

That lamb might be lambchops.

[@bonnitahinson6296]

Why did people back then throw glass and other things in the outhouses?

[@Missangie827]

sometimes whiskey /beer was consumed without everyone knowing-easy to hide the evidence in the outhouse

[@Lucky..B]

I see You found a tube for opimum token!

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

No Lee and Perrin or Frenchs mustard??

[@BelowthePlains]

lol we havent found any of those yet.. but we do get a ton of ketchups tho

[@judywood-stockrahm9181]

Glad to see something else besides whiskey bottles and drug store bottles.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah you and me both! thanks for leaving us a comment

[@rogerwhite3644]

I'm willing to wager you've had numerous cuts buddy.

[@starsportscards8688]

To La Pit To Quit

[@vincentdorsey8545]

Go easy with your digger stick in the tight spots will ya? You drive that thing in way to hard and way to fast.

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha got it! thanks!

[@philipcallicoat3801]

I'm aware that you guys are pros, but please wear gloves 🧤... 🙏😊

[@BelowthePlains]

haha we usually do wear gloves, its just really hard to operate the camera with gloves on, so we take them off when we're filming

[@davemiller8215]

Tom...........GLOVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one of these days you are going to lay yourself open really badly and do tendon damage..... the broken glass doesn't send you an email or text before it severs you

[@BelowthePlains]

haha.. we usually always have gloves on, but its hard to film with them on. thanks for the concern tho! and thanks for watching, and commenting

[@lidymaehoward6726]

Get some gloves on! I’m not your momma, but you should know better!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha thats one of the most common comments we get! we have gloves on like 90% of the time, but we have to take them off to operate the camera.. but thank you! we honestly do appreciate the concern. thanks for watching

[@lesliecraig4935]

Awesome Video, well done 👌👌👌

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks! we appreciate you commenting