A Strange Sink Spot Under the Sidewalk Leads to a 140 Year Old Structure Full of Old Valuables

Excavating a series of privies at the former site of the Huber residence, in Yankton
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[@marilynnew2189]

Sometimes when I watch your videos I find myself half living in the previous world and half living in the now. I'm 73 and used many of the things you come upon and recognize them. My family always appreciated things with age. I'm also a calligrapher and collect old ink bottles, so when a Sanford or a Carter shows up I know it as soon as you do. None the less, today's episode made me feel a bit older than my years, in a good way. Keep digging.

[@maureenbergin3453]

I enjoy all these old items. And it somehow brings those people who used them back to life

[@felinefaye8550]

Amen! My house itself is about 100 years old. My grandma's house was built in 1888, Southern Minnesota.

[@jiggidyjam]

If you had a Time Machine and went back to late 1800’s early 1900’s and told people someone over 100 years later a man will be digging up were they pooped to get their garbage they would think you’re crazy.

[@utg369]

Not pooped, but rather produced "use layer". 😆

[@rogerb4971]

Good Lord, Two hours and 38 minutes! Talk about making my week! Love you guys!

[@michaelschaeffer6968]

Lol

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

@Below the Plains , I watch this like a series. 💪😎 The paperweight was made for a advertising picture or just a picture of a landmark to be placed in it.

[@oilerfreak]

Holy smokes that was an epic one to rewatch as a one yard dig. Thanks as always Tom.

[@TheopolisQSmith]

I enjoy seeing names on some of the bottles that my parents bought when I was a child. And a few still around today.

[@BrianRandolph-jt5vp]

That last pit was crazy

[@DarrylDigger]

Love the cranberry glass font.

[@manderson3231]

The paper weight would have had a photo or an advertisement on the indented side, facing the flat side. They were pretty common back in the day.

[@GreenThumbGardener65]

It amazes me how quickly you can date all this stuff. I really enjoy your videos. 😊

[@oleradiodudea.m.4735]

I lived very near Yankton on the Nebraska side. A native man in our area who was very old when I was young used to tell stories about how water would amazingly come out of the ground for no apparent reason and on other occasions the ground would just open up several feet wide and a long long drop to the bottom. I know after Gavins Point Dam was built they had to move an entire town because the water table came up. Interesting hydrology in that area.

[@karenwright8556]

So many things in the ground we walk on,you just b never know. Great dig!💞💞

[@screwthecabal6453]

The details of the house are incredible

[@DWilt1969]

Some nice finds. 👍

[@aicirtkciub9167]

Wow those were all cool digs. The last one was epic, it didn't look like it was going to end ! Ummm, that hole going to nowhere was freaky. Do you know what it was???

[@ruthw1079]

Those glass soap dish looking pieces are actually paperweights. They were sold in touristy areas. The paper in the recessed underside would have like a picture of Niagara Falls, for example.

[@diabloprops]

The paper weight often had a photo or print on the underside (concaved side) facing up to the flat side. We had a couple on the show Lessons In Chemistry.

[@Philip-gn8wx]

Still hoping to get to watch the whole process of digging, washing and selling your fantastic and rare finds....Or, the jar of silver and gold coins Grandpa buried in 1892!!! You're doing great and I have been enjoying this production....🇺🇸 I'm glad to tell you that I subbed your site and I have been enjoying it all....😎

[@andrewowens9382]

Hi Tom 👋 👋 👋 and hi jake 😊 yankton south dakota was a busy place 😀 Tom I'm always amazed 👏 when you find all these bottles, very interesting that you can date the pieces 😀 yes I would say they were paper weights 😀 always look forward to watching your channel 😀 your the best 👌 👍 have a good week Tom and jake 😀 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧

[@nickt7658]

Dude...what a treasure to come home from work make a drink and see this diabolic video to watch... Tom? You rock all things! NK .

[@brandeewarren6557]

Love the intro music and your adventures

[@kennethstickney8819]

The "castle" vase is likely a toothbrush holder, that came with a wash bowl and pitcher and perhaps a soap dish.

[@bwilliams463]

That's the first piece of Cobalt I've seen you find; mostly we get amber, pale blue or pale green. How rare are the 'deep' glass colors? I've seen colored-glass apothecary bottles on my various antiquing quests.

[@dcnole]

By the time Tom is done, the town of Yankton, SD is just going to be one big filled-in hole!

[@user-yg4ne9zg8p]

Wow! You must have a warehouse full of by now!!!

[@pixielated2003]

Amazing I'm truely hooked

[@terrencebuller7676]

Hello Tom, was excited to get the notification of your program, always look forward to watching these digs. So much history right underfoot. Great job to all that make this possible. Take care 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@tinaj984]

Great colors...they liked their beer🤣🤣🤣 Thank you!!😊😊

[@Vitusvonatzinger]

That house looks familiar. Have you previously posted this dig?

[@davidg813]

Yes you're right that glass rectangular piece is a paperweight and usually people put a photograph of some favorite person or seen in the bottom so you can look through the glass down at it I have a couple here but the ones I have around

[@died4us590]

I always look forward to a new video, like to see what you dig up from back in the day. Back in the day is something i notice in your video's, and it always makes me smile when i hear it, maybe because I'm 53, and I'm closer to being back in the day lol. The number of items you find is pretty wild, and it's interesting how different site's people used certain kinds of snake oil for whatever health problems they may have had. I have watched nearly all your video's since finding this channel a month or so ago, love seeing what was once trash, and now is treasure. G-d bless y'all.

[@williamftaylor44]

Here we go 😁

[@deloradeabel8487]

WOW another episode already can’t wait to see what you find!

[@jeffclark2725]

My thoughts exactly, i am used to seeing these on the weekends, great videos

[@thepoetthatwasi1722]

One day he'll find typhoid or something very similar to.

[@dangray]

Always a pleasure, thanks....I felt your pain when you said "We are almost 10 feet in the ground."

[@margaretmanz2030]

Love your style of urban archeology. It's a pleasure to enjoy your good company.

[@glennmurphy1820]

WOW ! You must have one incredible collection. Great video.

[@peikathryn]

I never get tired of your videos.

[@show-metreasure3438]

So many awesome finds!

[@lauriecornell6169]

Fun to see Sebring Pottery. My paternal Grandmother's family.

[@ianmax5263]

That last pit was insane! Wonder how deep the hole was at the bottom! Hours of fun watching this video

[@sherimiller5857]

This is a great haul, so much fun to watch

[@sekaf4125]

Thank you for explaining use layers!!!!!

[@johnwahl3948]

Your my every Friday lunch time video keep up the good work!!

[@marykaystreasures]

Wow so many bottles ♥️♥️♥️♥️⚒️🇺🇸🗝️ Thanks so much for sharing your awesome video ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Happy Digging ♥️♥️

[@garbagearchive]

I love the pause, “… wild”!

[@kape8286]

I have had the best time!! keep digging tom

[@janiesippel225]

It would be cool if you did a bottle tutorial on the different kinds of bottles you are finding in these pits. Love the channel.

[@lyndamac1058]

Aww you reuploaded, I remember this one well cos I made a comment on the original about the child's voice 3:56 and then Tom started finding parts of dolls lol

[@lambchoppyboy]

The child spirit is saying "Miss".

[@TL243]

Epic.

[@webknob6998]

The one that you said was a paper weight, probably is. I have one like it.

[@UnpopularOpinion42]

After watching several of these videos, I honestly never thought I’d find myself so fascinated with this type of content. I went and followed on Facebook as well, pretty cool stuff!

[@koriwilliams4709]

Tom, I absolutely love watching this. Keep it up!

[@juliehoquin9525]

So excited to see another episode in a short time.

[@avengingmime]

Tuesday is definitely improving!

[@maureenfitzgerald1895]

Oh I love your videos

[@jerrysadventures8952]

wow you do some good digging

[@RealityCheck1956]

Seems like that big pit might have been a dentist working out of a home office. Could be reason for syringes, many small med bottles and that weird looking pliers tool…tooth extractor?? Glyco Thymoline is a mouthwash/rinse. Glad I didn’t grow up in those days. Dentistry was brutal!!

[@deloradeabel8487]

I love the old paper labels you show that went on the bottles,they are so interesting & pretty!I am curious when you find an embossed pharmaceutical bottle that only a few were made,how were these bottles made,are they made in a bottling factory?Love your channel!

[@gregsabo6371]

Just like Harry said in Home Alone "WOW! What a hole!"

[@ummstuff123]

Would be fun to tell the original property owners back then that over a 100 years from now someone would be looking for the place they pissed,shat and dumped their ash and trash 😂

[@WifeMomOsi]

Omgosh so cool, I have Huber's in my family tree a great great maternal grandma's mom was a Huber!!! And they lived in Yankton!!

[@samsager1]

Absolutely insane pit!! Good work fellas!!!

[@roybal1975]

IT WOULD BE COOL TO SEE THE OWNERS REACTION TO YOUR FINDINGS.

[@sharonquinn2760]

The intact cracked cup has a tea leaf pattern. My aunt collected that pattern.

[@atuuschaaw]

Wow! That's one heck of a property! Great digs! ♥

[@greggv8]

31:04 That's a glass rolling pin. They were filled with ice water then corked or had a screw cap. Also, it's ceramic bisque, pronounced bisk, like risk, not biscuit. My family had a ceramic business 1972 to 1988 and it was one of the largest suppliers of unfired greenware and unglazed bisque items in the Pacific Northwest. I like seeing all the old things you dig up and would like to see a video on what you do with all of them.

[@fiorenzaattanasio4796]

You are so knowledgeable I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU AND YOUR CHANNEL. THANK YOU ❤🇨🇦

[@daviddarrall9384]

Keep going. We are All with you! Thanks 😊 UK.

[@carolynsimone8647]

Oh man... what an awesome dig.....loved it...🥰🥰

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

I used to have some iron stoneware that my grandmother gave me. Stuff last forever.

[@bluecorona868]

well love this . thank you .

[@CatCmdr]

Always interesting! 💙

[@lisanowakow3688]

Why do you toss out the toppers?

[@pollatix]

Strange that the two pits' have remarkably different compositions but seems chronologically congruent; top layer of your second pit starts at 1905 and gets older, whereas the first pit starts at c. 1915 and gets older. But amount of shoe polish (pit 2) and cold cream bottles (pit 1), imply these are different households. Neat mystery

[@PeppieP]

When you said there was a sink hole there and it was real deep, you could hear the dirt still falling down it. - well I would have been off like a shot out of there. Our brave duo remained steadfast though. Thank you so much for this brilliant 2hrs 38min long program, don’t know what I did to deserve this treat but I will take it with open arms x

[@brieingram3636]

The beer bottles are bigger than the wine bottles!

[@TL243]

2:12:08 awesome bottle. Love the three panel style

[@tracyallan7078]

Great video. Loved the length. You were tired at the end. But great job 😊

[@breathofhome6315]

Check into getting a Hori Hori gardening knife. It would make getting through some tough soil easier for you.

[@janmcguire5268]

Your digs are fascinating!

[@anthonybacon7073]

Always fascinating to watch. Have ever come across human remains, explosives, or weapons?

[@maximusdesmund2072]

I love this channel.. It help me relax before bedtime.. And I have dreams of me digging up bottles..🍶🍶🍶

[@NewsLynne]

The malted milk advertisement is kinda funny. The last think you’d want if you are car or seasick is a bottle of malted milk. 🤢

[@joycewinegarner9786]

You are amazing!!! I love watching your discoveries... what do you think about maybe showing us your finds, adding one more finishing component... showing us a display of your findings after cleaning them all up??? That would be simply blasting into a new level!!! We wanna see all of those beautiful iridescent colors and embossing. I can almost see it, but there's mud on it😂 👍👍👍

[@Looter8TreasureHunter]

Well that took a while but I watched the whole thing! Amazing as usual!

[@brianwalker9185]

Glass rectangle is a soap dish

[@VolcanoTimeLapse]

This movie lol has answered a question I had. Early crown tops were tooled. I learn a lot from you Tom. :)

[@DISCODJ74]

Nice new boots!

[@diaperdan378]

Enjoy your videos very much. I recognized the pattern of the cup you found earlier in this video. It is English and pattern is Tea Leaf ironstone. Very popular in the nineteenth century earlier twentieth.

[@ruthw1079]

That HJ Heinz bottle looks exactly like the ketchup bottles from the 1970s.

[@debramiller9285]

vaseline glass and anything you suspect to be radioactive you can store behind leaded glass

[@DCHoosier62]

Wow! 2 loaded digs! Do you leave a few of you bottles behind for the home owners? I would be scared to dig under that concrete. Thanks for sharing these digs with us.😊

[@daveparnell3886]

The paper weight thing looks to me to actually be a soap dish.

[@patty4091]

You sure did wear yourself out on those pits! The first and last one just kept on giving! It would’ve been interesting to look into that hole you found tat sounded like it kept going! Hopefully it doesn’t go too close to the house!

[@oldArmyVet]

Nice watch fob

[@BottleBri]

TOM that wasn’t Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce! It was a HALFORDS LEICESTERSHIRE SAUCE! Take another look at it! The one in your first hole?! At 28m 46secs.

[@margdoell2722]

Like your videos!! That was one big ash hole hahaha

[@kmagnussen1052]

Let me know when you find Doc Holiiday's opium flask.

[@gregsmith9480]

You're lucky that people seem nice, letting you dig on their property. People in Utah, not so accommodating.

[@andrewowens9382]

Just to say about the history of Alfred meakin , j & g meakin started in the early 1850's the manufacturer of EARTHENWARE at the Eagle pottery and company 👌 the business remained in the family until 1968 I thought you would like to know Tom and jake 😀 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧

[@jimlee8000]

Alfred Meakin “Tea Leaf” coffee cup