A Strange Sink Hole Opening by a Creek Leads to the Find of a Lifetime from the 1880s

[@ColemanRG]

I would like to thank you for the presentation of information, in the frame of your discovery, displayed long enough to read, and then look at the artifact. Your channel should be the gold standard for all the others.

[@HeirOfNothingInParticular]

Agreed!

[@JulesUS8386]

Maybe a fire/trash pit

[@ZERODESTRUCTION]

Yes! Great videos to watch, although your digs are so fruitful that we're all envious!!😅

[@winkieblink7625]

Were the pits purposely made for discards that couldn’t be burned? Just to dig a pit…throw trash…then cover up….and on to another pit?

[@harryrainey6212]

I am envious of your bottle digging. I dug a vacant lot in Leesburg, Fl that belonged to a 1880 Lumber Baron. My best finds were several Warner Safe bottles. The late Roy Singer said normally a digger may find one and we dug 8. His prized finds were two pottery jugs that were in perfect condition. Normally these were found broken. The Baron was wealthy, jugs were emptied and discarded. I found a couple pharmacies bottles and presented them to the local historical society. They had photographs of the pharmacies and I donated two bottles for those two photos. You’d thought I handed them 2 bars of gold. I did that dig when in my 30’s, now I am in my 70’s and crippled. Keep doing those videos, love them.

[@karenillingworth4937]

I’m envious of the lovely earth, wish my garden was as good.

[@almightyyt2101]

You know you can buy manure from farmers or topsoil from Home Depot - maybe the channel owner could sell the byproduct of his hobby for some Gs - or go looking for old lost privy holes -

[@almightyyt2101]

Living in the city we had a little patch of dirt for a yard - some friends and I wanted to see how far we could dig but at about waist - ribs level came upon a layer of glass - dont know how far down this went - nothing but broken glass and a few intact bottles, plates and anything made from glass, ceramics, pottery - I never in my life thought it might be a privy hole - I thought the neighborhood might be on top of an old rubbish tip w the only thing surviving decomp being glass - watching this channel gives me an appreciation for history - hope he pulls out an old forgotten Oak Island type treasure one day - heard privy holes were a common hiding place but maybe that secrets been figured out centuries ago

[@I_am_smiling]

thank you for donating to the historical society. I don't dig up antiques lol, I just buy . I plan on donating most of my antiques if not all to historical society in my will.

[@taylormeli]

That’s awesome Harry, I’m local here lived in Eustis area my whole life. Cool story, I love arrowhead hunting and looking for “items” as we call it

[@user-SgHDr217]

First time here. Your channel is better than PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow Show”. Could call it the Apothecary Pit. Such fertile soil, too. Makes for a very happy tree! Fun!! Thanks for sharing!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha wow! thank you! that is so nice! we really appreciate that!!!

[@justwondering1967]

Polk county is situated in the Red River Valley and was once the ancient lake bed of Lake Agassiz which deposited a thick layer or organic material that makes it some of the most fertile soil in the world.

[@user-SgHDr217]

@@justwondering1967 sounds like the Nile of North America, minus (or, maybe thanks to) the privy pit(s), perhaps.

[@beckyszilagyi1697]

Thank you for the Lake bottom comment of fertile soil. Very insightful knowledge

[@justwondering1967]

@@user-SgHDr217 I wouldn’t quite give it Nile status ( I would reserve that for the Mississippi that has its headwaters only about 60 miles East). I will say this, however, it is one of the few rivers that flows north like the Nile.

[@Wonkzzilla]

These pits had the most variety of any other pit I've seen you dig, and with the most intact glassware of any other pit too. Cool to get a glimpse into life in America over 100 years ago!

[@653j521]

Can you hear the yelling and crying when something broke?

[@philipcoston5993]

P]]]p00pppp0pp00p]pppp

[@clambroth1923]

Glimpse is all you really get out of the dig. Don't make the mistake of carting home any of that trash. There isn't a single item of any value in that pile from the trash pit. Fun hobby, but the notion that you're going to find something of value (that isn't broken) is a pervasive myth.

[@SledDog5678]

He literally hit "pay dirt"!

[@BTW...]

Some things haven't changed.

[@PeppieP]

What amazing pits you dug this time - I loved the milk glass bottle but I was so amazed that someone could have thrown down an electric light bulb around 100 plus years ago and it remained intact. Thanks for this amazingly historical haul through our history. x

[@davidaa2521]

I dug for bottles and jars in old dumps when I was a kid, still have a lot of them on my mantle - great hobby and good memories. I'm back home in North Texas now and I can recognize the great treasure in this video is the fertile black soil he's digging in. If my property here had soil like that, I'd be rich now, I'll bet it would grow anything.

[@deloradeabel8487]

Seemed like the family that lived here were fairly wealthy by the items you were digging out,great dig guys!

[@pameladowdell8571]

Boy, you really know so much about these bottles. I wish I knew even a little bit about them, but I'm learning more from you. Thank you. I really love watching you Tom. Again, Thank you.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

If they only knew in a 100 yrs someone would be digging up their privey pit.😊

[@tricitymorte1]

My mom grew up just a couple hours drive away from this site. I would love to go dig up their refuse pit. I'd be willing to bed I would find the French Doors she took down and tossed as a pre-teen. 😆

[@rainbowranddy]

How did it smell in that pit?

[@letsdothis9063]

​@@rainbowranddyit doesn't really stink. Lol At least not from the reasons you would think. Most biological waste has long been taken care of by nature. I used to think about that when people would dig up intact poop chutes in cities like New York. What's funny, is that old guns and knives are a common find in those places. Criminals would just toss the evidence down the hole. Also they find a lot of watches. Just thinking about all of the guys that accidentally tossed their watches cracks me up. 😅 definitely something I would do.

[@HistoryStillThrives]

Jackpot Tom! Incredible finds and so many. I dug up that same Watkins bottle 3 days ago. Great work 👍

[@onalos1271]

Incredible! This is what "television" should have been instead of wall to wall commercials with garbage in between.

[@wanttopreach]

you mean lies don't you?!!!!

[@KarenStringer-e9k]

The REAL that should be in “reality” TV instead of just the ITY ( little , tiny ) almost nothing TV

[@NancyYoung-yu9jv]

@@wanttopreach

[@sophiegiddings9272]

I am drooling over watching you dig and find treasure. When I was 11, my Mom had a campground host job in a National Park, in a campground constantly used since around 1900. We camped a whole summer. One day I found a piece of glass sticking out of the ground in our campsite. I started doing some gentle digging, and started finding bottles like these. I was being real careful, but a ranger came by, flipped out, and told me I couldn't do that. It was the old dumps, and you weren't aloud to dig up the "trash", lol. Wish I could go back. :)

[@aicirtkciub9167]

I raised my kids in a turn of the century farming and fishing village where the tiny downtown core was left mostly intact. I can imagine walking into those stores and seeing these items on shelves.

[@traceytan7171]

Wow ! I happened upon your video. Such a large amount of stuff ! I used to visit the ghost towns out here in Nevada. I found some stuff. But this incredible amount of such perfect items ? So jealous, and impressed. Definitely going to be watching from now on. Excellent find.

[@janetbeebe1785]

I absolutely love anything milkglass. You are very knowledgeable about your finds. Happy digging!

[@Hamingja6266]

So friggin happy to see a new episode AND it's over 48+ mins long!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Made my week!!!!!!!!😊

[@ravenred201]

I find your channel fascinating. Your knowledge is far and wide. I'm so happy you put the actual historical info in the upper right corner as you go through your finds. It helps us learn too! thanks for doing that! What i find interesting is that from what i gather by living here in the deep south, people that had outhouses never put "trash" in their outhouses. They had another pit/area for all the breakables and they burned all burnables. I was told that all the trash put in an outhouse would contribute to it filling up faster so they didn't do that. I wonder why up north it was done differently? Great channel....fun fun, digging for history.

[@danielnln]

The detail that you include in this video is appreciated. I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

[@modemmama100]

I appreciate the information you show on screen about the products. Love this show!

[@victorialambert8146]

Thanks for taking this 67 year old lady on a trip back thru history! I’ve found some nice pieces in my lifetime.❤

[@johnnywright5236]

now you stop talking about your love life lol

[@victorialambert8146]

@@johnnywright5236 gotta have one first!😂

[@dannovello1577]

I dont know why, but im captivated by your video's, lol. I grew up, and worked in San Francisco, as a commercial carpenter. Every once in a while i would find old bottles, (dug up by the backhoe), in the old buildings we were retrofitting. One of my prize bottles was a water bottle i found under a stage like flooring. It had a double lable, so the under label is mint, from 1911 I believe. I saved them, but just stuck in a box in the shed now, ha.

[@mikeam3871]

Worked at embarcadero center in SF around the early 70s. So much stuff was turning up they told the equipment operators if they got off their machines to pick up another bottle (or stack of pottery from a rotted crate) they’d be fired. The local university got permission to come in at night and get what they could before it got crushed the next day. Sad. I heard that the area was part of the bay during the gold rush where ships were abandoned and later used as land fill.

[@karenwright8556]

Great dig. Now that the weather is getting better...new digs perhaps? Looking forward to more,this one was a good one,more history of a family, can't get too much more intimate than digging in their old poo. What a way to make a living,hard work,too. It's really interesting and I get excited with you when you dig up something historic!🌈☺️ Keep up the good diggings! Hope you had a lovely weekend wherever you are today.🌷🌷🌷

[@Looter8TreasureHunter]

Love the milk glass bottles. Amazing finds! That pit was definitely loaded.

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom you found a beautiful assortment of bottles and glassware. Not so many liquor bottles like past videos. With that many children, there must be more privies there. Great video, loved that old tree.👍👏😀

[@primitivetennesseechicks8740]

I love how long your videos are!! Enjoy every minute

[@lambdatempest]

Who knew that Outhouse Archaeology could be so interesting!

[@countermoonman]

Lmao 😂 still lol. Classic. 😎🇺🇸✌️

[@CarrieHackler]

WOW !! Absolutely Awesome. Thank you so much for all the Historical Info on all of these Wonderful items ❤❤

[@jsharp1776]

This is quite the find. Thanks for sharing this adventure with us.😎

[@cherylstraub5970]

I am living in NC and am so jealous of the dirt you were digging. We pay good money for dirt like that in small bags.

[@missieyoung3643]

My in-laws dug bottles during the 70s&80s Both very recently passed. There are hundreds & hundreds of bottles in their estate. Many were dug in downtown Portland, Oregon during major building. Many early buildings were torn down to make way for new high rise buildings. The amount of collectibles is staggering. Yes the sites of old out houses were always a treasure trove of old bottles. May they both rest in peace.

[@amyfraser6964]

I myself would watch you from picking out the sight all the way through the dig and would love to see the cleaned items what an adventure you bring us on thank you. Oh yes and than you for all the time you spend on putting up more details in the corners of the video. Thanks again

[@noturcinderella]

"A strange sink hole opening by a creek" is a slightly misleading way of describing the pit from an outhouse! By the time I realized I was watching you dig in poop it was too late. I was hooked. This is my idea of a good friday night though. For real. Thanks for the experience!

[@blakeradcliff3611]

😊😊😊

[@Pawnee123-r1b]

I wonder why they threw glass in the outhouse

[@GregJensen1]

@Below the Plains - The small glass lid at 3:23 goes to the bottle at 10:25. Thanks for the great vids.

[@bdw9096]

I had a barber and his hobby was to go into abandoned gold and silver minds in Nevada. He would tell me that he would go deep into these minds scared to death by himself and recover incredible things like tonic bottles, whisky bottles, buckets, a colt revolver, a Winchester rifle, a shaving kit, lanterns, maps, canteens. He said he would research an area then go into these mines terrified but it was so exciting he would continue on. Crazy. I don’t think I could do it.

[@williamolliges2622]

I was going to comment that out west all we usually find are trash piles from ranches or mines where all the good stuff has been carted off, used for target practice, or generally vandalized. I also make this statement secure in the knowledge that, like you, I’m not going deep into a mine to find the good stuff.

[@franceshurt3517]

Hi Tom, great finds but you missed a button at 5:23- 5:27 . I'm always impressed by your knowledge of your finds, I still think it would be a great experiment if someone tried to grow those undigested seeds, cheers!!🥰💗👍👍👍💪

[@taxiridefun]

Yes grow the seeds please! Or send them to us we want to know could be heirloom seeds!

[@zenithcoinsandhobbies]

24:50 Green pigment at the time was either Paris green or Scheele's green, both toxic. They both contained arsenic and were used in both paints and insecticides. Lead paint is mostly red, yellow, or white.

[@Stacey505]

I wish they made lead paint still especially with the radiation flying around, people have made feraday cage protectors

[@JsgHair71]

Came here to say this. I think that was definitely Scheeles green but it would have to be tested to be sure. I wish Tom would wear a respirator mask sometimes. He's literally digging in poop.

[@zenithcoinsandhobbies]

@@JsgHair71 You're probably right on that. It's cool to dig them, but I'd imagine the chances for getting some pretty serious diseases are higher.

[@SilvaDreams]

​@sumofme1 Lol, you do know radiation has ALWAYS been around us. The sun baths us in it every day, it comes from the ground because it's part of the earth itself. Stop being so paranoid. The only thing a feraday cage blocks is the long wave radiation that we call radiowaves.

[@bethewalt7385]

Canary yellow also contained arsenic, as did some reds and orange colors....paint, wallpaper, face powders, so many things commonly used and found in homes contained arsenic and as you pointed out, lead, Edwardian and Victorian homes were all too often very toxic, even deadly places to dwell..... There were more shades of green, I'd have to hit up Google, but there were about half a dozen greens that of course, contained arsenic, Scheeles being probably the best known

[@sarahtalbott4025]

Very enjoyable dig to watch. Thank you

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! glad you had a good time!!!

[@byranjohnson5931]

Just started watching your channel. I really appreciate the extra detail you put in with the manufactures labels, dates, etc. Keep up the good work!

[@kimwaxman9690]

Nice finds! I share your passion, especially for old bottles! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

[@gageguy]

I can't believe I sat here for 50 minutes watching this. It's absolutely fascinating! I'd love to see all these intact pieces cleaned up.

[@lucydavis1477]

I love your finds. The flow blue was likely from England; the Brits considered them seconds and sold them to the US.

[@Mistapetey67]

Your enthusiasm toward this pit shows early on. I always love when you pull up bottles from my home town, Lowell, MA. It was a major city in the early industrial age and the products that came from that Merrimack valley MA area. I’m almost positive the house I grew up in was a 100+ year old manager mill duplex with a pit house at one point. I remember doing Renos when I was young in the 90s and taking out the tin ceilings and horse hair slats.

[@jennieB1973]

I recently moved to a farm from 1929. I don’t think there was an outhouse here (unless there was a home here prior to the 1929 house and barn) but there was an outdoor cistern. They dug most of the stuff out and filled it in so I’ve been digging in the pile of junk. They also burned/buried a bunch of stuff in the woods behind me. I’ve found some early glass bottles along with iron farm stuff. It’s so fun!!!! I love this channel!!!!! There’s two properties near me that is now MNDNR land and I’m going to go see if I can tell where the houses had been and look for where the old poopers were 😁

[@MarkTreharn]

I admire how you cherish each little artifact.

[@DianaSwi]

So glad I found you again!!

[@Highplainsprospectors]

That is a heckuva good pit that turned out some really cool finds. Good work!

[@jamesrey4275]

Thank you!

[@Stacey505]

Good job, these old bottles are amazing, I grew up in Yankton South Dakota

[@terry4O]

Awesome find! We used to dig thru our great grandparents dump from mid 1880's which was on the creek bank 20 yards from the old house.

[@helnbak9372]

I love watching you dig up the past. Just brilliant

[@MeagainIA2011]

Look at that rich black earth left by the last ice age that can be found throughout Iowa too. When a little girl, I loved getting between the deep furrows after my dad plowed fallow ground. The smell of the earth, the big fat earthworms, I will never ever forget the rich aroma of fallow ground.

[@lindaingram2213]

Just a simple thank you !!! I enjoyed your video❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@warrenmink2429]

Killer haul man ! Congratulations

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! yeah it was a fun one!

[@VintageJunker]

Thrill of the Hunt, Nice research! Nice Time Capsule

[@AuntieIsDabbling]

I’d love to smell the perfume originally in the Laird New York milk glass bottle. Love your videos! So do my folks!! You don’t need a gym, this is a workout!!❤

[@Jennifermcintyre]

Interesting how every pit is a picture into who once lived there! Even down to finding unbroken useable items vs all busted pieces. So many intact pieces in this pit makes me think they were financially able to toss usable items and buy new instead of using things until they were destroyed.

[@LaurelLewis-k6t]

When a person would get sick in the home many times their plates etc. were thrown away.

[@Jennifermcintyre]

@@LaurelLewis-k6t interesting! I guess they were dealing with some sicknesses we thankfully haven’t… we live in such a disposable society now… unlike then.. that it must have been really something to push them to that point

[@brainbomb9482]

In 100 years, someone is gonna be super stoked to find all our used yogurt containers.

[@KenFullman]

As per usual, no animal bones, discarded clothing or wooden artifacts. Just glass and pottery. Because glass and china was the only stuff that people threw away back in the 1800s. Such strange behaviour. 🤔

[@deniselanders2585]

😂

[@bwilliams463]

And they won't have to dig DOWN for it, either. They'll have to climb the majestic landfills that we leave for posterity.

[@lapsedluddite3381]

@brainbomb9482 - Possibly, but I use the large yoghurt containers as flowerpots, and have discovered the plastic gets brittle as it ages and disintegrates.

[@cindysmith6509]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@fireflyidaho1]

I love the household pits the best! So much variety. Thanks for a great, great dig and video!!

[@TheJazzy254]

A fairly new subscriber here, I love watching your digs! If I was younger I would love to do this! I live in old farm country and behind my land is an old farm dump that used to be part of my property. If only I had the stregth.

[@karynbrown7519]

What an awesome dig. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!

[@Beanieweenieable]

Oh my good golly that earth is black and so wonderful! I know its compost too but still very rich soil!

[@noradaniels8802]

I was noticing the same thing. Looks like very rich soil.

[@melindawargowsky8176]

Me 3. I have greenhouses and garden. It looked amazing.

[@kerrycabrera9218]

Same! Looking at that soil thinking...man that's some good dirt.

[@sharrontaylor4744]

Wonder where he is digging, thinking the same as dirt is black. Some good finds there !!!

[@very5ick112]

pure poops

[@anthonybasile5035]

Thanks for the videos. I could watch this for hours. History is something that everyone should learn 😊❤

[@JuannyRum23]

Absolutely love the digging through layers of a lifetime of trash

[@stellalush4547]

Dig this... Love it, BIG THANK YOU. ♥️

[@mrsman2006]

Is anyone else screaming there's a bottle right there??? I love this how he explains what they are

[@louisaziz1235]

What an interesting channel. So many amazing finds. The blue "tea kettle" was actually called a " boiler" as it was always kept full of water on the old stove. My grandmother had one that she used up to the early fifties. I remember her making "cowboy coffee" for my grandfather. My aunt finally bought her a percolator and had to teach her how to use it. Lots of good memories.

[@xXairanskyeXx]

I am 3/4 Cherokee and I live in Arkansas along the Trail of Tears. A large encampment was in Wing, Arkansas. We saw items in the banks of a creek and explored. If you ever get the opportunity to dig, it is easy see the lesser footprint they left.

[@janetmcmullen2770]

Great editing! I’m really impressed with your knowledge of the different types of bottles you found. Posting the information about the company and the bottles’ contents was great!

[@bgierat]

Another great dig! Love it!

[@ramenoodle7853]

I'm so hooked on these videos. Great work all around bro

[@michaelhargis7036]

He found a "cream-ola" in the "crap-ola" which is down right exciting.

[@terrytully7332]

I am always amazed at the things you find. Thank you for sharing your videos with us. I always find them very interesting and I just enjoy watching the things that you find. Thank you so much. I can’t believe that some of those bottles actually still have the cork in them. What amazing fines I wish I could go out and do what you do. I would have the biggest bottle collection. It would end up taking over my house if I was digging all those up lol

[@jerrysadventures8952]

very enjoyble video this week

[@conniepritchardreinhardt9978]

I have watched you tube channel for so long. You have really gotten good at identifying things as you dig. Great job young man.

[@clubreo]

Hey any chance some day you could take us on a tour of where all the cool stuff you find ends up like your garage or museums or art galeries ,you have found incredible stuff I am new to your videos but you find amazing historical stuff i just would love to be able to see them all cleaned up on display. I looked through your videos for that if you have a video all ready that does a tour of the stuff please give me the link you do amazing work and have found incredable stuff keep up the good work.

[@johnmackie9498]

I believe he sells the majority of his items

[@suechandler8162]

We dug a lot of fancy bottles out of our creek bank. We put them on a bench outside near the shed. They all broke up. Was that the drying out and the weather?

[@suechandler8162]

Our primary school was built on a tip. The kidlets found some old white glass vegemite jars. My little boy hurried off to school next day with gloves and a trowel. They got some great stuff till the teachers stopped them😢

[@taleandclawrock2606]

What a pity! Awesome teaching opportunity lost!!! Team work, safe manual handling, looking after tools, history, art/museum interactions, market selling......😢

[@Openhearted2024]

Loved seeing your channel come up on my feed. Haven’t seen you in a while. Still wearing light coloured pants to dig in the dirt I see. They looked spotless when you started. What is your laundry detergent secret? I learned how to write cursive with a nib pen and ink bottle for one year at 8 I think. The next year we had pens with ink cartridges. Made us slow down to practice our penmanship. Thank you for a fascinating dig and your wealth of knowledge.

[@Moxieman]

Seeds galore ..wow

[@randybutler4772]

Very interesting finds. Thank you for sharing.

[@aleksanderpopov5060]

man, so much information in your head, do you do research on every item you find? I cant stop watching you dig up history of US of A. I live in California, I love to go to old gold mines with my metal detector but I mostly find lots of square nails and other junk. Placer County has a ton of abandoned gold rush towns. I see now that I have to dig under outhouse shitter indentation. What do you use to probe? Thank you for sharing your work with the world. I wish you lots of rare and one of a kind artifacts.

[@Jennifermcintyre]

I live in the eastern Sierras where there’s hundreds of abandoned mines! I love to explore them but not a lot left to most of them! I’ve wanted to get a metal detector but haven’t yet… these guys use historical maps to see where buildings once stood and look for indentations in the ground.. then they use metal rods to see what’s below ground level! It would be cool to see what would be found in California out houses!!

[@aleksanderpopov5060]

@@Jennifermcintyre Im in Sac we should get together and explore

[@Jennifermcintyre]

@@aleksanderpopov5060 surprisingly I’m around 6 hours drive from you! It doesn’t look that far away if you look at the map! Those snowy mountains make getting to your side more challenging especially in the winter! I’m in the most remote part of California with at least a 2-3 hour drive to the next sizeable city!! 😬

[@kenthetalkingpen2518]

We all do I'm in my 60s love this channel

[@siredward2146]

Love the research you did, I looked for bottles in the old plantations in Hawaii. Found things from all over the world. Now I’m 72 years old and don’t hunt any more. So I’ll join you on yours TY

[@Boboggins74]

You should take some of those seeds and see if you can get them to germinate. I would love to see a garden with undigested seed examples from the past!!!!

[@bingo7799]

I doubt they would be viable.

[@Boboggins74]

@@bingo7799 I do know that people have had some success doing it. They have actually found old rare heirloom varieties by trying it.

[@mikewaldroup420]

Thank you for the journey into the past. It's very interesting to see how people lived back in the day. That old tree had some "good eatin" for many years.

[@ValerieDee123]

Love the "Heirloom" seeds!

[@bernadettecrawford3656]

Thanks for sharing your interesting work best wishes from Australia

[@fyrekrystaal27]

Watkins is still going. I used to live within 5 to 6 blocks away from the Watkins factory and offices in Winona MN

[@andrewowens9382]

Hi tom and jake another fantastic bottle pits 😊it's amazing when you see these different types of bottles and you realise how the evolution of bottled manufacturing change 😀 i surpose it's the history of the bottles 😊 happy Easter 🐣 tom and jake and your families 👪 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧

[@stormyoutdoors4845]

Look at that beautiful soil !!!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha i get that comment so much! that really funny. and yeah, its because it was under glacial lake Agassiz so the soil around here is like 12 feet of black soil

[@slayorcs]

Man I want to do this. Watching this is a perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon here in Australia.

[@Moxieman]

Wow some I never seen before

[@danaharris5357]

This is my favorite thing to do. So happy to find this video.

[@cashcat4lyfe822]

I have a kinda dumb question maybe, I read that companies and labs have changed some things with growing certain fruits and vegetables. Could you take some of those undigested seeds and plant them? It would be interesting to see if they grow differently from back then. Sweet video, I would love to see what's around my yard

[@sinenomine4540]

They have been planted for 200+ years :D

[@PraiseGod428]

I really enjoyed this! I used to live in an old house in Atlanta , Georgia and found a spot like you’re digging from while looking for roots. Such fun! I found a lot of old coke bottles which I put in the basement, this was in the 70’s, and when I sold the house I forgot about them and left them. I still have some of the old medicine and lotion bottles.

[@rogergadley9965]

You mentioned the wire embedded in and overgrown by the oak tree. I couldn’t actually see the perspective you saw the wire from, but you implied that when the wire was attached the attachment point was much lower. That’s not likely. A tree generally gets bigger around and it grows taller, but it grows taller by adding to the very top only. Each point on a tree stays at the same height throughout its life. If you attach a wire to a tree today, it will be at the same height 100 years from now.

[@johnlogan5152]

No it won’t . I’ve got barbed wire sticking out of a tree 11:11 that’s at least 80 years old. 4 strands sticking out, the lowest wire is 6 feet from the ground.

[@missouri_dave]

@@johnlogan5152 The wire will NOT RISE over time.

[@johnlogan5152]

@@missouri_dave you believe that. I know what I see on our farm.✌🏻

[@missouri_dave]

@@johnlogan5152 Yes. Tree trunks grow outward not upward. When I worked for a surveyor, we used nails in tree trunks for elevation references. Google answer: You will find the nail at the same height. Trees grow by a) adding to the tips of their branches (sometimes sprouting new branches at nodes), and 2) adding to their diameter. (Only a thin layer inside the bark actually grows, forming the annual growth rings.)

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Im sorry, thats not always true. My folks had a temporary phone wire strung a couple metres off the ground across a Eucalypt tree sapling, and by the time the company came back to do the permanent line over a year later, they needed a cherry picker to reach it.

[@KarenEdwards158]

So beautiful cleaned up,I love it, me and my x dabbled some in digging for hobby in the end I loved the bottles it is addictive there are so.e beauties out there.

[@plauditecives]

Improper canning methods can cause jars to explode or crack from internal pressure or thermal shock -- so you may be seeing jars that suffered that fate.

[@mr.mcewan9261]

Very nice video with great narration and precise descriptions. One thing about the wires in the tree. They are where they were on the day they were wrapped around the tree. Trees grow outward and upward by adding cells but have very little, if any, upward movement.

[@jimh598]

I am always amazed at the amount of broken dinnerware. It must not have been microwave safe.

[@catherinepraus8635]

House wife’s throwing them at there hubbies😂

[@triciac1019]

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[@triciac1019]

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[@chriskoch1241]

LOL. Archeologists in our family note that Midwestern privies tend to have stuff in them that the owners are trying to hide, especially laudnum bottles (whiskey + opium) or children's dishware the kids have broken.

[@kathycameron7625]

You never disappoint me with your digs! My son in love and my Grandson dig at friends old farm sights when they can! I did that same thing as a kid at my Grandparents farm.