1870's Map Led Us to One of the Best Places We've Ever Dug.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks everyone for always watching and commenting! i know i've said this every video over the last month, but we really do appreciate the continued support. If you have any comments, suggestions, criticisms, or questions dont hesitate to let us know and we will be sure to get back to you. Thanks again!

[@snarky_user]

Well, I for one really appreciate having a "local" bottle digging video from my home state every once in a while!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha well glad we can accommodate that mr snarky user!

[@mikepelton7782]

I'm in your backyard and would like to join you.

[@sherryh4578]

Really enjoying the way you excavate these sites, like a real archeological dig rather than a snatch and grab. Keep up the good, and interesting, work!!

[@BelowthePlains]

Ah thank you! well we're glad you like the videos and the style.. we try to incorporate as much history as we can into these episodes.so its always good to get some nice feedback! thanks for leaving us a comment

[@andreikaplanov8903]

Спасибо за труды. Как всегда интересно и познавательно. Удачи в дальнейшем!

[@philipcallicoat3801]

Hard but financially rewarding...I Like y'all's low key presentation... No unecessary hoopla and loud overacting about the finds...👍🙏🙏😎

[@BelowthePlains]

HAHAHA thanks! yeah we try to cut it down to the bare essentials.. glad you like it! thank you for leaving us a comment, and thanks for watching!

[@levibarnes5554]

It's a great example of how to be a KZbin legend instead of a KZbin tosser. You guys rock!

[@andrewchase7684]

It always brightens my day when a BTP video comes out. Thanks for taking us along again and again. Be safe guys!

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! glad we could brighten your mothers day! take care

[@williamheden6794]

Thank you for saving our history and thanks for taking me along. From Ohio

[@nicholascasaletto3581]

Awesome video! The info you put up onscreen for each piece is EXACTLY what I love to see, the history and context behind the object. The only way it could be better is to have a shot of everything washed and cleaned up at the end. So many questions! Do you guys specifically choose to dig old outhouse pits? I'd imagine because people would just toss a lot of interesting trash down there? If so, how do you even find an old pit? You talked about "gridding" early on, would love to know how that works too. Do you guys have any background in history, or are you hobbyists? You seem to have a real knowledge of the pieces. And finally what do you do with the pieces you keep? If you have a personal collection, I think that'd make a cool vid. I know nothing at all about bottledigging, just stumbled down the KZbin rabbit hole after finding a few old glass insulators where I live. Great stuff,and can't wait for more.

[@BelowthePlains]

well the gridding works just by probing the ground with a probe rod.. theyre t shaped metal things with a thing cylinder of steel with a horizontal steel tube on the top for the handle.. we just probe the ground every foot or so, in a line, back and forth until we find the spot.. the pits have a certain feel. were just hobbyists and most of the things we find we donate to local historic societies and keep a few things.. hope that helped! thanks for commenting!

[@rhondaborders3452]

@@BelowthePlains that is so great that you donate it. I went to a couple of places with my dad back in the mid 70's. He was a truck driver. He was told about a couple of places (I think old wells, maybe) where bottles had been dumped. I know we found a few very old bottles.

[@clidemorrow8786]

Oh those stagecoach stops are something else

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah i know! thanks for watching

[@stratocaster1greg]

Wow I was just thinking about asking if you find marbles and viola you found one. Great age is a cool term. Thanks for sharing.

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

Another GREAT one Tom and Jake!!! THANKS

[@BelowthePlains]

Wow that was fast! thank you very much!!!!

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

@@BelowthePlains I have notifications on pause and click my friend

[@c.s.7266]

What an excellent hobby! You're learning so much about our history. Never stop being curious

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks! and thanks for watching

[@billfletcher3355]

Love seeing the old bottles!

[@TeamLynchBMD]

I enjoyed this you really have a great knowledge base 👋👍😃 Oh and great bottles

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thank you! glad you enjoyed! and thanks for leaving us a comment

[@TheYammerHammer]

Best treasure video on youtube! Keep up the good work!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha thanks man! have a great week!

[@enaidyeltneb369]

It was so interesting watching you go so gingerly with the pieces coming out. You commented on one of the bottles that it was a holy grail piece and you continued being so careful and excited. Really looking forward to seeing the other digs on this property!

[@Kevindramey]

I always enjoy hearing Tom get excited about a bottle he pulls out of the "dirt" I would enjoy being part of his friend group he seems like a nice person

[@rossrucker3571]

I really enjoy watching you, excavate all the treasures that you do! I’m wondering if you’ve ever done a educational video on the evolution of bottle styles and manufacturing processes. Blob, machine, mold, ground…all so interesting and nebulous!

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah i would consider doing that. we were thinking about making a video about how we find these pits.. and you asked what happens rto all the bottles. The majority of the stuff goes to historic societies, (sometimes museums but they only take the really good stuff) or to the homeowner.. theres usually a local "history enthusiast" who collects old documents and local "treasures" or sometimes they put it in like the town hall or library or community center.. we keep some of it, we re-bury it a lot of the time.. it kinda all just depends on the circumstances but basically we give it to who ever wants it (as long as we think that person isnt gonna just throw it away in a few weeks or something). 

Hope that answered your question, Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!!!

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Great video! Love the setting and the history. Looking forward to watching the follow up videos.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! that site was an amazing place. We found 4 really good pits put there, one of which was a stone well. hope you enjoy them!

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

You did very well. I used to find Biwabik Minnesota bottles that were never seen before. I found out that they were very tough to find.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thank you, yeah it was a pretty good day.. we found a better pit out there a few days later tho.. we have 3 more videos of this same place, so... stay tuned, the 4th one is gonna be an unreal video

[@Tealtra]

Great dig guys thanks.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks! and thanks again for always leaving us a comment

[@ISCDesignArchitect]

I really love the methodical approach

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thank you! yeah we decided to incorporate a little more of the process into the videos

[@nydiggersteve7047]

Awesome dig Tom!

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks!

[@j.b.4340]

Excellent job recovering the past. My wife’s family came out of Crow Creek Rez, but lived along the James River for generations(Yanktonai Dakota). It’s always interesting to see artifacts from their stomping grounds. I’ve got some relics from Fort Sully 1.

[@BelowthePlains]

oh wow. yeah i know of fort sully! id hang onto those. fort stuff is incredibly hard to find! well thank you by the way! and thanks for watching too!

[@maryjanew20]

I love watching your videos and feel the excitement when you find a unique piece. I would love to see more of the pieces once they’re cleaned up. I’d especially love to see the dinnerware somewhat pieced together. It’s wonderful to imagine what the people were like who used these things.

[@soonzach4017]

Enjoy very very much your channel, thank you for sharing.

[@markduncan6690]

I like the way that you lay down your perimeters! Best of luck with your dig!

[@loripretti843]

I just LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!! I enjoy your content very much!!! I just f9und you yesterday stayed up all night and have every vlog!!! Keep up the Great work!!! God Bless!!!

[@wayneweidman1543]

Another great video!

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks!!

[@mandybrown7758]

Sweet pretty fantastic finds

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks! Appreciate the comment

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Another spectacular video. We are amazed at the amount of time and hard work you two do. And you show everything and explain what it was for.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! yeah we're glad that people appreciate how much work we put into these videos. thank you for leaving us a comment

[@barbarahatcher4552]

Love watching you guys you make it so interesting and I love history I love antiques keep the good work up

[@tammyaskjem9871]

Another excellent vid! Thank you! It’s like u bring all of us with u on the dig!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha thanks tammy!

[@garyrosenberg3502]

I was born in 1947 and have lived in some old house. My back house was built in 1926 in longbeach California. It was built like most from a craftsman kit sold by Sears and Roebuck. My mom bought this house with mineral rights and everything in the 60s. I thought I should dig a garden but just kept digging after finding many things. Broken China doll heads old flashlight batteries, well preserved. It was the trash pile where people used to throw trash and burn them way back when before trash or garbage trucks came around. The old places didn’t have insulation in those days. They stuffed newspapers in between the walls. Changing some wall board, I found old papers with Shirley Temple all over them. Brand new in the day. What a star! There are older houses that this in that old neighborhood. Even a Rancho from the early 1800s or earlier? The city college dug those trash pits up and glued the dishes and broken clay pipes the used to smoke back then. There are old things in every community just join historical society. I Was in on the Rancho dig and other California native sites there in Southern California. The colleges will teach you. These guys do a great job very respectful. I’m in Vegas these days. Just pick a dirt road get a camera and 4 wheel drive and you’ll find an old abandoned mining town. They make videos here all the time. The state doesn’t seem to mind what you do. The native Americans do. Stay out of Area 51 and you’ve got it made. Stay away from the old founders property.

[@darlacox301]

You are so interesting to watch and full knowledge ❤❤❤

[@johnsnow6586]

Another excellent video guys! Loving the UHD quality

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks for noticing! glad you liked it!

[@JuanitaMeador]

The brown-ware that you were finding was used in kitchens as mixing bowls, and not used as chamber pots or wash basins. I am 76 years old and remember this being used in my Grandmother's kitchen, so I have first-hand experience with it. I enjoy your posts, and hope that you don't mind me telling you what some of these things are.

[@karynbrown7519]

Great dig!

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you!!!

[@chrisledford380]

Thanks for the video, you and Digger Dave have passed on a lot of great info. Please keep up the good work.

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thanks! well you appreciate you watching and leaving us a comment!

[@hhottsfishing]

What a beautiful chunk of history

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Well done on the finds enjoyed watching

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks! glad you enjoyed it! maybe someday i'll be lucky enough to go dug in the real scotland!

[@colecariveau3825]

Great job guys! Awesome finds

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks brother!

[@hollylavin7796]

Great vidio guys ! 🥰

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks!!!!

[@brettwright1019]

I think it would be really interesting to see the process of determining,and griding of potential sites. I think the process would make a interesting segment

[@jerryblum277]

Another awesome video guys keep them coming 🤟

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! and thanks for always commenting!!

[@mygrammieis]

Awesome dig guys

[@dreams2933]

I would love to see your whole collection of bottles!! Do us a picture of it all!!

[@audiebodine519]

Love your digs

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thanks! thats great to hear. thanks for leaving us a comment too!

[@GetTheBeepOut]

You guys rock ! Great bottles ! 👍👍

[@sandylipscomb7003]

NICE FIND‼️

[@heather1667]

I’m new to the channel , just found y’all few a month or so ago - I really enjoy how you show all the old advertising and history of what you find , and the land / home owners facts as well . It’s so refreshing to see young men have such respect for the past 🌞🌞🌞 sending positive energy your way from Sunny Florida

[@BestSellers2122]

Nice!

[@SteveggStevegg]

Love the breif history you give on all the finds. Also love you using wood spikes for the removal of finds as to not damage them. So many diggers go in with sharp steel spikes scratching and chipping finds.

[@davephillips7550]

It would be cool to see your personal collection. I like cataloging bottles and finds as to keep historical context to the items. Nice job

[@valeriejean4818]

I’d love to see a video on the restoration.

[@Cdog92704]

I'm new to your channel..I love this kind of stuff..also like how you get straight to the point and look found something..and found another..not a 40 min video of nothing ..oh wait finally found this.and thanks for putting information up..for people like me who are like "what is that??" .😊😊Keep up the GREAT videos..Cdog

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety]

Great job on the video👍 and nice score on the meds

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks 👍

[@jamesonheche2899]

Wow, so those bottles werent known to exist and u found 3 of them? Awesome

[@snarky_user]

Three and a half!

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah as far as i know, no one else had seen those before.. but someone out there may possibly have one laying around and not know what it is.. thanks for commenting

[@WilliamL1988]

Do you ever sell any of your bottles and if so, how/where. I love how knowledgeable you are with the different types of bottles and materials you find. I'm a collector in New Orleans and have never dug bottles before and wish I knew where to start but it seems like everything is covered with cement and houses here.

[@joycemusgrave161]

Pop's here. I would love see a follow up video from each dig showing everything cleaned up. I believe the would be people who might like those than they would the digs.

[@kimk8365]

I subbed a few days ago and am enjoying the history, maps of the site/ area, as you remove a layer of soil what is found there, age of the items, thank you for providing the information as you go layer by layer.

[@richardbeee]

Cool dig! It's amazing how dry y'alls soil is up there. We're in the middle of a drought here so i expect it here. Last time i was through the Dakotas it was all green.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah it was right next to a creek too, but yeah its been really dry over the past year and a half in south dakota.. it was still really green tho.. that place was probably one of the prettiest places ive ever seen, gonna show more of it in the upcoming videos. thanks for watching

[@richardbeee]

@@BelowthePlains Looking forward to it.

[@dannybell926]

Heck yeah man! Congrats on the corner store bottles. Looks like you've got access to an entire town worth of privies there

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah possibly.. its a really good spot and supposidly there were 100 families down there in that little area, but we havent yet been able to find any evidence of any other houses other than the large stage station

[@dannybell926]

@@BelowthePlains that's when a good GPR unit would come in handy lol

[@ValerieDee123]

Love the history. The VBD bottles are cool!

[@enduringhope6859]

Excellent video! Appreciate that you take such great care to extract your treasures.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah, you never know which ones gonna be the good one, so we wanna make sure we arent damaging anything we pull out, thanks for waching and leaving us a comment

[@enduringhope6859]

@@BelowthePlains I watch several bottle digging/searching channels and there is only one, besides you, that takes great care...'Digging the Old West with BotttleNed'. If you haven't watched, I think you'd enjoy. Great job to and your digging partner!

[@valeriejohnson5283]

Hello Tom and Jake! What is your favorite find? How long have you been digging up finds? Love your content.😍🍺😎🍺

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

Great drug store bottles! You have a very informative channel. I hadn't heard the phrase Philadelphia oval before watching it.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

That wind is wild… wow. Soooooo loud! My airpods are turning the wind into bass and beating my brain up. 🤪😂😂

[@indianaouthouse5693]

Get em!!!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha thanks for commenting!

[@idaho2ndgens240]

My gosh, those drug store bottles are epic!! It is amazing how the soil is there to dig in. What an awesome dig. I have dug the Healy and Bigalow's bottle in NH. Those guys got around.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah ive seen those a few times myself. yeah that was a pretty good dig.. that place also had a few other really good pits, so we'll have those videos coming up over the next few weeks

[@tomfrazier1103]

Healey & Bigelow in Honolulu too.

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

H&B's in Galesburg, IL too.

[@willong1000]

That's a pretty setting for a home site in that lightly-wooded swale; but the prairie wind would get to me in a hurry!

[@tamran127]

Hi BTP 👋🏻! Curious to know if human hair is found in the pits? With all those seeds found it seems like hair could be found too?? I like how you use the dowel stick to dig with. It seems softer and the least abrasive compared to trowels.

[@BelowthePlains]

umm.. yeah i think its possible.. we have found a few brushes that still had bristles in it.. we were thinking it was maybe horse hair.. but i think normally it would decay, this particular pit was below the water table, and that preserved things alot better. there was cloth in tact and there was some brass stuff that looked brand new.. yeah the stick works wonders, especially when we have to film and dig.. we heard a sharpened pvc pipe worked well. we were gonna try that some time.. thanks for watching tho! and thanks for leaving us a comment. always happy to answer your question. have a good night!

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

My friend found a lock of human hair in a milk glass jar he dug, the lid preserved it well. I have it still together.

[@parillascrambler8492]

Very cool work you re doing. I just read your story in the North Dakota Horizons magazine. I remember my dad telling me about a neighbor who acquired a Ruger pistol that looked like a Luger, and his wife hated it so she threw it in the outhouse. My dad always wondered what became of that pistol!

[@westcountrymudlarks]

Great video great info right up our street thank you so much from sw uk westcountrymudlarks

[@BelowthePlains]

thank you! glad you enjoyed.. ill be sure to check out your channel!

[@westcountrymudlarks]

@@BelowthePlains awww thank you

[@debraporch7888]

Tom and Jake. Another sweet video!!! I'm surprised that the privys weren't dug deeper since you're getting artifacts close to the surface. Congrats on the 3 unknown drugstore bottles, so cool. Would you be interested in selling me the Kickapoo bottle? Just let me know how much you want for it. I just love the way you are doing your videos. The information that is given is spot on. The only thing you could do to make your videos better is showing a clean up of the whole bottles. You should set something up so your viewers could make monetary donations to help with gas, tools or whatever you may need to continue your great videos. I've been a fan since video one. Y'all do a fantastic job. Take care, be safe and I'll be waiting for your next video. ✌

[@BelowthePlains]

ahh thank you! yeah i was thinking about setting up one of those donation things, but i felt like such an asshole doing that.. we get ad revenue for people who watch the ads but most people just click thru the ads after 5 seconds.. so its not a ton of money, but we do get some. maybe i will set up a patreon or something.. and about the kickapoo indian oil bottle, i think we are photographing it and some other stuff shortly, so let me get back to you on that.. yeah we were thinking about showing more cleaned up bottles, im just still working out how to add them to the video. but yeah i think we actually do have every bottle from that pit still, we were just running out of time, and needed to get a video out. but yeah, in the future we will be showing more of the bottles, just workiing on editing some stuff right now. As always: thanks for watching, and thank you for always commenting! take care!!!

[@SteveMudflapMcGrew]

How do you decide when to stop digging down or sideways? It seems you dig straight down a lot

[@rossrucker3571]

What is the final resting place for your finds? Do you own them? Do you sell?

[@richgoss6013]

I'm with Nick down below, a lot of questions. I also vote for a video showing your collection, I'll bet it is pretty awesome. Have you ever planted any of the seeds you find to see what would grow? 1890 seeds would make a hellva heirloom seed collection. How do you judge the value of what you find? I remember seeing some bottle value books back in the 70s (Yeah, I am that old). Lastly, have you ever found coins or weapons? I read an article years ago about these guy that dug outhouse pits out west looking for and finding old guns.

[@BelowthePlains]

well ive heard that the seeds had grown at least one time, but i never verified that myself.. i suppose its possible they can grow. and they value depends on rarity and condition.. i guess its all what someone is willing to pay for them. im not 100% on why some bottle are super expensive but some can go for alot.. we havent really found any too expensive.. umm old weapons and coins.. i dont think we've found any weapons and the only coins we've found have just been wheat pennies.. hope that answered your question. thanks for watching

[@davidgreene9614]

I really enjoy your videos! Very informative on history of area and med uses. Like your pointed stick for extraction. How do you prevent temperature and pressure cracks in the glass?

[@BelowthePlains]

well the temp thing, the biggest thing you wanna do is dump the water out right away if its cold, and if its warm outside, youre gonna wanna leave the water in.. we try to keep them out of the sun if its hot out, and in the sun if its kind of cold.. the ground temp is pretty steadily cool.. not cold but cool to the touch, we just try keep it at a steady temp.. and the pressure thing can just be luck, we try not to step on anything when were in the pit, so we take it down to the bottom on one side, then work out way over.. well im glad you liked the videos! and we appreciate you leaving us a comment and letting us know! thanks

[@tracieowens3353]

great channel to watch! You tell us what you found and also print it on the side Thanks

[@MatthewHarrisStudio]

I love this channel 😂and I don’t quite know why 😂

[@oink-oink8721]

I've been watching your channel for some time and I'm amazed at what you've pulled out of the ground. I'm out and about with a metal detector myself, and I've already pulled a few bottles out of the ground here in Germany as an accompanying find. But there is no market for old bottles here, so these are going into my showcase. On one bottle that I have found was written in glass: F.AD.Richter&Cie RUDOLSTADT.WIEN OLTEN ROTTERDAM LONDON NEW YORK Maybe you've found a bottle like this too, which would mean that the same bottle was also in circulation at your place. Greetings from Germany and good finds in the future.

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thank you! no i havent personally seen any bottles written in german. and i'd definitely remember that bc i took 4 years of german in high school.. your english is perfect by the way... but i guess thats pretty common in germany. yeah i would love to one day go dig in europe. And the fact that there isnt any market for it would probably make it better for me. sure you couldnt sell them, but you'd basically have free reign over basically anywhere. The one thing we do find from germany is doll heads. in our next video we found a few of them. I believe there is a market for them in america. not sure about germany tho. But thank you for watching! Guten Tag

[@oink-oink8721]

@@BelowthePlains If you want a couple of embossed bottles here from Germany, I can send them to you, because I just have them lying around anyway. I have a different collection area and as you know the metal detector does not work on glass. Therefore it would be a waste of time for me to start collecting bottles . Tell me how to go about with the address and I'll send you some.

[@tomfrazier1103]

Honolulu, being a seaport has a lot of worldwide stuff, but America predominates.

[@hallmark2511]

Really enjoy the videos. Question. Can you sell that or are you selling it?

[@teresasallam9526]

Im curious, as always but what made you interested in doing these historic artifact digs? How long have you been doing this?

[@BelowthePlains]

i think toms been doing it since he was 9 years old. he found a trash dump in his yard and started to dig it up, started finding these old bottles and was hooked! thanks for leaving us a comment and thanks for watching!

[@stephenbrien548]

WHERE DO YOU RESEARCH THE SITES?THE SAME RESEARCH SHOULD WORK WHERE I AM,AUSTRALIA,LOVE YOUR SHOW MATE

[@randyhooten-g7g]

What do you do with the artifacts after the dig?

[@scavenger435]

How do you tell if there is utility lines under the ground your digging? I have been wanting to privy dig for years now but am nervous about hitting a line. Can you give me any advice about not hitting utility lines? I have 5 foot probe I use for dump digging so I know what glass sounds like so I am fairly confident I can located a privy just nervous about utility lines.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah.. well you can always call the power company and they will come make out the lines in roughly 3-5 business days.. in my area anyways, but if you do call them, they will come mark it out. BUT the lines they mark out can be off by 12 inches.. possibly more.. so when you are digging in an area where u suspect a line, you are probably safe for the first 12 inches.. the line is likely a bit deeper, but 1 foot is about as comfortable as id be sticking a shovel blindly into the ground.. so have you seen in our video how we have that 2 prong fork? we user that to break up the ground, then we scoop the loose dirt out of the hole.. that way we arent sticking our shovels directly into anything that we dont know may have a line going thru it.. so once you find the line, you will probably feel it on the 2 prong.. it will feel alot like a root, so just be careful, especially when uncovering it.. once you find it just dig down next to it, and work you way in from the side.. and just be careful. those lines have a thick coating on them, but its something i wouldnt wanna scuff up too much.. if you have any other questions please dont hesitate to ask, and for gods sake.. be careful.. thanks for watching. take care and good luck!!!

[@judyhobday4760]

I really like how calm you are, except when you found the whole drug store bottle, nice. I was so pleased for you. So many whole bottles and interesting bits. I grew up in a very old farmhouse, and my dad had to fill two wells and an outhouse. My horse was tied up to one of the apple trees and her hind leg went into a hole. Lucky to get her out without damage.

[@rhondaborders3452]

When you put the dirt back, is it sifted to make sure there is nothing missed, like the little clay marbles?

[@BelowthePlains]

uhh we went thru that pit pretty thoroughly to get every little single piece of pottery and glass, but for the most part we dont sift. we just dont have the bodies for that, and people want their yard back together immediately

[@1armida]

Loved your video. Do you sell the findings that are intact? Do you sell the broken stuff or the broken glass/pottery?

[@BelowthePlains]

umm..we have before, but generally we donate the bulk of it, and we keep a few things.. if its a historic site, like this one, we keep everything and try piece it back together for a book we're working on, photograph it, and then it will probably end up at the historic society in scotland SD, if they want it

[@1armida]

@@BelowthePlains that’s great!!! There’s another channel who look for similar things and they use the broken glass to make beads.

[@ronl7131]

Good dig

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks!!

[@stevegrantham7480]

I was wondering what you do with what you find

[@teresasallam9526]

That old pottery would be awesome in a table put together with other old pottery and sealed in epoxy

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah we're working on putting it all back together and putting a book out on stage stops in the dakotas

[@sherimiller5857]

What do you do with the bottles

[@michaeljclarelli8973]

Do you guys ever donate finds to museums or local government buildings so that they can be seen or do you keep everything

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah, we probably donate anywhere from 90-100% of what we find.. this particular pit we kept everything, bc we are writing a book on it, and then after that we are going to give it to the historic society... some of our stuff is in local museums but for the most part, we give the bulk to historic societies.. sometimes we give the stuff to the homeowner, if the historic society gets to the point where they only want "special" items.. we find a lot of generic stuff, sometimes over 200 bottles in a single pit, and it just gets to the point where we cant keep that much, and the historic society cant house it all, and the homeowner doesnt want it, so we just end up reburying it, making sure to keep it in tact. but yeah we do keep a little. i have a collection of about 30 bottles and tom probably has closer to 100.. i only collect very tiny bottles and tom collects the stuff that has local embossing on it. thanks for watching!

[@michaeljclarelli8973]

Please let me know when that book comes out I'll definitely be buying . ;)

[@cherylcarnes4207]

Is that metal piece a step to a stage?

[@edwardweisenburg6585]

Tom petty archeology ❤

[@curtisrobertson5727]

It's a bottle has air bubbles in it how old do you think it is

[@BelowthePlains]

umm.. it usually gonna be pretty old if it has a bubble.. id say 1890s at the latest, but it could be alot older! the older the bottle the more likely it would have bubbles in it, so it could be from the 1700s even.. thanks for watching

[@mrmchaney]

You're the only one I've seen digging for bottles with what looks like a wood stick. Is that what it is?

[@kaolinwasher]

yes much less chance of damige to the bottles

[@BelowthePlains]

yep exactly!

[@Barnswallow262]

Is the Sioux City, Iowa medicine the only example known?

[@BelowthePlains]

no it was those scotland bottles.. i just couldnt get a good picture of them for the thumbnail.. i honestly didnt think anyone would notice. good eye! thanks for watching

[@shepherd4406]

You work so hard on the digs and I am happy for you that you found a pit rich in finds from the 19th Century. Do you know if any of the folks from Scotland raised sheep in that area? Also, I want to mention for your viewers that I find that watching videos after six o’clock have more commercials. Normally that would be a bad thing, but, as I understand it, you get paid for every commercial that is watched. Thankfully the six ads during this episode were short. You had some impressive advertisers, including GM. I hit the like button first thing. I know I will like the video and I may forget to later. I am old and that happens.

[@BelowthePlains]

oh i didnt know that about the commercials.. we have analytics that tell us when most of the people who view our channel are online, and we just release it then.. it says sundays after 5 pm are peak viewer watch time, so thats why we chose to release them then... and we did it last week at this time, and it ended up getting more views than any other video we've released so far. anyways. thanks for watching!

[@Ccollector24]

what do you look for on the sanborn maps to indicate where to dig?

[@BelowthePlains]

uhm. sometimes they have the outhouses on the sanborn maps.. they were really accurate but for the most part they dont show up. but they are almost always straight out the back door.. usually 30 or so paces. hope that helped!

[@Ccollector24]

@@BelowthePlains thx!