Digging Out a Fence Post Leads to the Find of a Lifetime Buried in a Back Yard for 125 Years

[@AdamAintWright]

We dug a flower garden in my backyard when I was a kid, we found a whole bunch of Indian head pennies! One of them was only stamped on one side and I’m sure it’s worth millions today! My mom moved from my childhood home and I couldn’t find the box I left it in after she moved while I was away serving in the Navy! I wish I still had that Penny!

[@ktkilntime1586]

The one that got away!!!

[@thomaskeil1437]

Funny how our childhood memories are so unreliable.

[@jamanne2504]

Great job of identifying each find. I lived on an old farm south of Conneaut OH in 1968. My husband dug up a dump site and found similar glass bottles. So I cleaned them and put them on display in my original farm house that used to be on the local stagecoach run. This was so enjoyable to watch as I’m 77 now living out my last years here in Sandpoint Idaho. GOD BLESS YOU ✝️❤️🎚🙏

[@nancycurtis488]

I will soon be 76 so I know how you feel. We bought this house in 1988…it was built as a 4 room farm house in 1912…in the early 1930’s Joseph Marcus Price became a millionaire in the huge east Texas oil boom. They took the roof off of the original house an added a second story, an L shaped balcony, an L shaped front porch, enclosed two porches, made a utility room, enlarged the kitchen, added inside water including two bathrooms. We have 6 bedrooms with a sitting room attached to the master bedroom upstairs. Antique heart pine floors and woodwork throughout….three fire places…in living room, dining room and in the downstairs bedroom…a total of 4,025 sq. ft. with a brick storage building, a brick Maid’s House and a brick well house. In the mid-90’s we found a burn/trash pit and found lots of bottles, coins, old marbles, even a metal whistle marked France…even little ceramic dolls…about 2” in length, and old cosmetic jars, lipstick tubes…neat stuff. I love anything history and do love this house. Hope you enjoy yours.

[@craigcorson3036]

This was of interest to me, because you said that the Huber family migrated to Yankton from Clayton County Iowa - which is where my Dad was born and raised. A small burg called Littleport.

[@boondoggled1]

Holy cow …. Several decades ago my family moved to Maine and bought an old 1774 farmhouse. Behind it in woods was the old road before the one my parents house was on. It had foundations with old bottles, ceramics, coins. But I’ve never been able to identify a lil bottle and you pulled it out! 😮 exact rigged jar screw top but my has no words. The lil round jar. Thank you. Great video.

[@nursedee2996]

Beautiful blob top bottles and dishes found. I did same thing on my farm I bought 23 years ago. Found some very nice finds that were over 200 years old. Love seeing others enjoy this hobby!

[@kellycarver2500]

As kids, we used to walk the woods, and dig up the old bottles at the dump sites from the old days. It was always fun to look at the old bottles. One site we found was from an old restaurant, and we found all kinds of tiny glass creamers, plates and silverware, cups, mugs, bowls..a great find. Amazing what people throw away, isn't it? My folks, who lived thru the depression, raised us to be more conservative, and not waste things. Or to find a home for things that still have value. There is always someone in need, somewhere, who can use, and are glad to get the things we no longer need or want. One man's trash is another man's treasure, as they say.

[@robertslusser6753]

We had two farmers dumps within a half mile of our house in the country when I was a kid back in the late 50's and 60's. One of them we nicknamed "The Gold Mine" because there were so many used/old bicycles there. If we ever needed a new chain, a pedal, whatever for our bikes, we didn't go to the store, we went to the Gold Mine to scavenge the size or type of part that we needed.

[@kellycarver2500]

@@robertslusser6753 I am surprised that the metals would be usable. Any metals we found, were buried, and mostly rusted through. Amazing what ppl throw away..I gave found so many great things..One man's trash is another man's treasure and how true that is.

[@KodiakCO]

I just happen to come across your channel. You bring the past alive. I really enjoyed your video.

[@thesleeperhasawakened7833]

The Ink bottle with the monogram of BJC ( or JCB) is from the J. C. Blair tablet Company. J.C. Blair founded the first (paper) tablet company in Huntingdon, PA. The factory building (which had been renovated into elderly housing) was just torn down recently. Huntingdon is also the home of the J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital founded by his wife, Katherine (Kate) Blair in memorial to her husband J. Chalmers Blair and included a school for nursing. The original carriage house for the factory still stands as well as part of the factory unaffected by the fire that destroyed the factory.

[@ArmyVet59]

I'm in my sixtys and as a young boy playing out by an old barn have seen some of the items especially square small bottles it brings back memories.

[@zenkakuji3776]

As the saying goes, "One man's trash [in the 1890s] is another man's treasure [in the 2020s]. ☺️ Fascinating finds. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

[@thebusterdog921]

It's all trash until you find a fool to separate from his money.

[@sreed8570]

My cousins and I grew up helping out on the old dairy farms in Tuissett "Warren" R.I. when we were young, and would always be digging up bottles and things like that. Back in the day there was no such thing as a trash man, everybody just dug a hole and buried their garbage. My father was such a fan and collector of old bottles, I still have a few to this day.

[@denisemanley5318]

This was the most interesting channel I have seen in a long time. Interested in the pharmacy bottles as my husband and I owned a pharmacy. We are now retired but I’m always interested in seeing the old dispensing and packaged remedy bottles. Also in that time people took pride in their appearance especially shoes and boots. Thank you for letting us join you on your dig.

[@GrandmaLM]

My dad always shined his and our shoes😊 I’m 76

[@fredpepper4773]

Awesome!!!! Great video thank you, Fred (UK) 😊😊

[@ColemanRG]

Very great that you caption your finds, and show pictures of what the items are, cleaned up. 👏🏼

[@timhull8664]

So from the stuff you found we can assume that the person living in that house, was a drunk stumbling about breaking their crockery, and had super shiny shoes and chucked everything in the crapper.😂

[@patyorde4953]

this is so neat to find this pieces i use to dig behind my house where i grew up and found alot of bottles.50s an 60s.

[@jaynebrookes2486]

It never ceases to amaze me how well preserved things are after many decades under the ground. All those bottles still in one piece with the weight of all that soil on top of them.

[@Growmap]

The smaller the bottle, the stronger it is because the walls are way thicker than modern day bottles.

[@markstanich64]

Wow what a great story

[@lizjohnson6324]

My last house was four hundred years old.Wish I had dug a pit .The mind boggles at what I may have found .Hi from the UK .

[@lostpony4885]

I found a bunch of bricks n railroad spikes in our clay oh and also a very nice prepared geode. Treasure digging at home is fun.

[@m.b.ingersoll7210]

First of your videos I’ve seen. Excellent narration with background info! Close-ups of items were, first, IN focus and, second, held long enough for us to see the items without having to pause the vid. FAR superior to all other similar “finds” videos I’ve encountered. Definitely now a subscriber!

[@geralddorsett607]

Very interesting and well done. Your video was the next best thing to being on site digging with you. When I was a boy we lived near a trash dump that was vintage and found a lot of cool bottles, toys, curios and other. Every time we dug, it made for thrilling discoveries and led to me having a life long passion of discovering the discarded and lost. Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@kellyschroeder7437]

Glad to have happened upon your site. So so interesting your finds. Love learning about old burn pits from so long ago and how refuse was “buried”. Thank you so much. God Bless 💙👊

[@KimsKluckers]

What an interesting video. It just was in my line up yet I'm pleased to enjoy it.

[@BelowthePlains]

glad to hear it! thanks for watching and commenting!

[@13Nussbaum]

My family on my mothers side was related to the Sebring family in Ohio that did a lot of the Sebring pottery. Amazing that it made it that far west. A number of years ago, I was putting a tool shed addition onto my chicken coop and found an old out house pit. I dug a number of really interesting things out of it, including two horse shoes that now hang in my blacksmith shop.

[@BelowthePlains]

I'm glad you excavated it. Too often these sites are left to the wayside. Thanks for watching!

[@lindadechiazza2924]

Chianti bottles the basket part rots off so has round bottom, Lots of glass pyrex bleach bottles amber glass and liquor bottles brown. Some quaint old time nostalgic brands that seem to fade into history. We dug up a few, use steel wool water lots of water. The tiny bubble in the glass, cork stopper mouth. California

[@nancyrukavena6992]

Anything that wouldn't burn went to the outhouse to be disposed of.

[@susanandersonskomsvold3512]

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[@wapiti3750]

Thanks for digging up all of this historical garbage!

[@jimmoses6617]

This is so cool! I am a professional archaeologist and used to excavate historic sites in the east for years. We excavated an 8-seater civil war hospital outhouse in Alexandria, VA. Could have opened a museum with all we found...packed in you-know-what but didn't really smell that bad.

[@Growmap]

It turns into compost (rich soil) over the years so it really shouldn't smell.

[@mmariemarkel7482]

Wayyyy cool. When I was 7 we lived 5 miles out from a small town. We bought a 5 acre farm. This was circa 1969. The family that lived there were slobbish and had MOUNDS and mounds of trash in front of and in a big barn. There were also part of a 1930's Era old truck and two cars. We were poor and my parents couldn't afford to take it to the county dump. So my dad borrowed a back hoe from a friend and dug several ginormous holes. I remember how much fun it was filling them up with partial truck and one of the two cats (one was in good enough condition to be restored, so my dad sold that one.) We filled the holes with the trash, cleaned out the barn, finding so valuable wood from a much much older barn stored inside. It took a couple of months to get it done, since we were only doing it some nights and the weekends. The trash that we buried was 15-30 yrs old when we buried it, so it would be well over 100 yrs old now in 2023. The farm was around 75-80 yrs old when we bought it and I'm sure there were trash piles that were buried long before we got the property. It would be a riot digging that stuff up now and finding the other stuff the original owners buried as well.

[@laurelshugars2866]

What a great trashy pit! I love that you are now showing the better bottles cleaned up. The transfer ware vase is epic. Also the salt glazed ink! 😊

[@BelowthePlains]

Glad you enjoyed the show. Thanks for watching!

[@timjozwiak2293]

I am old enough to have seen and used the "outhouse". Never thought of them as a treasure trove of antiques! Funny and fun at the same time ! Thank you for changing my perspective

[@kellypermuy4375]

I stumbled onto one of your videos about a month ago and have been binge watching ever since. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for bringing history to life!

[@jimmyboy2165]

I just found this one today and yep I'll be getting little sleep binge watching the other video's.

[@kathycronin3571]

It's amazing what you find.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

The Hutchinson soda was an amazing find. The little embossed druggist bottles are gems as well. The "opium bottle" actually contained a product called "Haarlem Oil", which is a Dutch liniment used generally for horses and other livestock. It contained sulfur, linseed oil and essential oils of turpentine. We thought they were opium bottles for decades, until we dug some with "Haarlem Oil" embossed on them. It is still sold and it even available in that same shape of vial.

[@garyjohnson4575]

Perfectly dug hole, it's not easy!

[@chintasrvvegankitchen7761]

I'm always amazed at how many full size bottles you find.

[@bevfitzsimmonds3382]

Seeing it was an outhouse pit, the bottles would have had soft landings! 🥴

[@MrTruckerf]

True! It depends on the people, but if young boys disposed of the glass objects, they usually threw them in the pit trying to hit another, smashing both. That's what I always did about 70 years ago.

[@sueware8377]

Fantastic show....this was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks for all the supporting information and data, that really made it special. Congratulations on a great dig!

[@Jennifermcintyre]

I never thought I would contemplate seeking out and digging in an old out house but this channel has me considering it! I live in old gold rush region in California and I’ve found endless can dumps but never checked under ground!

[@Hankyjane]

There are some good metal detectors. But they do have their detection depth limits.

[@chrisrichard2526]

Best find from the can dumps? I have friends out that way that dig for beer cans

[@BelowthePlains]

There can be some really good bottles out West. Best of luck to you!

[@Jennifermcintyre]

@@BelowthePlains thanks so much for your reply! I need to scope out the old miners dwellings! I’m not familiar with what indicators are used for finding old out houses but there are old ghost town settlements and hundreds of old abandoned mines all around me! I’ll start looking into it!

[@dannybell926]

You need a good probe and enough energy to probe several hundred holes in a back yard. A straight line out the back door to the edge of the property line is a good place to start

[@vikingrobot4179]

May have been someone with a semi important job with all that shoe polish. Lots of horse poop and mud around in those days which made it hard to keep shoes clean. Thanks for taking us along in your dig. I bought a house built In 1964 in the mountains. They buried a lot of trash her over the years. I found license plates from 1940’s and we had plenty of glass bottles bubbling up from the surface. Took me months to clean up all the glass and metal from the area. Never did any digging to see if I could find anything deeper. I did find some obsidian arrowhead in the property and a couple well placed stone seats in areas of ideal deer hunting. I’ve taken many deer from these spot over the years and this property is just magical. The gold rush started here in Dahlonega Ga and there are hydro mining ditches on the back property in the woods.

[@laurielacomb4969]

Reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom loved finding old graveyards in the deserts.

[@653j521]

But not digging there, I trust.

[@English1530PepperPie]

Love this! I grew up digging old foundations, and dumps, with my father, and siblings ❤

[@margaretford1011]

My grandmother, born before 1900, took Lydia Pinkham’s tonic daily at the same time, every day, like clockwork. If she was running low on supply, she would fuss until a new bottle could be obtained. Then we discovered it was more than 50% drinking alcohol. 😂

[@MaryAnnLaRue]

My mom born 1907 had older sisters anf all knew Of Lydia Pinkham to use for menapause symptoms. MOMS age group had pills not liquid. All were in Texas

[@jehovahuponyou]

DIGGIN' IN A POO PIT - YUCK - LOL!!!!!!! GREAT VIDEO, BRAVO!!!!!!!!!

[@fraa888grindr6]

The first house we owned was built in 1935. It was the result of a family whose home was built in 1880, subdividing their corner lot and building a "remodel" onto their outhouse. When I learned this in 1996, I crawled under the house and sure enough discovered 4' diameter pit underneath our washroom/pantry. I excavated it down about almost 5' finding some cool bottles, etc, but after that my wife didn't want me continuing for fear of a cave in. The first bottle I found was a fairly well preserved (label) Hiram Walker's Whisky 1 pint bottle from circa 1935. Figured it was either from the plumber or electrician working under there. Watching you makes me wish I'd kept on digging.

[@johngoard8272]

Yes mate I live in rural Australia in an old house built around 1890-1900 and when we first moved in we found a spot where they used to dump all their trash in the side paddock. My son and I dug out loads of old medication bottles and very rusted horse saddlery stuff and bits of old ploughs etc. My best find was an egg shaped bottle that was from the local large town where in times gone past they brewed lemonade and stuff like that. It kept us busy for hours much to the chagrin of my ex wife LOL!! I must say I am impressed by your knowledge of these different objects you are digging out too!!

[@larisarogers2649]

Another amazing day for a treasure hunt. Thank you for sharing your adventure.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching!

[@patriciawilliamsn9605]

This was so much fun to watch you find all those treasures

[@donnajeffreys7452]

Before running water people had wells and cisterns. They sometimes would fill the cisterns with stuff like this just to fill them if they were about to collapse. These were usually build next to the house near the kitchen where they would dispose of dirty dish water. I'd love to find my great grandparents old place and do this with their cistern.

[@JeanStAubin-nl9uo]

I like the little crockery ink bottle.

[@rutheparker9006]

Wish I had that good soil for my garden! That alone is worth a fortune in my book!

[@RN4Veterans]

I have two huge composters for my yard. I normally have a lot of hanging baskets in the front and backyards, along with a small yard garden and 4 "kiddie-pools". So these composters ensure that I never have to buy that expensive needed soil amendment. It's free gold soil every year and one way to easily get rid of kitchen and yard scraps.

[@MaryAnnLaRue]

Laŕge amounts of lime was added to every outhouse weekly...might that need to be corrected to use that soil in garcdening?

[@jameshatton4211]

We still have leicestershire sauces available on the shelf in Australia. And yes that bottle sits next to worcestershire sauce bottle

[@kempedkemp]

Just amazing! What a splendid job you did with the maps and catalog pages . . . excellent video.

[@moparjams3885]

Its awesome what facts you can deduce just from someone throwing out their glassware. Archeology has always fascinated me. Great content and paper trail

[@philipcallicoat3147]

Many years ago I worked for a roofing company located in Grand Forks, ND....I still remember that the sugar beets were piled up next to the roads... Stretching for miles....An amazing sight for a wounded Vietnam veteran... My wounds were all internal...In time God's Son, Jesus healed me and gave me a Peace within that passes understanding ✝️☝️🌹🕊️.... Be Blessed Tom....😅

[@tonyrome655]

Thanks for your service and welcome home.

[@hyselwatchandclockrepair1874]

Thank you for your service to our nation that was filled with way too many ungrateful people during that time. My oldest brother was in Vietnam 1968-70 and on top of his bullet and shrapnel wounds he had a tremendous amount of internal trauma that was so much worse than his physical injuries. His body suffered from direct spraying of Agent Orange while in the heavy foliage with his quad fifty. He never talked about his actual combat experiences, he would talk about the times he was spit on as he was coming home on the train, and in taverns until he was able to replace his Army clothes. Got thrown in jail quit a few times for fighting over it, but he passed away 3 years ago. It was amazing to me that a year and a half before he died he started getting 85% disability pay because of damage to his kidneys and nerves in his neck (or something in that area-he wasn’t really sure) due to the Agent Orange. He was getting around 25% compensation from the shrapnel wounds in his back very close to his spine when he retired at 60 years old. I am truly sorry for your pain Brother but I am thankful that you were able to find the Savior and get peace. My brother was very bitter for a lot of years but he was saved in a mountain church in East Tennessee where we grew up and he was such a changed man it was tremendous, I really knew there was something to his conversion. I am thankful I will have the privilege of knowing I will see him again on the other side, and you too! Thanks for your post!

[@helnbak9372]

Thank you. I absolutely loved watching this. I’d love to experience something like that. 😊😊

[@maliadelosangeles3232]

I was truly fascinated and I felt like a little kid in a candy store, taking all the information in… I would have loved to have lived in the mid to late 1800’s that era has always captured my attention, or maybe in a pass life I lived in that era… However as you kept digging it was pure suspense! Because I thought you were going to find “Jimmy Hoffa” 😂😂😂

[@hilltophomestead7262]

Thanks for taking us along on such a delightful dig! Treasure after treasure! I especially oohed and ahhhhed over the salt glazed tiny ink, the Hutch and the beautiful pink patterned vase! A glimpse into the lives of people long gone.....

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah that ink was super cool. i wanted to put it at the end of the video with all the other stuff all cleaned up, but i couldnt fit it in! i love that little thing, i have it sitting on my shelf right above my computer. well thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!

[@MagnaMater2]

Amazing finds... When I was on my first digs in the 1990's we still threw those 'modern' stuff out, at best it got a bag and a box with 'recent', nobody ever looked at again. When I boxed some good pieces for the museum they told me, they weren't interested. It only started while I studied, that classical archeologists started to treat 500y old stuff not as 'too new to be of any interest'.

[@sherrysmalley4065]

New subscriber! You got me binge watching! . Best wishes from Brisbane Australia ❣️

[@charlestemple634]

When I was in public education, had a student teacher who was studying history and had excavated several of these pits in West Texas. One was next to the site of an old public saloon that dated all the way back to the 1870s. In this one he found a belt and holster that held a real old Colt revolver and also dug up jewelry ... a couple of rings and a bracelet that all turned out to be VERY valuable.

[@steveblake8509]

I am guessing that jewelry and revolver had been stolen. Thief hid it and never went back for it.

[@nickmalone3143]

You can also dig up small pox and tuberculosis medical waste

[@charlestemple634]

@@nickmalone3143 - You're also exposed to those on KZbin ...🤪

[@saffycatamos]

A Piso bottle from Warren, PA!! My hometown before I moved to England in 2000. My Dad and I used to occasionally find these ,many years ago, when we'd dig out in the woods of Warren. Very cool find!

[@carolynsimone8647]

Great dig...love the medal and the vase. Also love all the little bottles...keep digging...🥰🥰

[@BelowthePlains]

The medal was definitely an unusual find. They must have been a popular item because someone else had found one of them in town. Thanks for watching!

[@nettesusan]

Just love your style of videos & how you display the historical details & slowly show the bottles. Thanks for these.

[@eire711]

Thank you for the great videos. It would be nice to have a video sometime discussing which bottles you sell, and which you keep for your personal collection. Thanks again. All the best.

[@4tarsus]

Folks sure polished their shoes a lot back in the day! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheMatthooks]

It's kind of strange to me that there's so much glass, but very little else. It's fascinating. I have to imagine that is just because it effectively never degrades. Begins to show just how incredibly durable it is. And also cheap enough, in an era when everything was reused, to carelessly discard. The pottery finds are almost all damaged or broken, but most of the bottles are incredibly intact.

[@annetterohla8932]

Understand that this is a latrine pit.That is why the pottery is broken,the outhouse is where the family tossed the broken items,and discarded household bottles.

[@joesmith-es1zy]

@@annetterohla8932 And most of the metal items have rusted away, you can tell by some of the rusty areas you see in the pit.

[@noobatbest12]

Yayyyy I've been waiting for this video!! Can't wait to watch the full video when I get off work! Love seeing all the cool finds!

[@marykaystreasures]

You had such a great variety of of bottles and dish shards ♥️🗝️🇺🇸⚒️ Thanks for sharing 👍♥️🗝️🇺🇸

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching!

[@kaydonahue]

My grandmother had no garbage pick up. She saved cans and bottles in iron drums. Guessing they buried their bottles together after a length of time. That's a tremendous find.

[@bethcorey6022]

Can’t wait to see what you get this week😊❤

[@ktcarl]

I can't wait to see any kind of "jackpot".

[@BelowthePlains]

Many vids to come. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching!

[@maggsbufton1969]

How cool is this treasure hunt? Excellent history lesson on the use of outhouses for things that do not burn.

[@dannmccord1923]

Those little inks are awesome. Love that pitcher with the lady face. Really cool. You found alot of nice ones today Tom.just love them all. Cant wait till the next one.

[@BelowthePlains]

Many more to come. Stay tuned!

[@dannmccord1923]

@@BelowthePlains cant wait. Your videos are awesome

[@holliday0191]

You have a great voice for narrating.

[@kellyschroeder7437]

Question : maybe to answer in future episode. How do you discern you’ve discovered the “walls” and reached “bottom” ???? Thanks. This is really cool and interesting

[@clintwilde1048]

My home, built in 1956, was built on the same site as the original, over 100 year old homestead, in this mountain cove farm. I still find odds and ends, pottery mostly where ever I dig. But in a geologic mystery, anywhere I dig on this property, at 18 inches down is broken, sharp edged granite, about 6 inches thick, and at 2 feet down I find smooth river rock. (Why would I dig holes over a lot of the area? Fence posts) When I dug a 5ft deep by 5ft square hole for an antenna tower, as I passed the 2 foot rock layer, I got into heavy red clay, then dirt, then a thin layer of dry brown powder which rested on top of the purest white sand, with the consistency and color of real sugar, at the bottom of the hole, and I am 2160 feet at this elevation. The sand was of an undetermined thickness, as I stopped at that point, but a few more shovel fulls revealed it went much deeper.

[@metatechhd]

🏡🔍 It's truly touching to see the belongings that might have once belonged to your GGgrandparents in their old home. The connection to your family history must be incredible. It's fascinating to speculate about the timeline of items being disposed of in the pit. Thank you for sharing this fabulous video! I'm eager to see if you uncover any more treasures from the past. The story of Peter and his wife's journey from Germany to their new home is captivating. The attention to detail in the German culture could be reflected in the abundance of shoe polish. I'll keep an eye out for that solid blue, squat pottery vase you're missing. 🤞😄

[@LanakilaMiller]

I am near Sacramento California between the areas of Placer, Coloma, Sutters Fort the entire area would be good for digging dating to the gold rush and what miners left behind that’s for sure. First time watching this channel but I do know the above ground history of the area being horn and raised here. Time to find out what’s below from the past physically and I definitely have the time being disabled, positive outlook is being in one place for long time period is all I can do. Something up my capacity abilities. Found a new hobby that could fit perfectly.

[@andrewowens9382]

Another great video tom and jake they must have the cleanliness shoes 👞 👟 going it's nice to see some British items good dating bottles have a good weekend Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

[@BelowthePlains]

Thats for sure! Thanks for watching!

[@truenexus1usa]

My first time watching, Below the Plains. Great a/v production value, great lighting and hd video. Voice quality crisp and clear and with enough variation to entice one to want to keep diging with you. To me, that 1800's map explains why containers had water in them. We can see the property is not far from the Missouri River so water table wouldn't be too deep there. Nice that the rainy weather wasn't a problem. Good work avoiding damage-contact with service lines.

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks greg! we really appreciate that! yeah, its super difficult filming outdoors, with all the noise and the wind and the sunlight.. we used to film with an iphone, but the audio was so bad, that we finally just sprang for a very nice quality camera and mic setup.. so its actually nice to hear about the quality, because thats probably the thing we worked the hardest on over the past year. well welcome to the channel, really glad you found us,. and thanks for leaving us a comment

[@mbak7801]

The finds are interesting in themselves and the difference between what is considered old in the US when compared to the UK is also illuminating. I had a back yard door that had been reused multiple times and was probably from the early 1800s. It might even had gone back to the earliest years of the US. The bottom was rotten so I smashed it up and burnt it. Nobody would be interested in it. A nearby shop was selling chemically stripped Victorian doors for what would be $60. It is all relative. Many older buildings have ships timbers in them. Ships masts used as roof timbers. They probably go back at least 150 years to when the building was erected and then another 50 or more for the lifetime of the ship.

[@michaelripley4528]

Yeah Nice shoes and writing Big time😲 Gluing much… too!

[@mathbrown9099]

I’m a Nordmann and I suggest you dig a pit behind a few homes in Fargo. You’ll find plethora of snoos cans. Especially behind my Grandpa’s home. He was quite a guy.

[@pan6593]

May I ask what a snoos can is ? Can‘t find a translation. Thx.

[@ernestchadwell9069]

@@pan6593 oral tobacco used by Scandinavians is called snus, and it comes in round cans.

[@TaneKarnes]

You found alot of interesting artifacts on this dig. Really enjoy the reveal at the end, after the cleanup.

[@jeanpowell7072]

I just love watching what you find

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching!

[@michellewarmath7811]

I've recently discovered and subscribed to your channel and am enjoying it. I used to live about 4 miles from an archaeological site in France (Bliesbruck-Rheinheim) and got to know it and the staff well. The many refuse pits were also where a lot of everyday artifacts and remnants were found. As the staff said, you learn a lot digging out privies and trash pits, and a lot was also found in the public baths/latrines on that site. Those had lots of shops and dressing rooms around them. You'd enjoy visiting that site, I'm sure. I might suggest that the tiny sample perfume bottles would not only decorate a lady's dressing table but would also perhaps have been carried in her purse or reticule for "freshening up" and that perhaps some of the very small bottles could have been (re)used for or sold with "smelling salts" for the ladies. The little vase in this video looks like a bud vase. Thank you for all the explanations you add. I've looked up some of the companies to learn more. Take care and be safe when you dig. Remember the fermented wine!

[@favouritemoon4133]

Really great video. Your instant knowledge of and familiarity with the items was incredible! Here's a British pronunciation tip for you: 'Leicestershire' is pronounced 'Lester-shurh'. 99.9999% of us Brits don't know why, so don't even begin to ask!

[@frelnc]

Good grief. What a find this hole was. Beauty.

[@sandy81054]

As always great video. I think it would be fun if you did a video on how you clean all the bottles😊

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for watching! We plan to do some how-to videos at some point. Stay tuned!

[@MrMattDat]

It is just amazing how you find the spots and reveal the treasures!!

[@soonzach4017]

I love too watching what you find, always love your channel.

[@BelowthePlains]

We appreciate it!

[@angi9512]

Great video. It shows very well why we all need to recycle, buy used, or fix what's broken. That stuff does not decompose.

[@jeffmech1]

New sub here. I love old stuff. You’ve obviously been doing this for a while. How do you know which houses to dig and then where at that house? Pretty amazing. Thank you for posting these.

[@cherylpemberton1676]

It usually writes at the beginning how they found an old map or city plans in the library, or an attic; I'm sure lots of research goes into this too, as well as the digging.

[@gailflint152]

I have so many questions. 😂. New to this channel and I am loving it! He should do a FAQ page. ❤

[@raphaelszok8561]

I would certainly put them in a display case.

[@karendavis7988]

Great find today! Really nice!!!

[@BelowthePlains]

We had a good dig. Thanks for watching!

[@TheMatthooks]

These guys polished a LOT of shoes!

[@meteoman7958]

Amazing how many bottles are not broken. My digs usually found shards.

[@sawdust2556]

Love your finds. Awesome🎉

[@Janmification]

Tragically. When I started school in the early 1960’s, I am sure we had ink bottles that were triangular in profile. I can remember spilling ink, and being made to scrub the floor, here in Australia. The other triangular style bottles were larger and held glue. I certainly struggled to learn to write with a fountain pen, since I am left handed. But ballpoint pens weren’t in use in the early 1960’s.

[@greggump9923]

re: ballpoint pens ditto here in the southern US, same time frame. But we had Schaeffer cartridge pens for the most part. I found my granddad's bladder-pen and tried to use it, but got ink on my school uniform which greatly displeased both the nuns and my mum. So that was the end of that experiment (-;

[@c8Lorraine1]

I remember the ink wells in the 60s in Australia

[@Growmap]

@@c8Lorraine1 Interesting. I was in elementary school in the U.S. in the 1960s. I never saw an ink well. We used #2 pencils for writing and crayons for drawing and coloring.

[@newbiereview6291]

Did you find the origins of the CJB bottle with the Keystone? It looks like the same font for the J.C. Blair stationary company out of Huntingdon Pa.

[@JonathenSilvervale]

whoa! i would probably have quit digging after i ran into that gas line. thats terrifying! and then you find 2 other lines below it. and a fence post.

[@BelowthePlains]

Just another day at the office for us. They can surprise you, though. Thats why digging careful is top priority. Thanks for watching!

[@IAmWithinEverything]

Exciting to watch❤ Thank you