Buried Under the Yard for 150 Years

[@wayneweidman1543]

Those doll heads do really get my imagination going. There could be so many reasons they were thrown down there. Keep making the great content! You’re videos are so addicting.

[@dinahjackson8146]

Wayne, probably, PAPA got drunk on all that whiskey, got mad and threw the daughters dolls away... 😜

[@braceletlife28]

Or an older brother who was being mean to the sister

[@carolynsimone8647]

All the door heads...weird...but other than that, you found some good things ..thanks for taking us with you and for sharing your finds. 🥰

[@dannybell926]

Excellent stuff man. I really like the historical information that you provide

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thank you! well glad you enjoyed it.. we had to find some way to stand out.. i actually enjoy researching these little tid-bits of information for the channel. its kind of a pain, finding information on some of these old businesses, but it always blows my mind when i find out some business is somehow connected to a famous business that is still around today. thanks for leaving us a comment

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

It is amazing how you not only find the privy, but dig it out gently. Wonderful finds once again.

[@enduringhope6859]

Amazing dig! The doll heads are pretty special! Fun watching...

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah we held onto those ones.. it just so uncommon to find them not broken. well glad you enjoyed watching! i was wondering if it was too long for anyone to watch. thanks for checking it out and leaving us a comment

[@saturdaybasementrock3961]

This is the best preservation history videos I’ve ever seen your an amazing guy hats off to you without you no one would have even known ,thank you Tom for spending your time to persevere history for us

[@douglaswiggins1810]

I can't stop watching this show.. thanks

[@grandmakellymcdonald]

Really cool 💕👵

[@mimimitch327]

Fun dig. For me anyway! I get to watch and enjoy! Great finds! Thanks for taking us along!

[@stuartb9323]

Awesome finds once again 👏 Your energy during the digs is fun to watch. At the risk of sounding like a father...it's nice to see the gloves on while pulling out the glass 👍

[@TheYammerHammer]

The Best treasure digging channel on youtube

[@JamesWestAZ]

Nice video today guys. Some great finds. As usual, no shortage of liquor bottles. LOL Those Porcelain doll heads was in pretty decent condition considering age and being buried so long. Now I had to laugh when Tom dug up that old freezer top. He's looking at it, brushing it off, and sees freezer on it. "Gonna have to look this up" As soon as i saw it the memories started to come forward. Sunday dinners and "Who wants Ice cream"?? Well you want it, then got to help make it................. My arms still sore from cranking those things. LOL But worth all the effort........... Man those made some of the best Ice Cream ever. Depending on the recipe of course.

[@notinmanitou]

My spouse and I love your channel. We hope you can continue to dig and produce videos for years to come! We'd love to hear more about you personally, how you learned so much about old bottles, how you learned to probe the sites. If you get to a point where you can't dig, you could always just do educational videos. What happens to all the broken shards of ironstone and other relics? We'd love to see follow up photos of that stuff. Again, great job!

[@kfly9768]

Raised Aberdeen, Enjoy your videos, thanks 👍💃🏼

[@debraporch7888]

Hi Tom and Jake, Well documented video. It is so interesting that you could dig someone's privy and document a lot about the family. You knew they drank quite a bit. They didn't use a lot of medicine, especially quack cures. There wasn't a lot of personal items. There has to be another privy or trash pit that would of held other garbage since there is usually shoes or other personal properties. I was surprised to know that hydrogen peroxide was isolated in 1818, but not manufactured way later in 1875. Didn't they know what they had there, it could've been beneficial earlier. What did you do with the doll pieces? They were eerie looking. If you didn't know better a person could have thought that the large doll head was human. Sorry for taking up your time, but it was fascinating and all the added info has you deep thought. This video was sweet since it was longer too. Keep up the great work, I'm loving what you're producing. Take care gentlemen. ✌

[@chuckschillingvideos]

I would say it's a mistake to draw too many inferences about how any particular family lived based solely on the contents of a single privy dig. When you say "drank quite a bit", you don't really know how many people occupied the home, or if they had parties or, really, anything else about how they lived, nor over what time frame the refuse accumulated in the pit, so it's quite a speculative inference you're drawing.

[@jennifergallant956]

I really enjoy watching you dig !! I have N.Dakota roots. Thanks for sharing. And keep having fun !! What a haul !!!!

[@BelowthePlains]

haha thank you! well we appreciate you leaving us a comment and watching our videos

[@jimmieloge575]

Love this video! Everything is done so professionally and I truly appreciate that! Thank you Tom and Jake for another job so well done!

[@kimberlygrise-bacon4458]

I can watch u all day. The history u r digging up is so awesome!!! Keep on digging!!

[@H.H.8963]

I really enjoy your digs. You have the absolute best digging videos online ! Love your informative way you do them. Your "circa" dates are spot on. So many other digging videos online that the diggers have no clue on their dates like " Crick diggers" You are the best , keep up the great work !

[@BelowthePlains]

hahahaha yeah we were going for a high effort type of videos. and thank you.. it always feels great when we get a comment like that. it just reaffirms to us that what we are doing is good, and watchable. haha yeah the crick diggers. we've actually talked to them a few times, they're really good guys! well thank you again. that made my night! take care

[@erikkellenberger5247]

Thanks for all the videos nice pit finding all of them doll heads in one spot is pretty cool and how complete they were

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah that was pretty unusual.. and they were all right in the same place, which makes me think they were thrown down all at once. well thanks for watching!

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

🥇🥇Thanks Tom GREAT VID

[@BelowthePlains]

Thank you! we appreciate you always leaving us a comment! take care

[@lukeyoas1054]

I enjoy your videos. Have dug over 4000 over the years. I like the company information you add to the videos. I would enjoy joining you on a dig sometime. You can have the bottles, just would enjoy meeting you guys

[@terrykrall]

Wow! You work hard! Great finds! Great videos. I’m inspired!

[@Travelling..Bottle..Digger]

Love the flasks. Thanks for sharing 👍⛏

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thank you for watching and commenting

[@jimjustice581]

It’s obvious by watching you work that you’ve realized you don’t try to muscle a bottle loose from the soil. If a bottle is cracked, it will most definitely shatter making it a scalpel for bare hands, or even through gloves. Since they didn’t have super glue back then, their loss is your gain😜. Your videos are a pleasure to watch. I wish you all the luck in finding that one pot of gold bottle or artifact. Keep your cool videos coming, and thanks for sharing.

[@soonzach4017]

Your videos always so interesting, thank you for sharing.

[@philipcallicoat3801]

Your calm and professional attitude is greatly appreciated.. Stay safe...

[@abigailhumes4608]

I love the adventure of your treasure finds. When and where do we get to see the beautiful sparkling bottles cleaned up to display and maybe purchase?

[@jeffclark2725]

Great video, the finds are just a couple inches below the surface, enjoy them all

[@ChrispyMulder]

Been watching you all afternoon. You either have very good finds or you’ve saved the up and posted. Keep going. I will be watching. Since I’m almost 69 I’ve seen a lot of you questioned finds

[@dixonrupp8347]

ENJOYED WATCHING

[@bobkirk942]

BADASSERY as always man !!!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahahaha thank you! glad you enjoyed

[@bobkirk942]

@@BelowthePlains where did you get the probe to push into the ground?? Is it carbon fiber tip?? We have several old homes here in Valparaiso indiana circa 1850's and priveys that I know where 2 are for sure but it's been 20 years lol

[@MarvinHuff-u7u]

Cool video and finds congratulations have a great day brother

[@mandybrown7758]

Great Dig, Great Finds, love your channel your GREAT

[@corrinnesundquist3993]

Love watching you channel ❤️

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety]

Another board of nice bottles, great work👍🙂

[@christhompson4270]

Cool finds 👍👏💛

[@johnsnow6586]

Wow this is one of your best videos so far!

[@jerryblum277]

Great dig guys love the doll heads!

[@jamesonheche2899]

wow what a long video! awesome job! thanks for sharing

[@marvinhuff2162]

good way to spend the day. doll heads really lol.alot of whiskey bottles may of had to much money.good video today.stay safe,God bless brother

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah it was weird finding those doll heads.. thanks for leaving us a comment and thanks for watching

[@alisonmary1443]

Great dig, some odd pieces, Thank you.

[@williamheden6794]

New subscriber. Thanks for taking me along.

[@BestSellers2122]

Still Nice!

[@BestSellers2122]

Watched again, still nice!

[@gippyskilks3642]

Very cool how you put the history of Ontrapunours of that time starting out ! 🙂 And if the business is still going!

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah its actually pretty cool to research these old businesses.. really gives u a feel for what was going on back in the day. and its surprising how many of these businesses are still around to this day. thanks for watching!

[@BestSellers2122]

Just as nice the second time around!

[@clidemorrow8786]

So good!

[@idaho2ndgens240]

Cool dig. I like how you use a digging stick or dowel for safely getting the bottles out. We always used a potato rake and often ended up scratching the glass. Also interesting the types of things you dig up compared to what we would dig up in New Hampshire. Stuff out there traveled a long way to get there. We would find a lot of milks, medicines, and more bitters type stuff.

[@BelowthePlains]

oh yeah i only wish we would find more bitters.. the ones out here can be worth a ton of money bc they are pretty rare.. yeah, most of what ended up out here was produced out east and shipped this way by rail, i believe even the local stuff was embossed on the east coast and just filled out here. well glad you like the videos! thanks for watching!

[@steven2212]

Loved the dig, and the history. As a Minnesotan, it's interesting to see what you dig up relating to St Paul and Minneapolis. Be safe, enjoy the summer digging season!

[@brentlittle8075]

Nice job guys.

[@Tealtra]

Wow would love that kind of score. Just the flasks alone would of made my week. To find that many almost intact doll heads was amazing.

[@mrmchaney]

That's crazy to find all of those creepy doll heads together like that. Almost like it was the burial ground for dolls.

[@davidkilts1670]

I have used the freezer like you found as a kid. Although a lot newer model!

[@victoria859]

My Dad Worked Construction n Always Brought Old Bottles Home n I Display In My House. Xoxo ☮️ ❤

[@richardbaumeister466]

What value do these old whiskey bottles fetch? say machine made around the turn of the century? Range? I'm sure condition is king so from this dig what is the most valuable bottle? At 17:22 that is an ice cream freezer gear box

[@BelowthePlains]

um.. those wouldnt go for anything.. they were probably the most common bottle produced during that era.. some of them can be embossed and those could fetch some money, but as far as i know, even those wouldnt be worth a whole lot.. almost all unembossed bottles wouldnt sell for anything, unless its really old. and yes that was an ice cream gear box! i had to look it up to figure that out.. ive actually found a few of those before! thanks for watching

[@kenthetalkingpen2518]

Been following you for a while tenacity is so awesome caz sometimes it pays off. I'm getting close to my 70s and loved doing this when I was your age keep the videos coming boom or bust!!! 💯👍👍👍

[@ianjones9322]

I just wanted to comment and say big up yaself to the man that used the phrase "this dig gets crazy" mad respect bro!!

[@scottie47h]

Wow! This guy make $$$$$$! Keep it up more digging! Like watch more video! U guys awesome!

[@tiffanyrichards3269]

Be sure to save ALL those doll heads. They are worth some good $$. The damage to the back base on them can be repaired. People pay top dollar for old doll heads. Especially those that still have the eyes. This was a great dig guys. Lots of really good finds.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah, the whole site was great.. we have another video of the same site already out and we have 2 more still coming out. the 4th video is gonna be really good! oh yeah, and we do save the doll heads, i think we have them lying around here somewhere. just got to do a little research on them first. we dont typically find them in that condition.. and we rarely find more than 1 in a single privy. thanks for the comment!

[@tiffanyrichards3269]

@@BelowthePlains it is very rare to find that many in one privy. I am looking forward to the 4th video for sure.

[@oldfordcarsandtrucks]

👍 nice job fellas!

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks!

[@dawnhaynes7784]

I really enjoy ur videos

[@eliseshield9908]

It would be really cool to see your documentation on this! You should make a video about how you record this data

[@shaunacohn3205]

Wow tom what’s your background? And again how do you choose a site or doesn’t it matter where you dig is there just history eveeeeerywhere - I used to live in kalgoorlie in Western Australia wish I had dug deep there - full of gold probably!!!

[@soonzach4017]

Wow,wow ❤

[@loripretti843]

I have 1 question. Is this how you make a living selling the bottles and other things? Just curious... Your content is fabulous and amazing!!! Just keep up the grea4 work!!! I Love your Channel!! God Bless!!!

[@hollylavin7796]

Lots of goodies !

[@rhondaholland4188]

Hope you clean the bottle up what do you do with the things you find cool bottles you find

[@BestSellers2122]

Nice!

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks!

[@MrWoodstock94]

I really enjoy your videos, would love to see one of you cleaning up all the bottles from a dig.

[@karenteague8468]

Amazeing finds what do u do with bottles once you’ve dug them out .

[@kellyjones3311]

I like reading the info but print could be a bit bigger? Great job on Mason jar and Amber's are so cool. ✌❤

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

Tom, Galvan was from my home town Lima Ohio, he invented Galvannaion, still doing gard rails to this day

[@wesmartin937]

Awesome video! I just found your channel and subscribed. I was wondering if you know when people stoped smoking clay pipes regularly. I do some metal detecting and sometimes find pieces of pipes digging. I am going to have to try to find a privy and dig it sometime. Thanks.

[@BelowthePlains]

yeah privy digging will blow your mind, when you do it for the first time.. once you find a bottle and pull it out, you'll get a rush! omg its so satisfying! well im glad you found our channel, and thanks for subbing! and about the clay pipes.. i mean, i have no idea for sure, but ive noticed that i really dont see too many in pits from like the 20s on.. and thats about the same time that i start to see things like cigar, and cigarette tins showing up.. but they may have just switched to corn cob pipes at some point.. but im pretty sure by the time WW2 rolled around, cigarettes were the norm, and pipes were still used, but were less common. well thanks for watching and subbing!

[@eliseshield9908]

Cool! Just where you got your credentials in archaeology?

[@kevinsplitshangergundurahm1891]

Have you ever sifted the dirt? I wonder what you would find?

[@MikeAGarza]

Wow cool you dig and found many many glass bottles LOL so need try find coins and rings and bones and gold and skulls somewhere.

[@richardbeee]

Boy howdy! Y'all kept going thru layer after layer it got so i was expectin a Ming Dynasty bottle. :-) Out west here i was working at an old gold mill once and we found a few "Cryus Noble" whiskey bottles. The bidding war was on, i thought some of these people were going to shoot each other. Y'all got a museum? Store? What do you do with all them thar bottles? Great video! Enjoyed.

[@patriciarose4198]

Love these videos. Would love to know where all these bottles are kept must have thousands.

[@cowboygeologist7772]

Love watching this. I'm still watching so you may answer this in the video. Just wondering how you decided in that exact location in that small square. I am going to buy a property there built in 1901. I can't wait to metal detect the yard if I get it. Be my luck you've already excavated it - lol.

[@chuckschillingvideos]

They use long probes to give them an idea what's in the subsurface soil. Privies typically are located by probing for glass shards, as well as the ash and lime deposits which were commonly used to reduce the odors from the privies back in the day. And a dug and filled in pit will have looser soil than the soil around it. These guys are experienced and also have a good sense, just by looking at the surface grade of the soil and knowing where buildings once stood, where the likely spots for a privy would have been.

[@JeanneLugertLadyTatsLace]

very interesting what you find.

[@elenav952]

I’m so envious, do you sell the bottles you don’t keep

[@BelowthePlains]

haha no.. we usually keep the nice ones, but the vast majority we just end up giving away to the homeowner, or landlord.. sometimes we give them to antique shops, or historic societies.. a few things we have dug we significant that they ended up in a museum.. i mean people always offer to buy them from us on our videos, but.. it would probably cost more to ship than id end up making and it just kinda sounds like a hassle.. but i mean, i have no problem giving them away, if i think they are going to a place where they arent going to be thrown in the trash in a year.. we just dig up too many to keep, otherwise id just keep them all.. thank you for watching

[@kathryndeloria1834]

I love the doll heads. You sure waste no time, interesting dig. I like your format-text info on the side, not a lot of excess talking about each item. Thanks.

[@gail995]

Where do you sell your bottles and stuff that you find?

[@leenicely664]

So what do you do with all these bottles you dig up?

[@BelowthePlains]

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!!!

[@douglaswiggins1810]

Nice one

[@alanatolstad4824]

What DID become of the doll heads? I'm hoping someone, somewhere, wanted to give them some love again.

[@jerrysadventures8952]

good video

[@BelowthePlains]

thank you!!!

[@Mrhalligan39]

The "Below the Plains" drinking game is going to require a shot every time Tom says "use layer."

[@stratocaster1greg]

Im sitting here looking at an Atlas Mason full of Mob Boss. Cool video.

[@indianaouthouse5693]

Great video!!!When children were sick sometimes they would throw their toys away and burn their blankets get rid of them monkeypox

[@lirazel6414]

The combination of liquor bottles, quack cure bottles (with lots of alcohol and opiates), and the doll heads all on one row tell such a sad story. Dolls like that were very expensive - the eyes are hand-made.

[@paulmusgrave3387]

Pops here. Do you ever show cleanups?

[@markduncan6690]

That’s a great digging tool- the two pronged scraper!

[@johnshackelford6965]

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[@shepherd4406]

I watched eight commercials. Congratulations, you are drawing a good amount of advertisers. Enjoyed the dig I was partial to the yellow one utilizing a Chinese name, probably to get people to think of the mysterious oriental and ancient cures. Maybe. By the quality of the glass eyes, they were expensive dolls.

[@scaredsilly1st]

Call me ignorant on this digging, but please, tell me how you know where to dig? Did everyone have their own pit in which they threw their unwanted items?

[@matthewlee3239]

How do know where to look? I don't understand how using a prob works

[@Jls75]

How do you find these sites to dig?

[@marydalton5752]

Those doll heads are scary! What do you do with all of your finds?

[@Wamphyrii1]

What do you do with all this can i ask?

[@heathercmarvin]

Do you sell the stuff you find?