Strange Sinks Spots Open Up Into an Unbelievable Discovery Buried 120 Years Ago

[@philipcallicoat3147]

Good to see you wearing gloves 💖🕊️

[@mayflowers1041]

Now I'm addicted to watching a fella dig up old bottles. Thank you! Happy digging!

[@IamRemoWilliams]

You are a pro Sir.Nice job.

[@BelowthePlains]

thank you! hope you are doing alright!!! and thanks for watching!! oh, idk if i told you this before, but i dont always get a chance to read thru all the comments on my videos. if you wanna DM us, you can add us on facebook,. its just "below the plains" over there as well. take care, and keep your head up!

[@IamRemoWilliams]

@@BelowthePlains thank you!

[@smspiwak1956]

Another great Saturday night spent watching you two.

[@_spider_jeff]

In 1969 i was 8 and my first blown embossed dig was a rubifoam and 2 almost black johann hoffs. I still have them and love them.

[@kathydishner7691]

So interesting and informative, you amaze me with your knowledge 👏

[@jorahmormont1154]

I really like all the pop ups you put in the videos, glad you are putting new, fresh material into some of the same old bottles you find

[@gloriamanning6787]

Just a cool hobby. I love watching all the neat stuff you find.

[@susanaskjem9623]

😮❤It's so cool you dig up relics for the world to see! Congrats Tom! You were always inquisitive! Aunt Sue☮️❤️☯️

[@melissas.117]

I really like your videos. The begining is well done and the end where you show some of the cleaned up items is really nicely done. I also love this history of the items during the video. Very fun to watch you digging those bottles out, and for some reason it is calming. Sure would have loved to do that when I was younger. Thanks fellas for making this so interesting.

[@oldwoodentrunkadventures]

Great dig, lots of cool stuff. The porcelain lid with the book is a Victorian fairing (China fairing) trinket box. They made hundreds of varieties. The most popular ones are made by German Manufacturer Conta Boehme. I have a few in my collection. Recognized the lid right way. Cool find

[@DiggingTimesPast]

Your videos are so much better than other bottle digs. I appreciate your professional description of the use layer. Other diggers are much more vulgar.

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah... ive seen some of their channels.. i guess why just try to appeal to all ages.. plus, i cant imagine showing my mom my channel and then not being professional lol.. but thank you! i appreciate that very much, glad you liked the show

[@jujuk66]

Your channel has become one e of my favorites to watch. ❤

[@terrancemiller8350]

Very relaxing video, Tom your voice is so smooth you could read books for a living, unfortunately not huge halls but it was a great opportunity to see the alustous Jake, it was a pleasure to catch a few glimpses of you, I do appreciate it, it's nice to see the partner every now and then, you know, just to make sure your still alive. I hope your next hole is as deep and dark and moist and lots of fun. See you both on the next video. Lots of love to ya'll. Afriend.

[@sos13sunshine]

Thanks for making these wonderful bottle digging videos. It's very interesting and entertaining. Been watching you for awhile now I hope you never run out of spots to dig.

[@offroadjunkie303]

Much respect on what you do love the history. Keep up the good work

[@enaidyeltneb369]

I was watching a channel named WildKyle and the gentleman was exploring a creek bed. He was looking for bottles and talking about them as he went. It was cool that I recognized most of them and could say an extract bottle, an applied top etc.. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, you never know when or how it comes up in daily life.

[@shainazion4073]

It was great seeing the process.

[@asabovesobelow7981]

Love watchin you dig up these relics lololllll helps me chill out.. sweet finds!! Thanks for sharin!! 💛✌️

[@joshperronne765]

Liked seeing the probing and what a good pit would sound like

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

3 Pits and some Good Rare Bottles and a Horseshoe - Great Dig and History Preserved ! Well Done and many Cheers from Australia !!!!

[@tarrasams7423]

Hello 👋 from New York you Guy's Found Some Amazing Finds my Favorite Definitely Was the chalice glass cup that was a beautiful find and the little perfume sample bottle Thank you for bringing me along with you Guy's. I can't wait to see what you find next😊

[@BelowthePlains]

i really appreciate that! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment.. and yeah, something about those tiny bottles.. im obsessed with them

[@johnnyboy262]

I Love the beginning of this video. I finally see, and hear, how you find the location of the bottle pits. 🙂💖

[@willong1000]

Likewise! I've been bugging Jake and Tom in the comment section, asking them to include more of the discovery process in their videos.

[@soonzach4017]

Always enjoy your your videos a lot.

[@lauriehallam5704]

Another amazing video and knowledge is wonderful

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom and Jake another amazing location you found through your research. You both work so hard to find great relics that tell the story of time. 👏👍😀

[@lisacates4185]

You guys are great 😊ty I think the whiskey bottles are from sneaking a nip in the outhouse 😂

[@willong1000]

That's a fairly common, and likely accurate, assumption.

[@leslietremblay3498]

I've learned so much from you Tom! Even found the original 1930's dumpsite on my property. Not that old but still fun digging it out and finding a few gems. Now, I'm thinking there is a privy here, just not sure where? Next to the lilac tree perhaps??? Any thought's?

[@darlacox301]

❤❤❤ I thank you hit a honey hole bottles I have not seen before 😊😊😊😊

[@rebeccasciutto2722]

Im from Freeport, IL. Lived there until i moved south 6 years ago. I have a collection of old McNess containers. That company just closed its doors last year. WT Rawleigh was a bigger manufacturer than McNess. I have more of their old bottles and product containets. Before prohibition we also had 12 to 13 beweries.

[@andygulick6085]

you guys rock as usual.............

[@debbiecantrell7577]

Thank you for sharing ❣️

[@denisem.1042]

I have been watching your videos for several months now. I really enjoy your digs! I have asked this question before with no response, so I don't expect one now. I would really like to look into purchasing maybe a couple of items you dig for decoration pieces, but I have never seen you market your finds. I am assuming you must be employed by an auction house or someone who buys your finds from you. It would be great if I could find a link somewhere where I can look into purchasing some items.

[@willong1000]

@Tom.Askjem Tom and Jake, please consider documenting any intact bottles you retrieve as to the specific dig location found and the associated video. I've been watching from the first episode and see your fan base expanding. I also see repeated inquiries asking "Do you ever sell?" Obviously, you've noticed those too. I think most of those requests come from people looking for one or a few decorative bottles associated with the show, and are not necessarily looking to build an extensive or even representative bottle collection. For purchasers to be able to tell their friends something like: "Ya, these two different shoo-fly flasks were excavated by the 'Below The Plains' guys from a privy pit at the former site of the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Sheldon, North Dakota" would probably add immensely to the bottles' desirability and value. Such documentation would also help preserve historical information, albeit in an ancillary fashion. Get well soon Tom.

[@lindamccolley]

Thanks guys! Your hard work is much appreciated!

[@andrewowens9382]

Hi Tom and jake it's great to see the photo of the hotel and maps also it's also surprising what you can find in those pits really enjoy watching your videos have a good weekend Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

[@dawnhaynes7784]

Love your videos thanks for sharing

[@larisarogers2649]

Another day of adventure in history, Thank you guys!

[@jerrysadventures8952]

i had fun thanks

[@billiehydrick6417]

I really like your videos my friend thanks for sharing this with us ..howdy from Grovetown Georgia

[@jamieheim8009]

I own a probe and tried finding a privy pit on an old colonial property i metal detected over a dozen times. My finds range from the 1700's through the late 1800's My questions is, how do i know if i may infact have found the bit? Will the whole 4x6 or whatever dimension be easy to push the probe into the soil? I had spots wherr i fould pish it all the way down but 5 inches away it would go down maybe a foot or two. Btw, most of thr field there is a clay layer a foot or two below. No home or property left. Was last on top maps around 1920. I did find the well on the property but it was filled with rocks from i think the original foundation.

[@IamRemoWilliams]

Nice to watch you pull things into the light of day exciting for certain Sir

[@perryreal7420]

This was a honey hole for sure great job finding them gems you are awesome Tom !! Keep it up love watching you work..

[@johnsnow6586]

Good job guys

[@jamesonheche2899]

good going guys

[@donaldrobbins1131]

Enjoy your videos very much, why do they call them shoefly bottles?

[@ronr9423]

What do you do with the things you dig up? Clean it up and sell or clean them up and collect?

[@dannmccord1923]

Awesome bunch of bottles. Just love them cant wait till you dig the next one. I bet you get really hot down there. Love your videos Tom. Keep digging

[@SnowPink90]

Hi I was wondering, @22:10 you found a small sample perfume bottle and I love “Vintage “ purses, hats, gloves, compacts, perfume bottles, etc, do you sell what you find because I’d love this bottle? 😍😍

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Interesting finds!

[@kellyburrissuggs4568]

0:46 I'm a new sub. I was wondering what you do with the bottle neck you collect? Because on a trailer going to the dump I found a couple of lines of bottle necks strung up they all have turned purple or aqua.

[@nevillewilson1406]

Hi Tom,great exploring downtown the old pits, can you do a segment on your bottles finds and discoveries , neville New Zealand

[@robertfoedisch]

what do you do with the glassware you dig up?

[@mikewinings4120]

That worm wast too happy with you,I really loved the presed penny

[@warrenmink2429]

Killer man , awesome digs thanks for sharing

[@alisonmary1443]

My favourites, sample perfume bottle, Rubyfoam, and the amber bitters bottle, sadly I'll never own any but I am incredibly grateful to have seen them. Thank you so much. PS I hope you rehoused the worm 😄

[@willong1000]

"PS I hope you rehoused the worm 😄" I noticed that too! It made me think of the scene in "Seven Years in Tibet" where the monks were so concerned for earthworm safety.

[@vieuxrawls923]

That challis, truly the holy grail of bottle diggers

[@IamRemoWilliams]

Incredible pit

[@karendavis7988]

Love your videos!

[@robbybobby64]

I never get any whole stemmed glassware. Like you said they are always busted. Great bottles too.

[@scarmyguy01]

my wife would like to know... "has he ever tried to plant the undigested seeds?"

[@allenlange3181]

Lol i wondered if by bringing them up they would grow from where the hole was

[@RailCityRelics802]

That freemason penny was ballar for sure!!

[@calvinc5961]

Hey Tom, thanks for sharing your awesome videos. I like history and old artifacts. I thought only pirates had buried treasure, but I guess I am wrong. I am not sure if I can find buried treasure like you as I live in Nevada.

[@clayton6499]

I’m sure the night crawler in the first pit was happy when you filled it back in 😊

[@ozfromkansas8939]

nice

[@marycoleman3711]

Nice black dirt lol

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Don't forget to share this channel with your bottle digging buddies....Check everyone out ❤.

[@willong1000]

Jake and Tom, thank you for including a little probing scene in the video. I do believe that I could hear a bit of "thunk" there once or twice. Please include more, along with commentary explaining what you are feeling and hearing, in future videos. Would really like to see your process from start to finish on a lot where you do not see any surface indicators like the sunken spots mentioned for this site. Also, since I see that you get so many questions along the line of: "What is dipping?" I thought I would post an explanation for people new to the notion. I'm doing it separately so you can remove the comment if you don't think it helps. WL

[@jdjd962]

Ya what's dipping a pit

[@willong1000]

@@jdjd962 A "Honey Dipper" was a professional who removed contents from pit toilets in the days of outdoor privies, though it was a service probably more common in densely-populated, long-established cities that had little yard space to spare for digging a fresh pit when a privy in use filled to the brim than it would have been in rural villages. Put bluntly, the dipper removed a privy pit's contents with a bucket, transferred the slop to a "honey wagon" and carted it away to dump in some other location. Today, the terminology and technology has changed, but the profession remains where on-site septic systems have to be maintained. For more information you can Google: "Honey +Dipper +privy +outhouse"

[@jdjd962]

@@willong1000 I appreciate this explanation

[@willong1000]

@@jdjd962 Happy to provide it; glad it helped.

[@vieuxrawls923]

DAMN DIPPERS!!

[@jimcoontz5848]

How do you guys know where to dig?

[@BelowthePlains]

we use the maps to find the lots where the old buildings were, and then we use probe rods and push them into the ground until we feel trash left in the ground.. it has a very unique crunch noise from the stove ashes that they threw down the hole.. hope that answered your question! thanks for watching

[@jimcoontz5848]

@Below the Plains It definitely did. Like your channel. I'm going to have to find some old maps in my area. Very small town that had a little oil boom in the late 1800s. Thanks for the reply.

[@williamfoster7165]

THE MAP!!!

[@andrewchase7684]

is that an old train depot station in the background on the intro shot? im pretty sure thats what that is. thats cool, there aren't a lot of those things still standing

[@lorienray6216]

So interesting, I started collecting pop bottles and old milk bottles, now I want to get rid of them as getting older. Is there a market to sell these bottles, even have the cardboard caps to milk botttle

[@dski8097]

Ya, you can leave that Anheuser-Busch bottle right where it is, LOL.

[@danielknepper6884]

Go woke , go broke😂😂😂😂

[@shepherd4406]

👏🏼💗

[@Riverwalker44]

Few decent bottles bro!

[@kellyschroeder7437]

May I ask what a dipped pit is ???

[@rpfree]

Do you ever find gold rings and such? Some diggers mainly do that, using metal detectors ...

[@jackacuff5851]

I mentioned a while back that I would do some METAL DETECTING in your pits for coins!

[@edchair3559]

What is a "dipped pit"

[@BelowthePlains]

back in the day, they would build the privys out of wood and sometimes out of bricks.. they would just sit in the ground. and sometimes there wasnt enough space to move the outhouse to a different spot on the property, so they would just "dip" the pit, which meant they just cleaned it out once it got full, so it could be re-used... and yes it was pretty gross, but it was also fairly common.. but it was much more common to just dig a new hole and move the outhouse over a few feet, then backfill the top of the used pit until the ground was level.. hope that answered your question! thanks for watching

[@karendavis7988]

What is a dipped pit? Thanks.

[@danielknepper6884]

Cleaned out

[@karendavis7988]

Thanks

[@tomscotland]

I couldn’t take my eyes off that worm at 3:00

[@baddlyghost5509]

Hey, nice video. Can i ask something, because its the first time i see these kind of stuff. Why all the bottles are alltogether underground? Did they bury their trash or something back in the day?

[@danielknepper6884]

It was common to throw bottles in privies back in the day. Although most people did not do it because it would fill the privy up way too fast. Sometimes whenever the privy was dipped or cleaned out people would just throw random items in the hole before they filled it or when they left after dipping it. Dipping is another term for clearing it out.

[@comic_book_emporium]

​@@danielknepper6884 Very informative my friend. I knew the 1st part however in the video I heard him say the phrase dipped pit a handful of times and I was just about to comment and to ask what that meant however I has been answered by you now!

[@comic_book_emporium]

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[@kristijensen7457]

While watching these videos, my father and I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the products sold in glass bottles back then are the same products sold in bottles today. The unbroken lightbulbs are bizarre considering how thin and fragile they are today.

[@Mr45acpShooter]

what's a dipped pit mean?

[@cferguson3368]

Wondered the same thing. Looked it up... means cleaned out by someone previously.

[@manderson3231]

What does it mean when you say Dipped Pit? Do you mean they took the poop and stuff out of it somehow??

[@MR-kd9md]

Yes, I am also wondering. Did a search but couldn’t find anything on Google. I am fascinated by this channel.

[@willong1000]

"Honey Dipper" was a profession in the days of outdoor pit toilets, though it was probably more common in densely-populated, long-established cities that had little yard space to spare for digging fresh pits when prior one filled than it would have been in rural villages. Today, the terminology and technology has changed, but the profession remains where on-site septic systems have to be maintained. A rude term for the profession today would be "Sewage Sucker." (I think the "Red Green" program featured that for one of its regular characters IIRC.) Google: Honey +Dipper +privy +outhouse

[@manderson3231]

@@willong1000 Thank you for all of that information.

[@lynnerodgers4461]

What is a dipped pit?

[@lynnscott8286]

I would love to buy some for personal use

[@terryblanchard3633]

You should take more care when yur digging up items. I noticed the old water pitchure u dug up was in tact UNTIL u started pulling on it. Then it broke. It could have been worth thousands.

[@comic_book_emporium]

Idk if you guys make it down to Oklahoma or not, and I'm sure y'all have more than enough permissions/places to dig as is.. Theres a turn of the century railroad jail built right up on the bank of a the river on this guys property, while asking permission to metal detect somehow the privy from the jail was discussed, he said he believes he knows where it is and that its never been dug, least to his knowledge..

[@johnmakin4337]

It would sure be nice if you would clean the objects off a little bit better so that we might be able to see them

[@claytonsimplot9554]

Did the old timers dig to the water table or stay above it? If it was me I would stay way above the watertable. I would have my well close to the house.

[@jjw95sc]

I noticed several of the bottles still contained liquid. Is this common?

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

It's usually just ground water.

[@ABeautfulMess]

In the 70s my sisters,brothers and myself would flatten pennies on the railroad tracks...i actually got chased by a train..my brother has a picture..man i was stupid..

[@billbrowning50]

My curiosity is getting the better of me.. you’re digging up outhouses and finding a large population of unbroken bottles.. why are there so many items in the outhouse?

[@billbrowning50]

It would be nice to get a reply

[@lisastankiewicz1926]

That’s where people threw trash. Bottles weren’t recycled like they are today

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

They didn't have garbage services/pick up like we do now. They would throw the bottles down out house pits or trash pits.

[@craigmartin1104]

Would you be willing to sell the pressed penny you found?

[@BelowthePlains]

we actually brought a friend with us to help us dig, and fill in the pits, and im pretty sure he ended up with it.. but if theres anything you want to ask for in future videos, you can add us on facebook and DM us over there.. thanks for watching, sorry we didnt have that for ya

[@craigmartin1104]

Love the videos. Thanks for the reply and I will check you out on Facebook.

[@kennethstickney8819]

Elongated cents I have a small collection of them

[@asabovesobelow7981]

Same here!! Have 3 lil penny books to keep them in.. fun souvenirs for the kids.. and us adults lololll)

[@willong1000]

Wonder what Adolphus Busch 24:54 would think of the latest "marketing strategies" of Anheuser Busch 🤣? I'm guessing that he would not be on board!

[@bobkirk942]

They killed an Indian head penny geeze😂

[@carlabraenne3469]

You gotta be more romantic with your stories... She dropped the chalance down the out house hole so know one could know she was the one who poisoned her husband with his favorite drink!! Lol Just kidding! 😂 Always love your videos!

[@iswhatitis2744]

You all need to test your skills in an older part of the country,digging up all those turn of the century commons barely pay for the gas