Love these digs. As a very young girl in the 60’s (8 or 10ish) my 2 brothers and I would go to local home dump sites for just this type of finds. We’d bring our finds home and carefully wash them up. My parents were local antique dealers and would sell lots of our finds at the nearby flea market. A lot of money was made back then. My favorite personal finds were a very small carnival glass medicine bottle (sold for $180) and about 100 beautiful old straight razors. Absolute gold mine. For a while I harvested broken pieces too and cemented the pieces into flower patterns on glass vases & votives. Won art awards for that. I still have 1 small vase with forget me not flowers made of broken glass. All was good until someone told where our favorite spots were. Then I moved on to making copper & glass bead jewelry (found a small batch of glass beads, and copper wire , got me started on that) & macrame belts & things like that. Sold like hot cakes ! Still crafting with nature finds, and just about anything that speaks a new life to me.

I bet the people who used that outhouse back in the day, never dreamed someone would come along 100 years later and dig it up to find what they threw down in it. Love your videos.

I wish I had access to the yard that I grew up in Grand Rapids Michigan. My dad said our house was built over top of an old city dump & the house dates back to 1890. Dreaming of being archaeologist, I used to dig up old pieces of porcelain plates and stuff right in the backyard when I was 10-12 yrs old. That's almost 50 years ago today.

Me and Father who own a land scaping company did just that I was digger got three feet down found a top to a street lamp which wasn't detached then I turn right started digging on a hunch found the top of a door with glass dug it out opened just enough my dad couldn't get in side a entire lady's dress shop everything still inside still smelt of smoke we just found the lost burnt City of Memphis yes really amazing!!!; )

its amazing to me that your pulling out 140 year old bottles in south Dakota USA which were made 5 miles away from me in Liverpool in England over 4000 miles away

We were at a family property many years back when I was about 14 (50 years ago) where my great great grandparents house once stood and my sisters were finding some cool cobolt glass bottles and other bottles in a depressed area that backed up to a hill. When I told them that it was most likely the remains of and old outhouse they immediately lost interest even though I told them that all of the "crap" was long gone. I took over and found a bunch of similar objects that you found such as remedy and alcohol related bottles. Thanks for the flashback!!

In Columbus, Ohio back in the mid 1970s, a friend of mine bought a 1800s era house, in a neighborhood, and buried in his yard, were hundreds of Lithography stones, most likely used at the town's first newspaper publisher. I was an Art student at the time, and by coincidence, a print maker. at The Ohio State University, in Columbus. I recognized the "litho stones" which were usually mined in Bavaria, in Germany, and shipped over in tall masted sailing ships in the 1800s, to Eastern sea ports, where they slowly made their way westward to newly established cities. Each litho stone weighs 40 or more pounds, and is 4 to 6 inches thick. Bavarian Lime stone is very valuable. I think my friend gave and sold the stones to the OSU Art department. He had a hundred or more, and was more interested in removing them from his property, than keeping them around as artifacts. Schools that teach Print Making as an art form, always want to have a collection of stones, for their students, to use for producing new drawings on, and then making prints, from them. The fine, even grain, of stone's surface, can be carefully ground down, to create a blank, fresh surface, ready to receive new drawings. Those stones can be reused, 1000's of times. Old images can be carefully ground off.

A couple of young guys dug up the old outhouse on our property. The found numerous bottles etc and also the head of a porcelain doll. We kept the head. It lay on the cabinet in the laundry room for several months. The house developed an odor that got worse each day. After checking everything we could think of, we took that head and pitched it. The smell left.

Watching your videos always reminds me of when I was a kid. In the early 80's we lived next to the old town dump (used from the 1890's to the 40's) we would dig bottles and other relics. I still have a few items from those digs.

That cobalt bottle is killer, great dig. Enjoyed it very much.

Its sooooo Amazing that some of the Labels have survived after over 100 Years in the Ground - wow ! This Pit was LOADED ! Love that Cow and Door Knobs ! Man - some Rare Bottles again - still cant get over all those Labels - I think You hit the Jackpot AGAIN ! Fantastic Video and many Cheers from Australia !!!!

Dang if that’s an old outhouse the stuff he’s finding must have really been hard on the digestive track and really hurt coming out! Holy Smokes!

I love when you find kids toys, porcelain dolls and figurines! Tells a little more of the story than the bottles and porcelain alone!

Hey Tom, I just signed on and like how you operate. I inherited my grandparent's 1879 boarding house in the Catskill Mountains of NY. We've restored most of the ground floor, but upstairs it's '1937' or so. Back in the day everything was discarded out by the barn and I've been finding stuff since I was a kid. For years there were even shells of autos and parts galore out there, but the rust has eaten most of the stuff. Lots of whole and broken glass items, the list is endless. Anything worth half a hoot is fair play to keep for me, and some not that good too. Thanx for the video!

Yeah, the Brown Crock broke when you pulled on it. Needed to be gently exposed on all sides down to the bottom before gently lifting it out. Check out the techniques archeologists use when unearthing old civilizations, better yet, join a volunteer group and soak up their methodology.

I always enjoy watching you dig up the past. So interesting seeing the different products and packaging used back then.

If you excavated more carefully, you wouldn't break so many pieces. That large crock at about 15:40, I heard it crack as you yanked it from the ground, and you can see from the broken edges that they were fresh, never exposed to the elements - until you stumbled in. I enjoy seeing the things you find, but I hate seeing them mistreated. Be more careful!

This video reminds me of why I love your channel so much. For a while I watched some of your earlier videos remastered and I enjoyed them for the second time. But this is new and exciting and way too deep!! I really was concerned for you but loved every minute of this pit. Especially the paper labels. Be safe and keep having fun. ✌🏻🤟🏼

This is an old trash pit. Many homes didn't have trash pickup back in those days, so they threw their trash and ashes from the wood stove in pits. Great bottles! Those with the graduated sides (measurements on the side) are worth a bit more. I'd clean them up and sell them, or display them. You prolly have more than $500 worth of bottles, at least. If you can preserve the labels, please do so. Great funds! If you don't want to bother selling them, you could sell them as a group, or perhaps consign them at an antique store. Look up the bottles! Some old bottles can be worth a lotta money... a couple hundred bucks. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

I almost spit my coffee out when he said he realized he's in the outhouse pit 😂 ..shoulders deep and realize it

I love hearing the song at the beginning of the video! It makes my heart soar to know another discovery is coming! Kind of like watching Wide World of Disney on Sunday evenings, back in the day! ❤️❤️❤️

I absolutely love your videos! If you ever get out to Southeast Iowa, the place is littered with old mining towns, one of the coolest of which is the tiny town of What Cheer. At one time, it was a boom town, with dozens of coal mines all within the area and What Cheer was pretty much an epicenter of settlement. It has an opera house that is as old as the town, plus dozens of old and prolific houses still standing. I've found an old mining camp while metal detecting and found no less than 75 mining scrip tokens in a two acre area. I also found a glass pit with 1870s Hero Atlas Mason jars, as well as a bean pot that I'm 80% assembling from pieces I find. Good luck and happy hunting!

wow ,so much fun watching you find these artifacts ! thanks for researching and adding the info about these items makes for the most interesting viewing , great job !

Love the intact label(s) on these!! Wow!! And the cobalt blue and other unique finds in this pit. Great!!! Thank you!!!😊😊❤

Oh, great finds. Well preserved some of these in the ash. Lot of our dump sites are crushed and burnt so all litter fits in, mostly in a hole after material for building has been extracted (sand stone for example). Abandoned, with a thick roots and moss carpet over it. Any time whole bottle emerges and has some nice writtings it feels like a little Christmas.

Great finds from this pit, some I haven’t seen before! Love the enamel ware and beautiful blue Ball jar! 🥰

We found all kinds of stuff in our yard. My grandfather loves to go on trash digs. He has hundreds of bottles about 300 I think. The oldest date on my house was 1882 when it was sold it’s in the first book of property tracks in our county.

Nice dig! I noticed a lot of bottles had partial labels on them that I could make out a few letters or words on. For example the beer at 25:59 has two yellow colored words peeking through the dirt (first one looks like it ends in "R", second in "D" maybe fluid?). The medicine bottle at 40:18 looked like it had an intact blue label. Overall there were so many labeled bottles it's hard to believe they have been buried for over 100 years!

I love your videos! I could watch you guys dig all day, waiting for the next one!❤️

I appreciate your knowledge on all the finds! Great explanation of the history

This man's knowledge of bottle history is mind blowing.

I love old abandoned houses and old bottles! This would just be a dream to find a old hole and just get down and dirty! Love these videos! ❤

I’m 187 years old, so I recognize all these items. That was back in my prime age of 67.

I collect ink bottles and get so excited every time you find one! I can't go digging, so I have to rely on other methods in finding them. 😊

7/2024.....My house in Columbus, Ohio was built around 1905. I bought it in 1993, and I wanted to do some gardening, plant some trees, and level out the backyard. Every time I tilled up the top soil, I turned up old medicine bottles, not much deeper than a foot down. The yard was full of artifacts, some younger and others older. I found a collectible, early green glass soda pop bottle, from a local, 1800s soda pop company. Only a few inches down was a real gold wedding band from the 1970s era. A lead toy soldier, very decayed from the early 1900s, & plastic toys from the '60s. AND,....a large, intact, brick CISTERN!....It is about 8 feet in diameter, and I can see it is back-filled. It would take an incredible amount of work to dig out the dirt. Working through an opening that is only approx. 16 to 18 inches in diameter. I'm leaving that treasure hunt, to the next person who buys my house. It is a cool structure, and I've tried to imagine what other uses it could perform. Like a cool little underground room? Maybe the next home owner will want a working cistern to store rain water in. I re-burried the area under a foot of dirt, enough soil for grass to grow.

Love this channel ! Thanks for the historical information as you uncover each find. It mnakes it all that more interesting.

You knew I was waiting for another dig! Love your videos Tom! Keep up the great finds!

Love that cobalt blue bottle , and it looks like you got 10 years of dump on that one , but I bet you got two older pits yet to find , lets hope you find them , Its cool the hot ashes did not break the cobalt bottle , but the bottles with manganese or iron broke , one thing cobalt is used for in metal is it creates heat resistance, who knows maybe it made the blue bottle survive the hot ash clinker

Tom sure seems to know alot about these old bottles! I'm quite impressed with his tenacity, as well as his knowledge. Wondering: were these bottles and etc. tossed or given to the present owners of the property?

WOW....are these "TREASURE" from an OLD Outhouse? HOW do you know where to even LOOK!! This is my second video I've watched of you and I LOVE it too!!

I love it when you find labels on glass that's so old! Very kewl Tom 😎

I love that so many of the bottles still have labels. I hope they clean up good.

After the great Seattle fire. The streets were filled in to raise the ground level to what used to be the second floor of the buildings. People were asked to bring any stable fill they could use to make the fill.. Fast forward to 2008 my brother worked in city construction where they dug up many old hand blown glass bottles and other interesting objects.

Wow! This privy was full! Thanks for the video, I will being waiting for part 2!

I live on a farm that has a couple of civil war era bottle cisterns still intact. Be interesting to see what has been thrown in those over the years.

I like the way he just drops the bottles after he describes them. Must have flunked the archeological studies program. 😅

What a deep pit! So many treasures.

Another great video ! Superb content! 😁👍👍

Great content! I would be concerned about exiting that pit in a cave in situation. I have been in a trench cave in before and it's not fun.

Always waiting for your new videos, I saw all of your old videos.

What an awesome pit. So many pretty bottles. Love the cobalt blue. Cant wait till the next one Tom. I bet your tired at the end of the day.

Thinking the cement cap that you had to bust through had a lot to do with preserving the labels. Great dig!!☺

Shame that so many of the things you found down in the hole was damaged by the heat from the ashes and broke. Those are some beautiful bottles that you found that was still in one piece. Would love to get a hold of a beautiful bottle like that blue one.

Love to watch you dig and find the things you find.

I had carefully preserved family china and other heirloom treasures from my side, and hubby’s. If there were stories attached, I memorized them so that my kids would then know about them, when they acquired them. As adults, I tried to give them their treasures, and they responded by acting like I was trying to give them a disease! They explained that their generation just didn’t want our old “crap.” It didn’t go with their design sense or something. And my heart is broken. So it does my old heart good to see people of the same generation who love history and cherish antiques. I think Tom is about the same age as my youngest child, who is 33. And Tom risks disease to dig out old outhouse pits to rescue antiques! History won’t be lost when people like Tom are around to save it and share it! Thank you Tom!

I am often reminding my neighbors that their houses were built before our city offered weekly rubbish removal. So most trash generated, was left to home owners to dispose of. There was often a city dump, but most people just buried everything in the ground on their own land.

I USED TO DIG AT AN OLD DUMP SITE BY GRANT RD & I-10 FRONTAGE RD IN TUCSON,AZ IN THE 90'S. I USED TO FIND OLD BOTTLES, COINS, MARBLES, & OLD TOYS FROM THE 30'S & 40'S. VERY INTERESTING STUFF TO FIND. THE CITY MADE A FRONTAGE ROAD OVER IT & I COULDN'T DIG THERE ANYMORE

I love little bottles ‼️

LOVE the facts/history you display!

What a way to start the weekend! 🎉 Thank you!

Always enjoy your videos. Lots of interesting stuff that were thrown in outhouses. They made good places for throwing away once used bottles and household paraphernalia. Keep on digging!

You have found so much history in one dig !! amazing !

Great work!! Keep digging for that history.

Wow that was another deep hole, with some awesome finds. Thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️

You're very lucky to have these places to go and dig. :)

It's pretty amazing what people find in the trash heaps of centuries past. And it's often in better shape that what wasn't tossed in a hole...

I could watch this for hours!! Great finds!!

All this broken glass and ash, and that distinctive crunchy noise as you dig reminds me of what's left after a house burns down.

Another awesome video, I never get tired watching you guys.

1:24 when the song started i was like "I'll give it a goo"

I get excite watching you dig you never know what your bring out it's so cool

Who would've thought that digging up dunny- holes could be so intriguing 😮

Just stumbled across this video. I was absolutely fascinated. I had no idea that outside loos were used to discard unwanted items. I would love to find treasure like this!

At 10:19 you pull out half of a small dish. I believe that's "tea leaf ironstone". My mother used to collect it.

So glad I found your channel, I love looking for items from the past.

I am fascinated with what you have done, keep the videos coming!!

Do you ever check to see if any of your milk glass containers glow? I watched another digger in Alabama dig a cold cream container (milk glass) it flowed like crazy. Also the clear glass bottles that have a yellowish hue to it sometimes glows.❤

Cistern digs are best done using a fall-arrest gear. As I do amid karst. Sometimes what feels safe can fall without warning into natural or man-made voids. My first such fall happened in 1964 .

What finds..!! Never know whats below us...enjoyed. thanks for sharing...keep on digging...🥰

Just found you today, I loved hearing that clink when you would find something.

Really enjoy your channel! I hope you are having a great summer adventure up North. I’ll send your channel over to my friends!! Have a safe holiday weekend 🌼

Found your channel again. This is so much fun.😃

Don’t smile your face will crack. Your taking this to a new level. Your a good looking guy smile.

Anxious for part 2. Great pit.

Love that you have this hobby☺️

Classic stuff, and you are a legendary digger.

Love your videos. I like that you write the information in them.

Thank you for the new episode!

Watching is exciting and soothing at the same time. That's a compliment! 😊

I love those ink bottles. Very stylish and better when they have a unique pattern however fancy they may be 👍🌟

Great video! You keep making em and I’ll keep watching 😂

I love the finds. Sometimes it makes me crazy wen u just use muscle to pull things out and ur breaking them. Then u say, aw it's broke. Arrgghh.. lol...

Im glad a lot of the items were still intact!

Awesome finds! Thanx for sharing!

Wow, what a great pit! You are one tired puppy! I look forward to the finish!

Just like a treasure hunt, loved watching

Wow, I came upon you by accident. I love watching someone who is knowledgeable as well.

Can't wait. Great dig.

Amazing finds today! Enjoy your videos.

First time I've seen one of your videos and I enjoyed it immensely, even though I was so worried about the pit collapsing in on you!