I’m sure the last thing the people who filled this hole up thought was that someone would be digging it back up 100 years later. You guys do a great job putting these videos together nice work.

The wooden dowel works better than the metal trowel to work items loose with less damage. And the bog plastic scoop is handy to move dirt out of the hole . Thanks for holding the item still long enough to look at it. And the extra text information is informative. Who would expect excavating a toilet would be so entertaining.

There is something addicting about seeing the past dug up before our eyes.

Boy the amount of research that you must do to be able zero in on all these places just utterly blows me away that you can be so exacting?!?

I just love watching these videos. No annoying music, just the soothing sound of the digging and clear descriptions of the finds. I’m watching this in bed and I keep falling to sleep then the phone hits me in the face!!!

LOL!!! Good dig! Got a kick out of the radio tubes/valves that came out of some "transistor" radios. Well, buddy, those tubes were in tube radios and a good 50-100 years before the first transistor radio.

The light bulbs would indicate they had a Delco generating system. More interesting was the radio tube (Valve) which would have required batteries. That would make one wouder if some of those smaller bottles were battery electrolite (Battery Oil). All the early radios required 2 batteries, one low voltage and another high voltage. The radio battery business was what tied the early radio business to the drug store where they could supply the chemicals for the batteries. Some of those small bottles could be for battery acid..

Came across your channel by accident and now I am totally mesmerized and subscribed.

How come we never get to see your assistant he or she does great camera work, and makes your show a lot better than most, your knowledge about bottles is astounding. Keep up the good work and show us a picture.

Gosh! You must have a whole warehouse of your finds!!

Hello Tom, I have a couple of things for you to add to your wealth of knowledge. First, at 47:00 the green dish is called a custard dish. You pour the hot custard in the dish then chill it and the custard thickens. It's a pretty good desert. Second, at 57:30 No such thing as a transistor bulb! All electronics used several Vacuum tubes until the advent of the transistor. When the transistor was invented it replaced vacuum tubes making it possible to shrink a bread box sized radio down small enough to fit in your pocket! Transistors replaced vacuum tubes. Good thing or your cell phone would be ass big as a shoe box and weigh 19 pounds! Love your channel, keep up the good digging! Greg

The quality of your videos still amazes me and keeps me coming back for more!

👀👀👏👍🧑🏻‍🦳thanks for sharing your work and bottle digs. Learning more with each digging.From Texas USA.

I appreciate these compilation videos, so I don’t have to search around for each part of the series. Never can seem to find them all. Watching them all together like this is much more pleasant, not having to lose the train of thought between the episodes.

Who ever lived there must had butter fingers dropping all that beautiful dish ware thanks for ♥️👍🗝️❤️🇺🇸

Nothing like playing in the 'night dirt.'

Man, those early Dakotans loved their ketchup! Thank you for your video format. So many “explorers” will raise questions like, “Wonder what this is?” then leave it at that. I really appreciate that while you may not know about something at the time of discovery, you take the time later to do the research and post it on the relevant video frames. Shows you really care about what you do. Those little tidbits of info just enrich the experience further. Keep up the good work.

It’s funny to me that some houses have all liquor bottles. Some have all medicine bottles. These people loved their ketchup!

I'm a thrift store addict to Homer Laughlin.... Husband...😂" step away from the dishes" Could you imagine ..." step away from the pit" lol

That liquor bottle with the water in it had some creepy contents. Love watching your work. I was about eleven years old when I started wandering out to an old farmhouse pit way out in the field next to my friend's house, and every single broken piece of china or whatever survived was a treasure. There's probably still a pile or two I stashed away out in the hedgerows from it fifty years ago. Fun memories. Thanks.

When I fast-forward your videos I go back in time.....

Thank you for all the fascinating videos. I so enjoy every single one!!

my house built 1886, one day I looked out the window and in my backyard I seen two guys digging a huge hole past my fence on a lot I had bought the year prior, long story short they were like 3 foot deep and I said this is my property what are you doing? they said looking for bottles, so I said brb and got my metal detector and was excited for what they were finding, unfortunately my better half blew her top and I had to ask them to stop at around 6 foot deep but they had like four milk crates full of old bottles and more they could not get to deeper, you know sometimes you have to keep peace with the better half, that was on that lot, my lot's I was making a test garden for the metal detector and about two and a half foot down I uncovered a perfectly round hole, man made well/cistern made out of limestone, it was eight foot deep and about 6 foot wide, total unreal discovery, I covered the hole back up as to not let the outside elements mess it up, also I believe i have another one as I see a large round dip about fifty foot away for the first discovery, totally unreal.

Thank You for bringing up Our Past ! ! !

You certainly don't have to go to the gym after a dig. You truly earn those bottles.

Still waiting for that "find of a lifetime". Interesting, but disappointing there was not a really big find as indicated. Enjoy your bottle digs and finds.

Love that you put all pits in 1 vid cause love watching your longer vids so a big thanks for this video and the last one that was long too. Great stuff.

Always enjoy watching your unique finds. You never know what will come up next! Regards UK.

Love this! Wish i could do this in south africa! Ive got a few bottles we doug up at my grandmothers farm in pretoria..dates 1920 to 1950 ..but not neer as old as u got. Still very neat! Id love to see a vid of how u do the whole find of the pit to the zoning of it! That will be so cool! Love u guys!xxx

I love watching your videos. i love how much you know about the bottles and that you also put things about the company, you are truly saving some history. To bad everything is now plastic. I love all your bottles. You truly are awesome thanks for sharing!!!

Going by the finds, the family ate lots of salads, drank lots of beer and wine, and dropped lots of jugs and crockery!

My bruddah… if I’m digging a hole and I start finding clothes, I’m dipping. Coming across a body doing this stuff would be horrible. 😱😂😂

You just amaze me at how you identify these bottles!❤

Love your dedication to history! Can you do a video on how to find the pits and how to go about excavating?

Happy Easter ✝️🙏🐇🐣🐰 from New York Thank you for Bringing me Along with you I can't wait to see What you Find Next 😊Have a Happy Healthy and Blessed Easter 🙏

Brilliant Digging all those Pits - You got any were from 1880's into the 1920's ! Love those early Poison Bottles ! Great Combs ! Some Bottles had partial Labels on them - wow ! That Vacuum Tube is a great Find indeed ! These old Light Bulbs are telling the History ! Pretty Candy Dish Lid ! And some one loved Ketchup indeed ! Lovely Dig - thanks ! Many Cheers from Australia!!!!

It's amazing that some family's lived there you brought back to life by finding the bottles it goes to show what they drunk and what they put on their food really enjoyed watching all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

Love your channel! I live on an 1840s-era farm near Gettysburg in PA and we are very lucky to have existing original barns and outbuildings, including a "skeletal (wood framing extant)" privy we don't think has been used in a century or more. The wood is so old it's now like Balsa. I want to dig under it, of course, as it's open. Water table's going to be pretty close to the surface so I don't know, it might reek right quick, lol.

I'm confused, what in this particular haul of bottles was the find of a lifetime?

Well Jake it was a pleasant surprise seeing you and your hand modeling in the first of part of the video. It's always a pleasure having young men like you two digging up the past which helps understand how things were going back when. Hoping to see you both in the next video. Keep up the great work. Love you guys . Take care and be safe. Afriend.

What a surprise to see you on a Monday, got my coffee and sat back and enjoyed. Brilliant dig, so exciting to see the details on the finds and a partial Blossom Lotion label, hope you were able to preserve it. Thank you so much, great video great finds.

Thank you for another great video. I really appreciate the research and time you devote to explaining your discoveries.

Boy Tom you made a nice haul between those pits. Lots of nice bottles. Never get tired of looking at all of them. Just love old bottles. Those nice brown whiskey bottles are sure are pretty. Cant wait till the next video

Thanks for sharing photos of some of the treasures. Dolly's Milk bottle and the candy dish lid are so nice!

I sure enjoy watching your videos with my morning coffee. I am amazed that there are not more whisky flasks than you find. I would have also thought you would find more tin cans from can goods sold. Of course the canning jars were generally reused.

Castoria was not castor oil. It's a laxative for children, a substitute for castor oil, that was patented in 1898 and acquired in 1871 by Charles Henry Fletcher, who rebranded it as “Fletcher's Castoria.” The major ingredient is Senna, a legume with leaves that are a natural laxative.

I'm 76 and can remember the mercurochrome bottles with a glass dauber to apply the medicine. Stung like crazy!!

Great to see again!

Do you get to keep any of what you find? Do you give the stuff to the owner? Do you put it back into the ground? If you keep ithe items do you sell them? I just found your channel so I apologize in advance if these are already-addressed questions. I love antiques. I'm an antique now haha.

I love your videos, makes me want to go digging but I am to old now for that. Do you ever sell any of your bottles? If so is there a link? Thanks from the not as old west coast. 🙂

I am truly enjoying this haul from Leeds, ND since I grew up there!! Sure is interesting!! So much has changed even since my childhood, 45-50 yrs ago!!

great video, shows how hard you work... I didn't see road constructon unearths ruins missed it some way.

I love your show you do your home work and I learn alot

Im a new subscriber . Im just fascinated by your amount of knowledge. You make me want to go dig something lol. Thanks for the video

Nice to see all the intact bottles! Nice find!

Another epic?! I think we should sell some gray wife beaters like Tom wears sometimes, maybe print “Below the Plains” on them. I really think the side merch company name should be “Great Age,” a clothing line for treasure hunters. What about a wife beater with “hutch” in lowercase letters on it?

Good digging man!! Thanks for dropping another great video!!

Loved it ,even the teens and 20,s

Awesome dig guy’s with some great finds, take care and thank you for sharing and the history too👍👏❤️

New subscriber… this is cool. Who knew so much was thrown down the hole!😂

Well done great video again.

Moments in time, for sure. Nice to see the memories. (Articles of clothing always creep me out, like desecrating graves...shudder.) Those deep dive shots also make me shiver...that's an UFF DA!

I totally enjoy your American finds.

Love your videos! Please come to Minnesota. I would love to see what’s in the privys in Mendota where it all started!

That radio tube maybe an RCA from the 1920's. Man you are one clever dingo. :)

❤ I’m really enjoying these videos. You seem like you really know your history.

I remember having the amber colored prescription bottles when I was young with them eventually changing to plastic, then boxed. Regarding soda bottles, I remember being able to get money back if you took them to a shop. - we would go ask neighbors if they had any that we could get rid of for them. - getting us money 😊😊😊. Should perhaps have glass soda bottles now with the same enticement- money for us then does not mean the same nowadays. Thanks for this - I love it.

You have a raree. scence of humor. You make me laugh. You work so hard. But do find some great items. Stay safe,

I enjoy finding old things like this too I have quite the collection of marbles I found one year in a job. But you really should bench back the hole your crawling around in. It only takes a second to get seriously hurt or buried alive.

Great job bro !!!

Love it when you talk dirty…about these outhouse finds!

Thanks for sharing boys!

Good job guys

Im from East Palestine never thought id ever see that was cool seeing something from my hometown.

Enjoyed these 3 so much, enjoy seeing the differences in shapes over the years. Ketchup day!!😁😁😁❤❤❤

Don't often say much but i enjoy your videos gr8 job on this video tip my hat to you and your crew

I love watching you treasure hunt for so much cool stuff ❤

The green Hall crock is like one my great great grandmother used for butter. Hers had a lid.

This was such an awesome video...thanks for sharing your finds....

Thank You!

Man your cutting edge at this process

Loved this lot !!

I enjoy your videos! The transistor bulbs are actually called vacuum tubes or valves,😂

Of course there's "a lot of dish fragments in the corner', at times you dig with force using an iron tool. How many pieces have you broke using that steel implement? I first dug into the earth searching for relics of the past in the early 70s in Fall River, Ma of all places. What memories watching your channel. I still have many pieces from those earlier days wrapped up in newspaper and stored in boxes. Now I ask myself why? Time to bring them out. Thanks for sharing your videos.

It would be interesting to add the process of locating the pits!

Great work thanks from Sc

Love the music in your videos

It is just so awesome and cool the digs, the finds, the knowledge. Thanks for sharing 💙👊

Beautiful stuff

I find myself excited to see what you find so i just keep watchin

amazing video thank you!

nice job guys, I didnt realize those videos were all on the same lot

Excellent artifacts! I enjoy these diggings!

I am a ol bottle digger years ago, wear GLOVES!!, cut my fingers several times and was bad. Use a small probe to scratch and dig.

some nice finds well done 🎉

So sad that everything's made out of plastic in the future that is all fine. Enjoying your channel so much

A quick and obvious question, is this just a re-release of smaller videos put together or is there new footage never seen before? So much to watch on YT just trying to schedule my time. Thanks for all that you do.

Nice,,,ty😊

Had found a really old dump site, lots of old med. bottles with company names embossed in the glass, lots of old cork bottles, little perfume bottles with metal caps, lots of old brown Purex jugs with round finger grip rings with their metal caps with Purex name in the glass. Everything was going great...until...I dug into a section just a few feet from where I was. Copperheads came out from everywhere. Here I was sitting on the ground. I rolled quickly to the left, got up and took off. They came out mad as heck. I went back home and got a neighbor who is into digging like me. We went back...he took one look and all he could say was "Over there, over here, etc." "But I'm just getting to the really good stuff" I said. "I see that, but we are outnumbered, and we can't dig and watch all 4 directions at once." He kicked an old piece of metal, and out came smaller ones. "Babies !" he yelled...Let's go." We left the site. Later we found out from an elderly lady that we were just feet away from an old well...full of stuff from her great grandmothers old place, and even before her. I hated to leave it all...but then, I had 4 bushel baskets full of goodies, so I was still happy. My favorite bottle was an old thick cork bottle that read " Swamp chill and fever tonic."

Beautiful pitcher