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.

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.

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!!!; )

So basically, they drank beer, ate ketchup and preserves, took patent medicines for diarrhea and sat in the outhouse waiting for it to work.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you excavated more carefully, you wouldn't break so many pieces. That large crock at about

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.

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.

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 !!!!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!