Digging Holes Where It Was Never Intended

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Digging Holes Where It Was Never Intended

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On this adventure I rejoin Greg on his property to see what else we can find in this turn-of-the-century dump!
Original music by Brad Martin
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@granddad-mv5ef Жыл бұрын

Well, I am officially OLD. As a child, I watched tv commercials for Fletcher's Castoria. And Lavoris.

@impunitythebagpuss Жыл бұрын

Me too! Lol!

@terryt.1643 Жыл бұрын

Uh oh, me three. 😮 and we used ink bottles to fill our pens, since it was prior to cartridges… plus I’ve used paraffin wax to seal jelly jars…

@pittsjohn57 Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@aliasfred Жыл бұрын

@@pittsjohn57 Me too and I'm only 73.

@deadman4553 Жыл бұрын

I just bought some cinnamon LA voris mouthwash recently.

@aurinslady7119 Жыл бұрын

I also remember watching grandma use hot wax on her jellies. That way they were sealed against any spoilage and you could use a lid for other things. Love watching the treasure search.

@marcusaurelius2770 Жыл бұрын

Me too. Home made jelly.

@tinknal6449 Жыл бұрын

It's fine for high sugar products. Sugar resists rot and mold.

@aliasfred Жыл бұрын

@@tinknal6449 My mother and her mother sealed their homemade jams with paraffin wax.

@chuckblankenship4811 Жыл бұрын

My granny used to seal her jelly jars with wax. One batch she put up was sealed with bad wax, which allowed the concord grape jelly to ferment, basically making grape wine jelly. Being a good Methodist woman, she didn't allow alcoholic beverages in her house. Granpaw wasn't as devout and made the mistake of asking for toast a bit too often, which made Granny suspicious. (She didn't eat grape jelly, so...) She tasted Granpaw's jelly and ended up throwing out the entire batch.

@rikspector Жыл бұрын

Brad and Greg, Lots of goodies. Greg, Thanks for having us along with yu both! Cheers, Rik Spector

@johnpatton6470 Жыл бұрын

The lice comb was used to remove the nits (eggs, larva). The Benzedrex nasle inhaler's had highly addictive stimulants (amphetamine sulfate) in them back then.

@lorrainerobison6623 Жыл бұрын

I agree about the lice comb (fine-toothed comb, as the saying goes), the nits have to be removed after shampooing the hair, or the eggs can hatch and reinfest. It's a very tedious process. I wouldn't be surprised if something harsh like kerosene was used back then on the hair.

@johnpatton6470 Жыл бұрын

@@lorrainerobison6623 I have heard of people using kerosene in the past but mainly vinegar. They sat around "not picking" like apes. I'm glad I was born in 1960.

@danastewart3091 Жыл бұрын

Very nice of Greg to invite you for a dig, and you made some good finds for sure.

@madlinerose5038 Жыл бұрын

Under the Plains, Digger Dave and Shoveling Shelly are two KZfaq sites to help you learn the terminology and history of the companies and products of the past. Love Greg's humor. Konw it is hard work.😊

@kayesdigginit1519 Жыл бұрын

And Brandon from Adventure Archaeology.

@momtrips6783 Жыл бұрын

Love the two of you digging together.

@judithfairchild8620 Жыл бұрын

Mom had a lot of those squared jars. She liked them because being square they left more room on the shelf for more jars.

@didisalyers4460 Жыл бұрын

That wax was more than likely to waterproof something. It’s not the type to use when canning. It could of also been used for beards and mustache care. Incredible finds today.

@peggyr2984 Жыл бұрын

More like shoe/boot wax

@capers72424 Жыл бұрын

Right, paraffin was used for canning in the early 1900’s, I’m not sure what they used in the 1800’s… likely the same.

@sandylee9564 Жыл бұрын

The nit comb was/is generally used to help remove the nits or the eggs that are latched onto the hair shafts near the scalp. Nice find.

@suemiller9685 Жыл бұрын

Durkee, I thought right away: spices, so adding spices to oil & vinegar seems right to make salad dressing. Fletchers Castoria & Lavoris mouth wash rang a bell too, for me. Lavoris was first used during the civil war as an antiseptic and later marketed as a mouthwash in 1903. I remember it being red, and has since been discontinued. I also remember Vicks having stick inhalers. Not sure if they still do. My grandmother put wax on her homemade jelly.

@knightwing51 Жыл бұрын

they still have them at wally world.

@stantilton2191 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Greg and Brad. I've had some fun in a dump as well. Enjoyed it.

@jakartajamie4880 Жыл бұрын

Great dig and thank you both for bringing us along ! GBY you both!!

@marykaystreasures Жыл бұрын

It's so hard to stop digging the relic's and bottles there's always just one more that's what I always tell my self when detecting or bottle digging 😊❤️👍♥️⚒️🇺🇸🗝️

@jeanponce2017 Жыл бұрын

I had to laugh when I read your comment because I swear I say or think that at least once a month. Seriously no BS "There's always one more" or "just one more you can always find just one more". The obvious times being and thus the reason I'm watching this video is when I'm detecting I'll say there's got to be at least one more thing in this area (after digging a lot of something in a tight area). And especially when i'm water detecting in a swimming hole and there was a ton of coin change in the way and after trying to clear all the coins first by cherry picking the high tones so I can set the detector to target mid range gold ring tones there's always "just one more corroded zincoln penny hitting in the mid tones". 2 weeks ago I dismantled a tow along pop up camper to convert into a canoe trailer and I knocked over a container that I was putting all of the nuts and screws in and as I was looking all around my driveway and the dirt on the sides I kept looking saying there's always another one and you look until you find one. It seems to apply for everything like weeks before when I put in a ceiling fan and I needed 3 wire nuts for the connection but I only found 2 in the drawer and I KNEW "there had to be at least one more somewhere in this drawer". I've dug up a few bottle dump sights through the years and when there seems to only be broken glass left you always think there has to be another one unbroken lol. That just might've been the under statement comment of the year! And I bet that you're right they could probably find just one more if they keep looking

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

Omg preach it! Got myself in a lot of trouble, one more turns into an hour later.

@JANN-JAPAN Жыл бұрын

That wax isn’t for canning. Wax for jams, came in blocks. That small jar would only hold enough for maybe one or two jars of jam. Possibly that was was what we now call shoe polish or wax for mustaches, or maybe even some kind of furniture wax. Although it seems small even for that.

@Treasure-Charger Жыл бұрын

Thanks to Greg for sharing his land of history! Nice digging and video, Brad!

@c.h.9193 Жыл бұрын

Castoria is still available and is pleasant tasting. Mild and usually for children. Lavoris was still around as a mouthwash in the 60s. What a great Crock Greg!

@sandypeppers6861 Жыл бұрын

I’m jealous of that soil y’all are digging in. Looks like excellent planting material.

@toddwilliams2379 Жыл бұрын

I think that you and Brandon(Adventure Archeology) need to do a collaboration. He's shown what you made for him in his videos. I enjoy watching both of your channels. Keep up the awesome content.

@CraigDantoin Жыл бұрын

It's no surprise cancer and other issues are so prevalent when you see some of the things we do to ourselves! I always find it interesting, finding objects and history to prove we haven't changed much! We all still get sick, constipated, etc!!

@gregorymanchester Жыл бұрын

I had a fantastic day digging with Brad and we found some amazing things. I was really surprised when he Googled what they used that inhaler for! I was never expecting to find a whole crock either, even a small one! We want to try digging next to the trail next time. When we got close to it we've found a lot of bottles and some cool things but it's going to be hard digging because it's so hard packed. When I made the comment about the wax it was more of a general comment about wax. The wax my mother used in canning came in a box and weighed 1lb, and broken down into quarter pound pieces. It was made by Gulf, the oil company. This was about 1965 and I was about 10 so I don't remember a lot about it. Just the white box it came in, the Gulf logo on the side, and having to take the wax off to get to the jelly.

@robyncooperramsey8323 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Greg, for your hospitality! I like when you guys get together.

@brentmcmillan646 Жыл бұрын

Definitely worth digging again!!!

@rondathiesen9317 Жыл бұрын

Cool old bottles. I remember some of those. Love the little crock. Yes go back please. Thanks for taking me along. Wish it was for real, I love old bottles and antiques. I love history behind things old. Happy swingin and diggin. Have a wonderful weekend.👍😘

@rachelthompson9324 Жыл бұрын

you need to run the detector over the spoils. Coins are always in bottle dumps.

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

Agree

@YvonneWatson-ff5ex Жыл бұрын

Lol when you were reading the uses for the inhaler!! I have an antique crock on my counter that I use for wooden spoons and spatulas that is a twin to your much smaller crock. I was told that mine was from the early 1900s. I don’t know how you do it but you can even make finding old broken bottles interesting.

@janethuffman5280 Жыл бұрын

The crock looks like the ones found in the UK. They were used for marmalade.

@__Jess910 Жыл бұрын

Hec yeah! Another tattoo Greg video! Glad to see y’all digging together again !

@RonLH Жыл бұрын

Comb could be celluloid, an early plastic material that is very flammable. It was used for photographic film and to make cylinder phonograph records as well as billiard balls.

@user-bv3cl2cl8b Жыл бұрын

Sweet!!! Enjoyed bottled digging as a kid and now enjoying bottled digging watching you guys. Thanks!!!

@carolricks-mcdougald4138 Жыл бұрын

Great dig, love seeing old dump discoverys.

@kayesdigginit1519 Жыл бұрын

Some nice collectable bottles find, very cool!!

@brian56 Жыл бұрын

Always check the ground where you once dug after rains. Sometimes cool small stuff is laying right on top of the ground like buttons,beads, marbles, etc

@c.h.9193 Жыл бұрын

In your old pics, you did not show that fantastic CROCK Greg dug up last year. What a Find!

@kellyfrost1052 Жыл бұрын

Vermont humor! I love....from a fellow Vermonter.

@V.I.Outdoors Жыл бұрын

best metal detecting videos on KZfaq hands down! I remember Greg! great location!

@marykaystreasures Жыл бұрын

Hey Brad I have seen alot of Canada bottle diggers find the Royal canning jars Thanks for sharing 👍♥️🗝️🇺🇸⚒️🇺🇸🗝️

@user-pp3pv5nl3b Жыл бұрын

During your bottle digging adventure, a bottle came out marked “Rawleigh’s”- I happen to be working in the town where Rawleigh’s was located (Freeport,IL) and though the company is out of business, the building still stands- took a few pics of the building if you’re interested…

@gregorymanchester Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@libertyvilleguy2903 Жыл бұрын

Yes, several Irish breweries in the Troy NY area.

@stevenstrempke8883 Жыл бұрын

The anticipation of a rare find makes it fun to watch!

@b.slocumb7763 Жыл бұрын

Ben-zuh-dreen, you should read up on the history of it, it’s very interesting! They gave it to soldiers and I think a lot of creative people used/abused it to get more work done. There’s always some kind of drug getting pushed, and always people to abuse it.

@pettyfogger2305 Жыл бұрын

Great episode, Brad. May I offer the thought that the Wilbert name has been in the funeral casket & vault business for a long time (since about 1880 in some form) and wax is one product morticians have historically employed to used to make the deceased appear better for viewing.

@BB-kr1pq Жыл бұрын

Great finds guys!! The Wilbur Wax was for the huge handle bar mustache's that were popular back in those days. That container would have been much to small for canning wax.

@jdjd962 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg and Brad I've been so intrigued watching bottle digs by below the plains thanks so much for filling my bottle digging heart this week although I do very much love the metal detecting.. . Can't wait to see how the next dig goes ....

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

Yep love a bottle dig now and again

@debyoung7133 Жыл бұрын

My husband and I love watching Tom dig bottles on Below the Plains also. 👍

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

@@debyoung7133 cool I’ll check them out My hands down favorite bottle digger is bottlened, the guy is off the chart’s hilarious and the extent he goes to find pivys is a hoot in its own

@debyoung7133 Жыл бұрын

@@digginwithdude Thanks for sharing and we'll check him out. 🙂

@jdjd962 Жыл бұрын

@@debyoung7133 he's so knowledgeable I've learned so much

@rogerdempsey7227 Жыл бұрын

Awesome day guys outdoors finding bottles 👍👍

@brianpondo8670 Жыл бұрын

Hey Greg! I've never had the opportunity to dig in a bottle dump, but those old bottles are so cool! One thing, at 8:40 into this episode, that piece of multi-colored glass you pulled from the pit was interesting. Perhaps it is ceramic, but it sort of looks like Halophane. I ran across this type of glass while looking for a vintage kitchen lamp for our 1910 house. So if you're not certain what that was, check out Halophane lamps from around 1900 to 1920. Enjoy your channel, keep up the good work!

@bobmanzi7712 Жыл бұрын

great stuff thanks

@DaveForrest Жыл бұрын

In my mother's house, she had a beige coloured bakelite fine tooth comb. I can remember it being in a drawer in the kitchen as long as I can remember....you know the type of junk drawer that had everything in it 😂 rubber bands, Kirby grips, pen knives, pencils....you name it. You're right about its use, but it was to remove nits rather than lice...the nits are the eggs of lice. Even as a kid in the 1960s nits and head lice were still an issue. Shampoo got rid of the lice, but you needed the comb to get rid of the nits / eggs as they were attached to the hair.

@richardgovoni642 Жыл бұрын

Hey Brad, Longtime subscriber and love your videos. We are part time Vermonters up in the Mad River Valley and I just want say that I hope you and your family are ok after all the flooding. God speed and keep digging.

@jimmymendoza730 Жыл бұрын

Good Friday ! Great channel and well done. Watch you all the time and on Friday. Watching you bottle digging, one of my many hobbies as well, and noticed you rubbing your bottles with no gloves on and your probably going to pick up a nasty sliver of glass and that can be quite infectious and painful. Be careful. I also watch other bottle digging channels where they talk about using broken bottles to make whiskey glasses. You’ve probably seen how the glass becomes opalized from being in the ground so long. That’s from minerals and chemicals in contact with the surface and interior of the bottle. Simply washing it doesn’t take that away which had been absorbed over a hundred years. It’s called, “sick glass” and for a reason drinking from it releases that which has been absorbed and can make you sick. So please forget that idea of a shot glass. Anyway enjoy and please be careful! I’ll be watching😉😊…

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

No gloves is crazy! I cut my hand doing that about 2 years ago, almost had to go get stitches

@marcelmallory2761 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Brad and Greg. I found an old dump site when I was a kid about 45 years ago. Found some neat stuff... thinking about revisiting it. Love the vids Brad, keep them coming.

@jeanponce2017 Жыл бұрын

Those are the sites you revisit as an adult after you have kids and get them involved*. * Translation Involved- the art of getting your kids to do most of the digging while you sweep the detector looking for the metal targets in the hopes of finding a decent coin or two

@marcelmallory2761 Жыл бұрын

@@jeanponce2017 I like your thought process!

@BackroadsMetalDetecting Жыл бұрын

Very nice! I say keep digging holes as long as bottles keep popping out of them! Jim

@connorsrelicsandtreasures9862 Жыл бұрын

I found a bottle dump one month ago and found Pottery, glass, bones, and bottles. One green one and the other was kap tuffy which was a baby bottle from 1925-1930 and I also found a thermometer.

@terryt.1643 Жыл бұрын

They sell replicas of those earthenware crocks today for historic reenacting, I know I have one similar. The larger ones are still in use today for fermentation like pickles and sauerkraut. 👍👍

@normasavitsky184 Жыл бұрын

Please stay safe. Concerned for you and your family due to the news on the heavy rainfall and flooding in Vermont. God Bless you All! 🙏

@petermedcalf5372 Жыл бұрын

Benzedrine in its tablet form was termed Bennies and used as uppers

@shawnmcpeak6184 Жыл бұрын

Lavoris was a mouth wash. My Mom did the wax thing on juice and Jams. She used specific wax for canning. the one you found may be Mustache wax. Crottal Bell for a sleigh. Ding ding ding, yes it is a Lice comb. you comb the hair and use a lotion or cream to kill them. you had to do this twice so you can kill the eggs. That nasal decongestant could not help with all that. Had one use, and was Quackery for the rest. The little Porcelain thing looks like a collectable child's teapot. Nice Video.

@catherine2098 Жыл бұрын

Hi Brad, Hoping that you are unaffected by the flooding. I can imagine there will be a lot of treasures to unearth once the dust settles.😁 God Bless!

@impunitythebagpuss Жыл бұрын

Different adventure this week! Great finds! Great fun!

@MamawMoon Жыл бұрын

The little item you found with the little guy playng the guitar was probably a bud vase if there wasn't a handle on it. My grandparents were antique collectors and they had many items like that. The little guy would have been Mexican. If it had a handle then it could have went to a set that had a salt and pepper containers also.

@steveclark4291 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Brad and Greg for the adventure and seeing some nice finds

@kevincrock1202 Жыл бұрын

Great video Brad nice to see you back on the bottles ! The castor oil bottle you un-earthed I use on a regular basis on my skin especially my hands it is a great moisturize and penetrating oil I use it all over and have been for many years you have to work it in !!! Thanks again your pal Kevin in France and Florida

@Valcour Жыл бұрын

They would've used large bricks of paraffin wax, melted down to cap off canning jars. Whatever you found in the green bottle is way too small for canning.

@gracietaylor4250 Жыл бұрын

Hoping you n your family is safe thru this flooding!!! Keep us updated plz, stay safe

@bradbutcher3984 Жыл бұрын

The older gentleman joshin ya was funny. "I don't know if I'd brag about that."

@janas7088 Жыл бұрын

Awesome finds for the both of you.

@heathercave Жыл бұрын

Hi Brad! Reaching out as a long time viewer. My husband, Rick and I have been thinking of you… hoping you and yours are safe and well during all the flooding in NY and VT.

@patriciashelton6644 Жыл бұрын

Ugh! Castoria! Took it as a small child in the sixties. Mom gave it to us first of spring. Oh the cramps. Glad when I got older and told her I didn't need it.

@jerrydineen2827 Жыл бұрын

I love that bottle dump, it's been good to y'all!

@milliesimbeck7108 Жыл бұрын

Great finds. I remember so many of your finds from my early childhood.

@jeanninehoban2788 Жыл бұрын

Always fun...thank you!

@joebrown1382 Жыл бұрын

Would love to find an old bottle dump. Love the corked variety. Yes that comb was to remove the lice.

@ChristaFree Жыл бұрын

My grandmother used wax when she canned jams and jellies too. She taught me and so that's what I do too. I use paraffin wax.

@deirdreshaw2761 10 ай бұрын

The wax is black, probably moustache wax. Canning wax is spreading, and whitish. Thank you for taking us along!

@craziedigging4590 Жыл бұрын

Nice Bottle Hunt. I don't get to see many if not all of them Bottles you found. I love the ones with text on them. Congrats on all your finds. Take Care Brad

@sylviajones4907 Жыл бұрын

Wish we knew more about the compact. Most interesting! Thanks for the video!

@RelicRecovery Жыл бұрын

Great Video!! Keep up the excellent content! Happy Hunting!,🎉🎉🎉

@unrulyjulie4382 Жыл бұрын

We used to buy Lavoris Mouthwash in the 70's up in Minnesota, when I was a kid. I remember that it had a very strong cinnamon flavor, just like Red Hot candies.

@digginwithdude Жыл бұрын

Mn is my neck of the woods. Drives me nuts cause these east coasters have so much more older history available to dig, low hanging fruit if you will lol

@greenacresbloom Жыл бұрын

My mom used paraffin to seal jellies and jams. The wax container that you found was far too small to have been used for that.

@sandralth 4 ай бұрын

Fun watching you guys.

@lynnerodgers4461 Жыл бұрын

The smaller crock might have been cream or perhaps jam. A water resistant cloth would have been tied around with a string.

@Carolbearce Жыл бұрын

I think it’s fun seeing what bottle diggers find buried. Nice hunt!

@juliaflanagan4148 Жыл бұрын

Looks like you may have found an outhouse pit. You may like Tom Askjem with Below The Plains. Lots of information about bottles found in pits like the one y’all found.

@donaldhaire1502 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video it is a good learning experience

@Garden366 Жыл бұрын

A lice comb was used to comb out the lice and nits which stuck to your hair. You had to comb really hard, repeatedly to get rid of those bugs which is why a lice comb has tiny teeth that are sitting very very close together. We never had the problem, but I know how to use the comb because my grandmother had them in her possession. My grandma and grandpa lived far up into the back reaches of the North Carolina mountains, and I visited every weekend. Good times! Not talking about lice……, 😬

@tomkirby3281 Жыл бұрын

Lavoris was a mouth wash. I can remember it back in the 60's.

@davidgonzales8148 Жыл бұрын

Ty Brad for sharing great digging adventure

@tombrown2402 Жыл бұрын

The Californian fig syrup. Here in the UK in the 50s and probably before, we had California syrup of figs. It was used as a laxative.

@Fred-tr8zg Жыл бұрын

Good hunt I enjoyed the video. 🇺🇸

@jaysonstinson9458 Жыл бұрын

would love to see more videos from this place. Benzedrine is an amphetamine btw. speed. for a period of time back in the day you could get that stuff without a prescription lol.

@joncarlson5561 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the hunt

@paulah317 Жыл бұрын

My favorite are the ink bottles. I have a collection of them on display at my art studio.

@Dal606BBN Жыл бұрын

That is cool y'all found a bottle from Kentucky. My home state. Northeastern Kentucky

@fedupnow61859 Жыл бұрын

the lice comb would be to get out the eggs that they lay on the hair shaft. Unfortunately, they are still with us today. My daughter was 6 in school and came home with some. I had to do that after the shampoo.

@OG_Bearcat Жыл бұрын

Now that’s a blast from the past!……Lavoris

@randykress8137 Жыл бұрын

My Grandma referred to the small crock as a "mustard crock".

@robyncooperramsey8323 Жыл бұрын

Randy, that’s what I was thinking, too!

@sarahlewis6049 Жыл бұрын

The wax was not canning wax--it was clearish & opaquely white. That wax u found i suspect was a moustache or shoe wax.

@jeanponce2017 Жыл бұрын

No Bromo Seltzer or Milk of Magnesia Cobalt Blue bottles? I always find a ton of those The deeper you dig the older the layer of finds usually get. Im surprised it was mostly only bottles and there wasnt a lot of metal trash like the old tin cans. Or copper mason jar lids with their white glass inserts. Those are a lot of fun to do especially if you dig a lot of early embossed bottles. Nice hunt guys