Neat!

So are the liquor bottles? :)

i understand if it is a old out house he takes one last dump in it before he fills it in .😃😃😃

Plus, he shares his finds if the homeowner wants any of it.

​@@markvanderstelt8999😂 lol

Looks like some one robbed a drug store and buried the evidence.

I would definitely be probing your land with a small diameter 6ft metal rod!!

Are we even close to getting an accurate picture of them from their garbage?

Nice! Did any of the Tea Leaf patterned ironstone survive to be passed down? I probably wouldn't use it for food now, at least not before a lead test. But a plate or platter would be nice for decoration.

Cool

Who would have thought you'd have to take a sht, and you'd find all that. Congratulations!

Are you ever concerned or worried that you could catch a disease or something bad, while digging?

Is that a dove or a Barred Owl, I wonder.

@kathleennorton2228 While I thought a dove....I'm not an expert on bird calls.

The key is finding a location. Any city first, find the first roads will be by the water and RR tracks. You will also find grave Cemetary.

Some old roads travel from one state to another, gravestones can give the dates.

You definitely should AND you should record it for us to watch!

​@@nighthiker8872in the UK, the first roads were medieval and Roman....they came slightly before RR tracks 😂

I've been sorting out my parents home, built in the 1800s, in Worcestershire, UK. They were antique collectors and everything in the home was period and earlier, when I say its taken me 3 years to clear out the house, I'm not joking! I've just started on the garden. My Dad would build a shed, then fill it, then build another, repeat process... I had to give up my full time job, just to do it all. It's been very hard on my own, but I've had some amazing finds along the way.

Those people must have been fairly wealthy to be able to purchase and then toss the containers, not reuse them?

Grandma had one for her bar of soap

I'm so hooked!

Not necessarily brave....

But how far back does that go?

Very epic digging by the way. And thanks for taking the time to explain everything. I learned something new every dig

And the things you teach, thank you

I guess you had to go to the outhouse to have a drink of beer and then get rid of the evidence. 😮

It is more than likely that feeling the law could be on you for criminal trespass.

@@Bonzi_Buddy I hear you bud, that's why I always make sure to get permission before I detect. 😅

@@Bonzi_Buddy Would have been nice if the law was watching when someone cleaned out most of the old bottle dump behind my house last VERY early spring

@@fishinwidow35oop. Is there a story there 😂

yeah its one of the best pieces ive ever found. This pit was a little newer than id normally like, but im glad i dug it for that thing alone. wasnt even damaged! they must have dropped it because that would have been expensive back in the day

@@BelowthePlains It was probably a real loss to the homeowners when it happened.

haha glad you found the channel! and no.. as of now we dont have a Q&A page. maybe we will make a subreddit and then once a week will have an AMA or something. i usually try to respond to comments, but filming and editing usually takes up so much of my time, (especially in the warmer months) but i will try go thru and answer a few of your questions how did we get started ? well Tom got started when he was around 10 years old. he move to a farmstead after our town got destroyed by a flood. and after a few years there he was exploring and he ended up finding some trash deposits in the woods, and then he ended up finding the old outhouse and started digging and the rest is history. i think he found a bottle that was actually kinda valuable and he ended up looking it up. so im sure that played a factor. what would people from the past think about what we are doing? you know, i think about that all the time. i think they would understand tho. this was the golden age of archeology when stuff like the pyramids and ancient rome were in the news a lot. i think they would understand but i think they would be surprised we cared about the literal trash what do we do with everything we dig? we get this question more than anything at all. so to save time i will copy/paste my stock answer below: The majority of the stuff goes to historic societies, (sometimes museums but they only take the really good stuff) or to the homeowner.. theres usually a local "history enthusiast" who collects old documents and local "treasures" or sometimes they put it in like the town hall or library or community center.. we keep some of it, we re-bury it a lot of the time.. it kinda all just depends on the circumstances but basically we give it to who ever wants it (as long as we think that person isnt gonna just throw it away in a few weeks or something). have you ever thought about writing a book? tom wrote 2 books so far. one on north dakota sodas, one on nebraska sodas. and he is writing another one about soda bottles from every state west of the mississippi river. (hes been working on it for like 2 years now) and hes also writing a shorter book on a military fort we dug. have we talked to a historian? yeah we do all the time. in fact, a lot of the time they end up helping us. but archeologists absolutely FUCKING HATE US..... its a long story.... but local historians and the people who run local historic societies always love us and are very kind to us, so whenever have contact with them, we usually donate stuff to them where have we been digging? all across the dakotas mostly but also in kansas, nebraska, maine, iowa, minnesota and a few other places but those are the main ones. hoping to go more places in the future. England would be a dream trip. i think thats all of them. glad you like the channel. we really appreicate the kind comments. maybe at some point this winter we will do a live stream and answer some questions. thanks, hope you enjoy all the older videos!

@@BelowthePlainsreally appreciate you replying to all those questions! Most KZfaqrs will just do a ‘😂’ or one short three word answer to a very in depth question

@@BelowthePlainsI’m in a small town in England , they know they are a huge ground for all these kinds of things worth digging up. They don’t let up easy on even letting you metal detect on public parks or beaches

haha thats actually not far off from the truth! tom was outside when he was young and he found one of these pits in his yard.. but i think he told me his mom was worried about old diseases so she made him dig with those thick rubber gloves people use for washing dishes! great guess tho! thanks for watching

yeah we got a few comments about it but we appreciate it all the same! when we were putting the video together we came across it in a glass magazine, and it was labeled paperweight too. but i didnt know that about the post card! but like i said, we appreciate it! thanks for watching

haha thanks! glad you found the channel and glad youre liking the videos! and yeah.... we try to get the mid-late 1800s pits, but you never know whats at the bottom until you get there. i honestly wish all the pis we dug were dated to before 1890. well thanks for watching!

omg thank you! thats so kind!!

that lamp actually ended up in a museum! they were stoked when we brought it to them... you gotta give back to the community. thats the type of society we all deserve. bless you and take care my friend!

I just found poison oak metal detecting and bottle hunting so Wish me luck !

How much is disputed as Native American land, though?

@@653j521 not this place.

They put radium in a lot of products including toiletries It was trendy thing to do for a time before they found out it was dangerous.

Radium pain't was used on clock/watch hands. So you could tell the time in the dark. Also for dials on equipment like airplanes.

Oops, a tea cup.

hahaha... i dont have a geiger meter!

Yep, it's a dove.

Sounds like it could be a barred owl to me. They make different sounds. Sometimes, to me, they sound like they are weirdly laughing.

haha i get a lot of compliments on the quality of our dirt up here.. it really makes it easy to locate and dig the pits, not gonna lie. thanks for watching and commenting!

I’m in a desert area now and you can’t grow anything in the sandy dirt!!

@@tjtuttle9475 Cacti?

Thats exactly what i was thinking.. they dropped it in, and decided it wasnt worth going in for... thank god it didnt break. i was looking up other versions of cranberry glass lanterns from the same era online, and i wasnt able to find anything that was that ornate. might be one of the best examples to survive from that time period! thanks for watching!

According to the EPA, unless they're broken they pose no risk but they shouldn't be used to hold food or drink. They also say that watches and clocks with radium hands and dials are okay as long as they are intact.

and I _love_ your show - Just want you and your team to be safe.