Did I Find Something From a Meteor Shower?

[Music] foreign [Music] folks my name is Brad and today I have hiked up into the mountains of Vermont and I've brought my metal detector because this piece of property that I'm standing on right now over 200 years ago was an Old Farm the stone foundation where the folks lived it's right behind the camera over there but the landowner who invited me here today has also said that there's a hiking trail that passes through and he allows people to use that so the things that we find today could very well be 200 years old or just dropped yesterday we're gonna have to wait and find out now this is one of my first videos that you've seen I post one of these every single Friday so if you like what you see here today consider subscribing or just come on back next week I'm gonna get out my metal detector and see what we can find 64. [Applause] whoa 64. that looks like silver so we're in an old area but we're also on a modern Trail so when I find something like this mind races is it old or is it modern just based on the design I assume it's modern it's like maybe a little opal oh yeah that's definitely silver when it ranks so low I didn't suspect it would be silver but you can tell by the way it's cleaning up here the real test is if it has a mark a 925 mark to designate sterling silver okay I see it it says Sterling because they didn't actually start hallmarking jewelry silver jewelry with Sterling or 925 until I believe is the end of the 1800s so we know that this is at least not that old hopefully you can make out there it says Sterling a cuff bracelet the last time I found a bracelet like this I called it a bangle and then I was promptly corrected in the comments section of the video because apparently Bangles go all the way around cuffs do not we have a silver ladies cuff less than 100 years old how old I have no idea but still happy to find it see what else we can find here this is a very large Target but it's nice sounding 78 80. there it is whoa what in the world man deep High tones like that one 99 of the time is going to be deep iron almost never something cool like this now is it a treasure not really if it was the whole thing maybe it would be a treasure but look at how ornate this is right here at first I thought maybe it was part of an old lamp or something but then I noticed this that is a hinge which leads me to believe that this was more than likely the lid to an old maybe not a teapot maybe just a beautiful vessel of some kind I don't know let me know what you think this was a lid to don't say earn for ashes I know some of you are thinking it I'm gonna say kettle of some kind awesome I wish the rest of it was here so we could solve that mystery and we could have what if it was full of coins or something man how do you lose something like this well in this stream I've got a nice 85 let's see if we can get to it I'm going to attempt to throw it off to the side here whatever it is that's over here now giant Silver Nugget I'm just kidding that's aluminum melted can from a campfire Upstream No Doubt looks looks pretty awesome though doesn't it well what I just found here I didn't find with my metal detector and I found this in years past and I try to always show it because it is so bizarre you can see here there is a mass of clear gelatinous material and what I find so fascinating about this stuff is nobody knows what it is for sure they call it star jelly and there's a bunch of folklore surrounding it going back centuries and centuries people thought a long time ago that this fell during meteor showers why I'm not sure I think maybe the hypothesis now is that some kind of slime mold but I only see it in the springtime and it's just crazy that nobody knows what it is for sure star jelly did it fall during a meteor shower probably not hopefully it means we're going to find a few more cool things today yeah [Music] oh 86. [Music] 6 oh nice [Music] wow man look at that so I call these Jingle Bells other folks call them crotol bells and probably one of the most common questions I get is what is that word you say crotle uh c-r-o-t-a-l crotol Bell or you could call these a sleigh bell especially here in the mountains of Vermont uh they were all over the horse-drawn slays in the winter time that was the way to get around up here in the mountains I love finding these things they were a common drop they would break off of the leather straps that they were oftentimes affixed to and just recently I found an old catalog I can't remember the exact date it was late 1800s which showed just how much money one of these would have cost and it was surprising not as much as you might expect they probably missed it when it was gone but it wouldn't have made them grow go broke thankfully if there ever was initials for the Makers Mark it would have I've probably been here where it broke you see it's just packed full of mud common find but one of my favorites to find this one will never make a sound again unfortunately but I'll still put it on my leather strap of all my Jingle Bells right there I just found a solid brass ring like horse equipment or something and this is probably the same thing whoa nope what in the world is this well I've spent some time cleaning this thing up and I can make out most of the text but it seems as though there was a hole punched in it and it was worn for some reason and where the hole is you'll see in a second all of the text is worn away but hopefully you can see it says the spot the something or other up here about 62 mck Street Haverhill that's Massachusetts and this side the holder something or other will be allowed 50 cents rebate on suit or Overcoat so this is an advertising token right they would have given these out as a form of advertisement and or 50 cents to half dollar in my opinion oftentimes these types of tokens are more interesting historically of course it tells a story about these people right they must have traveled to Haverhill Massachusetts from the town in Vermont that I'm in right now which is quite a ways they brought this back with them for some reason maybe they had plans to go get themselves an Overcoat not entirely sure when this is from if I had to guess I'd say the early part of the 1900s but it could be slightly older yeah that's a cool find 50 cents half dollar I haven't found a half dollar in a long time I'll take it so cool 86 . oh it's a folks call these buggy breaks never seen one with a split like that before but these went on the end of a shaft for a wagon I can imagine two long shafts that went up alongside the horses or The Oxen or whatever this would have been on the end of those long poles and then when they took off the animal they should sit on the ground which is why oftentimes when we find these they're worn right here when I first started the hobby I also called them buggy breaks because they do look like you could use them like a break to drag and slow down the cart but that's not what they are sounded great on the metal detector so here in Vermont and really New England the largest animal you'd ever come across up here in the mountains and in the forest is the moose and despite their immense size they're quite elusive I think I've only ever seen four or five you know considering how much time I spend in the forest the hard to find but it's not that uncommon to come across their droppings typically don't show the camera this stuff but I just came across something I've never seen before so here you can see moose poop right you can see how large it is compared to my boot but then I took a look around and there's a pile there there there another one right there I take a little walk and there's more it's absolutely everywhere all over this area so I don't know what they were doing here if maybe they were just feeding or if it was the rut from the fall or maybe they're having like a secret meeting in any case I'm going to take a look around because the one thing I've always wanted to find is an antler Shed from a moose I found plenty from whitetail deer they drop them in the springtime never found a moose shed so I'm going to take a look around finally find anything I'm gonna move on see if we can find some more metal weird spot foreign in the road it's a penny oh that's an old one all right can we make up the date I don't think so not out here at least but this is the old road place I've been spending most of my time detecting it's right behind me and then on the other side of that is that small stream this is a trail now but a hundred years ago 200 years ago this was the old road it was well traveled and people were traveling around on horses and wagons and things were bound to fall out so far doing this I've only found a couple modern pennies so this has my hopes up and won't be able to find some more old coins here that would be awesome all right good find keep searching right on a little Hill here got a 90. sounds a little crunchy though it is [Music] so I've been staring at this little thing I just found for a little while and I know what it is but given we're in a place where there's like mixed time frames we have the real old stuff and could be possibly modern items I'm not sure which is from so hopefully you can see very clearly here this is a knife blade but looking at this end this appears to be a lead pewter material at first I thought it was the end of a pocket knife but there's no crease right here I did hit it with my shovel here you can see it's shiny metal but it's crumbly like lead puterous so what I think this is is um maybe even early 1800s knife now what kind of knife would have this big of a handle but this small of a blade my first impression is that it'd be like a woodworking knife for doing fine work big handle small sharp blade because I've never seen table utensils look anything like this and this is heavy this piece right here is heavy tiny little blade let me know what you think they used this for too heavy for the table tiny blade I'm gonna guess woodworking so cool should I Target basically on the surface right there just kicked it I saw that Blue Mountain not sure where the Blue Mountains are we're in the Green Mountains today I don't think that's incredibly old we'll keep it anyway all right High tone 85. kind of junky though whoa are you kidding me are you kidding me what is that so last year I found one of these just a fragment of one and in the moment I had no idea what it was it's very pretty it's very heavy made out of some kind of lead alloy no idea went to Facebook posted a photo to consult my very very smart audience and the consensus was it was more than likely a handle to a crew it set probably Victorian no older than late 1800s crew asset handle but now I just found another one and I could be wrong but this does not look like it's broken off of a cruiset what in the world is this thing I have no idea maybe now that we've seen the bottom figure out what it is it designed to be off to the side like that was it supposed to be straight I haven't any idea let me know your thoughts this time around if not the handle to accrue a set a beautiful find regardless regardless of whatever it is all right folks calling in today uh I somehow managed to get rained on sleeted on and snowed on today but it's springtime in the mountains before the black flies get unbearable so I enjoyed my day the fines were to be quite honest pretty bizarre today they really spanned the entire 200 years where people have been here both the real old stuff when people lived out here and then fairly modern things that people dropped as they were just kind of walking through fun day I've got everything laid out on a stump over here let's take a look well now that it's all laid out much larger pile of treasures than I was expecting there to be starting in the back Kettle lid or pot lid this is a mystery it seems more modern but can't say for sure a couple iron buckles a couple pieces of spoon and we have the old Fork what folks call a buggy break that is a part of an old lamp a few modern coins here mystery find I was hoping that seeing the end of this would solve the mystery but it just um it's even more baffling what that could possibly be a whole bunch of musket balls that's kind of a mystery find we have our Blue Mountains button along with our seven much older buttons our wonderful jingle bell and then out front my favorite finds for the day Indian Head scent a silver bracelet and then I don't know I think it might be my favorite find of the days the advertising token all in all a fun day in the woods all right folks well thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed today's video appears to be starting to rain again so I'm gonna start hiking on out of here hopefully I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Green Mountain Metal Detecting

Views: 45,138

Keywords: adventure, aquachigger, archeology, arkeolog, dallmyd, discovery, exploration, exploring, found treasure, game, gaming, history, hoover boys, Metal detecting, metal detector, nugget noggin, old coins, outdoor, quarter hoarder, river treasure, terra Germania, treasure, treasure hunt, treasure hunter, valuable, vermont, abandoned, mudlarking, roblox, bedwars

Id: 79U5xpSkPZI

Length: 19min 4sec (1144 seconds)

Published: Fri May 12 2023