No Way Someone Lost THIS Accidentally...

foreign [Music] folks my name is Brad welcome to another adventure up here in the mountains of Vermont and you might not be able to tell but it is currently the beginning of February there should be a foot of snow on the ground but for some reason this year there isn't and I am taking full advantage of it this land that I'm standing on in the early 1800s was all clear-cut to be Farmland since then obviously the forest has grown in and there's no telling what we can find here things from the early 1800s or even things dropped last week we're just gonna have to wait and find out now one small added detail about today's adventure is I have added a third camera to my equipment in an attempt to capture every single Target from start to finish you make it to the end of the video and you happen to enjoy that let me know down in the comments section now this is one of my first videos that you've seen I post one of these every Friday so if you like what you see day consider subscribing or just come on back next week I'm gonna get my metal detector out it's really fine today over there we've got a E2 Target right next door something it's a piece of brass with some text on it what does it say so I spent a little bit of time and cleaned this up and what I just showed you is the back of it and unfortunately I can't show you the front because it has a person's name exact address street address and uh city state on there state is a Vermont I'll tell you that much and I'm not telling you because it's obviously it's somebody's home address and it's not too far away from where I am today and when you find a tag like this with a name and address um you know your mind races what could this be How old could it be I'm fairly certain given the kind of land that we're on today heavily wooded that this is more than likely a Trapper's tag this would be attached to a leg hold trap I don't know where the Trap is maybe the person who owned the Trap had a pocket full of these and was putting them on the traps as he was setting them one fell out hard to say I'm going to research it if this person still lives at this place maybe I can give him his tag back I don't know if that's something he would want kind of cool old Trappers tag given the patina on the brass I'm gonna guess 40 50 years at the least could be older this road I know for a fact uh is one of their older ones in the town I'll keep searching I did have a Target right next to it uh it was a lower tone maybe it's a trap if it is I'll show you but uh if not we're gonna move on seems like we got a pretty deep 72 here no kidding I know quite a bit about this Forest this place I was so confident that the inhabitants started here excluding Native Americans of course uh European settlement started here middle of the 1800s but what I just found here is a fragment of it's either a child's shoe Buckle or it is a knee buckle and it's just a piece of it but I double checked the whole check it out there's even more of it now unfortunately in this does happen when we're in The Roots it was broken this is an old break here but it looks like this is a fresh break so it would have looked like this in the ground but now that I'm looking at it I do believe that this is a small shoe Buckle shoe buckle late 1700s early 1800s they started falling out of fashion mind blown never would have imagined finding anything this old here now my mind is racing about what else we might be able to find you just never know so what does that mean it must mean that either either this land was farmed much earlier or perhaps there's another habitation out here from the late 1700s in any case it has me excited let's see what else we can find shoe Buckle came from right here I got a 60 right here [Music] oh no kidding [Music] this doesn't look like much and it isn't really but given the proximity to where I just found that shoe Buckle um I actually left and then came back again I said oh that probably be a good spot to check again and I'm glad I did this is the clasp for what classically we call like a garter snap you can see it would clip onto a small button and then tighten up we associate garters with ladies but back in the 1800s men's clothing had a bunch of these on them as well clothing was totally different back then multiple layers belts straps suspenders and uh I can't say what exactly this came from but it's a common find to find in places like this I've also actually found them like multiple all on a piece of Steel thin steel flexible that would have probably been part of a corset this has a little bit of rust on the back so maybe that's what this was from as well pretty cool garter or corset hook foreign [Music] 94 but it's right on the trail so probably modern that is not modern god you're kidding me well as I had mentioned I'm right on a trail here like it's like in the trail I thought for sure this was gonna be modern but as you can see it's clearly a large green copper coin uh you can see already here on the back it says one cent like a 1847 Maybe I can't believe it I um I've dug so many modern coins today I've started not getting excited about high tones because there are so many modern coins but clearly there's reason to still get excited about high tones out here yeah this side is beautiful unfortunately the other side is going to take a little bit of work to get it looking nice but I think we will it's hard to be an old U.S copper coin old silver and gold coins are nice too but you know these were a penny these big old copper coins they got small around the end of the 1850s but a coin size and shape we just don't have anymore immediately connects you to the 1800s when you find one of these big old coins love it [Music] 83. looks like it was pretty shallow yeah this that is uh that's actually kind of cool uh what we have here is a if I think fairly modern uh pipe stem now much older places when we find pipe stems typically they are made of clay this one is I I hesitate to say it's plastic I think it might be more of a Bakelite but uh you know you have to take into consideration while people do smoke pipes it's it's an uncommon site walking around out here in the woods when were these most popular my father smoked one maybe 30 40 years ago I think that this Filter part here is a little bit more modern old enough I think to be interesting pipe stem kind of cool throw it in my bag keep searching here 85 but it's kind of crunchy so it's probably junk foreign so for folks who may have seen my videos in the past or other metal detecting videos when we metal detect a place that's before the Industrial Revolution there honestly isn't a huge variety of things we typically find most things can be identified pretty easily post-industrial Revolution people were making all kinds of machines and gadgets to make life easier and it's much more common to find things that we just have no idea what they are and this is today's first and probably not last mystery find we can see that it's all brass construction it appears to be a iron pin going through this roller and I can tell just by the casting of this brass it is rather crude I'm gonna guess 1800s but I just have no idea what it is this thing looks like a button of some kind right but for what maybe one of you out there has some idea looks like it was cast and then finished by hand I think those are these are file marks let me know what you think sounded great metal detector thought it'd be a coin but instead we have whatever this is [Music] right and these prickly berry bushes here we've got an 84. that sounds beautiful oh look at that are you kidding me well we know what that is a lot of the things that we find out here metal detecting we assume are things people dropped and lost coins out of your pockets or buckles off of your shoes uh but clearly nobody dropped a doorknob accidentally right so how does something like this get out here people oftentimes watch my videos and they say wow up there in the mountains in the forest those people who lived up there must have been just hard scrabbling in their log cabins just getting by uh but you have to remember that this was this was a farm people lived here there were no trees or very few trees and there was a farmhouse here with doorknobs as beautiful as this surely they dropped some things but when that house fell or was burnt or was disassembled a lot of stuff like this made its way into the ground and we have to imagine a lot of the coins and buckles we find found their way into the ground during that time as well coins that kind of fell underneath the floorboards or buckles that were in the backs of uh closets Maybe got scattered and found their way out here for me to find just like this uh bright white porcelain doorknob I'm gonna have to guess this is early 1900s how many people held on to this turned it to uh open the door to their home or in their home best part of this Hobby getting to touch something somebody a very very long time ago also touched let's keep going whoa that the first thing you notice are the three rings right and our mind automatically goes to a mini ball Mini Ball if you're French uh from the American Civil War but upon closer inspection maybe you can see there's a line here there's a line here there's lines all the way around tell that it's not it's not that old this is a more modern muzzle loading round unfortunately the mini balls that we're used to seeing from the Civil War time pretty uncommon up here in Vermont and are quite a bit larger than this one this is a modern deer deer slug from a muzzle loader pretty much the same in design and purpose except this one's probably a hundred years newer I would guess it gets you excited when you first find it though but you have to take into account the size the color where I found it we want it to be old but sometimes it just isn't modern slug I've got an ee485 here but I mean One Direction so it's probably nail wow look at that thing that is not a nail wow I don't know if I've ever seen a suspender clip that looks like this I thought for sure it was going to be a nail because of how it sounded whoa looks like it's a mammal not even on the front I thought for sure was going to be a nail look at that you kidding me wow looks like I don't know is that blue enamel silver plate that is impressive imagine two of these on uh although you know what it might actually be a belt buckle I take that back I do not think that it is a suspender I think it is a sash Buckle it would have been like this and when I think suspenders I think late 1800s but sash buckles could be earlier for sure you can think of a sash as a soft cloth decorative belt wasn't necessarily holding anything up wow yeah that is a beautiful sash Buckle maybe one of the nicest I've found favorite thing I found so far today absolutely gorgeous probably Victorian sash Buckle man pays to dig all of the targets that you're not quite sure about because most of the times they're going to be nails every once in a while a display piece like this this is gonna shine up beautiful and look amazing in my case all right folks well I hope you enjoyed today's video I am calling it quits for the day you know some of the things that I found I totally expected to find in an old early 1800s farm field but a few of the things are totally bizarre and way older than I would have expected to find today got it all laid out here let's take a look at what I found okay not a bad little pile of treasures for the day now most of this stuff is probably post 1900 but there are a few things here that are quite a bit older smoking pipe stem here piece of flat lead our ceramic white doorknob now I have not found a home site anywhere out here but there must be one given the doorknob quite a few horse tack buckles here iron and brass next to the I'm going to guess late 1700s early 1800s either child or ladies shoe Buckle this was a mind blower for me today I wasn't expecting to find anything like that only one flat button I would guess this was lost during the farming of the land alongside a little corset hook not entirely sure what this is if it's modern or not it resembles a lamp part but it seems like it's probably more of just an escutcheon we had two of these strange button things if you have any idea what that is please let me know pile of modern coins this I believe is a thermometer you can see where the ball of the Mercury would have been down there this seems quite old to me and then out front my two favorite things for the day the U.S large scent and then what might be my favorite find of the day this sash buckle beautiful enameled silver plated maybe it'll shine again if we can get some of that corrosion off either way that is beautiful and another very unexpected find all right folks well I want to thank you again for watching please down in the comments section let me know how you liked seeing the process of digging these things out of the ground from start to finish if you liked it if you didn't like it from major seasick let me know I'm gonna start hiking on out of here hopefully I'll see you next time for another new adventure up here in the mountains of Vermont [Music] [Music]

Channel: Green Mountain Metal Detecting

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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: PPh1Z_UZXrM

Length: 19min 33sec (1173 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 17 2023