Treasure Hunter Finds Connection to US President

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[Music] [Music] hey folks my name is brad martin and today we're hiking to the top of this new england mountain to do some metal detecting around an old 200 year old home foundation now i don't know a lot about the people who used to live up there but i do know some and i'm excited i'm gonna get hiking and i'll see you up there all right well we made it the old stone foundation is over here although the landowners who invited me here asked me not to show it for their own privacy as we look around this area was most likely logged less than 50 years ago it's all pines it's wide open it's going to make for some easy metal detecting i'm very excited from the research i've done the folks that lived here were probably farmers that part's unclear but i do know that the head of the household was a veteran now i wasn't able to find any records for what conflict he may have been involved in but maybe we'll find something that will shed some light on that today i'm gonna get my metal detector out see what we can find all right well i just got a very quiet deep target and when i got it out i thought that it was a cut copper coin so back when our pennies were this big oftentimes unbelievably folks would snip them right in half to make less than a cent to make a half cent if you can imagine things costing half a cent back then but that's what i thought this was so i started rubbing it and it's definitely not a coin but look at this whatever it is it's folded and you can see that there is some stuff on there it's hard to tell what it is but if you look at this side that's definitely the back end to i don't know a deer or a goat i don't know let me know what you think this thing was it may have been a button where the back is is gone and it got folded up somehow interesting anyways way better than a cut copper so i just found a pretty common find this is what folks in this hobby call a toe tap it would have been nailed to the toe of a boot that would have been the first thing to wear on these old leather shoes boots so these would sometimes you could buy them with these on there or you could buy these separately and just nail it on yourself and we find these all the time but as i was digging this hole i also found this this is leather it's stacked leather the heel of a boot now this would have been on this end which tells me that the whole shoe got buried here and uh for some reason the rest of the leather shoe is gone but this heel block and the toe still there pretty cool i'm not gonna save this i'll throw it back in the hole but uh i'll take this sometimes they have a patent date on the right on the end this one doesn't seem to but super cool old leather and a toe tap all right well i have uh iron artifact here which i thought i knew what it was but now i'm second guessing myself when i first dug this up i thought that it was an old farming hoe that had been folded over i'm wondering if now this is the design and it was held in the hand like this in which case it looks like a masonry tool let me know what you think it's old this is forged by a blacksmith i thought it was a farmhouse which would make sense because there is you know a farm surrounding us but uh it seems like it's something else entirely interesting man well i don't know what it is today about buttons but i just got my third this one definitely has an image on it and it is not something i recognize i'm going to try to uh block the wind here of my body all right that might be better all right so it's a two piece so lost the shank still has a guilt a lot of guilt on there what in the world that is a little what looks like log cabin a little log cabin in it looks like there's no no it's i thought it was text but i guess there's grass now i know there is an infamous button with a log cabin on it uh but i do not believe that one is a two-piece [Music] so it's been a few minutes since i found this log cabin button and thankfully today i have cell service which is not usually the case up here i did some searching and it is in fact the button that i thought that it may be i was under the impression they were mostly a one-piece design but it turns out they were mostly two-piece like the one i found this is a william henry harrison campaign button the ninth president of the united states he was running against martin van buren and this button would have been worn to show support for william what i find most interesting about finding this button here is during the campaigning martin van buren was very much portrayed as the rich stuck up dandy whereas william henry harrison was a man for the working class a veteran and lived in a log cabin makes a lot of sense why the people that lived here would have supported him such a cool find i'm going to keep searching see what else we can find all right i'm not too far from that boot heel and uh toe tap and i got a really loud target and i dug and i dug and i dug and i found this and i said holy smokes that is way too small and deep uh for how loud that was so i stuck my pin pointer back down in there and i found four more we've got five very heavy duty tiny little buttons uh and these for sure went to that boot so you can imagine now the vast majority of boots and shoes have laces and some did back then but clearly this one had buttons you know a flap that would have been buttoned on super cool i'll put them with the toe tap all right well i apologize if the wind is blowing in the camera it's starting to pick up out here uh i am in the footprint the foundation here you can see it's pottery and i got it's nothing special but a fragment of a silver plated spoon and actually i can't really decide what end the bowl was on if it was here or down here i think it was like this i think that the bowl was done here but there is a maker's mark fortunately it's mostly gone we've got a j and i don't think we're going to be able to id off that but judging what we know about this place and other things we found we can guess this is in the 1800s probably in the middle well i just found something i don't recognize which is always fun to uh try to guess what it is it's got flat edges on it looks like it probably was at one time around and it would have had nails you see there's still one there clamping this thing shut something would have gone through the middle probably would perhaps have been nailed to something not sure let me know what you think write it down in the comments your guess what this might be what it might have been used for our mind always goes to the coolest thing you know is it like a part of a musket to hold up a little tiny little flagpole maybe one of you folks out there recognize it pretty cool whatever it is a little mystery item first one of the day all right well you can see here this is a stone from the foundation which is right here i just got a button this one has got a military eagle on it awesome i think that's what that is yeah okay get a little rub here so we can get the the high spots to be highlighted a bit there it is so there's no letter in the shield there to designate artillery or infantry so this is just a general service coat button it's a two piece and it looks like the back is brass which is great sometimes the back is iron which yields it pretty much impossible to get a back mark off it so the manufacturer will be back here and then using that we can get a pretty small date range on when this would have been made and then using that hopefully figure out uh if there was a war going on that the wearer would have participated in so i found a veteran's button i kind of was hoping that we were given the history that we know about this place but that combined with the william henry harrison button that i found earlier really paints a great story a veteran farmer most likely living up here showing his support for a presidential candidate who is also a veteran for the working class it really ties it all together and that's one of my favorite things about this hobby finding things directly linked to the original inhabitants and being able to tell a story there so cool the wind's really picking up now probably not going to stay in the woods too much longer we've got widowmakers hanging everywhere above my head i'll try to find a few more things and then get out of here [Music] okay so i got a very scratchy target i thought that there was a good chance that it might have been a nail or something but it wasn't a nail but it was iron and check this out now folks who might not recognize this might just think this is a twisted up piece of iron which it is but this is also part of a colonial shoe buckle this is the shape and forks of a buckle that would have most likely been brass which is not here but maybe in the area we'll look for it but that is an incredible find for what it is it's not valuable it's not silver or gold but it's a 1700s artifact that is one of my favorites to find so cool we're going to put this in the box see if maybe we can find the frame big brass frame or really anything else in this general area they lost part of their shoe so i don't know maybe they dropped all their coins too so it's not uncommon to find knives oftentimes pocket knives and especially next to a home site you know like dinner knives in fact i found a couple over by the home site but i'm a little bit a ways from it now but i cannot say i've ever found a knife quite like this i do not believe this is period with the home it looks like there is a mark down here for the manufacturer but the the scales appear to be wood and they're mostly still there now we find wood at bone scales on colonial knives sometimes but this does not strike me as a colonial knife and you know i always attempt to guess how these things find their way into the ground oftentimes pocket knives if they're closed we can assume it was dropped accidentally off probably in the snow sometimes we find pocket knives with the blade broken off and that was more than likely tossed because it was now useless so i would assume this one was also tossed because it is now useless i'll get this cleaned up we'll try to figure out what the name is on it then try to figure out how old it is and if it's from the 1800s i will eat my words but pretty cool anyway well i thought for sure this was going to be a shell casing i have found more shell casings here today than i probably did all last year and i thought that's what this was going to be i thought it'd be like a little nine millimeter or something but it is in fact not and it's old and super cool it it's a little thimble it's completely crushed out of shape for some reason one of these days i'm going to find a silver thimble i see folks online finding them all the time i've yet to find one it's on my my bucket list but i've probably found i don't know three dozen brass thimbles they were extremely common back then you know there were tailors in the area but generally if you're a farmer and you know you rip the see me your pants or something you were gonna go to taylor for that you were gonna just fix it yourself you know they didn't have polyester back then or nylon uh the thread was more than likely cotton and it broke that's why we find so many buttons and that's why we find so many thimbles because they were constantly repairing pretty cool throw in the bag let's see what else we can find well i just found another two piece button what do you think can you make that out is it just gonna be floral and i don't know yeah i think that's just floral man that got me a little excited looks like this will have a back mark as well but it's pretty beat up we're not probably going to be able to figure out that one but uh that's cool man i was hoping for another military and one that i didn't recognize but it is a button it's a little two-piece floral button probably for a ladies jacket super cool all right folks well i'm gonna pack it in and you know we didn't find anything incredibly valuable coin silver gold today but those buttons with their connection to the original inhabitant is the best treasure i could ask for incredible it was a beautiful day great place to metal detect the bugs are just starting to come out but they weren't bad at all and now the sun's starting to come out a little bit i've got all the stuff we found today laid out here let's take a look okay here we have the haul for the day starting from the back we have the giant dagger which seems pretty out of place uh from the rest of the stuff i don't believe it's the same period as these buttons but you know maybe it is this sure reminds me of a trowel i've never actually seen or researched masonry tools from this era so you know it could be way off base but that's what it reminds me of i did find a horse bridal rosette a whole bunch more spoon fragments than the one that i showed this is the oldest thing i found today uh by far this is a colonial era shoebuckle chape and fork where the rest of the buckle is i have no idea i don't think that it went to this boot but i suppose it could have thimble one two three four pretty standard flat buttons we have the boot pieces and then out front are the cool buttons the exciting buttons this is a floral button this is a general service military button and this big surprise to find one of those very exciting yeah and it's in great shape super exciting overall fantastic day all right folks well i want to thank you again for watching spring is here there are little green sprouts coming up everywhere and i'm very excited to start the 2021 metal detecting season and i think we're off to a good start thanks again for watching and i'll see you next time you
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Channel: Green Mountain Metal Detecting
Views: 33,404
Rating: 4.9794812 out of 5
Keywords: 2021, best metal detecting finds, ancient discovery, real treasure, best thing found metal detecting, treasure hunter, gmmd, brad martin, old coins, nova constellatio, colonial america, silver, vermont, new england, metal detector, xp deus, garrett, history
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Length: 17min 14sec (1034 seconds)
Published: Fri Apr 30 2021
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