Were These Old Coins Lost During A Wedding 200 Years Ago?

[Music] [Music] hey folks but we find ourselves on this brisk February day back up in the mountains of Vermont on a piece of old farm land which has obviously now all grown up back into forests there's lots of old stone walls out here that were you know boarders of the fields and at least one old home foundation that I know of the people that invited me out here today have owned this piece of land for at least a couple hundred years which means the things that we find will very likely have been dropped by their ancestors which makes you know even the smallest most uninteresting thing have quite a bit more value to them and because this land has been owned by the same people we have a lot of information about this place people's names their occupations and even a few smaller kind of personal stories one of which I'm pretty excited about I'm gonna be searching around for a very particular place here well tell you more about that a little bit later obviously there's snow on the ground a couple inches in some places but some places like above here it's completely bare ground hopefully all the good stuff it's in the places with the bare ground I'm heading up here to where they told me the first cellar was and then we're gonna do some wandering around looking for this place that I mentioned [Music] all right well we've arrived to the cellar that they told me about show you what it looks like here you can see there's these kind of ornamental plants still growing around the home some of the stonework is still there and right next to the building there was a barn a large one and as I mentioned I know the name of the people that lived here their occupation they were Orion sheep farmers not entirely sure you know when they built and then when they abandoned but it's on the map from 1870 so we have to assume they're here at that point the landowners did tell me that I am by far the first person to metal detect here they've had quite a few people out here including one of their own family members so I don't know what we'll find today but I'm excited to find out I'm gonna get my gear out see we all right how awesome is this I find harmonicas all the time multiple pieces of the the reed plates I never find this part this is what would have been you know the top or the bottom and I already took a peek at it and there's definitely some script writing on there I'm gonna clean this up with a toothbrush see if we can get a brand name off this which will then give us a date hopefully which is usually impossible with the harmonica parts that I usually find i I washed it off with some water which is not something I usually do with brass but there's some silver plating left in there and I think it says so says Seuss's or so says band be a nd and at the bottom it says Made in Germany so as soon as I get home I'll look this up try to figure out how old this might be like I said I find harmonica parts all the time there are very very common and you know post 1850 but I love finding these things that were so personal to the owner now you can think about the old stories maybe grandpa play the heck out of this thing and everybody would sit down in the evening and enjoy listening to him play you never know really cool well I have a bit of a mystery item here I have some guesses so the bottom is threaded I've seen these described as parts of old muskets the ones that I've found are commonly like a nail shape instead of a screw and those are drawer hardware but this you know it appears to have a hole all the way through this way as well as this way so I'm wondering if this is more of a valve maybe for like an oil lamp something to that effect I'm not sure it's brass it appears to be decorative I'm gonna guess that it's some kind of valve for liquid maybe air I don't know let me know what you think could be really anything so I got a pretty nice iron target and I went to dig and I noticed that the thing that my metal detector found is on the surface [Music] this is a black hole trap I am Not sure the legality of leg-hold traps in vermont anymore I feel like you can't use them anymore but I really have no idea I'm just trying to kind of make an educated guess on how long this has been out here it does have a chain which is then attached to a wire and the other end of the wire not attached to anything so it I mean it's not like this is currently being checked and this is also private property and I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that this does not belong now to the current owner he's not a leg-hold trapper type so I'm gonna I'm gonna pull this out of here and you know give this to him and you know if it happens to be the landowners buddy who traps up here then we'll we'll bring it back out but I'm gonna say that probably not the case cool find anyway all right well kind of what I expected we didn't find a whole lot at this first seller but as I had mentioned I'm not the first person to metal detect here it's been done numerous times over the years even by one of the landowners own family members so I'm not super surprised but now we're gonna venture off through some of this forest which at that time was open fields because as I said the landowner told me a bunch of personal stories about this place one of which was that his family had numerous children and they were all married on the property now that surprised me and prompted me to do a bunch of my own research because I had assumed especially back then everybody was married in a church but as I found out especially in these farm communities up in the mountains the most popular time to get married was this time of year because there's just too much to do during the growing season and in the winter it was just too hard to get all of the family down to the local church so they would have them in the fields around the home you know it's kind of cool to think about they may have happened on a day just like today it's supposed to get up almost near 50 today there's lots of areas where there's no snow at all maybe 150 years ago some folks were out here getting married so we're gonna wander around see if maybe we can find this place where the family would have congregated and maybe they dropped a few things during the celebration [Music] and all right well I just got the most beautiful high tone right here 83 oh I think that's a copper coin can you see this right here see I think so awesome yeah it's definitely old copper coin let's I'm gonna get my gloves off and see if we can get this cleaned up all right I got one side and cleaned all right can you see that and upside down one cent this is a large set us large set I've gotten this side cleaned off yet though but I think this is gonna be an older one see here yeah look at this 1803 draped bust I just rubbed it on my pants a little bit you can see that the date is clearly visible 1803 well that's quite a bit older than you know the stories that we have attached to this to this land I am in a field right now probably not dropped during a wedding but still a great find beautiful well hey let's see if we can find a few more of these well this whole area right here is just completely littered with shell casings probably not modern maybe fifties sixties they're very shallow as was this target but regardless it's it's not a shell casing I feel like it's a little watch like a little timepiece let me get this cleaned up a bit maybe see if we can figure out what we have here I'm gonna say that it's a little a little watch this is really kind of old looking this design would have had some gold plating you can see here this is a really awesome you know personal find I assume maybe it would have been a chain and the inhabitant that lived here would have carried it in their pocket every day maybe a stopped working and they decided to discard it awesome well as you can see I took my gloves off it's starting to warm up it's above freezing now and we found a place where there's lots of patches with no snow so we're gonna stick around here and maybe we can find some more really personal items like this good stuff well because of you know the warmer weather that we've had this last week in areas where there isn't any snow some of these kind of low-lying depressions they're just mud pits and I got a very low target in one of these areas as you could probably see I didn't think it was going to be iron but it it but it is look at this thing how awesome is that it's a hammerhead just a ball of rust but the thing that struck me is how big the the head of this is the striking side this is a such an interesting shape and is actually complete a lot of times one of these claws is broken off this is a good candidate to be re re hung on to a handle really cool it's gonna be heavy carrying around all day but I love old iron tools like this like kind of puts into perspective what they went through and what they used to live up here in the mountains alright check this out this is a really cool find when I first came out I thought maybe it was a coin but it didn't read high enough in the metal detector to be a coin but once I saw this hole I instantly knew what it was this is one half of a class but like a buckle kind of but there would have been a second piece would have slipped through here and then locked by how pretty it is lots of flowers and stuff on here I have to suspect it belonged to the lady of the house I've found a couple of these and it's always this piece it's never the the smaller piece that kind of goes in here I'm wondering what the design was on the centerpiece then buckle [Music] I was just stand-in here taking a break and I got thinking probably the most asked question from folks who watch these videos is what happens to all of this stuff that I find often people are shocked to learn I always tell landowners everything I find will belong to them I don't want to keep anything now if they some reason don't want it I'll certainly take it and give it a good home I keep detailed notes about where I find this stuff with GPS points but you know things like buttons and buckles and even coins it's gonna mean far more to a landowner where maybe it belonged to their ancestors you know people often say like why would you go through all of that work just to give it all away and you know I don't think of this as work this is fun this is a hobby I'm out here for the enjoyment of the outdoors in the forest doing this you know filming I have as much fun on a day I don't find anything as I do days I find lots of stuff now there has been times where I find something like a gold coin or a large silver coin where talked to the landowner and rework something else so I can take that stuff home but for the most part we don't find things like that you know we find buttons and buckles always happy to give that stuff back to the landowner I'm gonna finish my water and we're gonna venture off do some more of these fields [Music] [Music] all right we got a beautiful target here you hear through my headphones it's in the 80s my guest should I call it calling it's bad luck whatever it is it's either a beer can piece of aluminum or a piece of brass if you're big or round we're gonna camera around a little bit Oh aha um look it's one of these uh whoo oh there's lots of different names for him sometimes people call them Baldrick buckles batwing buckles it's horse tack part of a very decorative harness these would have been shined up brass gold color I'm looking at this I had always suspected that there was one pin but look looks like there's a second spinning piece of iron on here it's falling off now but there must have been two pins on here which I guess makes sense for the width that leather buckle I always wonder how much things like this would have cost the owner and how much this would have hurt when they lost it they dropped this they couldn't find it could they continue the work throughout the day did they have spares halt work and go into town and buy another one whatever the case here we are a couple hundred years later finding it again all right this is uh let me turn my headphones off here a 96 you know that's never anything good theoretically it could be a giant silver coin but you know unlikely I'm gonna guess it's like a piece of aluminum or a big flat piece of something uninteresting but we're gonna dig it just in case it is a giant silver coin yeah here we go just what I thought she met off but if it was a silver coin a big one that's the number it would be so we got to dig this stuff just in case all right we got another one 90 92 like I said before you know it's almost certainly gonna be garbage but we have to we have to dig it to find out oh I think I found it I think it's another coin yeah it's on the copper coin it's not a big silver coin I don't know why was reading so high oh it's like it's another large set one cent flip this over oh you had no this isn't a later one now how bad all right I'm gonna get a date let's try to get the mud off a little bit here yeah I think so I think it says 1834 nice yeah that's it's nowhere than the first one we found you never know could have been dropped by somebody out here attending a ceremony wedding ceremony never know we are out in the middle of a field again either a farmer was out here tending to his rye and dropped a coin out of his pocket or you never know awesome all right well hey I'm gonna recheck the hole just in case it was reading as high as it was because there was more but if not we're gonna we're gonna call this the end of the day unless so we're gonna gather up all of our stuff and so we found today great find hi folks well the first metal detecting trip of 2020 has come to a close you know because of the snow and the weather that we've had this is the first time I've been able to come out and do this since November it's February now so this was a very nice change of pace I was starting to develop a bit of cabin fever you know I can't think of a better place to be beautiful place wonderful history direct link to the current owners we found quite a bit of stuff I have it all displayed out here on the stump to take a look at it all all right look at all this stuff you know despite people metal detecting here for years and years and years we still found quite a few things starting from the back we have the leg hold trap couple old iron buckles batwing buckle an old hammer head which is pretty cool I'm gonna see if I can bring that one home and get it cleaned up and made me put a new handle on it and see what it may have looked like the time of use harmonica plate an oil lamp well two oil lamps one style and a double wick style let's see one two three four five fragments of spoon suspender pieces our mystery thing I don't know maybe a valve of some kind you know what you guys think about that one piece of pocket watch one two three four five six buttons and a rivet this I didn't show this you could either be the back of this pocket watch or potentially a small bridal rosette for a horse harness up here the things I'm most excited about a very feminine small buckle what I believe is part of a small pocket watch and then our two our large cents to coins copper coins today was any of this dropped during a wedding ceremony out here in one of the fields who knows but I'd like to think so alright folks well I want to thank you again for watching I hope you enjoyed I'm gonna start hiking on out of here but hopefully I'll see you next time for the next video up here the mountains of Vermont and hopefully you

Channel: Green Mountain Metal Detecting

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Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2020