I Found Coins Older Than the Town I Found Them In!! 

What great finds for today. Great day in the woods.

Just wondering how far you are from Royalton Vermont? My 4th great grandfather George Avery was captured in the Revolutionary War raid in 1780 by the Mohawk and marched north and sold to the British. He was held in Canada for 2 years. There are articles online that you can Google about his version of the story

Awesome day for you young man and stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 👍

I too so enjoy your videos and learn much about our early country and inhabitants…you are a born teacher…thank you for sharing your valuable information with all of us…

Good finds, that 2 prong fork I think is a cooking fork not a eating fork.

I believe the piece with two loops that you called horse tack is actually a link from a chain pump, for a water well.

The "shear steel" is Sheffield (England) mid 1800's. Shear steel was several thin layers of steel forge welded together similar to what is now called 'damascus'. Pieces marked cast steel were slightly less quality. A friend collects kitchen cutlery and much of his that are marked Shear steel are 1830-40 era. Some as late as 1890. Majority with bone or antler handles.

Nice hunt. Last week I found a Vermont state copper 1785 with the all seeing eye. I live in PA never thought I’d find one let alone here. As soon as I saw the mountain range I knew what it was from your logo.

Furniture tacks were also used on the horn of saddles which were formed from wood

I never knew state coppers existed until I started metal detecting! We learn so much about history with this hobby! My American history teacher would be so proud of me if he could see me now! LOL! ( I failed my first year of American history! LOL) I have found the furniture tacks as well. So unique

Great video, and very nice finds!!! I bought a USB Microscope for about $30 (amazon) just so I could read the small things, and get better pictures of my finds, works great! Really gets in there, and helps see the small print.

Nice one Brad! It's always a pleasure to walk in the woods with you.

You surely got down to brass tacks on this one! ( I apologize for that! I couldn't resist.) Love the fork! Great video & great finds! Thanks for taking us with you!!

Brad, another great video, another great hunt, fantastic permissions you get. The 1/4 cut coin was way cool. You find some awesome relics also and I like when you explain them. I won a T-Shirt from you 2 years ago when I knew the answer on your annual live stream, when you and Eddie forgot your toothbrushes on your road trip to an organized hunt. I am making people laugh on my Sunday morning weekly live streams by telling my viewers that I am SO MUCH your #1 fanboy, but I have to wait for the restraining order to expire before I can try to meet you. Gets a laugh every time. Keep up the great videos. Take Care. Rob / FlThunder

Very good finds! interesting pieces I loved the key! and beautiful landscapes, thanks for sharing, greetings!

Spring is my favorite time of year. A time of reawakening after the long sleep of winter.

Often horse collars were padded with straw and closed with tacks. Some harness used them as well as saddles.

Love your videos, you add interesting information about your area as well as the objects you find.

Tacks could have been from a hide-covered trunk?

IAgain thanks love your show When I lived in Vermont and Penn ...found back to back 1786 conn. coppers they all went into my find box forgotten for the past 15 yrs.. until your show Just bought a new min/lab to get my grand kids into this ....Started metal detecting 1976 ...sort of still going ...keep up your great show Doug Ramsey

Awesome video, the cut coin would have been the equivalent of a farthing, cut coin into four, changed from fourth thing to farthing so I've hered, and in the UK they cut the farthing in half again to get a half farthing, the common old steel makers in England for cutlery was Sheffield steel,great finds Brad

Brad the iron relic that looks like a pacifier is part of a well pump chain link. Love the finds!

My dad had a 'junk' store when I was a little girl...I remember his hundreds of keys on a rope!..bought out estates and that mystery of it all never left me. I love that key! Thanks for taking us along!

Brad I have watched many of your videos. You do a fantastic job. Love the way u put your videos together. U do a nice job like your buddy ed an dig that beep and like Terrie and Cindy. Congratulations u have made quite a name for yourself. You have done veryw well. David Blackburn. Thanks for sharing

Hope you took some of those fiddleheads home for dinner. Maybe you found parts to the original studded leather jacket

Thanks Brad you found some really great relics and those coins were incredible!

good finds Brad

Great video Brad 👍 my kids and I definitely enjoyed the video! Nice verity of relics coming out of the ground!

Hi Fellow Fans of Green Mountain and Brad... I look forward to reading all of your inputs after the videos.. Thank you for sharing!

Chain pump

Enjoy the video and comments. Wondering what was made from the iron ingot.

Well done brad brother cracking finds lots of history there lots more to find i think brother 👍

Greetings from western NC. Vermont is pretty country. Nice finds.

Great episode 👍

Always appreciate the pain you take to offer a very good quality footage for us to watch. You remain, by far, my favorite North American metal detecting channel.

Great show man.

ayoooo good old coins good job

Great video as always Brad. Thanks. 👍✌

Great way to start off my Friday!

Nice finds

Hey you forgot the knife in the roundup! My first glimpse of that horse tack made me think pacifier…

Happy Friday! Brads on! Cool finds. Thank you, Joyce.🇺🇸. Connecticut . ARROW *🎱. ❤️.

Your videos are always superior in visual beauty

JUST AMAZING BRAD‼️

ive been watching quite a while and i find myself wondering? do you see wildlife on your explorations? and why not show them more? your routine deer to us city folk is as interesting as your finds. even small things like rabbits or snakes? interesting looking bird? ive been to vt and i have had bear come u to my door. please in the future if there is some interesting parts of nature id like to see more.

I can't tell you how much I look forward to each new video. Thank you so much, Brad Martin!

Thank you Brad - for all you do. Beautiful Friday footage and finds. Hugs to the family and smack Eddie one time, eh? Chuck in NE Kansas

Thank you for sharing. The forest is awesome, especially the fiddlers(ferns) and flowers. Always enjoy your videos.

Quite often they use the brass tacks on trunks

Great hunt once again! Ive always been told to soak coppers in perioxide or heat up the peroxide first. Dunno what u like to use but the before and after pics were pretty amazing.

Oh, I love those old keys.

Did you guys get cicada’s???

The key is to Sasquatches treasure chest.

Very cool , I live in Northern VT and this inspires me to get out and do some metal detecting ! My favorite item was the big key .

Iam pretty sure that thing with 2 rings is sasquatches Pacifier. You find the best variety of stuff . It's like opening presents at Christmas.

Some cool saves! Yes, the two looped piece is an old pump piece!

Brad, time to buy a bug net. 6 bucks on Amazon.

A quarter of a cent could probably buy land back in the day! Lol! It's amazing how much coin was worth, isn't it? Looking forward to next Friday already!

2nd

that cut coin i found one in my area

Every time I watch your videos I want to move to Vermont just to dig relics. Congrats on the Connecticut Copper. And also the skeleton key. I recently found my 2nd intact key and it was about the same size as your. Thanks for sharing. Stay well and happy detecting.

That is a great site Brad.I myself would definitely return, and expand the search.How many structures do you think were once there?

Great video & awesome finds!

How on earth did they manage back in the 1700's. I wonder why they threw away or lost so many things that must have been valuable to them back then!

How come the state coins had Britannia on them as that is a British design. So did they strike over a British coin to make it a state copper? Enlighten me/us. thanks. great video as always.

Check and see if the upholstery tacks wasn't used on saddles ?? down here in the south we find tacks like these in union Cavalry picket posts..

Maybe you could use the quarter cent for a guitar pick...

Why does some iron rust beyond recognition yet others look pretty good???

Thinking about it Brad, that quarter cent seems unusual but it's just the equivalent of a UK farthing, which merited being a coin.😁

Adventure!

Cool channel! Hey I wonder what those folks (who lived there) did about bugs? They must’ve been tortured.

I can't wait to find something decent. Finally have permission to detect a 1791 farm, thats still being farmed today. But there's a lot of land, and I only did a tiny bit today. Found 1 square nail 😆.

What's more rare to find? A large cent or any coin dated from the 1930's?

great video, thanks Brad

Awesome video bud

Come on folks! This man deserves way more than 100k subscribers!

Love the finds

Some nice coins and relics out of the ground Brad. Happy hunting and be well

Great video as always! Love that key. A skeleton key is on my bucket list.

Amazing finds. Thanks for sharing your spring adventure and hunt. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.

Awesome hunt brad. Great vid as always. Thanks again for taking us along. As much as I envy the woods of New England you guys can keep the black flies 😜

That is so very interesting! I love finding old bottles, often in old buried trash pits. I wonder if the tech exists to detect glass beneath the soil.

Could be studs for wicker seated chairs

Wow! 1786 Copper in that good of shape is amazing!

Thank you for this interesting video & finds. It looks beautiful as the trees come into leaf & flowers bloom. The quarter cent reminded me of after my parents had passed. My siblings were bickering & my husband went off cut a cent into quarters & gave us a piece. Now if you are going to get upset over things I've divided it down to the last cent. Talk about bringing us back to reality.

Brad - Nothing to be ashamed about or to apologize for. It was a great hunt! The coins were great! Thanks again for sharing & please be safe & take care.

I saw you sneak that fiddlehead in Brad :)

Good morning Brad… just got my coffee made, I’m ready for another great video… Google Colonial Trunks Some trunks had “Thick leather” hinges or corner bindings that used Pins like those , also could be what the key was for. anyone who did any kind of over seas or land travel had at least 1 , very well could be the source of all brass escutcheons you find . they were on everything from Hat boxes to large and small suitcases and many other items I just don’t feel that it was on furniture during colonial homestead times furniture was plan and basic for the most part too heavy to move carry and transport unless you were Rich and wealthy.

G'DAY mate, you ever find an old anvil, while out and about. I was given an old 300lb English anvil by and old fella who ran an engineering business, back in my early 20's. I have since found out their worth between $10-$50 a pound, depending on type,size and maker. Their also as rear as rocking horse manure.🇦🇺

Cut coin could be a French Liard. I thought I noticed the French fleur-de-lis.

Great digs Brad thanks for the video. Mike elbows deep in Wisconsin

I wouldnt even be able find Coins older than my City. Firstly documented around 800 as 2 villages, 1240 connected and Houses inside the "Old city" dating to around 1400. The 2 villages are more than 3000 years old where coins didnt even exist. The History behind almost every City around Europe is crazy interesting for me. Greetings from lower Bavaria.

The Connec. Auctore is valued (almost for sure) over $100 Based on my grading

A most enjoyable video today, Brad!. Thank you very much for sharing those interesting finds!

Awesome skeleton key. Love the Connecticut copper. Great relics & buttons.

Brad, could you explain to you views why there were so many foreign from the 1700's found in America. Stressing we had no currency in either paper or metal coinage.

I'm curious Brad; In my town (not far from you) we still have plenty of buildings that are up to 350 years old. I realize that they've been maintained over the years, but why are the ones you find totally disintegrated? Shouldn't even small remnants of the structures remain?

Brad, All those pieces together must narrow down the residential date. Based on them ,what is your guess for the period? Cheers, Rik Spector

Execellent hunt video, Brad. My one and only Vermont copper, I dug in Baltimore, MD.

Where are you based? I'm not a sticker just a fellow Vermonters from Springfield. ☺