On this adventure I hike to a massive stacked-stone foundation and uncover a few treasures left buried by the inhabitants. Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
Follow the "hoover boys" they kinda put this guy to shame.. but when it comes to metal detecting it is what it is.. but hoover boys do a great job in their editing and content
I have followed you for years, and I really enjoy the inset photos of things after they are cleaned up. Really makes it better when the cleaning shows what the piece with dirt on it looks like, helps us to see what it was used for. John
Your obvious love and appreciation of the nature on display in the mountains of Vermont are enough to keep me coming back week after week. Your dedication to the art of your work is as great as your knowledge of metal detecting and of the articles that you discover. Again, thanks!
The ruler threw me back to my childhood. I remember these always pinching my fingers! My father had one in his tool chest and I loved playing with all of his old tools…as a 70 year-old woman it reminded me of my 94 year old father who just died last month. Nice memory.
Wonderful video! I love all the different things you find! I like to speculate how these items were used too! Historical finds are fun! Fun to find, fun to research! Fun to finally figure out how an item was used in it's time! All so cool. Good job again!! Love your videos very much! Thanks for doing what you do!
Love the comment about the value is in the story. I have always felt the same way. I love finding a new, old homestead and figuring out the way it might have looked in its day. Homes, outbuildings, what they valued and did to survive. One of my all time favorite finds is a 1909 dog tag. It was issued by the township not the county also. Most likely because the county seat was just to far away. The home stead started right after the civil war and was gone within 50 years. I was amazed they licensed dogs that far back. Found they did it to establish a fund to pay farmers for livestock killed by running dogs.
Received a detector for my 75th birthday. . Already found a few things around our apartment. Aluminum scrap, pot shard, and a fairly old brass plumbing fitting.
The piece with feet could be for placing a hot clothes iron. The Navy button is awesome find. Cool spigot handle. Nice pitch pipe find & brass ruler hinge.
That old navy button gave me chills! So cool. It looks similar to NA-26H in the Alberts button book, but the lack of back mark makes me think it is early. There are 16 stars around the eagle, not sure when that started. The 16th state was admitted in 1796, so my guess is after that.
I owned an old English cane from the 1800’s. It had a silver ornate sleeve just like this. It also have the makers mark on it.. It was a very thin cane.
Oh COOL ruler hinge!! I have several from the late 1800's-earl;y 1900's from my grandfather and great-grandfather! n I've restored these, that one you found should clean up really well! Be fun to clean and polish it and build a repro ruler arms for it!!
In old jewelry, floral pieces were stacked in layers. This could have been any flower, but the layers of flowers were assembled one by one with the stamen being the last. The stem of the stamen went down through the middle hole to hold it all together.
Loved this weeks video. So many interesting finds. It also seems as Brad may have been the first to metal detect at this location. I only found Brad's Channel like a year ago and have since watched every single one. Now I am on Schedule for Fridays!
I enjoyed metal detecting for years as a younger man. Found coins and an old discarded junk pile which led to many old bottles buried in the same location. It all kind of ended for me when exploring ghost towns and finding personal belongings ( children’s toys and shoes ) and then coming upon a hidden neglected graveyard from the 1800’s where the markers indicated a few shortened life spans of children - probably for sickness. Got me thinking from a personal perspective about removing other people’s belongings found old homesteads… unless I could use the found items to glorify their owners remembrance I choose to let it remain undisturbed. PS - I still have my detector but have taken up Geocaching to satisfy my treasurer hunting urge. 😊
Good morning from little Rhode Island, hope one day you head down , we have been known for some real great finds. Look for your channel every week. Take care.
The lid looks like a lid from an old tobacco box. They would often have a box of wood that would help flavor the tobacco, like apple, cherry, or other wood. Some also used oak or hickory, but they would not have been as favored by many pipe smokers. Most pipe smokers would want something that flavored the tobacco.
That brass cylinder looks like something you would see around a salt shaker or herb dispenser. They would have been glass which is probably why you don't find pieces. It's already been broken out
Hi Brad, I notice in many of your videos that you see lots of interesting gnarly old trees. The type kids love to play in, many are really old, some have fallen over! Do you detect around them? Kids are always losing things, and old trees are great hiding places, I would be searching them for treasures, do you give them a good search?
That button is early and in half decent shape, nice find! I have a question for ya about the lid the "compact" case lid? That top rectangular shape on the lid appears to go through to the inside of the lid. Can you tell if that was something other then brass that may have solidified? The reason I ask is I've recovered a complete stamp pad with the bottom and the ink reservoir where there was some material that wicked ink up so it was always wet for when you pressed the stamp on the pad to ink it up. Although that one is slightly different it's something to think about that explains that rough top rectangle. My next best guess would possibly be a match box and that rough part is the striker. Now ironically that crushed round ornate piece also may have been a small match safe. I found one with a hunting scene with the bottom still in place. The bottom was the rough part for striking and it had the hinge pin for the missing lid. It was a hunting scene with a hound dog chasing a fox. The relics may not always have a monetary value per say but they can be priceless for putting together clues about a place. I love your state of Vermont which is so rich in early history. You can do well if you get info on where early settlements or homesteads one stood. A couple buddies of mine and I often go up to Cape Cod from South Jersey to go striper fishing and when we pass through Vermont we get off the interstate and look around for areas to possibly hunt. That land is beautiful up there Thanks for the video I hope you the best on every hunt
i would guess your mystery find is the bottom stand for some small heating irons to iron clothes flat , it was used so you dont burn a hole into the table and you didnt had to walk to the ofen to put it down there again
Without going through the comments I’d guess possibly the top of a walking stick for your ornate brass crushed cylinder. Footed iron object probably a sad iron trivet.
do you ever damage the items as you're digging them up? I like it when you show the items after they've been cleaned up. do you ever run upon snakes or wildlife dens?
Not sure why but I was looking for something to watch and I've been subscribed to you for a few years and I was watching this video and I was unscribed from your channel. But I put me back on 😊
Just a little tip; I learned that leaving your Detector turned on and kept close to the ground as you begin or end your day can result in a few items you would otherwise miss. I've found a couple of old Silver coins that way. You might be very surprised...
