Metal detecting Colonial sites can produce such a wide variety of finds and some even Bizarre My channel / thiltzy1 Dedicated to metal detecting and preserving Historical relics from early Colonial America sites in New England
+Ross Keene.. never had that....it was really just the handle off the metal detector...it was in the corner of field most probably the result of fly tipping
Thanks for all your comments people and kind words, Sincerely. Believe it or not, the comments always motivate me to continue uploading even though it takes way to much time
+thiltzy1 really fascinating. i was wondering if the silver was not a way of always having passage on you if ever something happened ,or even a form of disguise for a n actor or a fraudster.
+thiltzy1 Maybe the dentist  who made them was traveling through the woods  & they fell out of his bag when he encountered a bear & quickly had to run up a tree : ) poor guy!
That open frame buckle is a beauty Todd. Glad to see it recovered in one piece. Nice pile of finds, and Dave's teef spill was one in a million. Great catch on vid.
I've watched thousands of MD videos. Those teeth take the cake and eat it too. Craziest thing I've seen. Saw the pictures earlier and now I get to see them dug. Not that it overshadows all the good early relics and coins you guys find. Your videos are always worth watching.
Always enjoy watching you and Dave hunt, usually he's scrambling trying to find a copper after you found two. Guess Dave bit off more than he could chew this time!! LOL!! Awesome hunt Todd, and a killer knee buckle!
Very well done video! The fast motion piece is a nice touch to break up the standard video. I stumbled on to your channel and have subsequently subscribed. :-)
Congrats on your Beautiful Connecticut Colonial Coppers and the 1819 Matron Head Large Cent. What a wild find...false teeth sets...amazing. Great hunt guys.
Why were grown men getting so freaked out and feeling sick over the site of false teeth? I think I would have edited out that part.😀 Overall it was a nice video! Thanks for taking the time to share it!!
Gr8 videos,keep them comming.Love the'mouth-spill'ha,ha.Just shows what people leave in the earth .Dialogue really interesting and family friendly.Can't wait for more ! GPJ,England
Buddy of mine lost his button on a rock while spelunking. He got all excited and started moving rocks, and came up with about 20 buttons going back to the Civil War. It never would have occurred to me to look.
Paul Evans At what point in human history have men not been drawn to caves? Man one "Hey! Let's look in this cave!" Man two "No. It's only 1865. Don't be stupid."
Paul Evans Oh not at all. I's just pointing out that dudes can't look at a cave without wanting to see the end of it. Must be some kind of Freudian thing.
Were any of those toofuses marked "G.W?" If we imagine early American history, we know George had a number of false choppers made over the years, including a set of floating wooden beauties, right after he'd sneezed his uppers over the side of the boat while crossing the Potomac River. When his dentist was forced to flee and hide from the Red Coats advance, he sought refuge with his brother in law's wife, who was living alone because her hubby was away battling the British Navy. The dentist hid them, but was shot by the brother in law when he returned unexpectedly eight months later, so they were never returned to George. Seriously though, a one of a kind find and the hunt wouldn't have been complete without a spoon.
+soul__seeker__ You may be correct. George might be his maternal grandpa's first cousin's toothless uncle, twice removed. Or not. Dentition doesn't lie.
Stoney don't make silver supporting structure in false teeth. And that was 2 sets - each set contains an upper and lower plate. The lower is of course the horseshoe looking plate.
Kool hunt guys and loads of nice finds, strange finding those dentures and then the ones with Silver on them but still Silver is Silver :-D ATB GL & HH LittleJohn Metal Detecting
I still can't get over the cellar holes you researched and find, blows me away! I found a button, mid 1800s with white heavy thread still on it as well, pretty cool. Dave's teeth rocked ! I was LMAO .. Continued success guy's!!
That is so bizarre! I too found a stash of false teeth! I found them on a step old river bank dump that I noticed by the bottles sticking out of the bank.There were 20 sets with various numbers of teeth in them from full sets down to only 3-4 teeth left in the top or bottom plates. Plus another 33 blank ones that were all stacked up in the ground. The material of the ones I found were much deeper red in color and more of a real hard type rubber or something similar but not bakelite. This had to have been a local dentist that dumped these there......Thanks for posting this....really made my day....but destroyed MY strange hunting story! haha
may have been a addition to the house at the cellar hole site which may have been a bathroom ,explaining why the sets were all in the same spot .just a thought great finds, good video
Todd, I've heard you say more than once that you've turned sensitivity way down. I'm a novice at cellar hole hunting here in Maryland and have been using 2-tone ferrous with disc way down at 4 but sensitivity up to about 90 on a Fisher F75. How do you find lowering the sensitivity to help in detecting buttons, coins and brass?
+Michael McCullough Hi Michael, I only lower sensitivity in heavily infested iron areas. The higher sensitivity results in the coil picking up more and more targets and noise so lowering your sensitivity reduces all that noise and allows me to isolate a good target much easier in all the iron. Hope that helps some
cool video....well shot and edited . u actually found 2 full sets of false teeth. The two without the center part are for the bottom jaw. The two with the center parts are for the upper palettes. Very odd find.
Dave you guys never seem to amaze me always finding excellent find. I wish I was still going detecting with you. maybe that was a burial site and the bodies deteriorated and the heads are gone.
what a crazy day that was! and my fridge fixed itself that day tooo.was clunking in the morning and my freezer was started to thaw out.when i got home no noise and everything was normal.
That bottle is where the term "Pop" bottle came from. The cap is inside and held in place by the pressure of the carbonated liquid. to open you would hit down on the wire end and the lid would "pop" into the bottle and let you drink. They would refill them and just pull the cap back up into place.
+Diggin Arkansas i wish they were colonial.research puts them at 1850-1900 the rubber used on these called vulcanite and porcelin as teeth about 1900 they went to poly resin materials
They must not have been very good at sewing buttons on their clothing back in the day! LOL Nice finds! I love that bottle! I wonder what it's worth. ? Actually, you have two "sets" of false teeth. An upper and lower would be one set.
Interesting - what's most interesting for us detectorists in the UK is that this is 'modern junk' to us. We record our finds with the archaeologists and they don't record anything from the last 300 years :-)
Here's my take on the false teeth; a dog would take his owner's false teeth when he was asleep at night, while they were soaking in Everdent, go outside and bury them. When he'd get a new set, the dog kept doing it over and over, burying them in the same spot every time.....until the owner either died of starvation or ran out of money. Whaddaya think? Lol! BTW, great video!
Hey Todd and Dave, just happened across this and laughed. One day while detecting I dug up a handful of individual teeth about 30 of them (no skull to be found). Lol Probably a dentist lived at that site... I showed the teeth to my dentist at my next teeth cleaning and he was amazed. He said they were definitely human and could tell they were from mid-late 1800's by the dental work. He cringed because the way they were sawed off and oozing with some kind of weird clumpy metal. With no pain meds like today... anyway, fun find!!
+Numisaccent Yeah antique fakes are still antiques. There is a type of old fusse pocket watch called "continental fakes" which were usually Dutch but had phony English signatures with "London" as the place of origin to make people believe they were made in England. Today they are still collectible.
+Donald Frederiksen That's a Connecticut State Copper. The Colony States minted their own coins in the late 1700's. Those states included Connecticut, Vermont, Mass, New Jersey
I have come up with gold teeth and crowns all in one area Sant Cloud Min Total was over 6 OZs14K-18K and one was Ivory teethNice sites you have I been to Low Gap Va and High Gap Va on the old wagen trail looks as I found a lot of things that fell off the wagens, Nice clip
DAMN I miss cellar holes...I moved to coastal SC...deep time sure, but you can't dig cellar holes in the swamps...that's called a swimming pool. The ONLY way I've found to locate settlements is set low tone to iron then dig all non ferrous in the woods when I get lots of iron.
Not 4 sets, only two. Two upper dentures, two lower dentures. I'm betting they fit together. Reason I know this, is, I wear dentures. The ones with the full plate are the uppers, the ones shaped like a "U" are the lower. Probably tossed out when grandpa died. Who wants to keep teeth around?
+Heavyhaul Exactly what I was thinking, 2 sets and of no use to anyone but the person they are made for therefore disposable when that person is gone. Why 2 sets you may ask? If you wear dentures, you know how it feels to be without. Better safe than sorry, have a spare and never be without.
I was surprised to see that there was no tarnishing evident on the silver portion of that denture. It makes me wonder if it's silver or an alloy of gold. It was my belief that silver wasn't used for dental work because of its ability to tarnish. You may want to have that metal tested because it may be "white gold".
