Possibly the MOST INCREDIBLE TREASURE I’ve Ever Found Metal Detecting! 

I posted a comment on the site where you had a RU-vid video explaining your search for "Anna". It read as follows: "This is probably the best video you have made of your exploits with a metal detector, Brad! It is amazing that finding such a small item could 'open the book' to such a HUGE story. Thank you for all your hard work and being such an inspiring person!!"

I really can't say enough about this young man, especially the video where he was talking about people saying that he returned his findings to the family that own the land. I appreciate a honest person like him, it's people like him that I know would be an awesome friend, because I try hard to be myself. God Bless you sir and happy diggings

Wow! One of your best video productions, to- date! Love when you inset a picture of the actual / clean copy of the coins you find so we can 'see' what you're seeing. Also, made myself chuckle talking back to the video..."Wonder what they did without this (clock key)?"...haha They lost all sense of time!

Did you ever locate the family of Miss Anna? What became of the medallion? That was a cool find! It may have some genealogical significance.

Your hand movements over the holes you dig reminds me of a kid show I used to watch many years ago. The Soupy Sales Show. There were 2 puppets that were just hands in a sleeve that looked like dog paws. White Fang and Black Tooth were their names and all you saw was their hand movement and gestures as they spoke.

Great find. I’m in NE Florida and a few years back I found what I thought was a mud coated can lid. Turned out to be a silver Scottish medallion engraved on both sides with numerous Scottish icons, phrases and mottos. I have shared photos with numerous museums, universities and historians in Scotland, UK and US. Among the engravings is MY family’s motto since 1306. It has been on the cover of American Digger and another article on it is being submitted. Again, you have an amazing find.

That feature on the pinpointer is amazing!

Amazing story attached to this. Just thinking of someone's beginning. Then lost for centuries. Incredible laying in the woods trees growing. Time going by. Our present day will become centuries in the past. Just amazing.

That was an amazing find! I love it! Congrats! ECR

Great piece of history. It would be nice to track down the family 👍

In my country our old used sickle like that one for collecting medicinal herbs

Excellent finds. Wonder if the silver piece with the child's birth date was a first year Christmas Ornament. So Cool

That was amazing! I love history and you hit the jackpot today. Thank you for sharing! Loved & Subbed!!

Could that key actually be a barrel key for a tap? Great hunt, way to persevere!👍

Nice finds for your day in the forest. Do you ever encounter any bears in the Vermont forest?

I’d love to see a follow up of what you found out about the tag

Question!!! Do you “map” and mark the spot of the places you find important relics?

Great finding 👌 👍 from 1794

I love this video. Now, I am dying to know if he ever found anything out about the person it belonged to or if he was able to find descendants to give it to?

Could be a match lock musket winder

Nice video!!!

Is that brass piece for the tip of a knife sheath?

My sister lives in Wolcott Vt. Works @ idle tyme brewery. Her home is a treasure on its own. About 100 +

This looks like a death memento to me, with a dove and sheaves of reaped wheat. The string holding the bird is a connection from the living to the dead. Obviously I could be wrong.

Смотрю из России - Крым !! Ты большей молодец . Так держать !!!!!!

I LOVE the music for this video!! Please say what it is!

Vermont? Where's the snow?

Brad it’s a reaping hook. The button that’s cut looks like a cufflink

Ok now I’m going to take my wife’s advice and buy a metal detector. Thanks from a new subscriber

Barrel tap key

I believe the sickle you found is called a Corn Sickle.

Please tell us what your research uncovered about the silver medallion.

How did your research turn out on the medallion?

Brad, that was really cool. It must have been a feeling like I had when I found an unrestored early daguerrotype of my great-great-great-grandfather who did in 1848, online. I had been searching for years, and one day I search for it last July, and there it was. I now have seven generations of photographs of my family going all the way back to Nicholas who was a millwright, born in 1798, near Manchester, England. Brad, you have the perseverance it takes to be really, really good at what you do. You have a real skill at telling stories, and admitting your foibles make you all the more relatable, good job man.

Astonishing piece of history in that piece of silver

Dammit Brad... the people need to know about the medallion !!!!

Absolutely love the videos! You’re definitely one of my favorite youtubers, every video you make you put a lot of effort into it. Keep up the great work and stay safe!

November 2020 - What's the most incredible treasure you've ever found metal detecting ? - Brad Martin: the pinpointer research function on my Deus XP !!!

Someone was heartbroken to have lost that medallion, it is so special! Great find!

I absolutely love how you respect the privacy of souls - living and otherwise. Props, Brad. Happy trails.

You definitely need to go back to this site in the spring when the foliage is down. Great hunt Brad! Keep us posted on the medallion

RE: that beautiful little silver tag... The design of a child holding a bird was used in painted portraits in Europe as a symbol of innocence; sometimes the child would be shown kissing the bird, or allowing it to take grain from their lips. Why this meant innocence I don't know, but it was very cute and I can think of four or five paintings with just that sort of thing in it. I have to feel sorry for whoever lost it, but I'm glad you found it. Loved that little sickle, btw; looked like a pruning sickle.

An incredible find that can weave together the past and present. Nice little feature on the detector to find your lost pin pointer, and as always the scenery is gorgeous and looks like a warm day for that time of year.

Hey Folks! If you would like to know more about Anna and her life, I've put together a video about her here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CcEa4SZd7UU.html For daily and up-to-date posts, I invite you to join the Green Mountain community outside of RU-vid! My website: www.GMMD.us Facebook: Facebook.com/GreenMountainMetalDetecting Instagram: @Green.Mountain.Metal.Detecting

Looks like a mid-September 2020 trip? Saved this little gem for Cabin Fever days? Bless you!

My guess on the silver medallion is that it was from a father, given to his daughter. The bird on the string represents the day that the father lets his daughter fly away,possibly on her wedding day. The man is sitting on his daughters hope chest. Just my opinion. It is a very special find.

Did you found out who that lady was on that medallion? Great videos thank you.

My mother's family (O'Grady) lived in Vermont. When her father died we left Ohio and went to Vermont. We had a family reunion at one of family members who had a farm up in the mountains. I got to ride a pony around the farm. It wasn't happy and threw me off.

Hi Brad. Great video and hunt. It looks like the silver piece was homemade from a spoon bowl. Incredible find! Take care, Sebastian.

Man oh man what a find.. I been wanting to find something that for years... Please do give a update in the history of that piece.. Congrats on a great dig..

Your medallion find gave me cold chills. That is my daughter's birthday, and that's obviously a father's gift to his daughter, or at least that's my take. It is amazing. That is a great site, great hunt. Stay safe and keep digging.

Your photography and music is phenomenal I so enjoy the way you present everything. And I really enjoy the history also of course :-)

What a great feature to have on a metal detector. I’ll bet you’ll find some interesting info about the person who owned the silver medallion. Yep the blade is a sickle or hook.

Hey cool video I'm from Germany and I also go into the forest with the detector and dig old NAZI things.

Person coming out of a bassinet or crib?

I’m sure what you found was pounded out from a coin

What a great hunt I really like the fines this may be one of your coolest videos yet I'm glad you saved it for this time of the year keep up the great work you are one of my favorite metal detecting videos

Unbelievable finds Brad! Great video! What a site!

I believe this has German influence. In German, a double ‘s’ is replaced with a ß (“Eszett“) which can look like an ‘F’ when worn down.

Love your video's. That tool is a form of scythe, it's small so it might have been for a child. I used one as a kid on the farm, it would have a long handle on it. You used it by putting the blade, (the sharp part is on top facing the handle), behind the weeds you wanted to cut and pulling towards yourself, with a short jerking motion. I weeded bean fields with one for years. When I got older I used a larger one with a longer handle and did more rows at a time that way. My Grandfather would pay me by the row. (I'd blow it at the county fair) I loved looking back after a days work and seeing how different the field looked and how good they would look at the end of the year compared with ones not weeded or done with machinery or herbicides. Me and my cousins were the last generation to do it by hand on our family's farm and even then it was rare and done more just so we had money for the county fair and so we would win prizes for largest harvests and stuff like that. The good old days, were hard but fun.

Please let us know what you find about that silver thing, that is really interesting. Thanks

that personalized silver beats most any coin. Absolutely a piece of history congrats on that discovery hope there's more to the story on it.

Congratulations Brad on your finds. The medallion is an awesome and personal find. Thanks for sharing. "Chris-Preserving the Past Archaeology "

If the person isn’t linked to property, can you please release the name. I know many of us would love to help with your research. But if you can’t release it please post a new video of that piece along with some history of the person or family that you are able to uncover. Extremely amazing. Awesome work

Brad, probably my favorite hunt to date! That birth medallion is outstanding!! Thanks brother!

Maybe it was a silver baby spoon that was repurposed as a memory medallion. Amazing find! Your videos are of excellent quality!

Treasure, folk art, history... amazing piece! 👏 you should make replicas and use as zipper pulls on your bags! Or a special edition, or a replica with the picture on one side and your logo on the other side. Would make great key chains too! (Fellow entrepreneur craftsman) 😉

Very historic find on the silver medallion. Let us know what happens with that one for sure. The hand sickle is a great find as well. Thank you.

Very happy you didn't go with the Oak Island deal. Your videos are always mesmerizing, and I only wish I had enough time left to learn what you have about located sites and treasures. Stay with what fills your soul with joy and thank you for sharing your time with us.

Brad, you are a class act!! You are the the reason I'm back in the hobby. Thanks for all you do!

Brad, From the moment you started searching that arae, I was excited,. That was never touched and apparently there were few indications of residents, but you found it! I hope you are able to share that person's history with us, a unique silver medal has to be begging us to remember that family. I had a lump in my throat when you showed it! Tutankumans woods tomb😁 It's probably the best discovery I've seen, now for DeGrau:) Cheers, Rik

Perhaps over 227 years ago, the occupant(s) of the acreage may have been metal smiths. Both brass ingot and silver medallion located in the same area? The etched images on the medallion are heavily suggestive of the death of a loved one.These neo-classical Christian motifs were very poplar in memorializing loved ones, in America, after the revolutionary war. The naked child(cherub) symbolizing innocence is tethered to a bird(dove?) meaning eternal life as in a winged soul tethered for eternity. The child sits on a box tomb that is decorated with an urn and is over shadowed by a willow which is symbolic of profound grief.The other side with Miss Anna’s BD of May 5, 1794 is engraved with some skill and almost looks more finished than the reverse side. At the bottom there is engraved a bird(dove)resting in branches perhaps signifying peace and eternal rest. Many have commented here that this medallion may celebrate the birth of a child, but I suggest that based on the engraved imagery that this little memento perhaps suggests the tragic death of a child. The fact that there is no death date could mean the child was born/died same day? One can only speculated. I really thought this video was excellent. Thank-you,Brad!

New subscriber here, duno how I not come across your channel before. English detectorist here! Really professional looking video beautifully filmed and put together, crisp footage clear sound. Real nice job! What microphone do you use? That old silver piece was a stunning find, love seeing stuff like that. I've had some unbelievable finds here in England, gold coins, medieval silver and all sorts. Keep up the good work 🔥

Brad - You have been given a very spoecial task. The name of a completely anonymous person out of history has been brought to your attention. It is now your duty to learn as much as you can about Anna. Something about Anna's life has meaning in your life or the lives of your family members. Don't fail in this task! Something like this happens only rarely in our modern world.

Love the medallion and though I’m no detector of any kind, I watch all your videos!

Brad could the medallion have been made from a silver spoon bowl?

Wow! That 1700 pendant is incredible! Did you find out any information on that pendant let us now! That’s so cool! The coin too! I haven’t finish the video yet but I thought it might be a large sent. Hopefully you reveal it at the end.

Absolutely Epic finds, beats my civil war round balls that were made into dice, and a minie ball carved into a chess piece! Wishing you all the best from Colorado!⛏

Looks like you had a great day! Sure is a great video! Looking forward to hearing what your research into the name & date written on the silver medallion turned up!! Thanks for taking us with you!!

That pendant was a real keeper! It would be nice of you could find out some information about the person on it. Very nice!

Hello that was an awesome find birth of a child pendant hope you can find some info on it 😎

Congratulations Brad! That's is an amazing personal piece of history!

I'm a rather skeptical fella.. I have come to the conclusion that you're the real deal. Thanks for your bid... 👍

I love the tag, very cool! The sickle with the handle, I look forward to seeing it finished. You just had a really great day! Even though the finds were 20 minutes apart, they were all really cool! Thank you for another wonderful video!

It is not an 'f' it is called a 'long s' and if you see it in printed form you will see that they are different. Great finds though!

Great hunt Brad, thanks for sharing, congratulations on those saves.

Congratulations on that find. Wow!! Maybe you could do a short follow up if you find some info.

Your videos are always a joy to watch

Love your hunts mate 👊 all the way from Scotland 👍

Its a birth tag, ive seen a few examples over the years but that has to be the nicest example yet. Love the channel, great find and keep digging up histories mysteries bud.

Love that silver piece. But you had an absolutely amazing Day. Keep on Diggin.

Hello from Australia Brad. That silver medallion you found looks very much like our colonial love tokens which are sometimes found on convict sites in NSW. Late 1700s, or early 1800s is the same era as well.

I like it when you show your find all cleaned up, but you usually just do it with coins. Love to see them all. Happy for your silver find.🥰

13:20 that's a corn knife in these parts, it's just missing it's wood handle.

That's definitely a cool silver find. The research would be fun. Let us know (If the family or property owner allows) what you find out. 👍

That's amazing 😮

Hi from NC Dirt Detectives. Gotta say really enjoyed the video, that tag was amazing & I thought that was a super cool feature with the deus pinpointer... happy hunting

That is one of you best finds for sure. Please let us know what you find out. Great job & wonderful videos. Hurley Dean, Sandpoint, Idaho

Wow, what a fantastic find Brad! It's a holy grail if the county or village kept good records on its citizens. I have to agree with you this is the best find I've ever seen you dig out of ground.

I went to a local coin store last week to show them my 1796 Likerty Half Dime I found in a corn field, and there was a nice man there selling some silver coins and he was all excited to talk detecting. Doesn't do it but he mentioned how he loves watching Green Mountain metal detecting. I said the guy from VT? he said yes. we chatted for a while and I mentioned I met you once in a treasure expo. haha so cool man. Love the stuff and the people we meet. small world. Amazing Silver birth tag.