The Builders of These Old Stone Walls Dropped So Many Things 

The Bennington & Rutland and the Lebanon Springs Railroad were consolidated into the Harlem Extension Railroad (HERR) in January of 1870, in 1872 it was leased to the New York, Boston and Montreal Railroad but after financial problems by 1877 became the Bennington and Rutland again. Hope that is useful, love this channel. Hi from the UK.

Brad , I love the way you tell a story about the items that you find ! It's a mini history lesson in away ! Thank you for sharing these stories with me !

Providing the E on your railroad tag meant Express, here is a couple for you to consider. The Hartford or Housatonic railroads were in the New England area.

What do you get when you combine a romantic, a metal detector and some tree covered mountains.....easy, you get Brad. I'm realizing that the thing that sets your channel apart from the tons of other detector channels is your investment in learning about the people and their lives when you find their remnants. You can keep on painting the lives of past settlers and I'll keep on looking forward to the next installment.

Detective, story teller and metal detectorist all rolled in one. Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

I love the fact that the bell actually rang after being silent for all those years. Small things like that are exciting to me as well. The best item that I feel you found was that charm that had that girl's name on it. Can't remember her name but finding her story and talking about her after all those years was really special.

I love The Great outdoors! Jesus Vermont's just so damn beautiful. Make anybody want to go out and metal detect. The way you videos are put together are absolutely fantastic

Brad, love your vids, because like me, it's about the history and story, not the value of the item that's important. It's not all gold and silver, it's the experience that counts!

Brad, Regarding the railroad: There was a Harlem Extension Railroad that existed from 1870-1873, part of the Rutland Railroad system, and then successor system: New York, Boston and Montreal Railway. Source: Wikipedia article: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vermont_railroads

My thoughts are the HERR tag came from a trunk on the Railroad, and the little pad lock was holding it closed. The Iron was from them trying to pick the lock, then they gave up on it and cut it. Fun to think about these things. Great hunt.

This is the kind of video I just wanted to see on metal detecting. Not just the kind of guys wanting to get silver on every dig. Congratulations. Nicely done videos!

To make a button, there would have to be TWO holes in the center to sew it onto the item.. one hole wouldn’t work to hold it

I would like to find the time to take some soil cores under stone walls. Probably the best samples of pre-European , Arcadian conditions. Undisturbed, possibly even at the 0 Horizon. 1st generation cemeteries would also yield similar conditions.

Brad I find your treasure finding adventures very intriguing because number one: you place a high value on things that the greedy metal detecting on other sites find as “garbage”. Every item you find tells a story. I feel the same way. I love history and historical finds. To me they are rich and rewarding. Thank you for being so up front and compassionate about what you do.

The small lock is the same size as a post colonial sugar chest would have been secured with. Great video Brad I do love your macro shots! Thanks.

I get so excited when u find gingle bells, this time is special cause it still gingles! I think that cut pad lock was on that chest of gold u dream about! Have a great week Brad! 💕💙💜❤️

Great video, I could watch your videos all day and love your stories of what may have been. Thanks Phil Stevens

I want to think your H E R R tag may...MAY... be from the Harlem Extension Railroad, but not quite sure. The Harlem Extension RR was a financial consolidation of sorts. It was very short-lived...but many RR's of the late 1800s into the early 1900s were. It ran in the region of Eastern NY...loosely from Pine Plains in Dutchess county Northward to in between Lebanon Valley and Hoosick NY, then into Vermont via Bennington. So- could your tag be from this RR? Yes. It's roughly the size tag that would have been on a Conductors hat. I hope you find some definitive answers! Love your vids Brad!

I too love the jingle bells. They're truly something from a long ago, bygone era, something we don't get to see or experience in this age. I would love to see a real sleigh, pulled by bell covered horses.

Brad, thanks for another great start to my Friday morning with your treasure hunt deep within the Green Mountains .. Your prelude drone view is showing the early stages to the start of foliage season, one of my favorite time of the year .. Thanks for the enjoyable start to the day and for sharing your discoveries with us.

We love your hunts, love your presentation and this week, love your little story about loosing the Indian head penny! Thanks!

Btw I started watching you videos about a year ago and found it very interesting. I've watched many others too and bought my first "real" detector last week. I bought the Simplex+. I have already found some items in local parks to learn my machine. I can't wait to get some permissions to hunt for relics in the woods and fields here in Vermont. Hopefully start a RU-vid channel myself😁

the hook with the treads came off of an andiron which would have a series of hooks mounted to it to hold coal baskets or spits or both

my grandfather would have made a button from a spoon handle-my grandparents never wasted anything and didn't buy anything they could make-straightened out bent nails to reuse, used old tires for chicken feeders & water holders and I could go on--they grew up on old 1800 farms in S Ga where everybody farmed and waste was a big no no

Not much value coin wise but relic finds you found are history. Always love crotal bells.

I like you want to find the history! You don't just look for something to make you rich. But that would be ok too! 😊

Thankyou for sharing. Lovely peaceful video.

the button thing could also be a homemade washer, like you would use with a nail, or maybe a bit of metal to attach to something else to patch it with, or to add to the end of a string of something to prevent the things from falling off?

HERR could be from a clock. They made cuckoo clocks.

I found the same exact jingle bell on a farm in upstate New York. Same design and mine also still jingles. Lol.

I look forward to your adventures all week and you never disappoint.

What an awesome day! The sweet sound of the bell ringing made me giddy. I’m a dork, I know, but I was excited because so many bells are found broken or without the clapper…. I love the padlock as well. Truly makes the imagination run wild!

Your railroad tag has got to be from the Hogwarts Express!!!

I think I have it all figured out. The suspender clips were from two bandits that robbed the chest from H-E Railroad. The padlock was what they had to cut off to get to the gold coins!

Perhaps the tiny lock was for a tea box, or tea chest. They did used to lock those. Beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing.

I love the little lock&key and the homemade‘button’ such imaginings they give to us. I like the stories they could weave in the the mind and maybe a book ♥️♥️♥️

If there is only one hole in the hand made button, how would they attach it to the cloth so that it is a working button?

Great day there Brad I love the stories as usual I enjoy it can't wait to see you on your next Wednesday bless you and your family🙏💏

Hi Brad, I've been watching for over 4 years and enjoy all of them waiting expectantly for Fridays. I wanted to mentions your music at the beginning of each episode is fantastic. I know you are the artist who creates them. Here, here Brad!!

Nice hunt Brad! Love that tag, I have one of similar size and shape with a lot of script on it and is a carriage tag from a guy that was well known in New England for used carriage sales. He would ride around house to house selling his carriages. Sweet crotal bell and Indians. Very cool handmade button, people were definitely resourceful!! Wicked happy hunting brother!

Brad I look forward to your videos every Friday which is such a great video in the scenery in the storytelling behind the woods you're hunting it's just an amazing video thank you for sharing and thank you for the hard work you put in to making these videos for us

How's it going Brad? I think the thing that you found with the whole in the middle if you look closely it's probably a snapped end of an escutcheon. I've actually found a few exactly like that. Good finds though!

Have you thought that the HERR might actually be a surname placed on some trunk or something?

I wonder if that piece of spoon may have been utilized as a backing plate or something like that. I've done the same with scrap.

longtime supporter, much respect to ypu sir. i give kids detectors away to secure the future diggers of our hobby. gave 11 away in July and about to give 20kids detectors away.I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL IN VERMONT ,BRATTLEBORO

Herr could be a name

I love imagining who heard that bell jingle the last time around 200 years ago. Or who dropped the coin. The mystery and the thrill of the find bring me back each week! Thanks Brad …

Brad l ,ve watched you find jungle bells befor , l love your posts. But never. heard one ring beforE EVER!, fabulous post Lyn from AUSTRALIA.

I'd believe the brass hook/hanger is a screw in finger hook to a candle holder. Used as a colonial flashlight.

Ahh finally the jingle of history rings. I been enjoying watching you enjoy your passion and the production of these videos and your stories is what brings me back, again and again. Bravo Brad...Bravo!

I love finding suspenders and ihp's. The lock was an old one! Congrats on yet another crotal bell. A day in my book!

For fun get a Big Foot costume and have one of your buddies walk in the far back round and see if anyone notices. LOL

That bell hasn’t been heard for many decades. Really cool to hear it again.

R R could also stand for mail delivery out in the country side referred to as a “rural route”

That large jingle bell looked a lot like a M67 fragmentation grenade.

Sir you remind, me of a Encyclopedia, Reading from a story book of history.

Hi Brad, some really cool personal and historical items, my favourites were the old padlock and the jingle bell. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤

Sweet Digs Brad, the mountains are cooling off....great time of year out in the woods!

Herr is a common last name in Pennsylvania. They even make & package potato chips.

That's cool about the bell being still having the ringer inside and working.

Your videos are great. I love the biome of the places you go. I really liked the bell. beautiful beautiful bell. Congratulations . Brazilian greetings.

12:24 Is that a Thermacell Portable Mosquito Repeller on your backpack? Skeeters must be bad? Does it work good? My family just uses DEET. Let me know. Thanks

HURON AND EASTERN 394INTERCHANGESCanadian National (Durand, Mich.); Great Lakes Central Railroad (Durand, Mich.); Lake State Railway (Saginaw, Mich. and Bay City, Mich.)

Your excellence really shows when I see "2 minutes ago" and think AHA surely I must be first to watch and comment. Not first not even second, and 45th watch. Keep up the awesome work and great finds.

Wouldn't a button need 2 holes?

Glad to watch you look for things. Love to see the old coins 🪙

Just a guess from upstate New York. The hook looks like a reins holder for a wagon.

Great relics I enjoyed your video thank you for sharing ⚒️👍♥️🗝️

Appreciate the time you take to produce easy watching TH ! I have a huge collection of detecting film but trust me it's a bit rough to watch lol 😆

One of your best Brad. The music was excellent also.

Another quality, informative and enjoyable vid from you, Brad. After years of watching your adventures, I'm definitely not surprised. Thanks so much for enhancing our lives. Crotale/jingle bells are a fun thing. I've not found any when metal detecting (perhaps one day) but did purchase a couple. as Always, the Best to You and Yours.

Speaking of last targets of the day, I was hunting an old park the other day and got a nice signal 10 feet from my Jeep. It turned out to be a Heads I win, Tails you lose token. I won’t post a picture because it’s pretty risqué but I always check near my vehicle before I leave. Found some nice finds that way. Have to miss this years Digstock so good luck if you go. Mike Holt - Albany

Thanks for these videos! My daughter (8yo) and I love to watch them together and then go on adventures together. Thanks for inspiring us. Travis

Enjoy your video in the morning with my coffee ☕️ love the hills of Vermont in the fall. When you found the bell it reminded me of going to my grandparents house for the holidays and grandpa would get the horses hitched to the wagon and take us grandkids for a ride down the road and the bells 🔔 would ring as we went. Again thanks for the video and stories to go with it and for bringing back some cherished memories.

Thanks for sharing your avocation...Rewarding I'm sure.

Does the tag say H.E.R.R.? Or simply HERR? Herr means "mister" in Scandinavia, Germany, and probably several more countries... Or it could be from the Hollis and Eastern Railroad in Oklahoma ;)

Amazing started watching videos about 3 months ago, I subscribed and now watch every Friday. I have 2 home places to detect. I have minelab vanquish 540 pro pack.

Another good hunt although there were no buttons around. The Indian Heads and relics were cool. Enjoy your hunts. Glad I got to tag along. Best wishes.

Hinesburg Express railroad was establishes in 1890 , also known as Burlington and Hinesburg

Where is the treasure?? gold?? silver?..LOL anybody who swings a coil knows THIS is how it goes. If you dont have a real interest in the past and history in general dont bother. The HUNT itself is the treasure. AND I know why suspender buckles were strewn about..this farmer had a young and pretty wife!!!!

HERR foods Inc Nottingham Pennsylvania 1946

We looked up the H.E.R.R. tag. Found Salzberg Co. They were a scrap dealer of a group of short line rail roads and bus lines throughout the northeast. The company was founded in the 1890's. Idk if this will lead you to your answer. But good luck!

Ahhhh... the sound that stimulated the origin of the song "Jingle Bells". I remember my Grandmother speaking of the days when the sounds of bells mounted to the tack of horses would announce the arrival of family and friends to her father's farm for the holidays or a visit. She would speak of experiencing such times as a child living in Rockingham, Vermont at the turn of the century. Perhaps she heard THAT VERY bell ringing in the distance! I also remember when she told me of how she and my Grandfather had just finished stocking the barn with horsefeed for the Winter when he got notice that he had to get a car in order to keep his job. Why? Because, his extended traveling time via horse and buggy and having to stay at B&B's along the way was now considered money "ill-spent" by his employer. Of course, they protested. But, to no avail. However, when she first experienced only having to turn a key to travel upstreet for groceries instead of rigging her horse & buggy, her attitude was completely different. They sold their barnful of horsefeed (at a loss) and never looked back. Their situation reminds me of how people today resist the conversion from gasoline to electric cars. It might be for their own well-being & that of future generations. But, no one (not even I, myself) likes change. Especially, when it will initually cost them their hard-earned cash! Nice find in that complete and working 'jingle bell' Brad!! VERY nice find indeed! Your site has often jarred the memory of this 70+ year-old man!

Great video

Hi, Brad, Thank you very much for sharing your amazing videos with us. Could the tiny padlock have secured a young person's diary, guarding their private thoughts? I don't know if diaries like this existed during that time. Be well. 🙏

why oh why can’t i live in a area like this? i’m so envious of you Brad! the history and scenery you get to experience is breathtaking. my little corner of the world, south of seattle is also beautiful. but finding anything older than late 1800s is almost impossible. truly awesome! love the channel. you always get thumbs up before i even watch any of your vids.

Our ancestors were very resourceful. I think of my grandparents.

HEY BRAD. At 15 minutes in, the item that you think is a snipped spoon handle that was made into a button, might actually part of a broken off pocket knife or pen knife blade. Check out your buddy's Chill Bill latest video. He found something very very similar that is from an old broken pen knife.

I found Hollis & Eastern Railroad! I don't know if the railroad went by Vermont, but maybe someone moved away to go to Vermont. Anyway, Good luck.

Brad, did you ever find out or date, that 1st suspender you showed? I’m in SW Missouri and found one identical to it, at old cabin site, I believe dates from 1830-1900. I searched but to avail! Great show!

Whatever they had locked up with the little padlock went on a wooden box with a plaque on it with two initials one for the husband and one for the wife keepsake box something to do with getting married maybe imagination it’s a terrible thing to waste

HERR, is very common last name in Pennsylvania. It is a German name. Hope this helps you Brad. I really appreciate you and your videos, very well done and informative. Great Job Sir

Just love your chill videos Sir….GL and HH on your next adventure🙏🏼🍀👋🏼🇨🇦

Jingle bell, Brad did well, Really made his day! He had fun, He's the one We watch on each Friday! (To be sung to the tune "Jingle Bells."

I am sure you know we don't spray copper coins...we leave them until they stabilise...

Brad, you have the most relaxing videos on the web. Thank you for everything you post!

I grew up in central coast Maine and there are stone walls everywhere. Some of them are up to six feet high going up over basically small “cliffs” when I’d be out hunting sitting on one of those walls it’s hard to think how much work it was to make some of those walls, been watching your videos for three years Brad, you do great work on your videos Thankyou

Has probably been said already, but it's definitely Hogwarts Express

The hook is an over-check rein hook. I goes on the saddle of the harness. The overcheck reins run through loops on either side of the bridle, then to the hook to keep the horse's head up. BTW, harness belts are identical today. I use them in my leather business.

Man I tried so hard to like these videos. Mostly because I love detecting. But after watching so many of the videos it's so clear that it's all fake. The guy is a ok actor and a pretty good story teller but that's about it. Never showing the dig. Always seems to know exactly what he's "found". Pretty much always laying in a soft pile of dirt. Always staring off with some big story before showing the "find". Yea this is some bs you can find on the history Channel.