another great hunt Brad! What I love about your videos is that they are refreshingly mature and the history shared is well researched. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. See ya next week.
I just came across your channel and enjoyed watching two of your more recent videos. I love the stuff you’re finding and your calm demeanor as you share your knowledge and emotions as you uncover the past. Well done!
Your videos are highly valued for their sense of adventure, their creative content, their knowledge of relic hunting andddddd the incredible history that you weave throughout each segment! Thank you for this clean, quality content!!!!
Nice finds Brad. I think I would pitch a tent in that clover field and hunt it for days on end. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.
Another Great day in the Clover Field for lost treasure Brad, thanks for sharing your day and discoveries .. Hoping that you and your family had an enjoyable Thanksgiving .. Stay well.
it could be used for a small strap on a horse, however it is a Spectacle Buckle. the exact use of Spectacle Buckles and Trapezoidal Buckles is pretty much unknown, but we can be pretty sure that a small leather strap went through.
I enjoy your videos for the scenery as much as the finds. Out of curiosity I had to look up the equivalent value of a penny from 1802 in 2022. It's approximately $2.79.
Boy Brad I'm not so sure that arrow piece belongs to a flintlock. I build them traditionally and can't think of an area that it would go. Especially the lugs on the back with the drilled holes. It's got me thinkin!
Brad what a treasure field. It would be exciting to get ground penatrating radar and map that field so you could get an accurate detail of the home site and out buildings. I'm sure everything is scattered but it would be interesting to see the pattern. I'm only suggesting it because the opportunity to have a wide open field with a known 1700's home site doesn't come up too often.
It does make you wonder why people were out there. Probably doing the fields or were cutting trees down for the upcoming winter. Dunno but that's the part I love when I look at old items or when you metal detectorists pull something out of the ground.....what was happening at that moment!
Of all the metal detectorists on RU-vid you are and will always be my all time favourite….! The way you tell about the history of an item found, the chill music, beautiful scenery, and always the little suspense you keep us in when you spotted a treasure!☺️ Don’t ever change your format, it is just perfect the way it is….Thank you very much!😉 GL and HH on your next adventure Brad.🍀🍀🍀 Blessings send from a big fan in Canada 🙏🏼♥️👋🏼🇨🇦
Brad good seeing ya again. Hope Thanksgiving found you and family well. Beautiful field to hunt. The only thing I have an issue with is your videos are to short. I get to watching them and then its time to go home. Still waiting for 2nd CD . God bless you and family be safe stay well until next time
I enjoy your enthusiasm. I lived in Vermont for 13 yes. You should try the areas of Underhill Jericho. The Mountain WRfare School is in in Jericho, there are tons of finds in the woods there.
Wow! Brad soon as I seen that part of a frame for glasses I figured that`s what that was. Fantastic find. That is truly a top pocket find. Congratilations!
I keep thinking that Brad should give Morgan Gold a call. Detecting his farm might not produce the really old, but I expect he'd like to know more about its history. Or maybe I'm just crazy, but Vermont's a small state.
Brad, At Roxbury there is a riding and tennis camp; Teela Wooket. There was an archery camp there too from the mid 30' to 80's ish. The long lawn above the courts was an archery range and golf course and in the hills above the cabins, was a roving range. It was tough ground for shooting. You may find a sign something like "Joe quit here..." I would expect the trails to be very dim now. But, if you can get permission to hunt up there you may be able to find quite a few aluminum arrows and target points. All modern by your standards but may make a nice day in the field.
All of my family's civil war eye glasses were so small and they did have round lenses. I know your fragment is older but our 1850s glasses were so tiny. I often wondered why they were so small and my mama mentioned they are solid gold. That might be why lol. Hopefully one day you find an entire pair. Love watching you Brad and thanks for sharing 👍
Wrong, wrong, wrong. That's not an old Muzzleloader escutcheon. It's a very old muzzleloader patch box lid That would have been mounted to the stock of the gun. What a super find!
Now lets see you get to walk around and see nature's beauty while uncovering some very supercool treasures. Am I a bit envious, yes I am. Makes me really wish I grew up somewhere in the New England area.
Another great video! That little buckle looks a little delicate for horse tack I think. The little arrow thing, what do those lugs on the back look like. I can't think how it would work on a muzzle loading gun. It looked like an awesome day.
The glasses piece I recognized as soon as you picked it up. Glasses basically haven't changed in basic design for 300 years. So very cool. And a 1st is always special
I've been bingeing your videos the past few days and I've come to 2 conclusions...shoes in the colonial days were very poorly made, as all the buckles were falling off, and judging by the plethora of large cents and half cents that you find, people have been throwing away pennies for centuries...lol...I'm glad I found your channel, I've had a metal detector in the closet that was used once right after I got it, and put away and nearly forgotten,...you've gotten me bitten by the bug again!
My relatives claim that my mother's family was descended from Ethan Allen who led the "Green Mountain Boys" during the revolutionary war. They are all now dead. I am the last so I rely on heresay. I enjoy your adventures in that area.
I love how knowledgeable ur are about little trinkets u find! It's always so interesting, I don't watch metal detecting by anyone else because they just don't have your calm demure!!!
Great day and some unusual finds. I find a lot of stuff, but I rarely get to go to these type of spots. Makes your videos so much more enjoyable. ATB, Sebastian
Loving those buttons Brad! So is the main difference between white brass or bronze and Tombac just in a variation of the amount of each metal in it? I've recently found some here in SE MN that I believe date as far back as into the 1700s to early 1800s. Some are very light and others have that dull gray look to them. Wondering the difference. Jim
The term “Tombac” has become synonymous with these style buttons in the metal detecting hobby, however modern tombac is gold in color with a high copper content. Since these buttons are white in color I’ve started calling them white bronze as that’s the modern equivalent
I don't know about in the 1700s but in the 1800s alot of the glasses, the frames were made of platinum .great finds today,great content, and as always, Great RESPECT for History and your Landowner.. THANKS FOR SHARING..
You may be just a *slightly* professional archaeologist, but you deliver so much practical, very specialised information so very well in a manner that I think a lot of pro arcaheologists would respect. (ducks for cover) Just an unqualified opinion... Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thanks for the high quality things you produce. They enrich many lives.
Looks like a lot of fun, and I enjoy larking about on old homesteads to see what can be found, just for the experience. You appear to have a long history in this, and I'm wondering what you do with your finds. Do you have them just in a large pot, or separated my location in clear plastic display boxes, etc.? I have had split-find agreements with many land owners, so collections are never complete.
You truly have a gift for making us feel like we are there exploring and digging relics together. I beach comb Lake Champlain for glass and pottery. It never ceases to amaze me after going back back to certain spots over time that I find pieces that match earlier finds. It’s a puzzle of sorts. The lake is especially interesting in that regard given the way water displaces and erodes these tiny pieces of historical treasure over the decades and centuries.
