Treasure Hunter Pieces Together Clues from a Mysterious Pit 

I love the beautiful and serene surroundings that you capture on film. You have a great artistic eye.

I always look forward to your videos because they’re a combination of history, mystery, beautiful locals and great videography. Keep up the great work and keep em coming!

Great video. It always strikes me as to how far into the mountains these old timers were willing to create a homestead and live out their lives there. How different the mind set must have been then. We take so much for granted.

I like the nature shots almost as much as the detecting...if not more...

Enjoyed the hunt! You do well painting a picture of colonial Vermont with your naration.

Just love everything about your videos!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Superior Hunt and investigation, Brad ! For the landowner, what was here-to-for just a pit in the ground, you have proven, that the pit, is a colonial home site. I would love to see the smile on the face of the landowner. If the first coin you found is a US large cent, I would point out, the first United States Mint opened in 1794. I suspect the site is older than that. Both coins could be pre-revolutionary war ! That was a very thought provoking investigation and hunt. Your video begs the questions. Who were the people ? How long was the home site occupied ? What was their mode of sustainment ? Why did they leave ? And where did they go ? Brad, What you did not see and find at the site, may go a ways in the speculation, to answer those questions. That made my Saturday morning. Thank you my friend :-))

Once again, I complement you on your spectacular videography. I would watch your videos just for the intro which I look forward to every Friday morning. You should get more credit for your music and narration which are top notch.

Hello from Georgia. I can't get enough of your videos!! thank you so much!!! Do you ever find family burial sites in the mountains? Surely, people died there. Where are they buried??

What a treat, to wake up to a new video from GMMD! And this was no disappointment! New music, gorgeous videography, exciting finds!! How cool, man. I'm excited to go detecting. Your vids always inspire me. HH, Brad, and great detecting fun!!!

Hi Brad, some cool finds, the thimble I think was the best find for me as it's so personal and would have been used a lot. Thanks for sharing. x

I agree. A two generation mountain homestead. Fantastic content, but your filming, music and editing is the best on RU-vid.

Always good material shared here. Thanks for doing that and Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter.

Nice video,you sure can sniff out the sights, good job

You have definitely got it down to a exact science, well done, awesome History narrative , amazing video & hunt

You should camp at some of these locations. Put up a live cam so we can watch. Still it was another incredible video. Thx Brad for your dedication 👍

I love it when you find more personal items like the key and the knee buckle, and mystery items. I love to sit and speculate about the people who they belonged to, and what they looked like and what the items looked like on their person. Incredible.

Love the history you pull out of the ground. Good work, thank you for the show.

A very interesting hunt and some great finds too! Thanks for taking us along! H.H.

Another good one! Great locations. Keep up the good work!

I really enjoy your videos. You take time explaining things and you show some of the beautiful scenery and foliage around you. Keep doing what you do. Thank you.

Nice job pulling together the time period by your finds, surroundings and conditions. Great content as always . Great hand made holster I received from you. Fits my pin pointer like a glove!! Onwards and Upwards - detect and we shall find!!

Excuse the pun,still digging your cinematic style of filming. Well above the rest . Editing and walk bys are awesome. Continue to keep it real unlike some other where you can clearly see dirt packed fakes. Eagerly await the next adventure. Im going to start sharing your passion on my facebook page to increase your followers .

Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea, Silver buckles at his knee; He’ll come back and marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto! “Bobby Shafto” is an English folk song and nursery rhyme, mostly associated with Robert Shafto, a British Member of Parliament for County Durham (elected in 1730)

Hey guys I love watching your videos as here in Australia we didn’t have such a vast array Of Colional wars here so it would be so hard to find relics here so I am amazed at the things you find. The beautiful country you cover is awesome, stunning and beautiful. Keep up your videos as I love watching them cheers guys....... john

huh, just had an epiphany....the reason I enjoy your metal detecting videos above all the rest is that you're not a metal detectorist...you're a historian/archeologist who owns a metal detector. I may be a little slow on the upkeep but know every time I watch on your channel, it's minutes well used. thanks again.

That was very cool following you discover the old cellar site and digging some awesome relics. The key and the thimble would have to be my favs :)))

The key looks like it could be used for winding a clock.

Another fascinating hunt. 🙂👍🏻👍🏻

Wow great video , love the music and superb camera work, excellent although 👍⛏🧐

Dude, your vids are bad ass,,, awesome finds! must of been exciting to find the knee buckle, then bam find a largie!!then another haha.. all the finds are nice.. i just found one of those little keys myself,and did the same, wondered what the key went to! i think mine might of been a cuff key!! thanks for bringing us along!! HH-Ray

I’ve been there and stood in the same place, if you stand on the stone arch bridge , you can see how high the mountain is.

Evertbody said it all already but what about the groovy jingle that Brad composes himself to go with his videos?? Thumbs up on your music too Man!!

Might be interesting to dig out and sift one of those cellar holes sometime!

Enjoyed the whole video due to the youthful energy the narrator has it's a wonder how he weaves around a good hunting area yet finds some very interesting finds excellent work thanks the next video he finds a Samquinch Treasure Hoard for Sure!!!; )

Another great video. I'm sure it was a tough spring for hunting and filming. You got the same crummy weather we got in NY capital dist. As to not finding much those folks probably never had much anyway. Losing a cent or a half cent would probably have been pretty traumatic. Props for your determination.

Ha Ha, one dislike from your rival you tuber. Always look forward to these vids. Soundtrack stays fresh as well. nice job.

I would love to see the reaction of the property owners when you show them what you find!

Thank you for more folklore and history from Vermont. I agree with another follower of your videos; the thimble is one of the most personal item you find since it is used by someone living in those homes that you've located.

You have pleasant voice and you dont move the camera around quickly. Your a interesting treasure hunter 🌷🌼😳 I even enjoy the music and the mountains you explore 🌻🥀

Your legend is fairly common in cold weather North America. It was retold in the book 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman.

Like always Great video Brad, loved the music & Finds made,how do you go about getting permission from property owners? Are you well known in your area or do you prefer door knocking? It's something I've often wondered, HH Brad--Brian

The little key looks like the one to my GGGrandmothers Sugar safe..She would let me unlock it and I remember it well...The safe was older than my Gggrandmother....

I was watching one of your videos where you found a coin dated 1800. Your comment was that you had missed the 1700’s on that one. OH contraire! This is a common misconception. If one is counting to 100 one starts with the number one, not zero. Let’s say you are counting apples to put in a box to send to friends at Christmas When you have counted to one hundred you have 100 apples in the basket. The second hundred then starts with the first or number 1. Or 101. The 1700’s started in the year 1701 and ended in the year 1800 just like the next basket of apples started with apple # 101. One could say that the first apple in the second basket was apple # 101 just as one could say the first year in the 1800’s was year # 1801, not year 1800. Apple # 100 belongs in the first basket! Enjoy your success at finding aa 1700’s coin

Hi Brad, I am addicted to your videos. I especially love because many of my ancestors lived in the Vermont mountains and I guess you probably have hunted their old homesites. Many lived in Rutland, Poultney, one came from Fulham, which I don’t believe exists anymore. Many were Revolutionary War Vets, marble quarry workers, Farmers and railroad workers. I would love and copies of these old maps you talk about. Love to contact you! Sue Ballard

I was looking at the little key that you found and I was thinking that it looks a lot like a key to modern day handcuffs, I'm probably wrong. I watch your videos much like people watch reruns of Andy Griffith...lol, again I truly enjoy watching your videos

Sugar and spices were stored in lockable boxes. They were so expensive and precious ppl had small boxes/chests with dividers that they could lock.

You never disappoint. Great work. I love that you know old folk lore and stories. Even if not true. Lol history always shows how people thought back then with the wild stories. Great finds and location. Are you kicking yourself for putting this one off? Lol thanks for sharing.

my grandfather wore knickers in the early 1900s. He wore white socks up to the bottom of the pants.

I live in NH and find many depressions when hunting. Have also found very old abandoned hunting camps deep in the woods. And long forgotten cemeteries with holes nearby.

Hey thanks for all that you do! great videos. FYI there is a bent tree at arround 2 min into this video. I don't know if this one is but my great grand father told me stories about them. the native Americans would bend trees like this to mark trails through the mountains from major sites of importance to them. harvesting foods, raw flint for tools, winter summer camp sites, ect.. if you see any more with in a mile or so that would be very cool!! thanks again *** ps they were usually about 1/2 to 1 mile apart in the mountains, farther in the valleys, and the horizontal piece was inline with the trail.

So the market is wide open for somebody to manufacture knee buckles and bring them back in style? If I just had the time...

GDAY BRAD, SLIM PICKINS MY MAN, BUT NICE WHAT YOU GOT, ALWAYS GOOD TO WATCH AND LISTEN. ALL THE FENCE SITTER VIEWERS, IF THEY DIDNT LIKE THEY'D SAY, SO LIKE ITS NOT HARD. LOL. CAMILLE AUSTRALIA

Such a joy to watch you discover these relics and coins. At first I was thinking the key might have been to a tea box, but if it was a later piece I'm not sure they locked their tea up by then. But, it is fun to try to imagine what things were used for. Hope you go back. Thank you for sharing.

Too bad you did not find a privy hole, garbage pit or spring house foundation. Might be worth going back again. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us!

Enjoyed your video. Educational and well put together. Count me as a new follower.

No matter what you find these videos are great. Just to know from what you found we know someone lived there. Like buildings in Europe after the war most of the lumber was taken for other structures being built, only the foundations were left. Nice finds HH.

A friend of mine called and said his house must have been built where some really old houses used to be because he found two square nails with his metal detector, so I went over with my AT-PRO over there, and he showed me the nails, and I told him those nails are most likely 2 years old, as old as his house is. lol. I guess people don't know that some contractors still use square nails for certain things. Needless to say, we didn't find anything else in his yard that was more than a few years old at the most. lol.

Oh wow hey Brad I just Seen a very old treasure in your video that you didn't have to dig up. I don't know if you knew it but in this video at 2:02 is a native American Indian trail marker tree.

Well another great video with some pretty great music ! The key is amazing I would love to find those! it looks like the key to my Cedar Chest awesome!

I suspect the reason you most often find spoons is because as children, we would abscond with the mismatched serving spoons to dig in the dirt with. I bet there are a dozen in my childhood homes back yard.

Do you carry a GPS tracker with you at all times just in case you, God forbid, we're to have an accident so your wife never has to worry about where you're at?

Like the video, but you had to tease me at the end will all the finds, still want you to send me some of the moss for my 125 aquarium, would come there to visit but Texas is just a bit far for me Brad.

EARTH ANGEL ♥️ THAT LITTLE KEY LOOKS LIKE A “TEA” BOX KEY ........I HAVE ONE ALMOST IDENTICAL!🥰👍

Try putting the coin in your pocket and let it row around with your other coins for a few weeks see if anything shows up. They call this the pocket tumbler. Hope it works I have seen coins after they have been carried this way and some do start showing signs of what they are. Another great video.

My first thought with that key was a clock. My mom has an old antique clock that uses a key like that for winding it.

Great video, key and thimble were neat, too bad the coins were toasted, too bad you don't have an ultra sonic cleaner to run a toasted coin thru, it might bring out some of the detail by removing some of the patina to see what (might ) be underneath !

the opening song has a close feeling of "jealous guy? " by Lennon .....or beatles..... those fellas....! 😁 anyone else hear thatt?

The little key is possibly from a drawer or a jewelry box. It is a ward lock key.

Well done. Thanks for taking us along🙏

Looks like you passed an old signpost tree on the way out there. Did you see it? Native people used to bend trees into right angles to point towards important places, and you can still see them in some places.

What does your wife think about you going off metal detecting in the woods … ? Mine would be mad at me ..

Looks like a fire as the probable reason, spoons and stuff. Very black earth.

I've said this on some of your other videos but I'd have to make some necklaces out of some of those coins or keys. Coins if they already had a hole in them and the keys would be cool as well.

If you could only find the box the key fit into lol. Good to see you back in the woods👍🏻

I have shod horses before, But how the heck do you shoe an ox? There isn't much to nail to. LOL

Going camping on the family land again. First week of July, are you free & are you ready?? LOL great video. 👍

You find THE coolest permissions and places to hunt. Another beautiful video. A few good finds too, the coppers, and especially the little key! Great job Brad! Rob (2) Diggin' Florida w/ Rob!

The key may be a clock key. I have an old clock with a key to wind it and a key to set it that are very similar to yours.

Bear people lol ...enjoy your videos.. sleeping all winter

Let the coin dry out before you clean it, it might work?

Looks like a clock key. I had an old key like that and it went to a case that was to hold nic nacs.

Always enjoy your adventures and awesome finds

Some beautiful finds sir well done thanks for sharing

Hey Brad good hunt and finds. Take care and HH. Jim

2:03, look beneath the pointer of that trail marker tree...

Excellent video , riveting actually , makes me feel almost like I am there with you investigating ! Thanx !

As always, good camera and editing work, but the music sets you above all others in the end. Such a pretty state and well shown by you Brad. Your finds are secondary compared to the journey. Thanks again, Chuck in NE Kansas

Brad , I’m still enjoying your videos way down here in Southwest Tennessee. Keep up the great content and music. Your doing a great job sharing the history of your area I really enjoy them Thanks again 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I was wondering what the plant was at 0.24 that looks like Hosta. At first I was thinking skunk cabbage, any botanists know what it is? Knee buckles fell out of favor thanks goodness for small favors. Another interesting video Brad.

Its sad to think that you had to choose who survived and who didn't back in the 1700-1800, if that legend is true (I happen to think it probably was)

Well Brad that's another great video.

love your vids man.. also enjoy the music that you use in most of them.. I am a relic hunter/musician/singer myself.. would be cool to get together some time and collaborate on some music some time.. next time your bored, I have a few cover tunes on my channel you could check out. I don't do any detecting vids , but its a huge passion of mine.. don't even care what I find, its all good to me 8-}

looks like the end of a trigger garde if its not pewter

The small key,,, end of the 18th century, one of the most commonly locked chests was not a jewelry chest,, it was the sugar chest, or sugar drawer.

Jesse....you guys still don't have any leaves yet up there?? Or was this filmed awhile ago?

I also detect and wonder how many others realize the number of hours it takes to make an 18 minute video such as this. That said, your work is much appreciated and enjoyed! Cheers.

Awesome Brad, thanks!

At 2:00 the tree looks like a native trail marker.

I would love for you to a show on how you got started metal detecting, what your first clip was like. Were you interested in treasure hunting when you were a kid. I’ve been following you for a couple of years and haven’t seen you do anything like that.