I hiked up to a logging property I've had permission to for years but have never metal detected, the results were a welcome surprise! Shirts, stickers, & more: www.GMMD.us Original music by Brad Martin
This is the channel that succeeded purely on merit. Not by promoting products or by horn blowing. Good to see in amongst the product driven channels incubating on RU-vid. Thanks for the video.
You never fail to create high quality video adventures Brad. In addition to the quest for historical coins and artifacts your appreciation for nature greatly enhances your productions. A real credit to Vermont and the RU-vid community. Thanks!
I watch a Mudlarker who is in London, and she finds buttons similar to the four hole one often. She has found Tudor era coins as well, blows my mind. Nichola White is her name. Some of her finds are fascinating. If I am not mistaken she might have started using a detector here and there.
What an amusing story about your childhood dog! As I watched you I thought of the serenity of being in the woods. I envy you. You found some interesting old finds. Finds that were From the beginning of our country. What a fertile area you live near to discover these remnants of the past. I can almost envision the men walking along the "road" not realizing they've lost something that is found 200 years later! They tell a story. Great video as usual.
One reason the leather with the Copper rivet has lasted is because Copper is poisonous to many organisms. The area of leather closest to the rivet will have been protected by the Copper killing many of the bugs and organisms that would have eaten or rotted it. Typical example of this used commercially is the Copper sheathing they put on old ships bottoms, stopped and or killed anything from growing there.
Best produced relic hunting videos anywhere. Look forward to them every week as much as any series on television. Been Relic Hunting in Virginia since 1982 and this is the next best thing to getting out in the woods!
Great hunt thanks for the fine video I was out with a friend hunting today and we spoke about your channel and videos with praise. We did not fair as you did on our back roads but still had a great time. My thanks
When I was a kid we had a dog that used to eat blueberries straight out of the bush. It was hilarious. Great to know there are other dogs that enjoy eating berries!
Awesome hunt! Congrats on the coppers! The Byars bottle is slug-plated with what looks to be an early, hand-tooled crown top. Check the seam, if it's a blown bottle the seam will ghost out just below the lip. The purpling places it pre-1915. I 'd guess 1892-1915.
Half of a snaffle bit...small end is middle. Long shanks going both ways keeps bit from pulling through horses mouth. Just super enjoy your videos. Two favorites - Green Mountain Metal Detecting and Firebox...out in the REAL world with great photography!
The only weekly video upload on RU-vid I look forward to. Well edited, knowledgeable, great footage and awesome finds. The Les Stroud of the metal detecting world in my book which is a very good thing!
Greetings from Norway🇳🇴 The reason a leather piece close to some metals can survive in the ground for centuries, is due to copper and alloys with copper - like for example brass, bronze, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc -are natural antimicrobial materials. Most of the leather in a lost belt may be gone, but the learher close to the buckle may still be there. Keep up the good work, GMMD. 🌻
I am always amazed at your coin finds. I have never found a coin while detecting, nor have i found anything older than the 1930s. I would lose my mind if i found a coin from the 17-1800s. But i suppose you are used to finding them. Excellent video as always good sir, and happy friday to you.
Unexpectedly Fantastic Day for sure! A button day and a few Largies despite not finding a hole! Great to see a turkey, and always fun following you along the trails less traveled.... Sweet Bottle & HH
Many great finds today, probably the best was your key holder from the wife! Most definitely the TOPPER of the day! Some great pieces of history found up on an old road on a mountain! HH and GL on the next!
Berry eaters...I had a large pot of strawberries on my patio. They kept disappearing as soon as they ripened. I blamed the Blue Jays until I caught my Corgi in the act!
Thank you for another excellent video! The Vermont woods are beautiful. You edit so well and we enjoy seeing your historic finds. God is with you because whenever I pull a bottle out of the ground, it’s broken... Happy Hunting and be safe!
Back in the day, my son's dog, a Chocolate Lab mix, would also go berry picking with us. While we were getting stuck by the little thorns he just stuck his little nose in the bush, and pulled those berries off without a whimper. He enjoyed them just as much as we did. 😊
Great video again Brad! I loved following those old road ways as a kid trying to figure out where they went and why. Loved following rock walls for miles!
Not sure if I can rustle up any great words regarding your latest BUT, perhaps, outstanding is a good start. Considering you didn't expect much, the results were/are incredibly exciting. Love the bottle--fantastic find! The coins, buttons, horse tack & you found what you lost a few years ago. Can't get much better than that! Another spendid adventure and I thank you for sharing.
Great day, no rain...:-) and you got your keyring back! Nice finds, awesome old bottle. Filling with an good old Whisky... Have a nice sunny weekend and thanks for sharing!
Thank you for another excellent video. I try to save your videos until Sunday morning, try to get up early, before kids, cup of coffee, and have my morning Zen, which is your latest video. It’s like 20 minutes of peace and quiet, beautiful scenery, and awesome finds. I do have a couple of questions. How did you get into detecting? Do you watch any other detectorists on RU-vid? Who are your favorites to watch? Thanks again for taking us along on another adventure. Larry ~Dirt Nerds
That’s great Larry, so glad to hear that! If you check out the live stream I did back in May I talk about all your questions, it’s quite long but the time stamps are in the description!
11:54 Him: "Yup, that's mine. It was an expensive gift from my wife and she doesn't even know I lost it. Shhh..." Me: You do know you just ratted yourself out when she watches this right? 🤣🤣🤣
To each his own. One man's treasure is another man's garbage. I'm glad you have people interested in this stuff, me, I don't want to get my hands dirty, put up with bugs, humidity, watch you eat, or waste my time digging up broken spoons and then calling it a treasure adventure. If you had anything worth finding I would have an interest in seeing it placed on a table inside a building and listen to the worthwhile cost of what you found. Time is what I don't have to squander. 🙂
Beautiful video! Your mystery item is, in fact, a horse bit but only 1/2. The other 1/2 is a mirror image. The halves connect via the small circle in the center. This type of bit is called a snaffle or broken bit and when used properly is considered to be a gentler type compared to a solid bar bit. Nice finds out there! See you next week. Happy hunting!
I have dug up that very same bottle in bottle dumps. I use to dig the old bottles to sell to get my back to school money. I would walk the stone walls and find where the old farms stead would deposit there trash. Pownel was my favorite hunting ground in the early 70s. Great video! Thanks Brad
Thanks Another great video. The coins, leather and rivet along with your belt were great finds. You have very good video skills. I love the scenery as much as the finds. Always top notch. Always look forward to next video.
Cold, but beautiful ! There is a beautiful poem about Vermont - cant remember name. About a hiker in heaven and misses Vermont and tells God Vermont is prettier . Maybe check key words like hiker, heaven, Vermont. You'll love it.
I would give anything to have access to property that would have or even could have. I just Love your Videos. Thx you work so hard and I want you to know I really appreciate it. LOVED THE BOTTLE. THAT ONE WAS REALLY COOL. 🤣
Thank you for your channel. I’m over in NY Albany area. Just started detecting but I have subscribed to your channel for a few years. I appreciate your enthusiasm and it has encouraged me to detect. Looking forward to future adventures your and mine.
Growing up in Maine, we would find blackberries, that grew where an area had been logged. When they first came in, to the freshly logged area, the berries were bigger and better than anything you could find, in a store.
Congrats on the 2 draped busts and KG. Wish i could find my first large cent. I know it will happen some day lol. Nice assortment of buttons and the pewter spoon bowl was a plus. I alway find the rivits without the leather so coodles on that. I live in mo. And the town i live in was founded in 1827 so im hoping for a shoe buckl, that would be stretching it a bit but ya never no. HH!
Well done! Enjoyed the video. The underwear button story...then you finding your own lost item...cracked me up. Nice finds...and I really like the bottle. Take care!
I am up to date on all your videos just finished watching your live stream 2021. It’s always fun to go back a few years and watch these over and it’s crazy but I can remember almost all your videos. I love the music I love the treasure hunt and the way you make us feel like we are on the hunt with you. Keep doing what you do Brad so many of us love you.
You really featured some interesting bits of nature this time. The brown mushrooms near the big rocks are just amazing ; it’s probably the camera angle that made them look so huge, right ? Congrats on all the new subscribers ! Your channel is really growing now, and honestly, I really look forward to your vids because your appreciation for nature is really refreshing. Another very well edited , and history enthused channel I really dig is Terra Germania (sp?). The laws for detectorists in Germany are pretty strict , but the bonus is that there are regional archaeologists that detectorists get to consult with about their finds which is pretty cool. If you haven’t seen it already check it out. I think that channel and yours are the best out there right now, so thanks for the consistently good uploads !
I ❤️❤️ Terra Germania. He hasn’t put a video out for a while😞. I watch a RU-vidr from Alaska and she showed mushrooms that were white with an orange top- they were as big as her hand!!! The mushrooms looked like the ones you see drawn in children’s story books!!
J. G. Byers owned a farm located from the north side of Cobble Hill Road to the property now owned by John Calhoun (The Auction barn) north of Telford Road. The well on the property was pure enough to be used in the making of soda water. The J. G. Byers Bottling Company was established in 1877. The Company produced and marketed bottled soda water that became very popular. Some of the bottles with the company name embossed on them are on display at the Louis Miller Museum in Hoosick Falls. When the bottling company ceased to operate, J. G. Byers’ son Gordon ran the farm for some years. The farm house was located at the corner of St. Croix Road and Route 67. The farm house was sold to Fred Dowling and Jean Seffler in the 1930s or early 1940s. The house became a restaurant and bar known as "The OId Byers House". Mr. Dowling left the business and later Jean sold it to a Mr. Safford Rudnick who enlarged it and renamed it The Merry-Go-Round Bar. Unfortunately, it burned June 10, 1966.
as a kid i picked many a black berry..and Mom made us the best black berry cobbler..the juice soaking in the bisquix mix was so damn good.....thanks for that memory...
Oh, you just brought back so many memories! As a child our dog 'Daisy' would also eat the blackberries from a bush. Her and I would both gorge on them. lol Lovin' your videos. I'm itching to go back metal detecting but we're in the middle of winter and snow here.
Thanks for sharing! Vermont is such a beautiful state. My first dog went wild blackberry picking once with me and a friend. He didn't eat any, but did bring me a ground hog!
Another great video...I can just guess the peace and solitude one experiences...awesome finds...I like how ya tie them into history and let everyone know the circa of your finds.....thanks again!!
With all the craziness going on in the world it’s sure nice to come home from work and relax and smile along with one of your vids my friend, God Bless you and please continue to to be a blessing 👍 from Texas
My neighbors dog used to stick his head through the fence and eat every berry he could reach. Must be a genetic thing. Great utube channel I love it and have told many others about it. Keep up the great work.
That turkey's chatter is a danger-danger run for your life call. That was a hen and it looks like mid summer; likely told her brood to freeze in place while she then lead the monster far away and then she would return for her brood. That sound is the last sound a turkey hunter ever wants to hear while out hunting, simply because it means you have been spotted and they are aware you are there.
YOU REMINDED ME, WE HAD A DOG, AND SULTANAS ((DRIED FRUIT) ROWS AND THIS DOG WOULD GRAB A BUNCH AND WALK BACKWARDS WITH THEM IN HER TEETH. CONSEQUENTLY, LITTLE PILES OF GRAPES 😀 GREAT TRIP, LOVED THE BOTTLE, GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY, AND NARRATION. LOVE IT WITH YOU AND THE MATE. C OF AUSTRALIA
Man you find some great stuff. Just imagine what else is out there hiding. That bottle was really cool. Looks like it would be from around 1900 to 1910 but I'm sure you already looked it up and know more than me. lol. Great video.
Most all leather pieces used for livestock in that period was oiled to keep it from drying out.... the rivet is definitely from late 1700’s right up to 1900.
Great video with lovely scenery and eclectic variety of finds, funny story about your dog and the berries, we had a dog that loved corn on the cob and whenever we had it my mom would make two ears for Jingles! It was a sight to see Jingles lay on the ground eating the corn and rolling it with her paws, she would stat at one end of the yard and end at the other with the cob picked clean and then she would start all over again with the second ear!
Had a cat that loved cooked green beams! He would sit at table and take green beans off plate with paw. We have one daughter and we would call him our son. :-)
