Digging Treasures: Metal Detecting In A 1740's Homesite
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2024
- This is the beginning of a most awesome metal-detecting adventure. Jim and I secured permission to search the yard of this 1740s homesite and the existing 1790s Shenandoah Valley home. This home was built on an original Lord Fairfax grant and is located in the lower Shenandoah Valley of what was the colony of Virginia. With this particular permission, we agreed to give the multi-generational land owner the finds that we might make from around the house. We also were granted permission to search the remainder of the 300-acre farm.
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This is a great permission, and the findings should be fantastic. We agreed to give the landowner the things we found in the yard but not on the remaining 300 acres. I hope you enjoy the video, and I hope you think it deserves a "like" and "subscribe".
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The History of Stump Houses, have you ever seen it.
Hi Beau. The unusual Brick bond pattern is because the brick is double thickness but no cavity gap. The end-on brick bonds both layer together. It helps to stop the splaying due to the weight of the roof trusses. It is very British although it is called a 'Flemish Bond' in Virginia. I looked it up just to make sure I was correct.
Nice video, my dog runs to the TV every time your end song plays to see the dog and cat
He used to play coyotes at the end, and my dogs used to go nuts
🐕🐈⬛
Sitting here in Quebec, cleaning my .577 snider Enfield rifle watching a chigg video, nice
If that key has a square hole in the end it's probably a clock winding key🤔 👍
Nice finds great little video , thats a nice old place , I would hit it again. Thanks Chigg
You two are absolutely BAAAAD with each other, but funny tho. All in good humor for sure. Love those finds. Definitely worthy of a return visit.
Beautiful location Chigg’s, you found some awesome civil war relics and coins. Happy to see Jim pulled a prank on the prankster. Happy Easter to you and family.👍👏😀
Some great finds there Beau but the best treasure in the video is Jim...always good to see you hunting with him and love that finds bag he was carrying.
Oh wow!!! About 20 years ago I got to detect a house from about 1812. It had never been detected before. The new owners let me do it no prob. I started to find some very old coins, some VMI Civil War buttons etc. The next day we came back, the owner had put up a sign that said "no metal detecting" lol. I guess he didn't like that we actually found some stuff.
I mowed my lawn today and discovered a nice looking yard today 😅
Neat looking place to metal detect! Nice finds.
The unusual Brick bond pattern is because the brick is double thickness but no cavity gap. The end-on brick bonds both layer together. It helps to stop the splaying due to the weight of the roof trusses. It is very British although it is called a 'Flemish Bond' in Virginia. 6:15 is a bit like top piece from a pot belly stove and the ridge is where the round piece dropped in, but the curve is reversed. Good finds.
Thank you for a good video. Have a Happy Easter. God Bless.
I bet that yard is carpeted with awesomeness. Ya'll should definitely rehunt that place!
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
G' Evening.
Idaho here.
Ready for another great adventure. Have to get my beverage!
Hope you enjoy it!
@@aquachigger I'll let you know! 😊
@@aquachigger Hope Mike was watching! Great 18th century site. The sword hanger & stirrup were a couple of my favorites. So, yup! I enjoyed. Thanks, Beau.
Virgin ground is exciting!!! Good job Chig and Jim! Gotta go back there. Good luck guys! Rk.
Good evening chigg what a fantastic video the finds were amazing especially the stirrup what a beautiful find so many coins the peice what looks like goes onto a bottom of a boot with the holes in looks like a military boot , and the sword chain ,you can imagine the person whom wore these items in all a great dig and also a beautiful house thanks again (chigg take care,,England
What a gorgeous old house and property. Am sure yall will go back
What a beautiful property and permission! ♥
20th like, good evening chigg, happy friday
Same to you.
@@aquachigger thanks chigg
Fun hunt and some cool old relics. Thanks for sharing!!!
Hey Chig, Dennis here from Finders of the Forgotten. Amazing permission ya got there!! You pulled some great stuff…awesome saves of history!
Wow cool place. …
Golly Chigg, you must’ve been pretty excited about getting to be the first one to detect a virgin old property like that! And it paid off too. That’s worth a few more trips back too!
Thanks for another fun adventure.
A George Washington pull tab? Ive read that beer was his favorite drink. Mine too.
That house is beautiful ! I'll bet a six pack it has ghosts as residents 😁
Good finds and FUN 😅
love the 1893 chicago expo medalion.
You Got Some Winer's . Keep Diging It
It's funny how much stuff sat in the house area lawn until it got buried one way or another.
What a fun dig! I hope that you go back there!
Great finds. Thanks for sharing. 👌🏻
Very cool finds, Chigg
Awesome spot and finds!
Nice video the skeleton key looking thing looks like a bottle opener I used to have years ago thanks for the great videos.
Wow I hope you have more future videos from this place.
Great video, awesome relics!!!!!!
Aloha Chigg, That small piece of RR track looks the size of mining rail track. It's the size of some I got from an ancient brick yard in Des Moines 50 years ago to use for my catenary arch pottery car kiln. Flat cars and track were from the drying tunnels ovens between the factory and enormous coal fired kilns.
Exciting place to detect!
Fantastic site! Look forward to another visit.
Nice finds. The broken rail look like narrow gauge rail from old coal mines. I have 2 that was used for the old push coal cars.
That’s cool for the home owner to think about some of the relics belonged to long ago kin folk.
Nice hunt & finds guys !!
The piece that looks like a key maybe a pipe tamper ?
Another awesome outing.
Awesome hunt 👍👍❤️
Great finds!
Dug a stirrup just like that one turning the garden over one spring at our c. 1754 Maine house...and alot of other interesting relics...
Fantastic home and outbuildings.
I found a short piece of rail like that in the tailing pile of a mine out in the Mojave desert.
Careful Mr. Chigg, Jim might show you which cabbage ate the rabbit.😊
Nice video thanks for sharing.
On the skeleton key dose it possibly have a square hole in the end ?
If so maybe it's a clock winder
The lid of a Dutch oven is what that cast Iron looks like
I've never seen an eagle b4 on any of the world's Columbian exposition Chicago 1893 medallions/tokens, sweet find, love the look of that old property too
The item that looks like a skeleton key is more than likely a clock winder. My antique clocks have them
Classic chigg action! Love it!!!
Well done fellas 😁 thanks for the good time 💯
I can only imagine the action that took place there Chigg, that sword hanger just doesn’t fall off parading around… there had to be some mayhem afoot. I can only think think how those bullets get dropped in heat of battle…
i have the coin version of that chicago columbian exposition from 1893. It was the first coin minted in America that had a historic figure on the face side which was christopher columbus. The face side was designed by barber and the tail side was designed by morgan. That exposition medallion you found could be designed by morgan as well, might be rare. good find
The History of Stump Houses, have you ever seen it.
Nice
13:00 could be inside top of spout on a watering can
Keep forgetting to thank you for recommending "Groundbreakers, The History of the Northern Virginia Relic Hunters Association". It was well worth the money. It's beautifully illustrated, has tons of examples, great text descriptions, and is well indexed. Thanks again, Beau. BTW, when are you going to publish "ChiggLopedia"? LOL! Only half kidding.
Hello Chigg, hope all's well with everyone/thing. Have a great Good Friday and Easter!!! Keep up the good work and vids. Be safe and take care, "God Bless", sincerely, Randy. 😇🙏👊
The bug looked very much like what we in the UK call a LEATHER JACKET .
the key looks like a clock winding key
The rail piece could be from a mine cart tramway. Its about the right size. Don't know if there was any mining in that area.
Magnet fish that pond down by the spring house.
Man, I'd be chomping at the bits to be turned lose on an undetected Historical site like that! - Any plans on going back?
Nice deucer
The skeleton key looks like a bullet starter
Pipe tamper.
Could the skeleton key thing be a smoking pipe tamper?
I believe that is a clock key to wind it up?
i'm pretty sure that the brick pattern on the main house is a flemish pattern.
Wondering about if your Chigg’s Army hats are available for sale? Would proudly wear them if so.
At 17:43, It almost looks like there is extremely faded remnants of words at the top of the side of the house (like an old advertisement or something) It may just be my eyes playing tricks on me, but 🤷🏻♂️
Perhaps the key was actually a pipe tamper.
Fun video and great finds. I know you have shown cleaning silver coins and iron finds but do you clean your brass finds? If so what do you use?
Soap and water. Toothbrush.
I recognize that stain pattern. Its like my underwear after a week at deer camp...
You're always talking about finding a GW button, have you ever found one?
I am curious to know what type and/or battlers you use in your Garretts? I have an Ace 300 and want battlers that last as long as possible in it. Thanks!
Usually Energisers.
I hope Jim isn't driving home
Could that key be a broken clock winder ?
Your skeleton key looks like a pipe tamper
ive lived in my house for 40 years and never knew about a old hose up at the end of my street maybe less than 1/4 mile. A pyromaniac by the name of sherman stayed in this house when he burned Atlanta.
I think that was a clock key. Was there a square hole on the end?
Maybe a tent stake
love the videos. Im a detectorist myself, and would love a Chiggs Army cap or two . Would you send a couple? I can give address. Thanks
So how how much time do you plan or allow for 300 acres?? This would be a years worth of detecting for me ?
Depends on how much is there.
As a whole. How much of the finds do you have to give to the land owner
How the heck do you forget a shovel. That would be like forgetting your detector.
I've done that too a few times.
5:45 battle flag pole base?
@aquachigger I've been late lately due to creating a TON of "can slaw" except i dont throw it in the grass.....if you know what i mean.
Just the contents, eh? ...lol
Maybe the Calvary camped there
Could be for sure.
P.S. The American civil war sword hook Confederate?
WHAT you shaved your stubble
1st
Best be glad i was asleep
@@CHAD-RYAN can slawwing as well?
@@raynin ive found a few last week
That place must have been detected before for there to be so few interesting finds.
Happy Easter