I Find the Ruins of a Forgotten Home and Dig for Treasure | Metal Detecting Adventure
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- I set off on foot through the mountains of Vermont, in search of what remains of the pioneers that once inhabited these woods.
Original music by Brad Martin
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I am a supporter of you personally because of your passion for what you do and the respect you have for nature and history. Thanks
Love the lush green Bush and the black rich soil looks a treat to dig. Very cool finds, I like the pieces that leave you to wonder what it was used for. Thanks for taking us along.
You are one of, if not the most, well spoken, treasure hunters on youtube. Thank you for not being falsely and overly animated and patronizing. You do a great job editing and "cutting to the chase". Thanks!
Thanks so much for the kind words!!
I love your hunts ! They really put the viewer in touch with the history, and the passage of time. Thanks for the great vids.
Thank YOU for watching!
So much history there in your state. Really old history. I would love that. I hope you are documenting everything you find even maping out the sites a little. These sites may someday be archaeological sites. Your finds will help future explorers understand it and be able to put together the whole story. I am not critiquing you by any measure. I just understand the challenge archaeologists have after sites have been rumaged through. It really would set you apart from a lot of people that metal detect. In future explorations scientist will be able to depend on your information. In the future, when you're a really old man, it will make you a very valiable asset for them. Who knows they might be interested in some of these stories now. Great show. Thanks for taking us with you. It is very special.
I love your videos, the sound is good, camera isn’t being jerked all over the place, no cussing, that’s huge, they are the best videos out there, Keep them coming.
So glad to hear that Wilma!
Love the clarity and footage of your videos. They are very educational, and help me identify some of the items I find. I look forward to your next video.
Awesome, great to hear, Terry! Thanks for watching!!
There always going to be negative people out there in the metal detecting hobby or any other hobby like coin collecting. However there are enough of us who appreciate GMMD videos and the effort it takes to produce a highly professional video. I don’t appreciate negativity or dislikes on this site. Don’t watch the site if you have to be negative and unprofessional.
I love the way you say "Niiiiiiiiiiiice!" I can usually anticipate it.
Why is there 140 dislikes on his feedback. How could you not like this guy. Very interesting & informative videos.
Maybe their just jealous .
They Are TROLLS!!
ya but they still watched :)
Maybe it's the music/ noise
I don't dislike him, I just can't hear most of what he's saying. My volume is set at full blast so it's not my computer.
Your presentations are so well done that I am reminded of how glad I was to stop TV reception. So many videos and stories made by amateurs are such wonderful quality. Reality TV is nothing like online video programs about wonderful topics by totally creative independent people like you. Thank you!
Very cool finds. Thanks for sharing the history and photos with us, too.
Stay safe.
Another great Adventure.Thank You for sharing.
Hey Brad, excellent hunt! The Centennial Expo in Philly generated a ton of souvenir merchandise-commemorative coins, wood plaques, silk ribbons, belt buckles, and even jigsaw puzzles-but I have never seen a rectangular brass plaque like yours. Hard to imagine the residents of that farmhouse hauling some huge expensive painting home from Philly, so am thinking it was a souvenir. Maybe it once had a wood backing that rotted away? Excellent find in any case. The Centennial Art Gallery is still standing, and is now home to the Please Touch Museum, an interactive museum and play space for kids. I used to take my daughter when she was little. As always, thanks for taking us up the mountain!
Thanks so much, Charlie! I had a really hard time finding good information on the art gallery, very interesting to hear about all of the souvenirs! Thanks again!
the potential brass "key ring" looks to be a ring from the over check on a horse harness :)
I really liked this video...veey interesting....its fun to go hunting in the wood for stuff...be safe out there...i hope you make more videos....take care from NC!!
VERY cool video(s)....the key to life, imo, is too enjoy the journey, not so much the destination....thank you for reminding me and letting me spend some 'nature time' with you....
Some really nice finds. The little bell might have been one used at the table to notify a server that something was needed.
Love to find old coins and old guns, cool vids.👍👍❤️😄
Brad, believe me, I know how you feel a out the coinage, but you are a pioneer in the woods yourself. You are finding things that haven't been seen in generations. That French artillary button...Wow!
Be careful out there, and HH.
Thanks for the kind words Wayne, and thanks for watching!!
@@GMMD The "flaming" device on that button is, in various ways ,a common device in ancient heraldry. One version is the device for Grenadier Guards . Three of them are the coat-of-arms of the Flemish family "van Bom".
The adventure is just as good as the digging, thank you for sharing.
Looks like so much fun!!
I love the centennial art gallery piece. Beautiful!
Coins or not those are great finds. I love old home sites. And it's amazing how fast the forest retakes the land.
Hello my friend nice that you are there. Thumbs up . bye
Thank you, I am the founder of PoHr Folks Historical Society. I love your videos. You teach and don’t play the “can’t tell you where I am”. I recommend your channel to others. Thank again
Thanks for watching, Thomas!
Thank you for the hike thru the lovely woods. I look forward to more videos.
As always brad a pleasure to watch! Great finds. Can't wait to see what you think of new machine.
Thanks for taking us along
So articulate as usual. A pleasure to watch.
Thanks a lot!
Totally agree. He is like Plugmaster Ford with a very calming voice. I really enjoy these videos.
" Hello Brad, Where Ever You Go, You Are Always Finding History, So Interesting.!! " EXCELLENT Video My Friend.!!!
Beautiful woods, you'll have to return for another hunt. Love Vermont..wish I was young & could do it too. Thanks for taking us along.
I walk in the woods as well-and many times you will find a stone slab with and old lilac bush aside it-that was once someone's dooryard. Amazing to realize how people lived in remote places-must have been a lonely life. Vermont started losing population as soon as Ohio and Indiana opened up (the Western reserve), in the 1820s.
great vid one of my favorite places to hunt is in the back woods of vt. the great thing about vt is we have frost heaves so the ground acts like a washing machine . you hunt one spot hard one year an come back the next spring and there is new stuff brought closer to the surface over the winter because of the frost heaves.
Great point! Another reason to look forward to spring!
The brass disk you called a "mystery item" is maybe a reflector that goes on a candle holder so that the light from the candle was more concentrated in the direction you wanted to point it so to speak. I have seen wooden candle holders with grips similar to a coffee mug that had those brass disks affixed to them.
Thanks for the tip, Jeff!
Great Videos! I went to a bicycle school in White river Junction, only there for a little while but got to love the history of the area. Not much older than the 1870s around SD.
Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed your stay!
I live close to Deadwood,SD. so there is some cool history.
Great Hunt Brad ! You may have not found anything with a date, But the flavor of the time period is definitely there. You hit the nail on the head. There was less forest, 150 years ago, than there is today ! Back then, wood was a resource used for everything, warmth, cooking, income, charcoal. fields were clear-cut for farming, rocks were cleared and stacked into piles and stone walls which boarded farm fields and roads. Thank you for sharing my friend :-))
I've seen some photos of the late 1800's in this year and it's truly mind boggling!
I'm not sure the exact period, maybe late 1700's, early 1800's Vermont was actually around 90% clear cut...
@@northern1632 Realize how Much chopping your talking about. I've heard just as crazy stories about Paul Bunion.
First timer. Your video is nicely done, and I will be a repeat viewer for sure. Great finds!
The piece of ladies' underwear is from a garter belt, and is half the mechanism that attached and held the stockings.
Hi. New fan of your videos. I believe the round brass piece at 11:11 might have been a smoke guard for an oil lamp. It would have been attached with a metal ring above the glass chimney to prevent soot from staining the ceiling.
Awesome, thanks for the info!!
Oh boy! A new channel for me! I think the types of things you found there are not from a homespun material type of family. Or, they brought things with them from a former life. The piece from the corsette, the elegant overall buckle, etc. seem to mean a type of clothing from a city.
Thanks Mary, now that you mention it I think you may be right! Thanks for watching!
Great video ! Vids like yours help me get through our long New England winters ! I own a Whites, and love it. Can't wait for the ground to thaw. !. My Great Granddad was born in Vermont. He was a Gagnon. I don't know off hand where he was born, but he was born during the civil war. circa 1863. Maybe in those very woods...heheh ! Thanks. Peace !
I used to have 2 of those glass insulators. I used to use one as a candle holder (upside down). That corset pc comes off the front of a corset that was laced in the back + hooked at the front for easier removal. In period reenacting, I've worn one, and was grateful it had those hooks at the end of a long event!
Very cool finds, very nice assortment of things. The brass looped piece remindset me of something horse tack related. My favorite find there.GL&HH
Thanks, I agree! I've already polished it up and plan to find a use for it!
Nature takes back what is it’s own.
Just like the old rice fields in SC. They're all grown up with huge cypress and oaks and everything else now. 175 years ago they were carefully cultivated fields with tidal water flow capabilities to flood and drain the fields.
I'm a new fan here! Talking about New England stone walls--about forty years ago someone told me that 150 years before there were no trees older than 20 years old left and there was a great exodus of people leaving for Pennsylvania and NY because there was no more wood for heating, and as it was before oil was available rurally, people couldn't survive the cold winters. I live in CT and our family property was very wooded, but with small trees, heavy undergrowth, and lots of stone walls. In the 70s the woods there were very bushy, and there had been an orchard up on the hill, but so old that most of the trees were huge and dead or dying. Now you can't see any hint of them, and the small trees that were there are now about 12-20" in diameter, and you can walk through clear under them because they've blocked the sun for undergrowth..
In a place such as Vermont, which gets a great deal of rain and snow, even hardwood trees grow quite fast. In the mountains of Arizona [where I lived for many years], parts of the Ponderosa Pine forest have been clearcut three times in the past century. If it gets enough water, a Ponderosa will grow to 12" in diameter in 30 years. The really mind-blowing thing is that, if the early settlers in Vermont wanted to use the clearcuts to grow crops in, they not only had to cut the trees, they had to pull the stumps and dig out the rocks before they could plow [hence the stone walls]. They had only livestock and their own muscle to do this! It must have been a hard life.
Mind-blowing indeed, Chris! Great insight!
just got to love Your way of doing this and thanks for sharing. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter
@ 1:02 I have faith in you... you'll find lots of great history, and cool stuff.
Thanks for a great video hunt, super job with awesome finds. GL&HH
Great video with some cool finds! Awesome button!
Love your show, especially the crunchy rock tunes at beginning and end! Thanks for sharing a bit of life in beautiful Vermont.
I knew a man who walked an old country road. He checked around the largest oldest tree and had a hit. He dug up a little bag of gold jewelry about a hundred years old.
Very enjoyable. Thanks for taking us along. The loop thing is a gag loop for a horse. Take care!
Thanks Todd, you're the first to identify it! I really appreciate it!!
Nice finds, I liked the button and the square, Centennial metal plate you found the best. I treasure hunt and bottle hunt in New England also. I have met Glass Gopher and he and his girl friend have done dump digs in Vermont as well. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Thanks for watching, Jeff!
You may have found the part of the Military Road ...We have a section of it running down here in North Adams. .it dates from the mid 1700s
Always awesome videos. New england rocks. Another incredible button. Poor French guy probably took a hard beating from a big Irish farmer. Limped away missing buttons and a tooth.
Haha thanks, Robert! That's definitely a theory!
Robert Gillis
And his whiskey flask too lol
Thankyou for shareing your search.
Excellent discoveries. Congratulations on the haul. See you again soon.
Thanks Jay!
Really enjoy your videos. Thanks. I would love to see a little bit of the glass and pottery. Cheers Laura
Great hunt ... I love those out in the woods, exploration type hunts. Good stuff.
Thanks for watching, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
That was a great spot, not many cellar holes around here. Thanks for sharing, great finds!
Thanks for watching!
Great vids. Thanks!
very cool!! I know there was a lot neat stuff, but I really like that old insulator. I know there is a lot of bills out there, but they are just getting hard to come by, especially as a find in the woods. Sidestep recommended your Channel, and I'm glad he did. Very enjoyable, thank you!!
Hi Brad, you have the best and most beautiful places to explore and hunt. There is no way I can go out in areas like that where I live which is SW Pennsylvania, I'm not brave enough going alone. Awesome finds Happy Hunting and Good Luck on the next one.
Marty aka Michele ; )
1L Michele you sure could, don't be scared, get a can of mace or concealed carry license and get out there
Hi Michele- I’m a Michele too and also live in SW Pa!! I live east of Pittsburgh! What area are you in?
That’s really cool some history in those woods, liked the video, thanks
Another great time! Loved the music at the end.
Great hunt, thanks for sharing! Love how you just go off for a walk exploring, great stuff.. take care and good luck!
Hello from Sydney Australia, you should take an old toothbrush with you so you can clean the small things you find, very interesting video, thanks
Great day out mate. Thanks for sharing. You defiantly need to spend a little bit more time around there. Couple if years should nearly cover it lol . Thanks.
You have a great eye for your surroundings! Great finds.
Thanks for watching, Kat!
Gotta love the Whites team! Judging from the bells it must of been Dominique.
Great relics and beautiful location! Liked and subscribed.
Thanks for watching!!
You find nice, out of the way sites- well done! Enjoyable to watch!
Thanks for watching!
Great video with very cool finds !
Albany Co NY I found a pre Iroquois stone scraper as I was grubbing around in the woods with a stick as defense against fatal boredom. Still have it, still love it, still show it off. Wish I could do what you do.
Back in the mid 60s me and my friends found a pile of those Glass Insulators. Wasnt sure what they were back then. Recently my partner was telling me that those are highly collectible. Hindsight 20-20..lol. Great video. Thanks
Thanks Daniel! I believe they only became a popular collectors item 30-40 years ago, so don't kick yourself too bad! Thanks for watching!
@@GMMD My Grandparents, both in mid 90's & just recently passed, used the insulators in their Agate tables, churches, lamps, jewelry, etc. They were very into it as far back as I can remember, & I'm 56! So they got early insulator itch! lol They are BTW worth alot! Quite alot! if you find the right buyer!
Great video & finds Brad... The story each one of those items have is one of the best things this hobby can offer. Ty for sharing. Paul.
Thanks for watching Paul!
What an awesome hunt! You found the coolest of things here! I love it!
I think the little bells are my faves!
great adventure thanks for sharing
Awesome job!! You definitely spend your time researching locations!!!
I'm really happy White's recognized you and someone over there is a fan of your. You make some excellent and fun videos! Keep it up!
Thanks a ton!!
Another great hunt Brad. I can only imagine the excitement you must feel when finding a virgin site. The french artillery button suggests a WW1 vet with a souvenir. The Centennial badge is such a find!!
Nice relics, Buttons, bells & bullets, oh my. 😎 GL&HH!
French artillery? What an incredible find. That art gallery sheet metal piece is beautiful. I would love to hear what that was attached to and the stories that could tell.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
Must of been a happening place with food and music and bells such cool stuff
Great video as always, thanks!
Thank YOU for watching, Roger!
Very nice finds well done from Dundee Scotland uk
4:01 have you thought about taking GPS coordinates for area. Shoot compass for road direction, get on google earth and compare old growth trees as compared to trees the size of what you saw in area to possibly find out where the road bed leads ? Not always easy but fun to do if you have time.
liked for the insulator. It's a CD154, very common but always fun to find one.
Thanks for the info Ivan!
Great video!! Lots of Americana; great ID work! Thank You.
Thank you
You are good at metal detecting
Holy Cow, I just found your channel and boy does it excite me to see you finding lost history in the great state I grew up in. Even crazier is that fact that I grew up just over the Stamford line in Readsboro, up by the old Dutch Hill Ski area.
I NEED to find places like this in RI!
Not a canonball, it's a grenade on the top of the button. It's a common french military symbol. Great video by the way, keep on searching ;-)
The grenade is called a Petard!
Its not, its US first take of the US army ordnance symbol
I've never been to Vermont. After watching your videos, I would love to explore there! Its beautiful!
You should show us your collection at home of your best finds in a video. Would be amazing.
FeAr CLAN I second that
Agreed
Great idea! I hope to make a video like that come winter when the ground is solid and I'm stuck indoors!
Green Mountain Metal Detecting yeah man, that makes sense! Haha
THANK YOU, LOVED BEIN WITH YOU, GOOD FINDS, ENJOYABLE TRIP. CAMILLE AUSTRALIA
Love it!
Awesome finds man. Even though you didn't find any coins. I love the relics. Great French button and that Art plate is very cool.....Ron
Thanks for watching, Ron!