Exploring Historic New England Cellar Holes

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @aquachigger
    @aquachigger  Год назад +52

    Today finds us in Massachusetts searching cellar holes. I have a number of videos coming up from my current New England metal detecting adventure. I hope you enjoy them!

    • @trolltaker
      @trolltaker Год назад +4

      Does Mr Brown have a RUclips channel? I'd love to see more of that area!

    • @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756
      @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 Год назад +1

      I hope you are going back a few times. That's a really nice location. So many home sites to comb over...and over ..lol

    • @davestelling
      @davestelling Год назад

      Digger Charlie from Not Thursday/Stealth Diggers has found some marvelous artifacts from searching New England cellar holes in New Hampshire...

    • @ladanivadriver1578
      @ladanivadriver1578 Год назад

      Anything happening about the scotland trip you hinted it a while ago ?

    • @trolltaker
      @trolltaker Год назад

      @@davestelling He's an ass. I stopped watching him a long time ago.

  • @davidweeks1709
    @davidweeks1709 Год назад +17

    The little room in the cellar hole with the flat rock on top is for ice blocks. This was used like a refrigerator to keep stuff cold. Being up here in New England it wasn't to hard to get ice block from local ponds and lakes. I live in New Hampshire and in a area with tons of old cellar holes and some towns that's have been forgotten in time, over grown and easily miss if not looking for them.

  • @richardbauman4731
    @richardbauman4731 Год назад +17

    Dang , that was a surprise location and a treat. What scenery and a great history lesson. You guys didn't even have to find anything to make it super enjoyable!!

  • @mission1125
    @mission1125 Год назад +17

    In the foundation was the little room on the north side of the building? If so, maybe a root cellar.

    • @franksprague7550
      @franksprague7550 Год назад

      My guess as well, that's where the potatoes would go.,

  • @RACKS2024
    @RACKS2024 Год назад +5

    Chig u in my neck of the woods!!! Awesome to see! You are the one who got me into metal detecting again after my grandfather passed. Me and him were dump diggin and detecting buds. After his passing i gave it up cuz it didn’t feel right. Watching ur channel gave me fresh motivation and a new found curiosity to explore the world again!

  • @Cutter-jx3xj
    @Cutter-jx3xj Год назад +2

    Chigg I have been detecting for over 35, and put me out in the boonies, the hardest place to hunt. I have found some of the best things I have found in places other detectorist have avoided over the past years. I would be much happier digging old relics and what's it's than modern things any day. Love ur videos Chigg. Ive been watching for yrs

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад

      Thanks, glad you enjoy the vids.

  • @JustPlainSteve5372
    @JustPlainSteve5372 Год назад +1

    Vellly Interesink! - Arte Johnson!!!

  • @SuperNetSpyder
    @SuperNetSpyder Год назад +1

    I like the two videos you've done with this guy. I love the forest videos and seeing all the old things coming up from / out of old trees.

  • @stu-j
    @stu-j Год назад +5

    Good evening from the beautiful North East of England!

  • @richardwarnock2789
    @richardwarnock2789 Год назад +1

    Tannic Acid Beau !! That little maybe ice cellar for beer 🍺 or fridge!!

  • @alabamadixiediggers4714
    @alabamadixiediggers4714 Год назад

    Thanks Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE

  • @jeremyo8233
    @jeremyo8233 Год назад

    It has an FU ....LOL....thanks for another great adventure beau!!

  • @richardklapka5147
    @richardklapka5147 Год назад +7

    Hey Mr. Chig! I just got a quality cell phone just a few months ago. Enjoying your videos daily. I see a lot of your adventures going back 10 years! Incredible outings! And of course "very interesting" ( I recall, laugh in too) You teach us so much! Thanks buddy! Rk.

  • @HoboRailroad
    @HoboRailroad Год назад +3

    Thank you Aquachigger ✌️😎

  • @ClarksCoveDetecting
    @ClarksCoveDetecting Год назад +1

    What an awesome place to hunt in, love seeing those old homesites like that,

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman6694 Год назад +4

    Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

  • @threewheeler624
    @threewheeler624 Год назад +2

    Great video! Thank you!

  • @rogerdempsey7227
    @rogerdempsey7227 Год назад

    Awesome day chigger love the fines great place stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 🙏👍🐰happy Easter to you and your family 🐈

  • @twindiggersminnesotapamandpat
    @twindiggersminnesotapamandpat Год назад +2

    Beautiful location Chiggs. Nice Mark shared a historical place to dig. 👏👍😀

  • @andreamills5852
    @andreamills5852 Год назад +2

    Awesome finds ! Good place for a "Samsquinch"

  • @valiantwarrior4517
    @valiantwarrior4517 Год назад

    Such a cool location. Would be very interesting to just wander around and explore.

  • @sammsdream
    @sammsdream Год назад +4

    You should take a magnet to those wells! Give it a go and let us know if you do.

  • @grant6165
    @grant6165 Год назад

    Brings back some memories of digging cellar holes when I lived in New England.

  • @alanmoffat4454
    @alanmoffat4454 Год назад +3

    WELL WE ENJOY A NEW AREA JUST AS MUCH AS YOU , KEEP UP THESE GOOD VIDS 😊.

  • @barbarafritchie2000
    @barbarafritchie2000 Год назад +2

    My grandparents had a spring enclosed like the well you found. They kept a tin cup hanging near by.

  • @irvingbrown2389
    @irvingbrown2389 Год назад +6

    Thanks as always for the great video. I’m from upstate, NY and the woods around me look so similar with old stone walls everywhere. Random piles of stones, I’d imagine the original farmer would pick stones up and throw them on a pile. Although difficult to find wells and foundations. There’s a lot less left behind. Many of the areas if love to detect are state lands. Of course there’s plenty to find if you put in the time and research. I always learn great things, signs of human habitation. Thanks Beau ! Take care

  • @johnnyphillips9735
    @johnnyphillips9735 Год назад

    Nice finds thanks for taking us along that's a beautiful place

  • @richardwarnock2789
    @richardwarnock2789 Год назад +1

    You have to call Mark Rambo!!!; )

  • @JustMe-mx8hq
    @JustMe-mx8hq Год назад +2

    Oh wow cool ur in Dartmouth, I live in New Bedford . Loved the video as usual 😃

    • @Portageediggah
      @Portageediggah Год назад +1

      I love in Freetown. Grew up in NB. I dig mostly in Dartmouth.

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад +2

      My mother was an Ashley from Freetown. Spent a lot of time there with family as a kid.

  • @richardperkins6132
    @richardperkins6132 Год назад +3

    What an awesome place to be out detecting. 😁👍👍

  • @Katelittlewolf
    @Katelittlewolf Год назад

    Well that is a fun surprise! Thank you! Beau, you are such a good guy and a gentleman! You are forever apprenticing people and letting them find the goodies!! Even the awesome "dagger" turns out to something lost you found for your buddy! You Sir are an Officer and a Gentleman.

  • @arctiknitter
    @arctiknitter 10 месяцев назад

    This was a good one. Enjoyed the woods. Very different from Alaska.

  • @lenoraeaton
    @lenoraeaton Год назад +3

    WOW ! Thanks Chigg!!😁👍

  • @oldbamadirt2148
    @oldbamadirt2148 Год назад +2

    Look Like Fun To Me. 😎👍✌.

  • @jacksampsonforever
    @jacksampsonforever Год назад

    OMG! You're in my old backyard! I need an autograph LOL!

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад

      My family roots are in East Freetown.

  • @bruinsfan8278
    @bruinsfan8278 Год назад

    Well Done chig, Down in Dartmouth, my back yard! Some very cool finds! Love Marks Bruins Hat!

  • @670tazman
    @670tazman Год назад +2

    Love the videos. I learn a lot of the past with the videos

  • @gregtheodore2581
    @gregtheodore2581 Год назад +1

    Welcome to MA Chigg. Nice finds.

  • @tylertripp618
    @tylertripp618 Год назад

    I grew up in Freetown Massachusetts and spent most my life up there. Got into detecting right before moving down south to escape.

  • @frankblazi5842
    @frankblazi5842 Год назад

    We love it here in New England. Hello from Ct.

  • @neillh
    @neillh Год назад

    Thank you for taking us along on another great adventure 👍

  • @half-assedandnotfast3375
    @half-assedandnotfast3375 Год назад +5

    Massachusetts! Nice to see you up here enjoying the Beautiful history!

  • @sethherron5926
    @sethherron5926 Год назад +4

    That aluminum piece you found at the small foundation hole looks like a part of a Warn locking hub from an early Jeep!

  • @barrycormier230
    @barrycormier230 Год назад +3

    We had those little rooms for potatoes and such We called them root cellars '

  • @markattardo
    @markattardo Год назад

    Always fun to see what people dig closer-ish to home. Thanks Mark & Chigg👍👍

  • @susansmith6680
    @susansmith6680 Год назад +2

    That was fun.

  • @mwdjr3158
    @mwdjr3158 Год назад +2

    Great video Gig

  • @alanconnors8881
    @alanconnors8881 Год назад

    BRUINS! Cool dig and finds. Welcome to NE Chigg.

  • @glass1258
    @glass1258 Год назад

    Oh wow you were in my home state .. I love Massachusetts so much history
    I’m about 25 minutes from Dartmouth

  • @cg256y9
    @cg256y9 Год назад +1

    Amazing site.

  • @omitthelies
    @omitthelies Год назад +2

    Great adventure Chigg. I'm near the historic triangle right now in Virginia, running my AT Max on all of the beaches.

  • @robertfahey3875
    @robertfahey3875 Год назад +1

    Hi Chigg, another great video, I detect and bottle dig in MA, RI and CT. We’ve come across these type of rock lined caverns, they are root cellars for storing potatoes, carrots and other produce.

  • @tomcook5813
    @tomcook5813 Год назад +1

    Very common for folks like me to keep a chunk of lint from the dryer handy for fire starting, works really good

    • @williambrandondavis6897
      @williambrandondavis6897 Год назад +1

      00 steel wool works better. Lights even if it’s wet because it’s not porous and it burns extremely hot similar to aluminum or magnesium.

  • @cynthiaswearingen1037
    @cynthiaswearingen1037 Год назад +1

    So much history up there, Beau! I'm glad you got to explore that new area...and I'm sure Mark is happy you found his knife!🤣❤️

  • @sandymcgill1910
    @sandymcgill1910 Год назад +2

    is the lead thing you found a bag seal? they should have still been using them at that time.

  • @JosesGaraje
    @JosesGaraje Год назад +7

    Now you know what we have to deal with all the time: thin soil, rocks and roots. It's a nightmare to dig large holes in and a true testament to the grit of our ancestors.

  • @kickapootrackers7255
    @kickapootrackers7255 Год назад

    Good finds, got his knife too.
    Cool area y'all

  • @johnramirez5032
    @johnramirez5032 Год назад +2

    Hey chigg! Ive watched you for a few years. The tenacious nature is a pleasure to watch. Your part historian and part archeologist. Part treasure hunter and part nature lover. I never tire watching you. Aint too many people left like you. I mean that with great sincerity and admiration. You are a good sole. Thank you for enriching my life as well as countless others. !

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад

      Awesome, thank you!

    • @johnramirez5032
      @johnramirez5032 Год назад

      @@aquachigger you have earned it. Trust is not given its earned.

  • @helenburke9507
    @helenburke9507 Год назад

    Thank you so much . What a great video. And new history.

  • @MikeHere
    @MikeHere Год назад

    🤘😎Thanks Chigg. The treasuriest find was the musket ball that turned into a seed.

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад

      Thanks so much, I really appreciate it.

  • @dartmart9263
    @dartmart9263 Год назад

    You found a witch’s fire starting kit and fire circle! Lol

  • @dannmccord1923
    @dannmccord1923 Год назад

    Cool finds Chigger. Neat buttons. No telling what's around there

  • @cathyrobi3891
    @cathyrobi3891 Год назад +3

    Most likely that hole/room in the wall is a root cellar to preserve foods

  • @FestusHaggen
    @FestusHaggen Год назад +1

    Howdy Chigg. Very cool area. Ain't no telling how many other treasures that are still there waiting to be found. It was mighty nice of Mark to invite you up to explore. Does he have a YT channel?

  • @robertdecrock4038
    @robertdecrock4038 Год назад

    I love adding value to areas of life
    I see soo more when you post 😊

  • @ladywisewolf3942
    @ladywisewolf3942 Год назад +1

    Chigg, It would be great if you could do a collaboration dig with Brad Martin of Green Mountain Metal Detecting. He's located in the mountains of Vermont and has some incredible permissions there. He finds rare Colonial artifacts every time he goes out! It would make a great episode.

  • @rickyb2200
    @rickyb2200 Год назад +1

    Nice place to detect , those open wells look a little scary , to easy to stumble into them if you don't see them. Thanks Chigg

  • @ScottHead
    @ScottHead Год назад

    Little alcove is a root cellar I'm guessing.

  • @madamecampsalot6384
    @madamecampsalot6384 Год назад

    Come to Litchfield County, Connecticut! Yay Chigg!

  • @jamesanderson2099
    @jamesanderson2099 Год назад

    I realy enjoyed this video thank you

  • @cindyriviera6455
    @cindyriviera6455 Год назад +1

    Great footage ❤

  • @chuckjenkins4348
    @chuckjenkins4348 Год назад

    I would kill to be your shadow for a year and go all the great places you go. Always moving never letting the moss grow under your shoes. Always a great adventure with The Chigg.

  • @tylerjames2714
    @tylerjames2714 Год назад +2

    21:42 could that little room be some sort of cold cellar? possibly they had no room the the main cellar so they build a separate room for it?

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад

      Maybe, but it's pretty small.

    • @julielumsden5184
      @julielumsden5184 Год назад

      Maybe for daily use items like butter and milk . My uncle had a mud shelf in the basement wall for milk and butter it was handy to reach without having to go into the basement

    • @CHAD-RYAN
      @CHAD-RYAN Год назад +1

      Thats where they out the tv.

  • @robertcribb3859
    @robertcribb3859 Год назад +3

    Sure was a lot of wells for that little community

  • @mokpot
    @mokpot Год назад

    Awesome place!

  • @48thstateprospecting
    @48thstateprospecting Год назад +1

    Hey chig that was an EGGCELLENT video so much cool stuff to see I’m surprised you detected at all. That secret room… you put your reefer madness in it… the British are coming the British are coming. could that secrete well could have been a valuables stash. Did you detect the secret room? Great adventure thanks for sharing see you on The Next one 👍🏼👊🏼p.s. watch winder watch winder…😬

  • @bluecorona868
    @bluecorona868 Год назад

    love your vids. thankyou.

  • @christophergillet5688
    @christophergillet5688 Год назад +2

    I live within a 10 minute drive from Dartmouth,Massachusetts. Wish I had known you were coming this far north,lol. I have watched you for a while now and would have liked to meet you.

  • @treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340

    thumbs up great finds enjoyed the video

  • @128file
    @128file Год назад

    This trip reminds me of my trip to Strasberg Pennsylvania up in the north east corner. There were wall of stones 5’ tall and about 6’ wide at the base and you could walk on them. They were like small paddocks or something. Love the history in that area of the country.

    • @williambrandondavis6897
      @williambrandondavis6897 Год назад +1

      I find some like that in Kansas City. I have noticed in my area they are only built in places where you can’t set fence posts because it’s too rocky. I agree with the pastures. I have found evidence of live stock in the ones near me. Horse and cattle stuff and suspender clips from the early 1800’s. The ones I’m familiar with are on the Oregon California trail near a camp depot. One guess is they might have been used during that time for storing animals for sale and trade to the people heading west. Or perhaps they were built by the military during the civil war. There are a lot of rock structures here that are known to have been built for military use during the civil war.

  • @Mountainmonths
    @Mountainmonths Год назад

    wow amazing place. I bet you could find all sorts of stuff out there

  • @lostrailbeds8289
    @lostrailbeds8289 Год назад +2

    Great to see ya up in the Northeastern part of the Country Chigg! Maybe...JUST maybe! we'll see some Capn. Billy vids soon???!! Maybe?......

  • @Lesbodoggofest
    @Lesbodoggofest Год назад

    Always awesome , great host

  • @philipcallicoat3147
    @philipcallicoat3147 Год назад

    All the stones are a testimony of the brutal and hard work that occurred back then...🥺👍

  • @loralou-djflowerdove
    @loralou-djflowerdove Год назад

    "Beddyyy intadestenk..." - (Arte Johnson, "Laugh-In")😊

  • @MrBrewner
    @MrBrewner Год назад +2

    Chigg is there a market for those old buttons and musket balls? Just curious because i live in central maine with 120 acres and i have at least 7 cellar holes that i know of that was an 1800s homestead. I also have a very old driveway that has planted maples that have been dated over 200 years old. Theyre about 65 inches across at the stump. I have never metal detected any of the cellar holes.

    • @aquachigger
      @aquachigger  Год назад +1

      Very much so.

    • @cselfie7234
      @cselfie7234 Год назад

      Big B, I am outside of Bangor, let me know if you need any company detecting those cellar holes.

    • @williambrandondavis6897
      @williambrandondavis6897 Год назад

      Market yes, money not so much. It’s a hobby, not a career.

  • @roccoracer
    @roccoracer Год назад

    That is exactly what my back yard looks like. It's nice to live in a colonial area. I found a KG2 at my local school Saturday.

  • @sms61
    @sms61 Год назад

    I think I know where you guys were hunting, I live in Dartmouth and hit a few spots like that. I think that little area you were questioning what it was is actually a cold storage area for keeping perishables cool, at least that's what I've been led to believe, like an indoor root cellar so to speak. Good to see Mark sporting the Boston Bruins hat too, you know you're a true native when you see that patch. There's so many places you'd love to hunt here, especially 1700's and indian stuff. Good to see you in my neck of the woods and hope you come back for some really good sites to hunt.

  • @granvillewooster7673
    @granvillewooster7673 Год назад

    Beautiful property 👍👍❤️

  • @laureng6412
    @laureng6412 Год назад +4

    As a college student, wish I had that kind of time! Looks like a blast!

  • @andrewhibbard1820
    @andrewhibbard1820 Год назад +1

    I believe the odd hole could be an old smoke house

  • @Sube-Tube
    @Sube-Tube Год назад

    I've seen a few old rock foundations around my house in nh and I've always been tempted to metal detect them

  • @dawncarpenter9869
    @dawncarpenter9869 Год назад

    If you find anything from the families Dudley or Bradstreet in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My great... Grandpa Simon Bradstreet was the first mayor of MBC.

  • @Langonica
    @Langonica Год назад

    Welcome back to your old stomping grounds!

  • @HistoryRevisiteduk
    @HistoryRevisiteduk Год назад

    Very enjoyable content , thanks for taking us with you 👌🏻🧑‍🦯🌲

  • @jeffbettez4355
    @jeffbettez4355 Год назад

    CHIG!! You drove RIGHT BY my house in RI and didnt stop by!! 😧😅😅

  • @pomgrant7680
    @pomgrant7680 Год назад

    The little out cove ,the top stone did look like it might have some writing on it ,.check it out ,let us know fo sur.......

  • @poohhoney816
    @poohhoney816 Год назад

    Hey Beau....Casper here...if you drove on the Ma. turnpike - then you drove right by me
    I live right behind one of the rest stops...I could have met you
    The room could have been like others have said - a root cellar - though many times the whole cellar was for storage
    It could have been for ice storage also - they would cut huge blocks out of a lake or pond and the block or blocks would last for month
    until the "ice box" was invented. They also created small rooms under the floor to hide from the early indians.
    You should if possible - try running your coin over the cellar walls - i have many friends that have found small caches of coins and small
    firearms in between the cellarhole rocks - some times other relics.

  • @kevinhavens8289
    @kevinhavens8289 Год назад

    It was a secret room like u said to hide their treasures that’s my type of thinking anyways lol I’d a dug it out lol

  • @dartmart9263
    @dartmart9263 Год назад

    You should go metal detecting in and around Hockomock Swamp, in October or thereabouts. Now THAT’S an experience you’ll remember till your dying day!
    But, whatever you do, don’t go alone!