Metal Detecting Adventure: The Great Pumpkin Settlement Hunt
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Join me on this long metal detecting, exploring adventure. I travel up the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia at the request of a RUclips fan of mine (Rich) to evaluate and offer insight into various archaeological features located on his property. In the first half of the video we be walk and talk about the various abandoned structures there to include a very old graveyard, several stone foundations, a bank barn, a spring and even a lime kiln. In the second half we metal detect and find evidence of Civil War activity and colonial activity in the form of a beautiful Spanish silver coin from the 1700's. We even discover an old dump with bottles and a really cool pumpkin.
If you have property and would like to do something similar while I make a video of the experience, drop me an email and let's try to set something up. I hope you enjoy the video. Thanks Rich!
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Metal Detecting Adventure: The Great Pumpkin Settlement Hunt
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So nice of you to help all of us understand how to be better relic hunters and use the equipment.
Wow. Really cool place. It always fascinates me a great deal to see these types of places, whether in person or watching something like this. How there used to be people that lived their lives there and had their homes there and now it is all basically gone and forgotten. Kind of sad really, but in a way that deeply fascinates me... how time goes on.
Fantastic video! Loved it! Thanks to Rich for having Beau over!
Great video chigg! I've been a fan the last 4yrs now. Love your vids! I've always loved history and you make it fun and entertaining. Its exciting and interesting to see you dig up an item that hasnt been seen or touched in over 100yrs. So keep the adventures coming and continuing to dig up and preserve our country's history. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Man...... beautiful property. Wow.
Building new over old, using old materials to create the new. An old Cistern enlarged adding new materials. That many graves tells me it's older than you're guessing. Great you're helping a new detectorist , planting the seed "It's here" believe and dig.
I like that guy, he seemed very nice. Ide like to see more vids of you and him and his historic property. Ide also like for you to start selling chigg gear again! I want to buy a chigg shirt!
I enjoy just walking terrain like that.
I have to say I look at rivers, fields, homesites, and woods in a whole new different way now
since I’ve been watching your videos. Don’t take them for granted anymore. Congrats on the
Spanish Real
Your host was new to the hobby, but I was jumping around the living room in disbelief when you unearthed that real. Amazing find! Great adventure Beau.
Green Mountain metal Detecting also found a reale.
I really enjoyed this video,Beau.Especially the analytical aspect of how the different time periods of artifacts and structures fit together.I look forward to more of this style of informative video.
Looks like you two had a really good time, that townsite was wicked cool. Nice Confederate Bullet... very nice Spanish Riel, 1784 nice. Did you find the Mill Site? very good hunt Beau, Thanks for sharing.
Wow what a fun site to sort through! Awesome reale! Using your bare hand to scrape through all that glass made me wince. lol. -Matt.
Nice Reale, very interesting site. I enjoyed the video. Thanks Beau.
That pumpkin....drownded 😂🤣
That was a lot of fun thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Good deducting! What an incredible lesson for Rich, something he couldn't get anywhere else.
I lol'd quite a few times throughout this video..really enjoyed myself tonight!!
Thanks so much for all your videos.. What makes your content some much better than the rest is that you actually teach us , show us real world use of the Garrett machines (as opposed to the Vacuum Boys and such).
Being a new AT Max user, its been invaluable. Your insight of the land's history is also very interesting.
I bet u made a wonderful memory for that young man
Very interesting exploration. A few nice discoveries and a whole lot of knowledge shared. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing I enjoyed the experience. Looking forward to your next adventure.
Thanks for bringing us along on your adventure! Congrats on the Spanish Reale! That one is still on my bucket list. Happy Hunting and always best of luck! ~ Gypsy
What a great site! If you go back you will definitely need an assistant. Just thought I'd let you know I'm available. Lol! I Love the fact that you take the time to educate your viewers about history. One of my favorite subject. HH! 😊 God Bless!
Love the videos, i don’t metal detect or treasure hunt, but i do like to explore the wilderness and old houses, I’m from Texas and one of my favorites is arrowhead hunting and searching Texas independence war relics
Great video Mate , BTW wishing you and the Family a very Merry Christmas and a safe one from myself and my Family from Bribie Island , Queensland Australia .
I enjoyed your bird call.
Love the idea of wild pumpkins! I keep putting ours in the woods behind our house. That pumpkin would be damaged and broken if was pitched!
Hi Chigg, wow that was so cool! How awesome a place to live Happy Hunting and Best of Luck Rich !!
Thanks for a great video.
Michele
Good morning. Virginia looks like a beautiful place in the world to be. I do love the History of the United States of America.
I enjoy your videos I've often wondered if you have a son or a daughter that will inherit all of the really neat things you have found maybe you can open your own museum one day
Great vid very interesting to watch
I think you guys did great , it’s cool you gave the guy your finds.
This is great content I hope you get to explore more private land in the us
Beau you are the man. Best wishes from the uk 👍
Thanks for another adventure with "The Chigg" always great information!
Awesome Chig, I really enjoyed watching this explore. Brilliant, thank you. x
Great video really interesting and your hints are the best part for me. One suggestion from me wear your glasses.👓 👀😎
What a great video. Hope you enjoyed the snowfall this week. Im up in Virginia on assignment and Im loving the history.
That was a fun hunt
Man, it would have been awesome seeing you there digging and detecting with them. You have to get together with the Chigg one day. Lots of us would love to see it.
Graveyard next to the water supply .. Nice. Now I am against digging in a cemetery for the most part, but if it's private property and you're not actually digging up graves then have at it with a detector when it's that old, it's not hurting nobody. I agree, I don't look at the depth, I bend with the pointer and rub the surface and dig as I go. Great vid and HH
Its very interresting what you know, you know everything! I like to listen and i learn in every video at least something. Thanks!
What a beautiful property! Great video!
i just bought the audiobook, thanks for the recommendation
Rich is a awesome guy!
Singular oaks... you see them often in the middle of ag fields because... they used the large oaks (here's where my ignorance shows because I don't know the actual terms, but...) to move large farm equipment through the property... using rope or chain and somehow they're able to pull the equipment to exact places, or plowing, or getting equipment out of the mud (I know there's terminology for the physics of it all, possibly having to do with a fulcrum..??) But, that's from a very old farmer's mouth.
Sounds logical
Or a shade tree for the animals.
I think you are referring to a "donkey" which was used to help move logs. Easier to get the ox or donkey to go downhill while the log goes uphill. That's a steep hill. They used them alot in the Adirondaks and Canada for logging.
Nice array of finds. Congrats on the rial.
PS - I agree about those trash finds. McCormick extracts were invented in 1889, and that bottle looks 1890s. Looks like some jug pieces maybe some 1880s Ironware in those shards.
Great vid chigg as usual I’m a new subscriber but watched most of your stuff you are a mine of information keep up the good and thanks for doing them 👍from Liverpool England
Should read good work my bad lol
Great video. Wishing you and yours a safe and merry christmas chigg and a happy new year.🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒
Team of Rivals is one of my favorite books. I’ve listened to it twice. Also nice hat!
Love your content Chigg. Sitting here on a rainy Saturday enjoying your channel. Thank you for the educational part to your shows too.
i loved this mystery,,,,what a fun time!!!!
LOL...I thought you said we just jumped a cottonmouth snake! I was thinking why in the world is he doing a close up? Get out of there! Then it was a cute bunny..lol....listen carefully I learned...
Mark Scheurich I did the same lol!! all of his snake videos I guess
Another great video from the Chigg !
Amazing adventure! Great video.
It’s not a petter spoon pre 1600’s ?...sssss oh I don’t really know but I definitely loved the show and your friend was awesome 👏 thank you for your help buddy and hope too see him again cpt ‘Chigg..right you can do another video right chigg , we’ll have a good day and hope the coffee is hot 🥵,,,,,,, wooo
Come to Alabama. I've got an 1830's plantation with some civil war history. House is still standing.
Send him an email.
Great video Beau. Thanks 👍
Wow the coin is soooooo cool!!!!! Would not doubt that the foundations might have some of the head stones and or markers in them as well. Learning alot about this hobby from your videos. Thanks again History is so cool!
Cool video chigg
Awesome! More book recommendations! It would be very interesting to get in a Aqauchigger book and reading club.
Great video.... Thanks for sharing....👍👍👍👍
I know alot about the lime. My papaw drove a lime truck for yrs and always come and covered our garden w it. So cool how they made that wall just amazing!
Great adventures with mr . Chiggs.
I would really love to see you do your thing on some part of the Oregon trail.
Yes please do more of these type of videos.
I learn so much about detecting and the stuff u find and tell us about! And the places u show! Just awesome. I can always find a video of yours to watch ...idk if I'll ever get them all watched... lol love it I find stuff. But usually don't know what it is lol I'm learning tho
Enjoyed this vid much.
Wish I had some good places,you sure would be welcome. Thanks for the video.
Entertaining and educational as always. Thanks, Beau.
How do you not age! Other than the frequent changes in facial hair, you maintain your youth in every way! As an old man, I'm a tad jealous.
Great video chig.....enjoyed it alot....after all its not all about digging....its the history mystery! If ur ever in scotland give me a shout! GL & HH
You came to Virginia! 🙋
I love finding pumpkin patches! Or other rouge gardens!
Beau lives in VA lol
:O
Man you just keep on truckin aint ya, good work man
You rock chigg! Last few vids have been awsome. Luv seeing ya share your knowledge of our hobby. Youre like our god father. Lol. Its funny. My diggin buddy is always losin stuff too. Seems redundant.
I love stuff like this !
Very very good video thanks
Enjoyed that video very much ! Go back soon. Happy Holidays to you and yours🎄⛄❄☃
man Beau that coin was probably laying there the whole 233 years before you came along an found it :)
Thank you for the information on the digs
I am speculating that pioneers left some Oaks alone so they could utilize the acorns. Later generations just saw lumber. That's my guesstimate anyhow.
Loved the video. Thanks for sharing👍🏻
This is awesome...
Awesome.
Great hunt can't wait for part 2
Mmmm....dump pumpkins. Memories of youth.
awesome video. I like the format. keep doing them, along with all your normal stuff.
Chigg your really clever 🤗
Great video...loved it. Hope to see more.
Hey chigg, the reason you couldn't find the chimney piles an alot of the older bricks is because; I'd say they used them to fill in the old well. I'd say where you found the coin is pretty close to one of the old home sites. Now that's just my guess. I've seen in the past they use alot of the old rock piles an bricks to fill the wells in. Why? Because it just works good when filling them up. Great video look forward to seeing what you uncover when you get back to that property with rich. Another great video. As always; happy an safe hunting. 😁👍👍
Another good one, thank you.
Great narrative. Thanks for sharing
Fantastic fun. I do genealogy and my thought was old census records should show who was there. I am sure that with the local historical society could help if he has a map of his property.
Great interesting video.
Very good video!
that was an awesome adventure; what fun
Beau, I think the number tag you found was a coal miners tag. The kind they hung on a board to know who was in the mine in case of an accident.
They’re also tool tags.
If youre ever in ktown, i would love to share a few spots just to see what turns up. Its nice diggin with someone in large areas. Relics seem to hide in the craziest places. Next to trees, under logs, or anywhere hard to reach. Lol
The wall by the spring could have been to protect the source and part of an old spring house for cold storage?
Would the copper piece be part of a wall tie or chimney tie?
Nice Spanish coin! Nice Confederate bullet! Neat horseshoe pieces.
Maybe the woodlot has been used for a long time and the shoes were from horses skidding logs?
It was cool your friend invited you to learn and share!
The one side of my family came from the Shenandoah valley (big calf pasture) and were there from approximately 1720 to 1840. Who knows, those graves might belong to my relatives.
Strange such a large old graveyard with no comparably aged foundations.