Relics of War Uncovered in the Mountains of Vermont | Treasure Hunting Adventure
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The snow has left the mountains and I’m finally able to take my ATV to a place I’ve been looking forward to since October. The things I find are some of the most interesting and historically significant to date!
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Alternative story line 1.
On a clear moonlit night in November 1745. A small meteor lands in upstate Vermont near a remote farmstead. From inside the smoking rock, a sizzling pod of goo leeks onto the frozen ground laying there until a stream awakens from the late winter slumber [June 1746] . Space Toad has arisen. Hungry, it searches for anything. Spotting a strange two legged creature near the stream, Space Toad emits a slightly sweet smelling gas from its dorsal glands. The biped suddenly becomes dehydrated and sleepy. Space Toad slowly slides over and starts covering the Vermonter in its digestive juices. Some hours later all that is left is some brass items that the alien could not consume. Tired after its meal, it makes a nest of branches and twigs. To awaken sometime in the future from its hibernation..
chris huston ::: LOL!!! I immediately thought about the old B&W movie "The Blob"...
You're so funny and a good story teller! lol
I was thinking alien too.
That long flat piece of metal with the curved portion is a trigger guard that is broken and flattened out.
My thought exactly
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Yes - at 8:34 - I agree with the trigger guard from a rifle/musket. Chuck in Kansas
I concur back in the early days of firearms trigger guards were very ornate for the most part.
I concur
Enjoy your videos! The brass item that you refer to as a mug handle (found around the 8:43 mark of the video), I believe is a bent and broken brass trigger guard...likely rifle/musket, possibly flint lock, but no newer that percussion.
One of the things I really like about your videos is the comments you share throughout the day. It helps understand your mind set as you are detecting. Many years ago I worked as a professional archaeologist and was often out alone looking for prehistoric Native American sites in my home state. I would have loved to have been able to record my thoughts on what I was looking for and why I picked certain areas to concentrate on.
So glad to hear you enjoy that, thanks for watching!
The long brass piece with the curly bit is a broken trigger guard from a musket. Nice find!
Thank you! I'm so excited when I see you have posted. You are so interesting. I'm a 70 year old, all my life, New Englander! Love how you bring as much history as possible into your finds! So appreciated. If I'd known about this when I was younger I would have given it a try :)
If you can walk you still can. Give it a try. Looks like fun.
I have neuropathy and use a cane, but I use the shovel as my cane when metal detecting. Oh and I’m over 70. Your videos are the best, I said it before and you have never disappointed me. Can’t wait til the next one and keep up the research. I have two detectors, a Garrett AT PRO and a Whites XLT.
Thanks for watching, Diane!
In this video you said people ask you why so very many abandoned home sites and cellar holes in Vermont...It is because of the 3 to 4 years in a row of severe cold and little to no growing season at all in the early 1800's. This was caused by a volcanic eruption on the other side of the world from Mount Tambora-- whose huge ash clouds changed the weather for that long in its whole path around the world so severely. It was a terrible time and all the settlers in Vermont who had to go through this suffered so greatly it caused the mass exodus due to this weather and there are the cellar holes you find there now... It lost Vermont such a huge % of its population that it didn't recover those numbers of total population until well into the 1900's. The very worst year was called the Year without a Summer and can see links Year Without a Summer - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C (0.7-1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter ... In the early Autumn when corn was in the milk it was so thoroughly frozen ...
1815 eruption of Mount Tambora - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora was one of the most powerful in recorded history, with a ... This brief period of significant climate change triggered extreme weather and harvest failures in many areas around the world. .... The scale of the volcanic eruption will determine the significance of the impact on climate and ...
Thanks for all the fantastic info, Terri! I'd never heard this before!
I think they called it a mini ice age, or something like that.
The eruption was in 1815, and the particulate matter thrown into the atmosphere reflected so much sunlight that 1816 was known as the "Year Without a Summer." New England, in particular, experienced a massive crop failure.
I'm guessing the the industrial revolution played a role.
I have seen the same slimy ball in west sweden in the forests in Arvika where i live. BEST VIDEOS ON THE NET GMMD.
Thanks Friend!!
Opening scene is great- busting out the doors like the Dukes of Hazzard. Nice military finds- kinda odd finding that stuff so far away from conflict but great that dude made it home and hopefully found peace and tranquility next to that stream. Great weather, great adventure, quality video as usual-
that brass piece early in the video looked like a part of a trigger guard, GL & HH
Surely Eddie can scrounge up a Squatch suit and run across the ridge behind you someday when we least expect it, what a hoot that would be!
We'd all wet our knickers!
Haha we've talked about that
Blob is a type of slime mold which (unbelievably) is mobile. You find many thimbles because the farmers used them to sew grain bags shut in the fields. The disc with a flat side and a hole through it looks much like a Bridge Washer. The round piece with a tapered slit though it is a Bolster from a knife. Love the old stuff in your great videos!
Thanks for all the information, Jim!
I agree on the slime. Perhaps if you had moved it a bit we could have seen to what it was attached, if anything.
They do move as Jim N. indicated.
Poking that slimy ball of goo is how the movie "The Blob" started!
That's what I thought of haha
Hey Brad,
I was thinking about the viewers who question the existence of so many cellars.
Out here in Montana, homesteads were offered by the government to anyone who would attempt to improve the land via farming or ranching. Each homestead was a half section or 320 acres, a section being a square mile consisting of 640 acres.
So when I'm out detecting and find a cellar, I generally only need to look at the corners of the sections to find additional cellar holes.
Granted, this was closer to 1900. But just thought there might be a similar explanation for your area.
Great video!
Awesome, thanks for the info!
Your "stein handle" is actually much better than you were thinking. It's actually a trigger guard from a colonial era Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle! Great finds man. Keep it up!
Thanks a lot!
My favorite Channel for sure!! :-) Being a New England boy, I love the woods. Your adventures are awesome!
Thanks so much Jim!
Very nice discoveries on a beautiful day. Thanks for sharing your beautiful State. See you again real soon.
Thanks Jay!
Wow... What a difference 4 years makes.. ❤❤❤✌
Bennington Vermont had a revelutionary war battle as well as the naval action on Champlain
I agree with Jon Lennon on 9:00 is a trigger guard. Fun hunt, thanks for sharing.
Beaver Fever! LOL I remember when that happened back in the 80's in my hometown in Berkshire County! Blast from the past! LOL
Awesome hunt! The hardest part is “getting there.” You done good! Safety first - God Bless and Happy Hunting!
great video Brad. Love the Civil war buckle and buttons, keep the videos coming please!!!
The handle thingy with the finger tangs is most likely the rear part of the trigger guard to an old Kentucky style rifle. The pewter thingy with the slot looks like the base plate where the small blade of a knifes tang would slide through to help hold it in place. Probly would have had a bone or wood handle. To bad you didn't find the other half to that fantastic Civil war buckle. Again it looks like you found another site where a family lived for three generations and then one went off to fight in the Civil War! Great finds, congrats to you Brad!
Thanks for all the info, Richard!!
Good old fashioned washer I think? That slime is crazy! Never seen that before.
Best opening of any RUclips video!!!!!
Glad to hear you think so!
The small disk with the hole it was a colonial pizza cutter blade. They only made thin crust pizza back then.
No deep dish? What a truly hard time to be alive
Your item at 8:37 is part of a rifle trigger guard. Congrats on all your finds! ;-)
The videos keep getting better and better. The music, the lighthearted q&a the artist shot of the stone wall by the brook and the pic of the cellar all made this the.more enjoyable.
Thank you.
Thanks so much, Rich!
9.02 maybe part of the trigger guard of a pennsylvania rifle.
Yay for friday and a new video!
Fun dig...a LifeStraw might be a nice addition to your pack. Light weight and ever so handy when you're thirsty for cold, pure water. Maybe Deep Woods Off might also be a Samsquanch repellent. ;-))
The stein handle looks like the under grip and part of the trigger guard on a muzzle loader. My side lock isn't old but resembles that.
I think the pewter piece with the slit could be a knife bolster. The heavy brass strip looks to be a trigger guard.
Great video mate some nice finds . 👍👍👍
OK, what can I say you’ve got me hooked. Great video, beautiful scenery and interesting finds.
Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great to hear it Ian, thanks again!
Thanks! I could sit by that rushing stream all day. So peaceful.
The snow is gone and the sun is shining! Hopefully for you as well coming season. Again a great video, thx brother, all the best!
Thanks as always Arjan!
Funny that you should bring up the question of all those abandoned homes, because I've been meaning to write you about what I learned this winter regarding that. I was reading an excellent book called Old Rail Fence Corners, actual firsthand accounts of the first settlers of Minnesota in the mid-19th century, and several of them wrote about leaving the harsh mountain life in New England for the fertile prairies of Minnesota!
Wow, thanks for the info Dan!
My biggest problem with your videos is that the one I'm watching is great but something about the next is making it hard to be patient. I really appreciate your thoughtful and intelligent approach to detecting rural and forested areas. You're pretty good reading the area and imagining where human activity occured. Another excellant video.
Thanks for the kind words Doug, I suppose that’s a good problem to have!
Look forward to your upcoming videos
What you are calling a mug handle could be a trigger guard from a musket, or, part of one. Great hunt.
Thanks Wayne!
GMMD you should look at Amazon they sell a "LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for Hiking, Camping, Travel, and Emergency Preparedness, LSPHF017". It's a really good idea to keep one on the 4-wheeler since if you are walking you won't usually go as far from home as you will with a vehicle of some kind. You can never predict if you or someone else will need the water. The cost is not a bank buster either!
Thanks Mary!
Great video Brad!!I really liked the wedge and Indian! You had a great day!!
Thanks Britt!
I've heard from an old timer back in the day that back in the day when Vermont was first getting settled that they thought that all the germ's and sickness ran through the water in the river valley's, so they built on the mountain top's. Don't know how true that is but just what I was told as a young en. Good vid bud, no Bigfoot yet...lol
Interesting, Jeff that isn't one I've heard. Thanks!
Loved the beginning of this video 👍👍
Not only were there opportunities opening up in the past in the west and south, but there were economic fluctuations that made subsistence hard in marginal climatic areas. This as well as the draw of work in cities put pressure on rural areas to depopulate.
Something to keep in mind when finding service buttons: the farming economy was kind of tanked when the civil war was over. Many guys were coming home to farms that didn't fair well. Either they had gone fallow no one working it while they were gone and they had to recultivate the fields, barns in disrepair, etc., or their poor missus was running the homeplace by herself and while raising the kids. Hard to plow and sew fields with a baby on your hip. Either way, this means hard times. So lots of veterans had to wear their uniform for years after they got back - because it was their only serviceable or attainable clothing until the farm was back to being profitable. Plus, property taxes may have spiked, and this lead to further debt.
Anyways, this is why you don't see many uniforms in the veteran's decendant's closets and several on a homeplace instead.
You are so incredibly lucky to live in a state that is not only detector friendly but also ATV friendly! New York State hates everything but....taxes and corruption lol
Was nice to see the mountains once again. Great finds and, until next time GL&HH.
Thanks a lot, Ben!
I'd have a subwoofer magnet with me! GREAT vids man!!!
You always talk about displaying your items, it would be really cool to do a video on the things you have collected over the years. I really enjoy your videos.
Could the gob of goo have been under a black cherry tree. Often, they will produce a jelly like sap to heal themselves. Sometimes adding up to a burl years later.
My wife’s family moved from Fairfax, Vermont to Stockton, Ny in the early 1800’s and then to Sidney, Oh by 1840. I assume they liked the warmer climes. I am an American by birth and a Southerner by the grace of God.
Me too! I'm in Alabama. I had many relatives who fought in the War of Northern Aggression....all for Dixie!
@@jimmyraythomason1 ray, I had six great grand uncles killed in the civil war and none of their families owned slaves. Two Reneau boys and two Robinson boys. The Reneau family didn’t own them because their father,Rev. Russell Reneau was a Presiding Elder in the Methodist Church and the Robinsons did not because they bred their own - they had 15-17 children. They fought for states rights and not for slavery.
Great video Brad,love ur attention to detail&how u set camera up & get video like u just driving/walking by I know u take pride in ur channel because of these extras&we all appreciate it buddy HH--Brian
Thanks so much, Brian!
I live in New Hampshire and I love metal detecting in New England. There’s just so much history in the area.
So weird the star jelly! I didn't know about this
3:55 I had a 'The Blob' moment there as you were poking it. Good thing there was no radioactive meteors around. 14:43 looks like a knife handle guard, the shape is rounded at one end of the hole and pointed at the other.
Great video. 😊 I don't know if someone have sad this or not. But as you commented to the abandoned homesite, they maby left because it was hard times. Here in Sweden between 1850-1920 it was really hard times too. And because of that almost 1.5millions, 1.500.000 people emigrated too america, the new world of hope. There are so many homesites left in the woods close where I live, and then we are talking about around 100 or more in about 20 kilometers radius. Maby not all of them moved too america, but closer the larger villages, where the circumstanses where better. So intresting 🙂 looking forward to the next video!
Very interesting Nicklas, thanks for commenting!!
Antique things are always interesting! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. Early to mid 1700s that part of Vermont was a lot like frontier. As it started getting more industrialized people move closer to the towns. My ancestors settled in the Sunderland area just prior to 1700.
Round pewter thingy with slit is part of knife handle where it meets blade.
Man I love this channel 👍 very good land and finds keep them coming my friend 😆 👍 hh from ireland
Glad to hear that Patrick!
My guess for the pewter with the slit was from a knife handle where the blade went into the wood.
Wow I love that rock wall by the creek. The Gold rush sent them west. Another great video thanks. Very cool finds.
Finally, back to Huntington! Excited to see all the places you will visit!
Thanks Sherrie!
You believe there are Sasquatch too! No problem. So do many, many people!
I think of how many times I was hunting during my younger years and would look at the area and think to myself, just think, "I might be the only human to have set foot on this piece of land". Well, your metal detecting has dispelled any of those thoughts. You have been in some of the most remote places I've ever seen when you 'hear that special tone' and fetch a button, buckle or penny from 10" beneath the soil's surface! LOL!! Who knows the riches that I've stepped upon during my years of hunting in the woods!
Looks like I'lI need to buy one of those detectors and take it hunting with me. If I miss out on any deer venison for my stew, as the saying has it: "Que Sera, Sera"! Who knows? Maybe, I'll dig up a rare coin instead!
Thanks for the adventure! I love going to the mountains with you. Good video! HH
Thanks for watching, Diana!
The reason for leaving the cellar hole areas was 1. Industrialization made the farmers children including the daughters move away to work at the factories of New England.
2. The beautiful farmland west of New England was a magnet for New England farm families.
I hadn't considered industrialization, thanks for the info!!
I tipped a canoe over years ago in the Yellowstone river. A few months later I was in more pain than I had ever felt. Turned out to be giardia. Where I was at there was lots of beaver and deer activity.
"NICE" loved this one and the sasquatch structure yupper another off the wall believer in them. Earlier in this same video you passed another structure that looked squatchy as well.! And Brad shakes his head and Eddie makes a noise and grins slyly. I look forward to Fridays as it is Green Mountain Metal Detecting Day here! Some really cool finds Bro and what is so great is when you share the history and research you have done! Tell the Edster hibernation time is OVER! Ha Ha
Haha glad to hear that, Eddie will be in a video in the next couple weeks!
When you live in a cold climate you make a lot of quilts and that is why you have thimbles
I think the short piece of metal by the oil lamp part, is a piece of a rifle.
the hollow round thing with the slit is a bag closing item , they runned 2 leather stripes thrue which were closed by knots and mooved it up and down to open or close the bag , i found similar from the same age here in bavaria and got told it was made for that task
the Blob.....saw it in a movie when i was a kid
Great video as I sit drinking a beer getting me anxious to get out detecting this weekend thanks !
Awesome. It is always nice to wake up to a new video. See you soon. Awesome adventure
Great to hear that, Pat!
Nice finds! I’m almost certain that is an officers buckle you pulled and it’s definitely Civil War era. Maybe it belonged one of Vermont’s Berdan Sharpshooters. The only action in Vermont that I’m aware of during the Civil War was a group of confederate soldiers traveled out west and up into Canada. They crossed back into the U.S. just north of St. Albans; road into St Albans and robbed the bank there of roughly $250,000 dollars in gold (I believe it was gold but it could have been currency) they made a dash for the border with the citizens of St Albans right behind them. They realized they were about to get caught and buried the gold somewhere north of St Albans and the Canadian border, got across the border and the Vermonters followed them right into Canada. The soldiers got away but somewhere between St Albans and Canada the gold is still buried as it was never found. The south was desperate for money at that point in the war and that was the reason for the St Albans raid. At least that’s been my understanding of it.
Thanks so much for the info CJ!
That round pewter thing with a slit in it looks like the front piece of a knife handle.
Awesome video and finds mate thanks for sharing enjoyed watching 👍👍👍👍🇦🇺
Darren Mcnamara hi mate it would be awesome living over there were you are looks way better then boring old tassie lol would love to go detecting there thanks for checking my videos out mate appreciate it 👍👍👍👍👍
This is my new fav channel, thanks!!!!
Thank you!!
"Ba in".. So hip. So urban sounding.
That is the panic button cover from their wagon.
Yup, nothing worse than beaver fever! LOL! Sorry, couldn't resist commenting on that one!
The only altercation I'm aware of for Vermont was when a few Johnny Rebs robbed the banks in St. Albans.
mystery piece of pewter might be the metal cap on a knife handle. The hole certainly looks like the shape of a knife blade cross-section.
Great video, awesome finds! Glad to see the snow is finally gone up there and you can get back out there exploring. Take care, GL and HH!
Thanks a lot!
Brad , Great video once again. I’m glad your able to post weekly again, your videos are always interesting. Thanks again for sharing your part of the country.
You and your family have a safe and fun holiday weekend.
Thanks again🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks so much James!
Another great video! Thank you.
Nice finds, enjoyed from the moment you busted the ATV out the shed door. 😎
I think the round piece with a slit in it is a bolster cap for a knife or something related. The slot looked tapered to fit around the blade
The pewter piece with a slot in it looks like it could be the cover that goes over where the tang and handle of a knife meet.
I think you're right, Robert!
The large brass piece may have been a concho to a horse bridle or saddle. I found old chonchos in WY and AZ , and wound up putting them on my chapps. Most conchos have two slots side by side , so maybe not , but possible. Your adventures are great! - ( star jelly? ) hummm
3 battles, 1 raid in Vermont during the Revolutionary war
1 raid during the Civil War...St. Albans Raid
enjoyed!
Nice Early May Hunt Brad ! Its been a long Winter ! Actually Brad, Vermont is known for the most Northern Civil War Action that occurred ! Google, "Raid on St. Albans, Vermont" That is a very very interesting multi-generational home site. The date of mid 18th to mid 19th century. Or, French and Indian War to Post-Civil War. Your Historically significant finds coupled with the pristine locations would be gold to a person studying for an advanced degree in in early American History. All-in-all, it is an excellent hunt when you find historical relics and can give a date or dates to the site. I enjoyed your Adventure my friend,,, Thank you for sharing :-))
Thanks as always!
If you look at the wider end of the slit there seems to be a small burr or roll from the spine of the blade being repeatedly pushed into it with force over years of use
AWESOME BUCKLE STILL ON THE BUCKET LIST YET TO FIND JUST A PART OF ONE LIKE THAT..WELL DONE!!!
That "mystery piece" with the slot could be the piece of a lantern for the wick to pop up through.