Metal Detecting A Poignant Reminder Of The American Civil Wars Reach
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Metal detecting in Maine with the ol' scallywag Cap'n Billy. Today we search the yard and woods of an old 1700's center chimney Cape that has withstood the rigors of time. During our search, I found a Civil War-era Maine militia button deep underground. Nearby, just a stone's throw away is the grave memorial marker of a Maine soldier that was killed in battle. His body was shipped home from the faraway southern battlefields only to be lost at sea.
About Aquachigger:
I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure, metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed by most people who are not familiar with outdoor adventures and nature. I keep my RUclips "Aquachigger" channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
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I just love hearing that guy Billy talk, he's really down to earth, easy going. Thanks Chigg.
lol hate to ruin it for you but I know him personally. It's definitely a character he is putting on....he doesn't talk like that 🤣
The rock with the dished out area is generally what we call a chicken rock. It held water for chickens to drink. We found one at a pre-civil war house that was in the middle of the Battle of Nashville. One the side was carved SWR 1859. The SWR was the initials of the owners at the time of the battle.
Great comment. Backstory!
Not sure about that having anything to do with chickens most likely where they may have ground corn, wheat or nuts especially since the house was built in 1799 and something else was probably there earlier
Another day with Capt'n Billy. I hope you enjoy this video.
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That's a reflector housing, with the plastic reflector missing. Like you use on a trailer or fence post. 😀👍
@ 9:59
So glad you guys included Todd. He's surely in for a shock meeting Billy. Some major culture shock there. LOL. Glad to see my favorite guys together.
These Maine trips recharge the Aquachiggers batteries. Glad to see Todd in the folds of Cpt. Billy’s companionship. Probably does a man good.
Hi from Syracuse NY
Great day for the chigger you are the only one who have a blessed day 👍❤🙏
Sweet Maine button great finds nickel Silver watch cover maybe huh!!!; )
That spout item at 22:05 is the top outside part of an umbrella or parasol. It's tacked into the wooden shaft and kind of is the equivalent of flashing on a chimney to keep the water from sliding down the inside. Take a look at most any cane type umbrellas/parasols (not the compact modern ones) and you should see a similar attachment at the peak.
Thanks Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Great hunt with Capt. Billy
Thanks Chigg, good show!
Thanks Chigg
Perfect video Todd, Billy, and the Ching!!
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Lovely historic house and that Maine button is a ripper Beau! And nice work with your Two Cents worth LOL. Another enjoyable outing with Cap'n Billy and Todd. Happy Fossicking mate! Warren.
A couple of nice finds on the day Chigg. Happy hunting and be well
You found some good things, and got your two cents worth also. Don't ever quit looking for that pot of gold, we love your adventures.
I have to join in the laughter whenever you "hehe"! LOL! We know you're not mean-spirited, but it has to be fun to find something someone else just missed.
Thanks for the videos!
The hammer like tool that Billy found looks a lot like an old Tinning iron. Heat it up to melt lead to form a lead seal between two pieces of tin.
An awesome button and a two cent piece!
CHiGG Cap Billy and TOD talk about Dream Team 😉😉😉😉😉😉
Chigg must have the best wife on RUclips.
I literally was just thinking that before I glanced down and saw your comment.
For, real!!A definite keeper!😀👍
@what now you have to be married a few times to understand.....
and only # 2?
Not to bad of a haul Chigg be safe and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
I love your videos so much! Thank you!♡
Love these NE trips man!!! Thank you:)
Nice finds👍👍👍
Those “all brass” UMC shot shells were being issued to Marines in 1944. Grandpa brought one back.
I’m 20 and love your videos Chigg been a longtime fan take me on your next adventure in NE! MA resident here.
Helluva find on the shell
Really very good video! Thanks
Chigg, you barked at the poor home owner! " Don't rub my button so hard" Haha!
Oops... I've seen some very rare relics turned to dust that way. It's heartbreaking.
❤wow all brass shot shell awsome
Home permissions are always fun … I enjoy digging thinks like skeleton keys, harmonica reeds and old toys. Congrats on picking out that 2 cent piece! 👍⚒🗝
Great Videos, Greetings from Austria!!!
Some good finds Chig. I think I like the brass shotgun shell with the shot in it the most. Enjoyed the video brother
Good finds chigg and Todd and billy always a good day to get out and detect
Great hunt! I really enjoyed the exchanges between all of you. Thanks
Good stuff fellas.
Lol i can listen to your closin theme song over an over👍 great digs,an Hello to Todd & Capn Billy.
around 11 minute mark that hammer shaped thing to me looked like it could have been part of a sway bar for a car or trucks suspension as smallish I would say 40's maybe 30's front in to car or truck but who knows could be to a tractor. Just my opinion and camera and real life I may think it is something else in person.
My very first 2 cent piece had been made into a button, with the reverse having beautiful scroll work..i had it like 3 months before i realised it was a 2 cent piece, i love that find. What a nice place to detect, Maine looks awesome.
All brass shotgun shell was also used to start tanks and air planes
Great time when you guys get together!
Looks like a lot of fun. : ) Chigg, I was metal detecting behind an island here on the coast of North Carolina today and met a fellow that said he is a friend of yours. We both said a lot of nice things about you. Thank you for inspiring my metal detecting. Truly. Today I found the usual fishing sinkers, caps, tabs, modern coins and a potted meat can that sounded like a huge pile of gold coins for about thirty minutes while I dug and dug with my t-rex scoop in chest deep water... I did find a gold ring with tiny diamonds and a silver toe ring too.
Thank you for the Videos. My inspiration Chigg.
Sweet Maine militia button Beau, I found one in the Piscataquis river in Doverfoxcroft. Man you have to come up sometime and hunt the river :)
I found a vintage ad for hercules suspenders from a 1895 newspaper in toronto
What a team!! Super fun stuff !!
Main looks real nice
One of my first times metal detecting I found a New York civil war button in the yard of an old school house in northern Wisconsin.
Even when finding "not too much".......... detecting in Maine is better than, well, just about anything else!
Good find
Nice.
My mother was from Maine and had a great great uncle that got killed at Gettysburg.
Great video Chiggs and gang ! 😎❤️
would love to see the inside of his house
Chiggy Chiggs finding Stuff 👍🏼🍺😅
ive noticed nearly anybody finds a old fashioned key they call it a skeleton key, that's not what a skeleton key is, I'm guessing people make this mistake thinking it looks a little like a human skeleton but a skeleton key is a key that can unlock all the lock in a given area eg lockers have different keys but a locksmith will make a key that will unlock all the lockers that's a skeleton key
Yes and no. Most of the time, at least in modern terms a key like you describe is called a master key. The big difference is that skeleton keys usually only opened the locks on the doors of a given building, where a master key can open all the locks on an entire property, or even just a bank of differently keyed locks like in your locker analogy. And skeleton keys are actually are so called because the keys do vaguely resemble bones.
Don't know if this was videoed in the past few days - if so, amazing to see that the Forsythia in Maine is just now beginning to bloom and here we are way into very late June (least to those of us in the Southeast!).
His videos are usually filmed 2 to 3 months prior to posting! That answers your question.
Your drawer handle escutcheon is actually an alarm clock base most likely a New Haven tin cased brasswork alarm clock. I also really like that Hubley Trooper cap pistol.
If the old barn was burned and the net was too far gone to use, I think they burned it to.
I would love a game of hand egg!!
Just want to say that it’s a real shame that Todd turned out the way he did! I loved the videos when you two would go to all the awesome places you guys went! Now when I see him in your videos it just kinda makes me sad that he treated you like that because I can tell you are a great guy Chigg whom a lot of us viewers would love to get to go on adventures with! Maybe one day you guys can work out your differences and make some more awesome content!
10:25, looks like a tie rod end off an old wagon or maybe a small old car...
since there were 2 of the stones w/ divots in them, i wonder if said divot was carved to hold onto a large log post that was a major upright for the barn. ill bet youd find several more that have sunk into the ground if you had gpr.
Great vid as always! Could the "starter" at 10.20 be a blacksmiths drift? Cant wait to see more of you on UK TV! Keep up the good work!
Great grounds...Those odd net weights are cool, I’ve found similar ones. What kind of VDI on those? I’m sure you’ve got a mass spectrometer laying about, or a specific gravity test would suffice to classify what’s lead and what’s not. Get the Lead out!
What’s the outro song lol?
So salty haha. Enjoy the videos with Capt. Billy!
Best credits ever!
title/name/description. Haha, it happens, just messing around.
Love the videos, Chig. The Fort Upper Tract videos were super interesting. I appreciate your outdoorsmanship and historical knowledge!
The credits song gets stuck in my head... is there a video of the full version that I've missed?
Lol take it easy, bud. Keep on keeping on. I'll keep watching. :)
Yeah that’s a brass shotgun round. They’re old but not to old. Your right Chigg they’re collectible
POOR TODD AGAIN YOUR STILL THE MAIN MAN ,NICE ONE .
Old place for sure
Do the homeowners typically let you keep your finds or do they want them? I need a pin pointer.....and a better metal detector.
Cool find Chigg 👍👌 always enjoy watching. I once found a 64 Kennedy half with Kennedy on both sides . I took it to a coin shop and they told me it was just a novelty coin made back then and wouldn’t you know I ended up losing it years ago , it was my good luck piece .
Dang, too bad you lost it. We're you ever able to open it? Usually those coins can be opened and have a tiny secret compartment inside. There is also a chance that it was a mint error, in which case you might have lost something truly special, but I doubt it, that's extremely rare!
@@justanotherfreakinchannel9069 that’s a good question. It looked like a solid coin . I found it metal detecting . I know what you mean but I didn’t see a seam on the edge . To this day I regret losing it .
@@cheaplaughkennedy2318 the seam on those usually isn't on the edge, it's just inside the reeding on one face of the coin! And it's usually a really tight fit, very hard to see with the naked eye. I've come across one and seen several others find them as well, the best way I found to open it was to literally just drop it onto a wooden floor, it usually would just pop right open, though it did sometimes require a little additional force.
@@justanotherfreakinchannel9069 oh I see . Would there have been a difference in weight too because it felt solid . In other words proper weight for a half if I can remember. I mean I really looked the coin over because it was so unique . Anyway I’ll never know regrettably . Thanks for responding Logan 👍👌
@@cheaplaughkennedy2318 there probably is a tiny difference in weight, probably not really enough to be felt in the hand, but I'm sure a scale that is accurate to the ⅒ gram would probably be able to detect it.
Thats definitely a grind stone
or a bird bath. Could really be a grinding stone too...I have seen them in the woods where hickory trees grow. We called em nutting stones. Hickory nuts are tough to open and get the nut meat out of...Native folk would smash the nuts one after another in great numbers then boil them. the meats and fats from the nuts would rise to the top and the shells would sink to the bottom. the fats and meats would be skimmed off the top with a big feather. Hickory butter was a big trade item. Things could be fried in it or it could be used to make bland things better much like we use cow butter. This was a fun video. George.
4:20 I think that may be an area where someone was Using WWII firearms because you found the .45 bullets and that complete cartridge was a .30 Carbine both of which were used by the army in the 40s and 50s
Did you ever find the palisade walls at Fort Upper Track? Will you be going back to Fort Upper Track?
Hey Chigg and everybody else
Hey, Randle!
Those forsythia!
🤜🤛
I don't know about you but when I go metal detecting and I forget my reading glasses I go home and get them cuz it's really frustrating to find something you can't see what it is
I can’t understand why they don’t carry a magnifying glass
A pocket loupe would be a great tool to bring along
How do you know they don't?
@@joshsmith7176 well I have never once seen Chigg use one or ever even mention one. If he did have one he would probably forget it , am I right ? Lol
I think the stone could have been used to salt sheep
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The broken bottle was a Gordon's Dry Gin
I’ve got some Indian i me. I suspect they ground corn to make flour.
Can someone please tell me who sings the song
What happened to the fort sir ?
Poor Todd!
With nobody else but me lol
Hey Beau ! Eat a lobster or 3 for Me. Will Ya ?
"Wars"? I read there was only one!
The word wars wasn't used wrong the wars reach wasn't saying there was more that one war.
cant get it all but you can get some lol.
Im Southern & I have a really hard time understanding anything Capt Billy says! 😃
I'm a Mainer, grew up around a Downeaster....and can't understand them when they're excited. 🤣
A lot of metal detectors not a lot old targets . not a lot of rich people in1800s up there. go to new Hampshire .
Your modern coins the change in your car etc, do not have as much nickel and copper they have started using cheaper substitutes to make up for lack of copper and nickel. I was neat watching on discovery channel to history on the us mint. How each new coins design change is hand en graved on a giant rubber coin 🪙 then copied onto a stamp that after so many strikes they have to changed out. Unless by now they laser cut the coins. With the dollar fabric wearing out after so many hand changes goes back through a mint to see if their still usable. If not the bill 💵 gets destroyed and put through the process again. Most cash is recycled paper and denim mixed in. They ought to go to the fishing licenses rubber plastic holds up better.
What about a hat 👒 broach? Maybe
I think that is a hammer for corking a boat?......