I Found Stone Ruins in the Mountains Digging for Treasure!
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- On this adventure I find a some treasures lost over 200 years ago beneath the ruins of a New England home.
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That is called a "ball cufflink" they were also used to secure the top of women's collar.
I thought it could be the clasp to secure a cape at the neck.
I thought so too. 🥰
In my 1897 Sears catalog they called it a dumb-bell button for collars and cuffs.
That’s what I was leaning to ,pretty cool 💥😎💥
Colonial belly button piercing.
The D & H was first a coal company that then built a canal from Honesdale, Pa. to the Hudson River at Kingston, NY. to have access to the NYC area for coal sales. It later built Railroads. The C is either for Coal or Canal. The Wurtz Brothers owned it, stationary steam engines would lift the coal from the Carbondale mines, up to the top of Moosic Mt. where they would coast 10 miles or so to the Honesdale coal docks, and loaded on barges. The gravity section would later see the Stourbridge Lion, first locomotive to run in the U.S. on this section, 20 miles to the East the canal crossed the Delaware in the First Suspension Bridge in the U.S. the Roebling Bridge. Great Find, Great show as always.
Thanks for the history
Thanks for the history about that . It is a good thing to know ! I love the old history about that part of the U S
I live just a few miles from the D&H canal system in Orange County N.Y. Very cool find Brad !!
Does the "R.R." after the "D & H C Cos" maybe stand for "railroad"? Would the railway not be more likely to issue baggage tags, than the canal company?
Ron........right. I live in the village if "Wurtsboro, NY" and been her just short of 50 years. The village is called canal town by locals still today. The canal system runs into PA as well. I think it was to connect Philly to the Hudson River in Kingston NY which would connect it via the Erie Canal at Albany and points west. Railroad replaced the D&H canal system years later. I live on a lake named Wolf Lake in Wurtsboro NY that was used to regulate the water level in the canal system by releasing water through our dam into a stream running down the mountain to the canal. US Highway 209 runs north and south through the same valley from PA to Kingston NY. It was a stage coach route at first. Had small forts/taverns/inns along the way and used for safety when there was trouble with the local Indians early on. One locally was a restaurant we dined in for many years. Walls were two feet thick stone. Rt 209 was the first continues 100 mile long road in the country. Lots of history in our area. I fish the Delaware River dividing PA and NY and have crossed over the old Roebling Bridge many times. John Roebling built the Brooklyn Bridge in NY City after the sucess of the bridge named after him on the Delaware. Great video as usual. I can't wait for spring to get out my detectors and start hunting.
I watch several Metal detecting channels for years, mainly for the History aspect. I must say this has become my favorite. Brad detects some of the most interesting properties and is enjoyable and easy to listen to. I love the Hobby Myself, but do not live in an area that is even close to being as target rich as the Green Mountains. So this is the next best thing. Brads delivery makes it feel like your their with him, outstanding videos.
The thing that is so sweet about rings is how they get thin in spots after long wearing. It really evokes a sense of time and the life of the person who lived their life in that ring. My mother's wedding band was paper thin by the time she passed.
Those little tabs look like what holds the glass globe in an oil lamp. Cool finds as always!
Agree! The one with the hole would have the pin thread through it and you roll the wick up as it burns.
I bet time stood still for those that lost the clock key.
It was still right twice a day
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Love your videos especially closeups on the flora. My father used to call the chamber pot a guzzunda - it guzzunda the bed at night .
"74" is a luggage tag from the Delaware and Hudson railroad. A wikipedia page has a decent history and description.
Great video…thanks!
I concur that the “dumbbell" or barbell-shaped stud is a clothing fastener, ie cuff fastener. Cuff links were an improvement in flexibility/comfort, and they gave way to fancy and decorative cuff adornment. The simple, utilitarian dumbbell-style studs were more fitting to the plain and unadorned clothing of the Puritans.
The clothes iron I s commonly known as a sad iron. "Sad" is an Old English term for "solid" and hence the term "sad iron" is used to distinguish heavy, sturdy flat irons that each weighed 5 to 9 pounds. There were several styles of removable or quick release wooden handles used on sad irons. Wooden handles versus metal didn’t as readily transfer the heat from the iron to the user’s hand.
the 2 bronze balls are cufflinks for shirts. You also have found the iron for the shirt! Loic from France.
I use the first flat iron that I dug out of an old dump 50 years ago as a door stop, Still use it to this day.
Your content is always so well delivered. I applaud your clarity and professionalism
I agree, he should have his own show on the history channel..... he finds more stuff than Oak Island! 😂
Take a look at Mr. M.'s early videos. He's put in the work and it shows in the quality we all enjoy these days.
@@soho71 oak Island is a joke. Bet they plant what they find.
for the little brass chain, how about a pot or pan scrubber? For the bar-bell looking thing, my bet is cufflink. Oh, and iron's of that age had a detachable handle. You set the iron on top of you stove for a while, and keep the handle cool until you attach it when you're ready to use the iron.
My mother had an old iron that looks exactly like the one you found minus it’s handle. She sued it to prop open the back door. The other possession that interested me was a cast iron dog. She was I’ll as a child and a neighbor gave her that item as a gift. I doubt family who sold her home gave those two items a single thought as how precious they were.
The handle on that clothes iron may have been removable. You would sometimes have two (or more) iron bases... one was kept on the stove to heat up while you used the other. When that one cooled down you detached the handle and hooked it to the hot one.
Also, your "chamber pot" could be the top of a crock. Maybe used for pickling or fermenting.
The baggage tag, being so far away from it’s place of issue, is a particularly cool find. As was the wedding ring. I can just imagine a distraught woman realizing her ring is no longer on her hand. Great video and I hope you can get in another hunt or two before the white stuff starts to fall.
They are called sad irons, some Amish still use them today. I have several sizes plus a sad iron stove.
Brad, The clothes iron that you found was called a "sad iron", there was one removable handle that fit several irons to place on the wood stove so that they always had a hot iron to use. Your VT friend in Nixa, MO.
And that style most definitely had the removable handle. Source: My grandmother still used these when I was a boy up at their summer place on Lake Superior where they had no electricity or gas.
I'm sorry that I haven't been around lately but I've been busy on my farm and coping with a lose ! I lost one of my horses at the end of August ! Joker was my baby because I helped deliver him 27 years ago the 2nd of this coming April ! Joker had never been sick his whole life ! Even with doctor's help he passed away 2 days later ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you , your family and friends maybe doing next ! May our Creator bless all of you always 🙏❤ !
I feel extremely privileged, of all the times you've been detecting you just found an iron now. Not only did I find an iron on my first dig I also found an iron trivet!
Throughly enjoy your vids!
Always top notch high quality content. Thanks Brad.
Spoons were often lost because they were an easy tool to use for garden/crop planting. Horse buckle was most likely a girth buckle.
Awesome B-roll Brad, thanks 😄
The weights in my grangmother's grandfather clock hung on similar chains.
Watched your video this morning. Went out in the cold November rain and found my first connecticut copper!
OMGoodness Congratulations 😃
The little chain could be a curb chain for an old horse bridle.
"All in all not a bad day at all." You said it right there Brad and thanks for posting another interesting video! Mike in sunny central Florida
Down here in Georgia watching your videos. Love it Brad,always enjoy your work. Thanks
Think the little barbell was a collar stud. Those little brass links you keep finding could be a scouring mesh for cleaning cast iron pots and pans. Have a vintage one hanging up in the kitchen circa 1870s or so. But yours could be much older.
How cool is that!! I just posted the same ID for the chain links, as my grandma used to use one!
Brad, another good day in the Green Mountains searching for artifacts from our past .. Your presentation is always "pitch perfect" as you search for yesterday's lost utilitarian treasures .. The scenery in the Green Mtn's in late fall is becoming monochromatic yet you manage to make your display of found treasure on the surviving greenery soon to be covered in white until Spring .. Wishing you and your family and friends safe and Happy Holidays. Thanks for sharing.
Finally a video, Thanks Brad.
The D&H railroad had branches in Vermont. A 1925 map shows a branch from Whitehall to Rutland with some other track in the region. This may account for the tag being found in Vermont.
Great video! One thing about our area in Indiana, I find irons quite often. The iron loop is the top to a reins guide. I have a few that are intact. I have a few ladies wedding bands. I've always thought they were lost in the garden.
Some really great finds. Just to think that people who first came to America, an over the years strived hard up in those mountains and made do with what they had. These items were touched by these people, and to find them so many years later. I feel them, I imagine them an all the struggles they faced. It wasn't an easy life for them. That's why we should always remember our history an its people. No matter, the good the bad, common folks weren't part of the decision making. They were here, born here an had to make the best of a life that was hard from the beginning. Thank you for reminding us of these people. We've come a long way in really a short period of time, when you look back at thousands of years of history, where technology stayed the same for centuries.
the piercing jewelry looking thingy looks like cufflinks.
The days like this one are what keeps bringing me back here religiously. Thanks again and again Brad.
I’m a horse fanatic, especially from the colonial period but I’ve got kn clue as to the piece you found today. I’m looking forward to perusing the comments. You’ve got plenty of well informed followers here for sure.
Take care. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
Around 3’, the two similar pieces make me think about knife bolster.
Great clock key. Awesome bag check tag. Beautiful Connecticut copper.
Connecticut copper was my first copper coin ever, they are awesome! Great hunt with some awesome history
“ Well, hey folks” , I love this guy!
My Grandma used to use a flat iron that her Grandma used that my mom has as a door stop it has a plate that it sat on that was the shape of the iron. Ours has a handle with a wooden piece on it so you didn't burn your hand but my mom said you could still feel the heat.
Coins are great for dating the area, but the relics are more important IMO. They show that someone lived there and what their lives were like.
Chuckling here on the irony of finding iron in the ground that has a whole lot of Fe in it.
Another great adventure and video. Nice work, buddy.
Found my first iron earlier this fall and then I found another just last weekend. Seems like things work that way. Another is in your future for sure.
The little odd broken piece might have been a French cufflink. Usually they would have small chain links between the two buttons and you would force them through tiny buttonholes at the cuffs of a shirt or blouse.
Those small brass pieces went around the stem of an old door knob, the hole in one side was for a set key to hold in place.
the Item at the 14:42 minute time stamp in video I believe its part of the inner workings of an old clock... it would spin one way and then back another and was rigged up with a spring it helped pace the timing of the clock to make it more accurate. But thats just my most educated guess as I have seen similar items in older antique clocks.
Definitely a Chamber Pot. Kept under the bed in the Chamber for nights and children, the old or simply convenience. Used one many times in the Highlands of Scotland. Privy had a hole or a seat. That is a Sad Iron, no handle. One could be attached. Opposed to a flat iron. Both used for clothes. Bog Chain. When cisterns were up on the wall, high. Gave a great flush! Honor the Name of Crapper! Those are ball cuff links or waistcoat link etc.
locations like this is what I'm dreaming of detecting before my heart failure takes me from this life
With the old iron there would be another one or two on top of the stove warming up. When the iron they were using got cold it would go on the stove, the handle would come off & they would attach the handle to a warm iron & continue ironing the clothes. love your videos.
She probably lost her ring when she removed her riding gloves. But then again, it could have been a lovers spat and while she was throwing the horse shoes at him it slipped off:>) Great explore! You're always so professional and really get into it. Hope to see you next week.
The iron is called a “sad” iron & is missing a removable wood handle.
"Wonder where the clock went."
They obviously lost track of time.
Wow Brad you just never know what you will find congratulations
Those old flat irons had a handle that detached so the handle would not get hot as the iron was heated either on top of a wood burning stove or in front of an open fireplace.
Cant find it now. But a few weeks back those broken tongs you found with two half loops either side were crucible tongs for grabbing a pot out of a fire...probably military & used in the melting of Lead to cast shot . Hope you didn't leave it behind.
YES‼️A CHAMBER POT
Great video Brad I think those balls with the link is one of two cuff links
Brad, how about giving us a rudimentary tutorial on how a metal detector works. For example, how do you tell a silver coin from a copper coin? How can you get confused by aluminum cans? Is the technology getting better?
I purchased a pair of those pants in green and I love them. I use them exclusively while detecting now.
Almost certainly a chamber pot. That was my initial thought.
Oil lamps that hung from the ceiling used to have three or four chains made from small links about that size
The brass chain is often used for a wall clock. Grandfather clock etc
Brad, your content and post production is always fantastic. Thanks so much for your consistent professional approach to your channel. You are a pleasure to watch. The finds are a bonus to the overall experience.
Thank you!
The iron loop thing is awesome!! Don’t know why I love it so much.
The iron “loop” looks like an early fixed Carabiner. (No snap) used to add a metal loop in a strap or rope.
That looks like a rotary pendulum mechanism for an old time-piece
Brad, I found the exact same odd shaped iron object a couple of weekends ago. Just happened to be looking at it again last night. On the wider end of mine, it appears to be broken. There is about a 1/2” piece of flat iron off of the end. Thought maybe a reins guide but not sure. Found at a 1848 house.
My guess is the two little brass balls were like those purse fasteners that clipped together
Nice find that iron. I can imagine using it . Love the ring, it too invokes a picture of important events in life. I enjoyed this. 🇨🇦
Yes that is a chamber Pot.
Brad, you will love to travel to France! 🌻 As you know, the time capsule you go into is so much broader, when it comes to artifacts. It is impossible to take it all in straight away 🙃 The pandemic is brutal in Europe, so consider whether you should rather wait until spring or summer. Anyway - enjoy your trip to the fullest.
Good day from New Jersey in the US. What part of Europe are you from? Currently reside? My Grandparents were both born and raised in the Netherlands.
SouthEastern part of Norway. 🙂 Running around with a metal detector. 😆
Always look forward to watching your videos on Friday!
The small chain appears to be part of cuff links.
That metal thing in 14:30 is a ball return cufflink. I used to wear those when being fancy. 😁
There's one of those old irons in the cabin I bought a couple years ago. Didnt know it was that old!
I'm thinking that those chains are from a fireplace curtain (not sure exact name). Almost looked like chainmail to block sparks from escaping the hearth.
Keep up the great work. Really enjoy the channel!
Another classic! I hope to one day have the honor and privilege to dig up in New England!
The one thing about detecting in Nov., No mosquito's, No black flies, No Snakes , Hoorah !
The item at 9:00 is pot scrubber chain mail.
That IS a chamber pot. I remember my aunt and uncle having them in England. The two balls, a guess, a collar stud. Collars were starched and were separate to the shirt and were held with a collar stud. I have some British ones.
Great dig Brad !!
Yes it's a chamber pot. Interesting finds. Please keep sharing.
The RR brass tag...railroad baggage tag...there are collectors that buy them on the internet E-Bay...sold mine, different RR for $65. The love old brass dog tags too ..sold some for $50 to $80.
Those little brass doohickies look like garter clips. I've got a set for holding my fitted sheet on the bed. There's a set of jaws and a clip actuator that is shaped just like those. Never examined how they work, but you put the cloth you wish to secure between the jaws and you press on the clip actuator (what you found) down onto the jaws to close them and clamp the cloth between the jaws. I'm assuming it's the same mechanism on garter belts. No idea why one had a hole in it. That's not necessary for the mechanism I describe.
I really enjoy your videos. The music, the artifacts, the commentary, the natural world around you...everything is just perfect! Thanks for taking everyone along on your adventures! Those tiny links remind me of chain mail armor...not likely in your mountains though! Could those two little balls be a cufflink?
Fun watch as usual. Thanks. BTW the old irons are now collectible.
Your lucky Brad. I had the day off and of course it snowed! And I'm on Lake Erie! But that's detecting! You found some really nice artifacts. That place deserves a full day of searching white so many varied items it doesn't look as though it's been detected before. And the pit might be and old outhouse always worth digging into they were the trash can of the era. Thanks for the video!👍🎧🇺🇸
Hi Brad, yes that was indeed an old chamber or Po is another name. The items you found at 14:40 I think are 2 halves of an old cufflink perhaps ???.
That weird item at 16:03 could it be the handle from a fireplace tools set hangar ???. Some very cool finds and some intriguing one's too.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
I posted above before seeing your comment. Your 2nd paragraph, referring to 16:03... I have that exact same thing. I'd love to know what it is.
That ring is a great find! Good job!
Looks like a good day. And a great video as always!
Thanks for these great videos! I was thinking could the large iron loop thing be an iron reigns guide? The little barbell thing to me looked liked maybe a pair of cuff links?
Those irons were used for decades, up till the 1950’s in poorer areas of the country!!! My guess that one, which appears to have a detachable handle is somewhat late, 20’s to 40’s.
I think the broken two ball find might be a cufflink or double “button”.
Always enjoy your videos. Sweet iron...
Pretty cool finds!
Hey Brad
The small balls you found with a bar that would have connected them reminded me of the toy of a strong man and would lift and down the barbell back in the 1800s, barbells were portrayed as two balls and a bar. Or it could have been a counterbalance for something other than a toy. Those two came to mind when you held them together.
Good work, Brad! Thanks for challenging yourself and getting a successful hunt once again 😎👍
Suspected old privy depression would be well worth probing with an iron rod. If privy…artifacts galore!