We stumbled upon it in the most unlikely place
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- My son and I discover the remains of THE HOOK MOUNTAIN HOUSE, in now lost Egypt West Virginia in the most unlikely place -Built in a Sink Hole at the highest point on the mountain, Why? It did not disappoint. A two house detection high in the mountains of Appalachia. Who lived here? What did they do? Why?
I get so into watching I can smell the dirt! Thank you!
I'm so glad!
My Christmas Eve Present! I really like that you dig iron as well as other metals. We are in the age of Iron and Steel and those metals have made us what we are.
Todd, I'm sure I'm not alone in being one of those people who love the iron as much or more than buttons and such. I'd really love to see the ax restored; the rust gone, a new handle... it all tells a story as and I'd love to see it all saved.
I got to find what I’ve done with it. I have so many my wife is probably going nuts. The one I found was the nicest I’ve seen yet. I may have given this one away. I need to go look in my treasure box. Merry Christmas
If you restore it do it right and don't sand, grind or use any abrasives on it. Use electrolysis. A bucket with some iron plated or rods fastened on he inside bucket walls (all must be wired together) some Arm & Hammer super soda and water (1 cup super soda to one gallon water mix) find a unregulated 12v 2 amp or less power supply and attach negative wire to the iron you fastened to the inside of the bucket. put your super soda water in bucket and mix real good till soda is blended. attach the positive to the item you are going to restore and hang it in the bucket making sure the metals do not touch (make sure the item is all the way in the solution (non toxic) plug it in come back tomorrow and all the rust will be gone. oil the metal like you would season a cast Iron pan and you just restored it without destroying the value of the item. Now don't use stainless steel for the negative plates as the iron is the sacrifice and will absorb the rust off your item and will need to be replaced over time. My brother restores Cast Iron pans, jugs, other items and has a Facebook group on this subject called "Electrolysis tanks and cast iron restoration group" Not going to link it as UA-cam flags it as spam. Just search it on Facebook and check out his pictures of restoration that is amazing and done right. Because if ya can't do a good job the right way then don't do it.
@@spagsketti 😏 Me thinks he also knows Chigg who's done a but of this.
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The paddle looking part looks like a plane blade for a box plane.
Oliver Plow 40. 1870 - 1929. good find.
Hey thanks for the info. I’ve had others asking about those plows. Very much appreciated. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Not many people get to hang with the chigg like Todd does every day that's got to be your best find ever meeting the chigg 😀
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives merry xmas*
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Merry Christmas to you too bud please stay safe
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives How lucky that you and Chig have met, and not only worked together but have developed a true friendship. It is hard in this day and age to have true friends. God has blessed you both.
Trying to figure out how I never stumbled on to this channel before ... nice work love the presentation
Thanks. I’ve only been at it a year so I’m still unlikely showing up in UA-cam’s analytics or recommendations. I appreciate and glad you found it. I’ve posted a video each week over the last year so should you get some down time, check them out too. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family. Thanks again for another great adventure. Enjoyed the interview in the beginning.
Thanks Ricky, a very unexpected find in a more interesting location. 🎄🎁
It is widely known, when moving, early settlers would burn down their house, just to retrieve the nails
That's very interesting. And makes good sense as well.
talked to a 82 year old man about 1965 that owned one of those hills. he said he bought it in 1932. he said when he bought it the only trees on it were at the very top. the rest was farmed. he laughed and said ; ya can't put to much corn in the sled without it falling over. it was all wooded when i visited. no flat ground at all. he would have loved to own the "flat" ground you are exploring. oh yea he paid 10 bucks a acre for it.
Hey Victor the man is right. This mountain top is quite odd. It is high and the very top a sink hole like a volcano. In it sits the foundation. No water to speak of for a mile an any direction and the "flat" is very small, not conducive to farming. This is also the first site I've found more than one axe head. I think the loggers took over a house that may began as a farmstead but the conditions were hard and they abandoned it. The location was exceptionally private and hard to find but my kind of cool place.
Another good video! Thanks for many good moments this year. Stay healthy. I am looking forward to another year!
Thanks Bob. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
Great story and hunt, I myself think it could still been an old loggers place, here in northern Mi the old loggers were also farmers and most grew their own food on their home plots
Some of the big metal your finding can be from both lumbering and farming. Most man made equipment from that Era were used for both. Horse tac and logging equipment. One handmade piece could be made to be used in multiple jobs. Plows and rigging used to pull down trees are similar in alot of uses!
Hey thanks Alf..,.
Somebody lived there and you saved some of that history! Love that ax head...
I’m still amazed someone built anything there. It is on a mountain peak in a sink hole and virtually impossible to find.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Go back some more and find something to establish a date. Got to be something that would give you an idea of the relative time frame.
@@richardbreisch8049 hopefully my new MineLab will find the treasure...a button or coin to date that place.
yea mon loved it. they sure went thru some ax heads .always lookin forward to the next one. happy holidays fellas
Thanks. It was tough livin back in those days. Merry Christmas
I worked in an iron foundry all my life. You have found foundry slag and some metal splatter. People would melt iron with Charcoal back years ago.
I did find 2 iron kilns up near there so a very real possibility
Great video todd. Was really good to watch it on Christmas morning. We diggers are always up to watching a great adventure with you an the chigg an your son. Looked like you found the old home place/loggers cabin. It's been a long time gone. More then a hundred years for sure. I love uncovering old foundations. An putting together all the pieces of what once was. It's almost like creating a painting in our minds. Once again you guys are telling a story of long ago. An not letting it be forgotten for ever. That's always exciting to watch a video/story of what once was a working home stead from long ago. Like we've said before, there disappearing more an more every day. Thanks for takeing us along on the adventure with you guys. The finds we're awesome. Lots of old iron an a few relics. Always fun to find the old axe heads. There were so many different styles. I've seen an found some wedges like the one you found. An they used alot of those, like the one you found to split/cut stones to use for foundation stones. Not for sure that the one you dug was used for that but looks pretty close some of the ones I've found. There usually hammered a great deal on the heads of them. Flattened/hammered quit a bit. Well todd we shall catch you guys on your next adventure. Hope you an your family have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a Happy New year. An as always safe an happy hunting/digging.😁👍👍
Thanks Richard. Yes it’s interesting to come upon a place like this and imagine what it was and it’s age. It shows you how poor these people were. It had never been detected before and we still didn’t find coins or buttons or things “treasurable” but they scratched out a life and lived off the land and we gave them their due. They passed and we just captured a glimpse. Merry Christmas 🎄
i dont care bout buttons coins or the rich stuff i enjoy the history side more when i out treasure hunting dont matter what i doing i just like to know how the old timers did things and how rough they had it so digging up trash stuff others would say means alot
Thanks Brad. I’m always excited to find a button and ecstatic when a coin since money was so rare out this far on the frontier. They bartered for everything and were moving west being so poor. However I rarely find those things and have learned that life was tougher than I ever knew. They don’t teach this stuff in schools. I love the feel of an axe head, finding artifacts of everyday life and imagining what it must have been like with Indians still around. Merry Christmas 🎄
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives i love find coins and buttons as well but i find the history side more relaxing cause it was tough back than we think how lucky we are and merry Christmas to you and your family
What a wonderful surprise Christmas gift! I agree with a lot of the comments about digging iron signals. They certainly revealed a lot of the historical background of the land. What an amazing spot. Thank you so much for sharing this adventure. Merry Christmas.
Thanks Ricky. This location takes the cake on remoteness and in the unanticipated place. It is every kids dream. The house was built at the highest point and in a sink hole and completely hidden.
Great episode Todd. Absolutely amazing artifacts. Pioneer historical find for you Todd. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Thanks William. The artifacts speak of a tough life of those who scratched to get by. Found this place in the most unexpected place. Merry Christmas 🎄
Love that your son is with you! Another great video. I agree, keep digging the iron, it tells more of the story. One day y’all might find Samsquatch 😉
😂😂 then I would become famous.
The round thing that you found , and gave to Beau is an incredible item . How thoughtful of you to give it to him . Thar plow tooth thingamagig is a cool find too . Really enjoyed the longer video . Have a Blessed and Merry Christmas , and remember Jesus is the reason for the Season .
Thanks Gritty Kitty. Yes Jesus is the Reason. We are blessed. I do have a video coming up that is 55 minutes and my longest. I am interested to see how it does so I know if others like longer videos too. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
@Appalachian Histoy Detectives: That metal spike is the bothem part of an anvil to sharpen a scyth. www.museum.frl/collectie/objecten/100002443/
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives that metal spike is an anvil for a scyth www.museum.frl/collectie/objecten/100002443/
2 Jersey Pattern Axe heads nice finds.
The corrugated brassy sheet metal is probably a wash board. Most ax and hatchet heads were made from folding metal.
Very interesting finds. I periodically find old axe's but this is a first finding 2 and I'm sure they were missed when lost.
Another good adventure with todd and son and the chigg merry Christmas to you all keep up the good finds
I like that you dig the iron, because it really shows more of the history and what they used. I like that you had your boy out hunting, because I fear that in a few years this country will not be the same. Be ready for anything brother, get supplies, and God bless you and yours, plus anyone watching.
Yep I’m right there with you. We may need to go back to doing everything by hand again.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives yes I've been trying to get people to be prepared for what might come. Folks need to work together the way everyone use to it . Put up food, a barn raising , for better or all .
That paddle shaped thing was either part of a plane(carpenter tool) or a de-barking tool which would have had a long handle
Thanks.
Merry Christmas Todd! I hope you and your family have an epic holiday! 🎄☃️🎄😊
Thanks and the same to you. Merry Christmas
Cool stuff! We were not quite as aggressive with our shovel digging as you guys. Mainly because we used to find lots of old bottles also & after cracking a couple ink wells, blue poison bottles & a Hutchinson bottle we got more careful.
I changed shovels shortly after this. The ground here is very rocky making typical metal detecting shovels ineffective really. These sites are also many miles away from any road and the owner had not been on this land in 30 years. If we dig in yards, we take meticulous care of the plugs and dirt.
Those New Monumental Wood Stove covers are really cool finds. The one looked to be in great shape despite being in the ground.
Maybe it's an older house that then became a logger's place? We've seen weirder things before and houses trading functions in the years isn't that much of a stretch, no?
I think you're spot on about it being a farmhouse. Probably abandoned at some point and reused as a lumberjack bunkhouse. Just like hunters today have been using old abandoned or rundown homesteads
I think this is the likely scenario. Whoever farmed it was dirt poor and water that high was hard to find. It was probably the only cheap land left. They tried and it makes me wonder what happened to them.
The little piece of corrugated metal you found by the root cellar could have been an old wash board. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Have a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.
I think it was a washboard but I didn’t realize this until recently. Good thing I stopped digging because those are not small and the pieces were all over the place. Merry Christmas
Thanks for sharing your Christmas Eve with us, so much history and lives lost to time.
Happy Christmas,
Rik Spector
Thanks Rik. Merry Christmas 🎄 This site is still an enigma for me.
Corrugated metal from an old washboard possibly?
Yep I think so too
That sure was a fun adventure. I enjoy seeing you pull out the iron specially those ax heads. My favorite was the big round stove emblems.I also think it's wonderful your son goes on those adventures. Lifetime memories for him. You may not have found coins or anything of real value but the adventure and simple things are like a pot of gold to watch.
Thanks Teresa. Yep these old pioneers were in the frontier at that time and very poor so they only things useful was tools to keep them alive. Money was scarce. My son had to be coaxed many times but I tell him one day he will long for the days he can no longer have.
🎅🏻👍🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I liked the Rolling Rock Bottle. Reminds me of home.
Yeah me too and why I decided to add the clip in the video. Merry Christmas 🎄
Hi Mr. Todd, what an interesting place you and your son stumbled upon while looking for the logging cabin up there in the mountains. It is really a very unusual place where you found the remains of a homestead, no well, no running water, just a drain hole with a cistern. Possibly a former home of the pioneers, well hidden and therefore relatively safe. Some finds and the apple tree make you think of it. Hopefully you can go back there together with your son and Mr Beau for a more detailed search🕯🎄💫🎄🕯
Honestly Gabriele this enigma of a place still confounds me. I would like to go back and do a video on the access and location of this place. It is well hidden and in a bowl on top of the highest point where no one builds. Was it for protection from the Indians? You raise a whole another possibility that a solving this for me. We didn’t find cross cut saws or blades that would speak of loggers or files to sharpen blades. Just below this foundation are round stone piles together. I never showed this but could it be graves? I need to take my MineLab up there and expand my search area I think. It’s an intriguing place.
Back in the summer of 1969 my brother was snorkeling in a small lake on the U.P. Of Michigan when he found an old double bit axe head it was pretty much rusted and a piece of the handle was still in place my Grandfather was a thrifty sort, and had just taken over as the caretaker of a girl scout camp, a job that required a good deal of wood chopping so needing an axe he went at it with a file and a jar of naval jelly rust remover ( any hardware store) put a new handle on it, and I chopped many a cord of wood with it, I still use it today.
Wow! You wouldn't believe how many of these I find Metal Detecting....I normally leave them at the site rather than take them as I have so many.....
Great treasures guys! Interesting and fun video. Thanx!!!
Thank you so much for preserving and teaching history to all of us, esp. the younger generation that knows so little that's not on their phones or games. There are some awesome young people that are out there cleaning the waterways, metal detecting and learning about their local and American history though. If interested in seeing these young people I highly recommend Depths of History and also Adventures of purpose...from those two channels you will find links to so many of their friends in this network of decent young folks. It will do your heart good I promise!
Hey Loren, yep I watch Adventures with a Purpose but it can be incredibly sad at times. It is good UA-cam Creators are finding ways to be giving back to the public and individuals in ways that benefit everyone. I'm always trying to get my son interested in the value of history.
Looking at the Oliver plow online, that round piece you found near th house is a rein guide for the plow
I enjoyed the adventure , artifacts all tell a story , with every one I find I always wonder who had it what were they doing with it , I Love it. MERRY CHRISTMAS Todd to you and your family .
Thanks Ricky Merry Christmas. If all my detections you date this one has stuck with me. People would have to see the location of this place to believe it’s for real. The house is in a big sink hole and would be virtually impossible to find.
Loved the video Todd. I really enjoy them. My dad had got me interested in the Chiggs videos and he loved them so much. I lost him to undiagnosed cancer in April this year. I’m glad he introduced me to the Chigg’s videos and thus discovering your channel. I loved the artifacts, especially axe heads. Hope your family had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year 😁
Thank you Todd. When I watch Chigg’s new videos, I think of my dad watching them with me too.
Merry Christmas Todd & family🎄
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
That " hinge" looks more like a patch box lid from a muzzle loading rifle.
Thanks....that would be real cool if so.
You're right about the flowers pointing to a homesight,don't forget that they used to plant lilacs where they put the outhouse.Ome of the things I watch for when exploring.
Thanks Al. I also have learned that rhubarb can stick around for hundreds of years and is a good plant to look for
MERRY CHRISTMAS Ralph, Beau and Todd and all your families!
Hey David Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 to you and your loved ones too
How exciting to find and explore a new site. These are Real life artifacts. Plain, early folks waking out a living by little farming and a l look title logging. You are not going to find China or find silver. You are telling the story of the lives of this family with their previous fruit tree. Hope you can learn more of their story. Merry Christmas and may God bless your family.
Hey Glenna thanks and Merry Christmas 🎄 I’m humbled at finding sites like this and wondering what life was like for them. The house was well hidden in a large sink hole likely from prying Indian eyes. The fruit tree blossoming in Spring was a big event for them and the fruit for pies and jams....makes you question what is treasure really? Is it really coins and buttons...I have come to question my approach to this hobby here on what was the frontier. Blood sweat tears and death but they loved lived and prospered and were typically very close as families and this is the story we all can feel.
MERRY CHRISTMAS. EVERYONE! 🎄🎄
Merry Christmas Patricia. 🎄🎁
That big round iron thing with a knob and a pouring lip, could it have been for melting lead?
You know I think so too and what came across my mind when I started cleaning it up. That ladle was a very interesting piece too. 🎄
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives gosh I love the relics best. I hope you can go back there. Maybe you'd find a pistol or rifle or parts of them.
Lots of settlers who farmed also did logging in the winter months. Many had to log their own land before they could farm it.
I think this was likely the case. They scratched out a living there.
I love the ax heads...not sure why. Doesn't matter who digs them...I love them. I was told if they are hammer forged and shows the dimples from the hammer blows...it's pre 1900. If they're smooth from machining...they're post 1900.
Both of these axe heads were hand forged I believe. The “ears” where to wood handle attaches is an early method from what I understand. The one that was ground and hammered is real old and may date the house. It could be pioneer while the other from loggers. It’s an enigma I have yet to figure out. Merry Christmas 🎄
I think it's wonderful that you have Ralph to corroborate with! Love hearing the old timers talk memories. Wish I had some of mine still around. But what's old is new again, and so on.
Some of your unidentifiables should maybe get a good clean up so your audience can get a chance to guess and learn. Just a suggestion.
Merry Christmas!🎆 👍🏼🇺🇸
You know I need to be more mindful of this. I do put my more collectible treasures at the end of the video but much of the iron I leave behind at the site to stay with the place. The hatchets I do keep if in good shape and these were. Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁
I agree that it would be nice to see some of the finds cleaned up.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives You have earned my respect sir.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TODD AND YOUR SON, AND THE REST OF YOUR FAMILY...AND TO RALPH, AND THE CHIGG. Hope Santa was good to you and your family. Stay safe and healthy. Loved the video.
Thanks Allan each day is a blessing and having my son still home and willing to go out there with me is the best gift and that’s time. He is 15 and already talking of being out there earning a living. It’s these “treasures” that make this hobby worthwhile to me. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Looks like another great adventure as always
This one was a very memorable one for me. It’s location is the perfect hideout place. Virtually impossible to find
That plow tooth, could also be a splitting wedge, for firewood or rails.
It's always exciting finding a forgotten homesite. I subbed and look forward to more video. Happy hunting
Hey Larry, I'm a big fan of your channel...you have been a HUGE help to me with your tutorial MineLab videos. The commenter above yours, I recommended your channel to him and your tutorial videos.....thanks for checking out my channel.
It was a pretty good day there Todd I enjoyed it as it was exciting find something like that I would love that I'm Grant glad your son was up there with you to help you get some experience maybe continue on you stay blast have a happy New Year now see you on your next👍🙏❄☃️
Thanks Roger it was a great day and I was blessed to have my son there to spend it with me. I love him dearly and value any time with him. He doesn’t like slogging all day in the woods watching me dig “iron junk”. He would rather see treasure like any kid would. He tires of me telling him that history is treasure and holding things that are old and forgotten is meaningful to a lot of people. One day he won’t come or will be off to college. I do not look forward to that day. Happy New Year!
The small ball could be a steal ball barring the other object looks like the back of a pulley the opening is for the rope to go through
New sub here, glad I found ya! I just bought 27 acres in NW Arkansas to build on, and while scouting the land I found several old stacked rock foundations, all with daffodil patches surrounding them. Can't wait to get my detector on it!
Ooh man that’s golden. Please let me know what you find. Wish I were near there I would join ya.
Definitely pioneers home site! Love the ax heads, pick point and stove plates. Great job! That soil has been worked, loggers came after, probably 1900-1930.
I think so too!
It's used to take coals out of a cook stove and fireplace.
The ladle looking thing?
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives The thing that said cook on it looked like the top of a cast iron stove.
Good Hat good place to revisit lots of History more to be found out the age of the face and who lives there I look forward to it as always have a good day and we'll be back
It is the most interesting dig I have done to date. I’ve never seen someone build at the highest point on the highest peak. The top is sunk down like a volcano and the house was built there. I can’t imagine the weather and access issues they had. It was a cool place. 🎄
I was thrilled when you pulled out that piece of Oliver plow! I do genealogy and I heard there is/was an Oliver tractor company, I think in Indiana, but no relation. I don't often see my name.
hey there keen eye!! This place was in a deep sink hole and I couldn't figure where the fields were they plowed. This site still intrigues me. Cheers.
Great video! Keep 'em coming! Thanks.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Farmers often had to imitate loggers to clear the land to farm.
This location had to been a very tough area to scratch out a life. There are so many large sink holes that water does not sit and wells are impossible here. There isn't a running stream in over a mile and its seasonal. I can't imagine how hard it must have been during dry times....
Todd Cool video Nice that Beau beam in. LOL Merry Christmas to you and your family. Hope you have a great day!!! Love watching the videos keep up the great work
The future generations don’t care anything about what your doing. So sad. I love it
Let's hope one day they will grow up and long for better times even though their times today aren't like the better times we had. If nothing else, I hope my kids will one day watch these when I'm dead and gone, with their kids and long for times like those.
todd ifond an axe head like that in no.wis and i polish it and found it came from a foundry in new york dated 1886 it was used for indian trade
I hear they are New Jersey axe heads.....interesting.
Great adventure, love Ralph’s historical stories
Thanks George! Happy New Year!
My granddaddy was a logger/miner and I found an old newspaper article from 1918 (my mom was born when he was 64) where he was advertising for a “woman to cook and clean” for 6 men when they were up in the cabin in the hills. I’ve never thought about them not having a wood stove at all.
It's odd I never found any type of stove here at this old place.
The pointed metal thing could be the broken end of a log dog used to pull logs out of the woods.
One other person mentioned that and attached a photo. I had others post photos of several other things it could be too. Definitely an interesting piece. Thanks.
The corrugated metal is part of an old wash board.
I Love Your Vids!!! I cannot help but watch & see how my ancestor lived & possibly where he traveled or knew of & even where he may have lived.
Wish u could do more research on the history existing on that spot. Maybe later u can do it on ur spots.
Of course it’s historic- it was there now not right?! Big Love!
I wish I could. Old man Ralph said when he was a kid he would hunt up there and the place was a mystery to both his dad and grandfather. I hoped I would find buttons or coins that could date the place but some of these sites are a total mystery.
Bestest way to start Christmas morning. Thank you. Can't find anything on the stove, but there's a current Monument camping stove. Wonder if it's company descended.
You know I never looked it up. I always wait to see if my fans tell me...it my sneaky way of involving them in history detecting too. 😁🎁🎄
Love Mr Ralph. He is a walking talking history lesson. Great video but I shouldn't have watched it now. It reminded me of a dear friend I lost this year who was from WV. He's buried back up there. It brought back beautiful memories of him but also made me sad. Hope you guys had a great Christmas and that your new year is filled with adventures
Glad you enjoyed it
I found a old Axe head like you found you talked about the way it was sharpend ❤️👍👍🗝️
That metal thing I think was the top to a large wood plane. Really enjoy your videos.
Thanks Paul. Others think so too so it’s likely what it is. Interesting find way up there. Merry Christmas 🎄
First time watcher! Keep on finding history!
Welcome aboard! If you have an opportunity to check out the other videos, please do. I try to save history while teaching history and presenting the backstory to these sites (when I can find the info).
Hello from Paul in Lower Boddington UK. Good to find you and see your work. Best wishes Paul
Thanks Paul. I have a good number of UK fans and all you guys are cool.
At 27:30 that axe head was made that way. They used two different hardened pieces of steel. One for the shaft eye wich was folded over a wedge of softer metal. To make it strong and the wedge part in the middle a tad softer to be able to make it easier to sharpen for good use. Keep it up, Todd 😉
Could be something good or iron, been saying that still every time I get good number or new machine lol. In VA I dug civil war relics for 30+ years finally moved home to Colorado and how hunt down old mining camps and at 10k, much harder in undocumented land , dug a few chewed round balls back east, and the feeling was undesirable, yet in awe. Never found a shot one..yet, could hear that lead sound in your voice of epic! You picked up a subscriber, and ill send you videos from altitude, blessings from Colorado and happy digging!!
Hey thanks! If you have a channel I definitely will check it out and subscribe. I honestly think it would be cool digging in old mining camps even knowing the finds will nearly always be iron. I watch TVR who walks into and films those old mines. There is a big viewing audience for this type of stuff. Honestly digging CW bullets gets old. All you do is add to the collection. I actually get more and learn more about artifacts I'm struggling to identify or were crucial to survival. I even like finding old sites like this that have oral history but the evidence points to other things. Some do not like this kind of "metal detecting" because its not fraught full of buttons and coins, but my goal is not to only entertain but to teach and learn.....cheers!
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives my channel is about to come out, some relic hunting, gold panning and gold paydirt reviewing, I totally agree on finding CW bullets, however finding something confederate out here is a possibility, Colorado was founded by Georgia gold miners! Dug a 1800s Chinese incense burner, at 9k in the middle of nowhere, it was epic, once our animal rescue is finished, we'll invite you all out for a gold miners experience, and panning. I got a pistol precession cap gold panning, and I went crazy jumping around the people I was panning with no concept of what just happened, and giving Praise to where it is due. The most epic so far! A bone carved button and mother of pearl button old 1800s camp at 11k, the climate keeps everything persevered extremely well. Love the axes you found, old logging camps here as well. Honestly made my day to find your channel after yesterday... and your type of detecting is same as mine, they can't rewrite what we find. And the story is what lingers not necessarily the item found.
The field could have been closer to the river .the home was build on high ground for flood protection
MOUNTAIN? That is a SMALL hill!
I have driven a bus load of JR. High students bays and girls teams to a game in Young Arizona.
To get to that town from Holbrook Az you have to take a dirt road from 7000! to the town at about 4000 feet elevation.
This is real fun when you are in Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail conditions with coaches that will not control their students.
Now that is what I call MOUNTAINS.
Yep I've been all over Arizona and the Rockies. Definitely a different kind of mountain out there. However when you walk 5 miles up a 3,000 ft vertical incline hill or not it feels like a mountain.....
Definitely a house site! Merry Christmas!
I would like to go back and dig a little more with my Equinox.
I appreciate it, people will never understand the good days being over for good.
Very True. The Good Ol Days are always viewed in lens of the past...until one day we see our current days will be seen as the good ol days as the days progressively get worse.
Happy New Year Todd! May 2021 bring awesome treasure finds! 👍😎
Thanks guys. The same to you all too.
Great video keep them coming
More to come! Thanks!
I would so live there! If I were young and able to help my husband (pic is of him), build a homestead and completely live off grid. and buy as much land as I could to keep humankind from encroaching on our privacy. Wouldn't want to see anything modern or neighbors from my home! Be nice to have some within miles to have some socialization and to work with on house/barn raisings and such. My life is advanced, and too late now. But that's such beautiful forestland where you are now.
Hey Loren thanks. I know our dreams last a lifetime but our bodies can't keep up. My pap once said he just ran out of time to do all he wanted and his body just gave up...I'm beginning to feel that way myself. Lots of things to do, but my time is running out. Trust me Loren I understand. This place in the video is completely remote and miles from the nearest habitable place and is truly in a beautiful setting.
My great grand parents owned a mountain farm on the Unaka mountain 65 acres they bought it from tbe Gouge family..
Where are the Unaka Mountains?
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Upper east Tennessee if you come out of North Carolina to Tennessee from Buladen NC into Unicoi on HWY 107 you cross the iron Mtn at the bottom of the iron Mtn on the Tennessee side there is a road sign turning left and a national forest sign there. That takes you upon the Unaka. Or Google Red Fork falls the property sits just aboc5e where everyone parks to go over to the falls. We sold the property to a Gentlemen he built a big Cape Cod house up there. If you could get permission you talk about history. I need to ride up that way because I don't know if the road name has been changed. I am thinking Unaka mtn rd. The Gouge family built the farm in the 1800's their descendents sold it to my great grandparents. My Grandpa Joe had a contract with Meade paper in Kingsport TN 45 miles from us. We are 45 minutes out of Asheville NC we sit between Aheville and Johnson City TN.
ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS Always Great Time Merry Christmas Every one God Bless
Thanks Mary. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
corrigated stuff may been a old wash board ?
You know it didn’t dawn on me until recently but you are exactly right. 🎄
At 23:52- I think that is an old hand plane. Could be wrong though. Great video regardless. Merry Christmas to you and yours. 👍👍✌✌
Merry Christmas. I love your name! I’ve had a few others suggest an old hand plane too so I’m beginning to believe the same. I’m still thinking there was an earlier homestead there. I would like to go back with my MineLab.
Thanks for another awesome video documenting the history of the people that built our country. I always look forward to the Bible verse at the end, so I'll throw up back at ya: I Thess 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Farmers and lovers are the same thing. Remember they build their own house/barn. Even did fairer.
I loved your finding they were awesome to me.
Thanks Laura.
"We are way up on top of the mountain"....."We have about a mile to walk back to the the vehicles, all uphill"....dang flying trucks
There were two sites in the video and the second was in the valley.
At least I watched it all...Just giving you a hard time, please keep up the good work, I always enjoy the walks in the woods.
@@danielbruce2584 haha thanks man! Thankfully it was only a 2 mile hike one was up to the top where the first site was and then back down into the valley where we parked. Typically it is about a 5 mile hike to this spot.
Your plow tooth is probably the broken end of a pickaxe
The "cooking lids" at the end are most likely old cook stove parts. I am digging out an old step stove today in Nova Scotia and finding similar parts. They were often nickel plated - good indicators of site history and can be restored to like new condition. Lots of cast iron cook stove resources online that would help date this stove. Possibly mid 1800's. Enjoyed your hunt - hope you go back.
Thanks. It is a very remote and hard to reach location but it was a very intriguing place.
That’s not part of a plow, it’s a shark fin. That whole area was underwater… I could be wrong about that😁. I love that older gentleman’s memories of that area. Great, historic, and most entertaining video. Thanks for taking us along.
Thanks Jim quite welcome
Ya'll ever dig into those old root cellars? May be some interesting pieces of history in those dug pits. Bring a sifter and perhaps find bits and pieces of containers that contained stored perishables.
This one would be an interesting one to dig out. We would have to pack it in as we could not get within a mile of this place with our trucks. My luck....it’s full of mason jar lids..😂😂🎄
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives I see that you and Chigg finding mason jar lids, but I wonder why you don't find the older clear/aqua glass lids with the wire bale clip.
That being said however before the invention of the "modern" mason jar, people stored perishables in jars sealing in the goods with wax. So I would think you would find some unbroken jars that could have held something and sealed in with wax (wax probably being long gone along with the contents. How about iron hooks for hanging meat? Find any iron hooks?
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Where my mother grew up is similar to the areas where you are hunting but in the back country of West Central Illinois. They basically lived off the land and that land was very poor for planting row crops. When I was a kid, my mother's uncle took me and my folks into that back country looking for morels and we also got to visit some of the family gravesites that were "lost" to civilization since those old cemetery's were just off the flat land near a gentle hillside with markers made of limestone. The great grand-folks used to find thousands of arrowheads, hundreds of stone axes and areas where the natives used to camp. Mostly all gone and have been plowed under if there is anything left. We used to go bottle hunting at a old turn of the century springs area that is now a state park. Lots of history, but around my regional mostly gone unless it is in primitive areas, private property and/or public lands.
@@Richard-bt7br great trip down memory lane there and I can imagine it as you described it. We are permission challenged here too. I live in between two of the largest National Forests in the east coast which are off limits and everything else is privately owned. Most people when asked comment “let me think about it and get back to you” which is polite speech of NO. A lot of effort goes into just one permission and if it doesn’t hold a lot of artifacts then a lot of effort for one dig of almost iron. There aren’t farms here like down in the valleys. The Hoover Boys can detect sites over and over they are big and fields. Mine are small cabins on rock strewn land and poor folks. Eventually I will run out of known spots and that stresses me not knowing the long term health of my channel.
@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Well I think you can expand on the channel since the Appalachia area encompasses a large linear region. Perhaps even look into the oral folklore of the region that has been passed down from generation to generation. Or look into the history of "lost" burial areas/cemeteries and check out the tombstones if there is any writing on them.
Great video as usual Todd!!! I got a Garrett ace apex for Christmas, I can’t wait to hit the beach and the backwoods! Merry Christmas!!!
Appalachian History Detectives thanks Todd I definitely will! I just swung it around the yard to hear it and I love the way it sounds already, I can’t wait to actually use it.