Searching the Ruins of a Town’s Wealthiest Family
Вставка
- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Countless old coins and treasures have been found in the ground surrounding the ruins of this home over the years. Today, I see what I can find!
Original music by Brad Martin
www.GMMD.us
/ greenmountainmetaldete...
/ green.mountain.metal.d...
The leather thing with all the hooks on it is part of a lace-up boot or a woman's like high top lace-up shoe.
I have a pair of shoes from the early 60's with the same attachment...what once was always comes around eventually...
I completely agree with you guys!
That would be my guess too.
I came here to say the same thing.
Beat me to it. Lace hooks.
Despite not finding coins, I think this was a great hunt Brad. So many amazing and unusual finds. Would love if you could make a follow up video to this, showing each item all cleaned and up close! I hope you go back to this property some day soon? Considering how many neat things you came across after it had already been detected multiple times, I should think there’s probably still a lot more to there to discover!
Clips with leather, could they be from ladies shoe lace up?
That was my first impression also
That's what I'm thinking also.
We had the same thought - a leather boot of some sort. Especially once we could see that the metal was not flush with the leather.
I remember my grandparents hanging old pictures and photo frames from a picture / dado rail, in the front room of their house, using very thin chains like the one you found. And I definitely think that the 'rivets' on a leather strip, were 'buttons' from a childs or a small womens boot, requiring a small hook to fasten.
Also holding the glass lampshades up from the ceiling fitting
Brad I hate it when you say well folks it's time to go.i could watch u all day long ❤
Keep it going for old folks like me
The shape of that knife blade is similar to a cheese knife of today. Having a specialty utensil like that would certainly be a sign of wealth.
I have never seen a cheese knife until now.
Definitely a sign of wealth
@@someoneyoudontknow7407 lol
Or it could be a fish knife...for serving a whole fish at the table. Those Victorians had a utensil for every occasion.
I've definitely noticed more reckless people getting into metal detecting in the last 10 years, who don't care about history, don't care about the people whose stuff they're digging, and they saw a video or two of 'AMAZING TREASURE FOUND' on UA-cam, and decided to get a detector and hunt. They leave their holes unfilled as well, which drives me nuts. I haul 100% of what I find out of the hunt site, and dispose of what needs to be disposed of responsibly. Brad is one of the good guys though, and whether he finds cool stuff or not, it's about the adventure and the history.
muchomusiclibre I’ve seen it quite a bit lately. Not sure if it is because of COVID and people are home bored, so they pick up a detector. Like you said it seems to mostly be people hoping to get rich. Also lots of them begging for sites to detect. I just tell them that research is all part of the fun.
Desperate people pushed to the edge
at 17:00 the birds become heralds of my memories. The shots of acorns and mushrooms add SO much, Brad. Thanks
No coins but still some neat stuff. Being of semi codger age I knew that to be a Vicks jar right off.
Thhank you for showing the lady slipper. We cannot pick them in new hampshire , it is against the law.( at least when i was growing up) but have you seen a jack in the pulpit yet. ???
@uncletigger I can't remember LOL
I'm full on codger. You're absolutely right
That was indeed a wealthy family with all of the beautiful items that you saved from the dirt. Silver and gold plated pieces, even the spigot 👍 It's great that the buckle had a patent date on it, which helps verify the date of when the family lived there. Thank you again for your phenomenal efforts to give us another great video ☺
Would love to hear an update on those items and what they were or who made them. Very unique.
Thought I'd get myself in the mood here in the UK by enjoying a few tins of Green Mountain IPA by Thornbridge..... lovely beer!!!🙂🐻
The scene on the buckle looks like a french painting call "The Swing" by the artist Fragonard.
Awesome finds.
It makes me think of the people who lived back then.
The life’s they lived is so much different than what we know.
Very beautiful finds! The sceene on the buckle looks like an Allegory of the arts depicting figures that symbolize music, painting, sculpting and architecture.
Perhaps it belonged to some artist or teacher.
I agree, I thought it might be the clasp of an artist’s paint kit satchel.
Some really great finds, Brad. Especially that button with the figure in it. That was amazing!
I'm thinking that the spigot may have been on a stoneware crock used to chill and serve beverages.
Also seen on 'Water Purifiers'
Had to laugh, the moment the blue jar was picked up I was thinking "that's a vicks jar". Go figure lol.
Thought the same thing before it was picked up...distinctive blue jar has to be Vick’s vapor rub..
Hi Brad, great drone footage. Blue Vick’s jar, a sign from your grandfather. He walks with you. All good, angels. What finds today. Crazy things . Great things ! Great filming, music was perfect for video. Wonderful job like always. Thanks for the trip. Later, ARROW *🎱 Connecticut 🇺🇸
Great fun. We always used Vicks for colds, rubbed on chest, neck, back and under nose.
I am a fairly new subscriber and I’m making my way through all of your videos. Each one is so well done; between the history lesson, the artifacts and finds, and the lovely scenery, it’s hard not to binge them !!
Thank you for sharing with us all. 😊
Wow! Great finds! You got a good spot there.
Those were all very cool finds, thanks for sharing!!💜 love to Becca and Bentley!!
Loved the day.
That clock movement is a great find being that complete. Love the buckle with the Cherubs. Many of these finds prove it was a wealthy family, wealthy in those days.
Hi Brad, that button at 4:00 is gorgeous, it looks like a man in side profile with his right side nearest the viewer, could he be chopping/sawing a tree ?? it's beautiful.
Some stunning finds on this episode, I love the buckle/adornment it must have been something special to see in it's day.
I know this will sound silly but the blue Vicks jar, could it be a weird out there sign that your GrandFather approves of you finally wearing what he said worked ??? I know it's a crazy thought but I'm a big believer that things are meant to happen at certain times.
Brad, I would be happier with the items you found today but I guess that's the archaeologist in me lol. A great show, thank you for taking us with you, I hope you got back relatively dry. xx
Even the George Washington buttons can't beat that button you found, "THE LITTLEMAN BUTTON" is the coolest button I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The button looks like a working miner. The leather looks to be from a corset. Great finds.
Wow cool finds the button was crazy looks like the robot from lost in space can’t wait for your next vid
Good morning Brad ! Some GREAT finds today. Simply amazing that these items were still around after all these years. Stay safe.
Your editing skills are AMAZING!! I feel like im watching a movie!!
that buckle is awesome! also the button and the shoe decoration (?). for me, these personal belongings are much more interesting than coins. great finds!
What you are calling the "crazy, intricate, button cover" is possibly the hook for a hook and eye fastener. It would have hooked into a piece that matched it, but that had the eye to receive the hook. Possibly to have closed the top of a lady's cape. It could also fasten a decorative belt in the same way.
I suspect the spigot may have come off a samovar.
🙄I was going for a fancy coffee urn & you out fancied me. 😏
intricate piece after the first button looks like I might have been a clasp on a cape. The spigot looks somewhat like the old gas lighting fixtures we had in an old victorian house we used to live in when I was a kid. Every room had them, some even still had the ornate shades or globes on them.
Great finds 👏 be interested to see if the clock maker put his initials and date in , usually they hide them on the inner workings even when sent to be repaired they would also add there own mark , and as ever another great video
The leather with the 4 clips looks like it might come from a ladies lace up shoe/boot. You can find them on some work/hiking boots even today. Safe hunting.
5:00 mark that is a ladies broach that went on a boat collar dress.. it would attach around the semi circle or (boat) collar generally worn in a formal or religious gathering :) very nice !!
That little thing with rivets looks like what ladies used to use to hold up their nylon stockings. Some were still used for various things till the 1960’s
The button, looks like a man in the moon!
That's what I see too!
That's what came to my mind, came to the comments to see what y'all thought!
that is what I thought also, I was thinking it probably was on a child's piece of clothing,
Exactly what I was thinking! Pajama button?
DreamWorks logo.....saw same thing
Around 17:30....I think that strip is maybe part of a "shoe-boot" ....you would criss-cross the shoe lace up the boot (a lady's boot", and then tie at the top....Even in the 1950's I remember having leather boots that laced up with those round, opened buttons...there are no lace holes..just the round "hooks" to feed the laces around. (LOL...yeah....I'm 71 but I am sure that they used these kinds of lacing hooks in the 1800's as well )
I also saw the “Man in the Moon” for this button also. The site must have been detected before as the owner has said BUT you are the winner here. You found the items that tells the story of this family in the every day. This was wonderful. I hope you get to visit this site again. 😊
Yes Vermont looks so much like my state of WV.
I think that you are correct about the blue jar ! It has a triangle on the bottom which I believe the Vick's jar had ! I'm trying to remember what they looked like from my childhood !
I just love your work. Great finds, great information you should be a teacher. Now when you find something I know what it is before you tell us and I know the names of these items.The best part is the music and when you take video of the places you are in between the finds. I could watch a whole video of just you walking through the woods show the wonders of nature. Thank you so much for sharing your journeys.
The intricate piece with half a “button” looks like a frog, a clasp used to hold a cape together around the neck and shoulders
Awesome finds good job
Impressive finds, very exciting! 🕰👍
The object at 5:13 looks like half of a belt closure...the hook would connect with a straight bar of the other side of the clasp . The belt itself could have been of fabric . My mother had several antique clasps like this .
Nice job Brad!!!!
With the button it looks like a dwarf mining at a rock face.
I thought that also. We have a mining statue in our town and it looks similar to this design.
I thought the same looked like a miner and a tunnel!
The recessed button is a little miner man who is mining inside a cave/wall.
Sign from Grandpa, the Vicks bottle. Luv ur videos.
Gosh it's fun to imagine this family with so many pretty things. I wonder if there are any photos of the people or house. Thank you for sharing.
brad ; the one button looks to have a Templar / Portuguese cross.
probably a free mason find.
Really enjoy your work 😎🤙💚
the music in your videos is A+, great job!
The chain reminds me of old ember curtains that used to hang in front of fireplaces. My house from 1908 had one that the first owners bought and it had a similar design.
Seems like as good a guess as any, you'd think he might have found more of it, though, if it was that. Like you, just guessing.
@@MrJdsenior I thought I heard him say he's found them all over - I may have misunderstood what he said. I assumed all over that location instead of in many locations he detects at, which is probably more likely what he meant.
@@DigitalRX2r Yes, I thought he was referring to more at many locations, rather than more at that specific location. I certainly could be wrong. If so that definitely would change what I surmised/stated in my comment! ;-)
Nice work Brad!
Very nice hunt Brad. Congrats on the relics! Love the spigot! Stay safe. GL&HH!
Interesting outing from the squared stones to the unusual finds.
the little guy on the button looks like heis wearing a 'ruff' and tudor period pantaloons
I thought so too..Spanish
Right before the belt buckle thing at end of void is part of the upper "quick lace" from Victorian era granny boots that all ladies would have worn."quick lace" is the modern term for what I believe.like what's on red wing work boot uppers today.
Hi mate, greetings from France ! Very nice landscape and music too. The knife you found made me think of the ones we use in France for cheese "couteau à fromage", except yours isn't pointy at the tip..Big butter knife?
Very cool!
Really nice stuff shows real life
Those brass chains I believe were plated and used to hold cloaks and Shaws together. I have found a few at early sights and then noticed them in period drawings and paintings. To me it makes sense because cloaks were fashionable then and everyone in the family wore them over top of their winter coats. That's why you find so many different styles. IMO.
Ohio Artifact Dude that makes a lot of sense!! Good call!!
@@HokieJuju Thanks, you can type in 'Cloak Clasp with chain' and you can see one for sale on Etsy. Check it out. I also think that the buttons he and other people find would go on the ends. Like the button he found today that had the person on it.
@@HokieJuju Not all of the buttons of course but some of them.
Ohio Artifact Dude I just checked them out on Etsy. They are pretty neat & some are very decorative!!! It’s funny, we forget sometimes about things that we don’t use today & it’s cool going back and looking at stuff like that and finding stuff like that!!! Cloaks and shawls aren’t used for the most part these days so it’s not something normal in our minds. I love learning new stuff so thank u for the info and for the Etsy reference so I could see what some of them look like!!
@@HokieJuju You're welcome had to figure this one out about thirty years ago by finding them detecting then seeing a painting in a book somewhere. Google is awesome wish I had it then.
Very fancy finds, so cool. In that button I can see a Moon (Sliver with face?) on the right side maybe it belongs to some PJ's. Imagination's can take us around the world. Great hunt, Cheers!
Vick’s was also used mostly rubbed on the chest or back when you had a cold or sore chest .warm and comforting .
Love your work
I think the chain @7:50 is part of a lady's belt from the 1955's or 60's ....the grommets may be part of a corset or a lady's shoe.@17:31
This really makes me wish I had been into detecting when I lived in NH and VT!
Neat finds Brad...! Guess the others missed a few things or just left them behind or didn't think they were worth digging..? =)
That chain could go to a tea ball for dipping tea in hot water
That's what I thought. A tea ball chain.
Could be; I hadn't thought of that one.
I was thinking like a shawl closure chain w/ 2 buttons.
Thought it might be from a chatelaine.
@@nebbindog6126 My idea precisely!
Anything on the gold-plated thing I think maybe it was the badge of some pontiff maybe something that made them official the leather with the little rivets I think this is how boots used to close up you would put the string through those kind of clasps when I was a little kids some people still had those boots. The thing you thought had a keyhole looked like it had a gear on the bottom below the hole could be wrong about that but it looked like it.
Another fun adventure. On a side note: I see that your using the same camel water pack as myself.
One feature that is not on the reviews, is that chest strap has a small whistle built on the connector.
I've been watching your videos over recent years and I've admired your visual approach to shooting them. Camera set up at a distance, you in the background often out-of-focus while you have some forest flower/tree stump/whatever in the foreground. Always interesting. I also suspect you may have updated your camera in the past year. The resolution is really good. And as I've noted in a separate comment on another video of yours, you're using a drone for shots of the mountain side. Could you give me some outline as to how you shoot these videos re: setting up camera positions, what camera, etc. I'm a freelance cinematographer so I find these things of particular interest.
The leather strip with the copper clasps on it looks like a set of boot lace loops, like where the boot lace winds through.
I think that button with "the scene" may be a classic case of Pareidolia. When the brain perceives shapes or objects as having a human or animal form or face, similar to the leaves in the bottom center of the screen at 9:10 they looks like a skull or screaming face. I think the "man" in the button may have been a piece of wire wrapped around a pin, maybe to hold it onto that ornamental piece you found with the glob of iron on it? Definitely some sweet finds either way, the land without a doubt had a wealthy past! Keep up the good work! Your vids are one of the things I look forward to most about fridays!
Great video, since i lived in Vermont, always liked seeing the back woods. What ever happened to their houses?? Its not that old, seems there would be wood showing, was it dismantled? burned down?? thanks 👍👍👍
The two items you found with people working on rocks goes with the cut foundation rocks.
5:22 is a garment hook for ladies attire. I have seen similar on a pair of Spatts for a Man's shoe's
That leather piece have been some kind decoration on a chair or sofa ! After hearing what you about this item near the end of the video ! Could have been part of a lace up shoe ? The laces would loop around the the hooks and the back of the hooks held it on the shoe ?
The short chain, I believe, is a transom chain. Its about the right dimensions.
That leather and clasps would be part of a boot and the laces go around them. Like today's army boots etc.
Item at 13.43 I think is an escutcheon off of a furniture leg. I believe the leather with hooks come off a pair of boots.
The leather rivets look similar to tack I've seen on draft horse harness around my area in Michigan. Horse pullers and the Amish have something similar, and it's just part of the shiny on the tack. And it looks similar to a old belt drive to.
Brad, isn't Vicks vapor rub used to open up the sinuses when you are congested? Sore muscles would be A535 or some similar product. Just saying....
@@dickjohnson1158 - no surprise your name is Dick
Another great video! If you dont mind me asking, why type of equipment are you filming with? It appears you set up a tripod to shoot the dug items?
Awesome finds! I guess the two thumbs down didn't appreciate your finds. I love watching your finds. Now, I am trying to guess what the are or go to? Keep on Rockin in the free world. j
Looks like a depiction of the arts groups on the buckle. Perhaps an anti sloth buckle? Nice finds!
Those old horseshoes, unlike modern shoes, are often very high carbon steel. Make excellent knives. Sought after by forging blacksmiths.
My Granny use to rub Vicks under our noses, and smear it on our chest when we had the sniffles. Another use she had for it, I'll never forget, is she had a pan of boiling water on the stove everyday. So that when my Grandpa got home from cutting timber everyday, could put his head under a towel, over the pan, and she'd put I don't know how much of the Vicks Vapor Rub into the pot.
Believing it helped him breath afterwards, and that was evening routine for couple years I remember. This was mid 60's, and we lived in the middle of the National forest of Southeastern Oklahoma, we were very country folks, and long ways from any real medical facilities. So Granny doctored us best ways she knew how to, but we later learned his breathing troubles were caused by cancer of the lungs, and he passed in 1966.
To this day, if I see old blue jar, a piece of broken blue glass, are catch the smallest hint of that particular smell, it takes me back instantly to those days so long ago, and memories flood back, as if it were just yesterday. So thank you for your sharing of your memories of your Grandpa a few weeks back, today's adventures, along with the old blue jar with the triangular symbol on the bottom that I remember so well, and all the past adventures, as well as the ones to come.
Really love your vids
LIKE #526. I always enjoy watching your videos. The pictures of nature, the music and the education I get from your experience is unlike every other detectorist videos. I'm especially grateful that you don't exhibit some juvenile emotional outburst when you find something extraordinary. 9:39 - Cool find!
Awesome finds. Maybe next time will prove even more interesting things.
Man with crescent moon!!
Funny, I get the impression these people were all flash and no boom. All that bling plating, but nothing solid. Strange....
That spot was probably cherry picked by the previous detectorists. They only dug the higher signals, which is why Brad didn't find any coins or silver jewelry. But as you can see, you will miss a lot of interesting relics by ignoring the lower signals.
Well I suppose owning multiple saw mills is pretty solid
Very curious ornate stuff.
Brad go to Etsy and look up cloak clasp with chain. I pretty sure these are the short chains you've been finding. Also look up Vintage Dress Clip Cloak Clasp on Etsy and you will see the same chain you found some time ago. Some of those dome top fancy buttons go on the ends. You asked.
That first button with the person, that a cauldron in they background. Probably a cooking scene.
I still use vapor rub as a mosquito repellent. Especially when Home Depot is out of citronella candles. I also use eucalyptus oil on occasion.
I think the brass chain may have been to a cuckoo clock or grandfather clock.