Whoever Lost These Must Have Been Absolutely Heartbroken
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- On this adventure I return to where I found my silver, 18th-cenutry luckenbooth brooch in an attempt to find the rest...
Original music by Brad Martin
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I so appreciate how you always ponder how things may have wound up in the ground, and how people must've felt if it was a lost item. Most youtube detectorists are just like "Aw yeah I found this, WOO-HOOO!" and watching is basically just treasure p0rn. But getting insights into how people really lived in the past is useful in learning where to hunt and identifying mystery objects, also the reverence toward the original owners makes the hobby feel all the more special.
It's what makes Brads channel the best of metal detectorists.
And how he paints a picture for us when he finds something. “You can imagine…”
Creates a little story and makes each and every find intriguing and almost emotional…
I completely agree 👍
Understanding and "feeling" the history is as valuable as the objects you find. That's what makes "treasure" hunting in small antique stores fun too.
Just Love your Demeanor and attitude. Your videos are pleasant to watch and odley comforting to me. You are finding someones past and sharing it in their future. I hope that you never quit making these videos in what is left of my time. I Thank you for sharing your time with us. Have a Safe and Wonderful Day!
Aren’t they just the best?!😊
Nicely said Jerry. I love his videos, too.
I really enjoy the transitions from the found coin to what it used to look like. It helps me see it much better. Thanks
Love that you went to look for something and found another something! They do seem to crawl up out of the ground for you to puzzle and amaze ! ❤
Well said!😊
That’s a lot of very cool history in that little pile of finds. Absolutely wonderful ❤️🔥🇺🇸
I get excited by proxy when you find these tangible connections to history and people. Thank you!
Man Brad, you must do an awful lot of swinging and digging to have found 4 Nova's. I can't even imagine finding 1. Love your videos!
It kind of reminds me of Mud Dog Mandy. He has found multiple GW buttons which are even more rare IMO.
So you're accusing him of faking his finds? Wow 🤨
@@kayesdigginit1519 Who's accusing anyone of faking finds? There is no mention of that. You put in the work you will find stuff. You need to chill out!! 🤯
@@kayesdigginit1519 So you've assumed that's what I meant? Wow is right! I've been detecting and watching his videos forever and know they're legit.
@@kayesdigginit1519 Both diggers mentioned put in the work. I've been subbed to both for a long time. Not once have I ever commented on anyone's channel saying they fake finds, nor did I in my comment to this video. Please do not imply I was saying Brad was faking finds or Mud dog for that matter. Obviously, you read the comments in a negative frame of mind.
I was today years old when I learned what the phrase dead as a doornail meant. Cool! Thanks Brad!
My ancestors on most of my maternal lines go back to the 1600's. Interestingly, a few of them have been identified as blacksmiths. So, I love these old nails. Thanks for all your videos. I love them.
Hey Brad,
I have not really noted how much I enjoy your detecting videos until this one.
The excitement you show when finding pretty much anything old is infectious.
I will be glad when the weather allows you to get out more often.
Thank you for showing us the joy you experience.
Be Safe, Stay Warm
Content is always spot on but this go around I'm appreciating all of the production work you put in.
Bullets from today and yesterday! Pretty shocking difference between them! The mountains are so beautiful even in winter! That piece of silver is stunning!
Life was hard for these people up in the mountains. You bring to us just how hard working these people were. How they made do with just so little, and how they cherished everything from a button they could save to use on another garment. The loss heart with the crown was surely a sad loss for some lady. Sure it meant a lot to her.Edit: Thank you for bringing us along.I really enjoy your adventures and the surroundings, just beautiful!
The flat wedge shaped item you pictured just before the two nails looks like the wedge that holhs a muzzle loading rifle barrel into the stock.
Always cool! 🌺💕✌️👵
Impatiently waiting for spring here in SE MN. Thanks for allowing us to follow your adventures when we can't get out for our own. Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting
Same here in Vermont. Another snowstorm coming tonight!
Greetings from central MN!
Thanks for sharing your hobby with others - I love the music too.
Brad I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love your metal detecting shows. Thank You, and God Bless.
As always fun Friday with Brad I always look forward to seeing your videos thank you for sharing 👍♥️🗝️🇺🇸
What a joy it is to see so many lost and long forgotten fragments of our history get rediscovered and cherished! Thanks, Brad!
Good morning Brad ! You still ended up with some good finds! 👍
I watch a lot of YT videos of different topics. With out hesitation this channel is the only one that I click full screen on my Mac as soon as the video starts. Outstanding editing and content. Thanks for the hard work producing these videos every week.
Cinching nails (bending them over) also prevented the seasonal expansion and contraction of the wood from working the nail out. 5:28 looks a wedge from a workbench or the head of a tool.
How awesome would that be if you could find them both. Great job, happy for you Brad. Love you're UA-cam videos.
Thanks for sharing your trip. I love the partial shoe buckle - it's very beautiful. Hope your day is a great one.
Thank you so much for sharing your finds,and the history. Always look forward to fridays👍.
I love your demeanor, your voice brings a quiet peaceful tone that fits right in with the beauty of the forest. I’m new too your channel. So I’ll have to catch up and watch your past videos.
That blade looks to be in the classic "Jack" pattern. Popular from the 1800's till today. Kinda like your ammunition demo, you can by a "Jack knife" today.
Your day was fantastic. I hope your health is better 🎉
Always enjoy your scenery shots, music and just very good production of your vid's. Only thing I've seen remotely similar is The Square Nail Squirrel from Ohio, who unfortunately doesn't film anymore. He had your GMMD sticker on his V3i, coincidence? Given your styles and personalities, I'd guess you probably know of each other. I love metal detecting, but you add another dimension and almost make me feel like I'm there.
I love how each find opens up a peek of history…Another great start to my Friday. Thanks!🥰💕❤️👍
Your Best show and production ever . Well done . Much Joy. Ty
Brad, Thank you for being you! You make me smile with each video I watch! Your calming way of speaking and understated enthusiasm has won me over! U ROCK! Keep it up & happy trails! H
Great finds!!! The second brooch is great hope you find the other pieces for both of them. I enjoy your history lessons.
Very cool video. From what i saw in this video whoever lived there in the 1700 hundreds had some money. Not the average mountain family from back then. Nice finds.
Love the show! Thanks!!!
Quality finds! My particular favorite is the shoe buckle frame.
Cool! I dug a piece of a shoe buckle too and never knew what it was....until now. Thank you for the education!
When manifesting finds, you have to be specific. Keep it up Brad, always fun to watch!
What a lovely humourous face you have!!! The fact you so enjoy what you 're doing and appreciate the past is wonderful. I really enjoy your videos.😅
I can’t help but daydream about life at that time at that spot! Thank you for this!!!!
Brad, another adventure of "hunting" in the Green Mountains, and treasure has been found. Thanks for posting, and congrats on your discovery of the Nova coin, that excites me here in Hurricane Ian ravaged SW Florida .. Looking forward to the St. Patrick's Day GMMD video.
Great finds Brad. Another silver broach bummer it was broken. Also other great relics along with the Nova coin.
🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 Where is Eddie?
Great vid today, Brad. I'm content for the day.
Brad, the thing is... you KNOW the missing pieces of those two broaches are out there. They have to be. Just a matter of hitting the right spot. By removing all the items you already have, that makes it more likely you'll find those pieces next time. Based on the quality of those broaches and the shoe buckle, it would seem whoever was there were people of some means, not just poor farmers. Visuals and sound quality of this were top notch. Good job!
A lot of farmers in Vermont in the first half of the 19th century were at least respectablely middle class, even if it was still largely subsistence farming. It was the early years and the late years when all the successful farmers moved West and the richer people moved into the towns as industry grew up, when you got the poor hill farmers. You had the few remaining farmers getting by okay in the valleys, and the poor ones who couldn't or wouldn't move doing the hardscrabble thing in the hills.
Of course it is hard to say who was a "farmer" anyway, since just about every household woild be called a farm by modern standards, even when it wasn't their primary livelihood. Weird to see the photos of relatively large towns in the 1870s and see that every house had a barn, a carriage shed, a chicken coop, a large garden, extending back in a long row. Where else would you keep the horses?
It's so cool to find another one. Congrats.
Well, DANG Brad. SO much you find keeps ME coming back or more. I thank you for the lovely stories and imaginative takes on these treasures. LOVE the channel and hopelessly hooked !! Stay well.
Isn’t he just so creative?!😊
Great video Brad thanks for sharing 👍👍
Excellent presentation, Brad. I am a new subscriber. I am from upstate NY but live in GA now. My family had a cabin on North Hero Island when I was growing up so I have some familiarity with VT.
Clinching (or chenching) a nail is also still used to fasten planks to each other on boats. I believe clinching is also used on doors and other applications where the movement and forces exerted on the item, like a door or boat, would loosen a nail, not so much to prevent someone from breaking into a house.
great stuff thanks. Love the new hat.
Another Great hunt . See your sporting new hat. Keep on digging and be safe
Awesome Brad I do feel you will find both missing brooch pieces .congrats on your amazing finds .ty again for sharing and giving us some history . Ty again for sharing , your amazing .
I miss walking through the woods. I lived in The Blue Ridge Mountains for many years and raised my two children there. I'm older now and not able to do it again. Thank you for your videos❣️
Amazing finds!! Everytime! Love the silver shirt buckles!! Very cool Brad💚
I got excited when you pulled that Nova Constellatio out of the ground! I recognized it immediately as soon as you flipped it over. And though it's a shame about the reverse, it's just SUCH an amazing stroke of luck to find a piece of American history like this, 2nd only to maybe a Fugio cent. Maybe not enough to mend a broken heart, but it's damned close. This was a good one! ✌
Great hunting, and relevant finds. A day of hunting to find all of these things. Looks like a whole day's work. I will check in for each of these magnificent video drops, helps to start my day. Thanks it is fun watching.
For Vermont in December that is quite the wizzer of a day.
Prelude to a spring dig? 2 silver pieces to find now, or more pieces of other jewelry. Nice finds!
You continue to offer 6:15 episodes of the highest quality on the internet. Many thanks for the hours of serious entertainment that you continue to offer.
Great treasures! You should go back when weather permits! Have a great weekend and I always enjoy your videos and shorts! 😘👍
Another very viewable production. Thank you Mr Martin for your work - it's VERY entertaining.
Your show is truly outstanding and educational. I can't say enough. Keep up the great work 👍
As a blacksmith, I love when you find iron stuff. Especially nails. Peening a nail head is actually somewhat complicated. Given that I've done it a thousand times, seeing you find them, I can relate first hand to the creation and the work it took to make something so utilitarian like a nail. Nothing fancy, nothing decorative most times but those hammered nails, from iron to function to use to where it lay. I'd love to find 10 to 20 of them and build something decorative and beautiful with them.
My favorite morning video of the week! The best to you and your beautiful family.
DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER GO BACK AND READ ANY OF THE PAST COMMENTS BUT JUST CAME ACROSS YOUR CHANNEL. I USUALLY WATCH A LOT OF NUGGETNOGGENS VIDIOS. NOW I HAVE TWO METAL DETECTING CHANNELS TO WATCH. LOVE YOUR ENTHUSIAM THE WAY YOU CHERISH EACH AND EVERY FIND. WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME VIDIOS OF YOUR BEST COLLECTIONS SUCH AS COINS BELLS OR WHATEVER YOU COLLECT. GOD BLESS AND KEEP UP THE CONTENT. 😊😊😊😊😊
So glad for your character trait of diligent persistence. You surely have displayed the benefits and inspired me. Most interesting finds today and fuel for future digs. God bless you, your family, and friends. 😊
Just found you today, and I am so glad. The subject matter, the treasures, and your demeanor will have me coming back.
I actually Love the nails - they are beautiful and represent life lived by our ancestors. They can be exciting as in evidence of an unknown old home. I watch some Thames Mudlarks and they find gorgeous nails from ships, homes, market places etc..and I think they are lovely.
Brad I really enjoy your channel and all your videos. I especially enjoy the music you write and record. I think you should devote more time and effort in that endeavor. Your talents are many, varied and quite enjoyable. Thanks
This is so fascinating to me. Having lived in Vermont for ten years it
amazes me how many early settlements are gone...leaving wonderful
things for you to discover. Now I realize why most of the forest is
second growth. Thank you for all of your knowlege which you share.
I now live in Philadelphia.
Love your videos Brad…keep up the awesome job!!!!
Great finds! Great guitar! Need to make an album! ❤
"Dead as a door nail" thank you for the explanation. I have found several of these and have always wondered why they were bent.
Congrats Brad on all the finds. Love the Nova Shoe Buckle and Silver Brotch. Here's hoping you find both pieces of Silver Brotches next time. Take Care
“Dead as a door nail…. Thank you Brad! I have found a few Rosehead nails and gave one to my son who was in the building trade.
Congrats Brad on all your wonderful finds. Definitely worth it. Best of luck on your next journey…
Great video Brad. I enjoyed this one especially all those cool relics and really like the large copper.
Fantastic silver and brass finds. Late 1700 incredible! 😁🇨🇦
Thx again for taking us along with you.
Thanks for sharing
Wow! The odds of two in one site!! Good luck finding the pieces!!!!
Hey Brad, always love your videos and seeing the treasures that you are able to uncover. Thank you for taking us along.
Rolly coaster of emotions. It's amazing how the little things we dig can make us so happy.
Awesome Nova. Beautiful shoe buckle piece. Great heart silver buckle piece.
Such classy items
Thanks for another trip back in time
Thank you for the wonderful adventure today. I learned a lot and love metal detecting finds. So appreciate your time shared with us! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
I enjoy your adventures and your treasures. Thank you.
Terveisiä Suomesta👋 oli hienoja löytöjä. Meillä vielä täysi talvi ja metallinetsijät joutuvat odottamaan että pääsevät samankaltaisia aarteita etsimään😊
Thank you 😊🇬🇧
One of my favorites so far!
Thank you for bringing us along for the hunt and giving us a break from all the chaos that is the world today!
I enjoyed this video so much. You are so personable and enjoyable to listen to and watch. I love to see all the old things you find. Thanks for all the digging and great video recording! Excellent!
What fun! Even if you didn't find what you were looking for, Now you have 2 reasons to go back to that place. Good times!
Thank you for providing history on your finds. It provides such appreciation for the past
Look, brother, having to come back to find 2 different completing pieces, to 2 different pieces like that is an awesome problem to have! Love your vids, and always look forward to seeing you on Friday. Good luck finding your completions.
Super finds, Brad! It's also a wonderful lesson for us to return to previously hunted areas with a different mindset and approach. Well done as always!
You are a cool guy! Thanks. & I see I'm not the first to enjoy your demeanor! ❤️
Good job Brad. Hope you find both pieces! Congrats on the Nova, or all 4 over the years! Good luck out there!