As a retired antique dealer, seamstress, and minor history buff your videos are always a delight. Thimbles were used by both men and women and were for them a basic tool. When you consider that trappers, cobblers, shopkeepers, farmers, tailors, and doctors as well as housewives were sewing often, if not daily. Just as neighbors gathered for house or barn raisings, harvesting, auctions, and hangings, women gathered for quilting bees, birthing, and burials. Women kept their hands busy with needlework while waiting.
As a Vermonter, history enthusiast and hunter of treasures I truly appreciate these videos. Every find, big or small tells the story of who inhabited the places you go. It gives me goosebumps to find something so many years after the owner last touched it and to imagine who they were. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on these amazing finds!
Your ability to converse with your audience is stellar!! That's what makes you special on UA-cam!! Your videography is on point, as well!! Thanks for the entertainment!!
People used to shred old clothes into the fields as fertilizer and moisture retention. This is why fields have so many buttons. There were even repositories that collected old tattered clothes for farmers.
Hey Brad, maybe that was a place where there were gatherings, maybe horse races or fall fairs where lots of people gathered. That would explain all the buttons and it would explain the tack pieces you are finding... and of course the lost coins ...
Brad, I think we all have that one special detecting spot that gives us a combination of great finds and memories. It's always a good day when we are able to get back to that spot and re-live the magic.
IS BRAD NOT A LEGEND!!?? I appreciate who you are being in these videos. My daughter and I watch all your videos and it has inspired us to get metal detectors and we are now bonding together and making memories! Thanks so much! (Travis)
I’m hooked! Your knowledge is amazing, your excitement tangible, and your gorgeous smile is so genuine and warm. Who knew I would spend the morning watching a guy with a metal detector?
Brad, Looks like you finally got a new hat! Enjoy your videos and your sense of adventure never wanes. Thank You for your videos- Look forward every week for them! Bob
Good Friday morning to you, Brad. Enjoyed seeing what you found at your favorite lucky spot this week. I was surprised to hear you spend almost every waking moment metal -detecting. Silly me... I just thought you went out one day during the week to film the show for us. It was amazing to see such quality finds in one special and sacred space to you. The button thing is crazy. Hope you find out someday what's up with that.... and all the other buttons you find in Vermont. Thanks for another delightful show.
Brad as always good to see you again, its always special when you can go to place near and dear to your heart great finds .Thx for letting us tag along. God bless be safe stay well until next time
It seems so odd to see you out in a field, but I love it! Many of my hunts are limited to about 2 hours as well. Glad you made the most of it! Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting
After being intrigued by metal detecting since I was a wee lad I finally got one recently, in no small part due to being inspired by you. After messing around the yard for a bit figuring out how to work it, my next trip was to venture out in the woods around my place. My third hole I dug up a 1979 Susan B Anthony. I know it's no big deal to a seasoned vet but it was to me in that moment. My next trip, just yesterday, in another section of my property on what appears to be an old farm road to get up to the top of the hill, I dug up my first real relic. A cut back tombac button! It's really on now! lol If you ever get up to NW Vermont I'd love to have you check my place out. The farmhouse that once farmed this piece was built in 1840. I'm sure the history goes back farther than that. Thank you for the knowledge and the inspiration.
@@homemprovmentguy My wife thinks I'm nuts. She came out looking for me last evening. Found me looking in the "one last hole" by the light of my phone. I'm pretty sure I found the remnants of another button. I am most definitely hooked. Might even have to decide between deer hunting or relic hunting! lol
@@homemprovmentguy I'm on it my friend. My budget allowed an ORX. I'm brand new at this and still figuring it out. Like Brad talks about in this video... I fall asleep thinking about the next hunt. I'm very fortunate to have this 17 acres of what was part of a "hill farm" going back to at least 1840. There was a colonial presence in the area. I don't believe there are any remnants of colonial structures. I did find some square nails in a concentrated area near a manmade pile of stones. I believe that to be part of the farming operation but who knows. I'll do my best to figure it out. The house here was built in 1972 so there is no shortage of modern targets in places. I found 2 45 long colt bullets which have me intrigued. They could be 150 years old or they could be 25 years old.
@@Lazybones1340 If you can figure out where the least disturbed soil is, that’s where you want to be! It takes a trained eye to see it. We’ve just decided to hit a local field we had some luck in last year. Happy hunting!
Beautiful place and cinematography! Wow! You found a lot! I think you should go back. I have a feeling it got you started and it's still got a lot more to find! As always your enthusiasm and joy is contagious! Just the best ever!
Ok. I have to disagree. It could very well have been a doctors house. Back then people had to rush to the doctors house to either be treated or to get the doctor to come help them. They would have arrived in a hurry and all flustered so it would have been very easy to lose buttons as you swung out of the saddle or off the buckboard seat to run pound on the doctors door. Or as they brought people sick or shot and they were unloading them from the back of a wagon and buttons flying because of them being carried in a hurry. Same as with horse tack. Horses racing up and reins being pulled violently to a halt so tack being broke off in a hurried manner. Rich and poor they all needed a doctor at some point. Same reason so many other items found in one spot. People carelessly rushing to get help and losing items out of a pocket. I look forward to your videos every week. I wish I could metal detect but it’s just not possible anymore so I live through your videos. Thank you for your sunshine. Can you imagine having a house sitting right where you were searching? Seeing the backdrop of beauty every time you looked out the window or went out to tend the garden. Stay safe and God Bless
Your theory makes sense. Amazing to find so many buttons and coins in a clover field. It makes sense that a doctor lived here. I am sure they traded goods such as food items for payment of service as well.
Take a look at those metal detecting videos shot in Germany. Places that are sugar beet fields today were thriving villiages 1700 yeard ago, in Roman times. Just like modern people, the residents of those villiages dropped all manner of metal objects. Makes me wish our modern coins were made of silver and copper [and yes, gold!]. If I'm gonna' lose a coin, I want the fellow who finds it 150 years from now to be excited about what he just found!
Brad I so much look forward to Friday because of your videos. Thanks for the wonderful job you do. As a history buff, I can only imagine the excitement of what you do. Keep the videos coming!
People used to have community picnics a lot more often that we do now. They would all gather in a place, like yours with the lovely view and have big potlucks and social gatherings outside. They were often hosted by the farmer who owned the lovely view. We still follow this old tradition on our own farm and have a big fall hayride and bonfire . I wonder if this is a place like that.
I Loved your interview with Eddie. I love your channel and would love to visit your neck of the woods but at 67 i don't see being able to get up there. I live in Lubbock TX. Not much archeology going on here. Keep up the great job that you do. Looking forward to many more vid's
Nice half penny. Umbrella wire, good thinking. Do not straighten the key. I would agree with you on the tailor's thimble. They would push the needle with the side. Awesome button haul. Lota history in those coppers. Good episode Brad for only 2 hours.
I envy you your state! Some of our best friends moved from Ohio to outside Montpelier, VT back about 2005 and we went to visit them for a couple weeks in 06 and I had never been further northeast than Philly. Wow is Vermont a beautiful state. I was born in Ca, but moved to Ohio in 66 (when I was 2) but I would move to Vt in a second if I could. Love your videos. In 1976 a friend of mine’s dad let us use his RadioShack, 25 dollar “kit-made” detector. (We had never touched one) and we walked to the park at the end of the street. We looked over the baseball diamond, then saw the two small shelter houses and decided to search around the shelter house first. Turned the machine on and on my FIRST SWING at the base of the shelter house, I got a beep. My friend pulled out an enormous bayonet and handed it to me and, me being my 12 year old self, I jammed that blade about 6 inches down and pried-back and out popped a 1945 Liberty Walking Half. (Which I put a deep gouge right across the middle, from edge to edge, with that bayonet) You’d have thought we’d found Blackbeard’s treasure chest. Searched the rest of the day and found nothing but trash-pull tabs were still ON cans in 76 so I imagine we found about 100 of those, but it hooked me. When I got my first real job I saved up and bought a Fisher CZ 6 detector and found some very cool stuff with that but I’m an arrowhead hunter at heart and have had a couple articles published in The Ohio Archaeologist (a quarterly journal of The Ohio Archaeological Society.) Thank you for sharing your videos and your gorgeous state with us. I always look forward to seeing them and appreciate the work you do just for people like me, who still love the hobby but have had to whittle their own hobbies down to just one “favorite” to squeeze into a very limited schedule. Keep your powder dry and your detector buzzing. Best wishes for many more decades of success to you and yours. Semper Fi
My ancestors were in VT and NH in the 1700s. Regarding buttons, they were expensive. Even as recent as my grandmother who was born in the late 1800s, she saved buttons. Women always saved buttons. When clothing was no longer repairable or useful, they would cut off the buttons to use on a future garment. This could be why you find a lot of them in one place. Someone's old button jar was broken over the years.
I am new to your site...I am next door in NH and have been crystal prospecting for years ...now you have me interested in metal detecting ♥️♥️💪 great site, thx for your videos!!!!
Great video Brad , I work 3rd shift and I always look forward to watching your videos every Friday when I get home from work . I always start the weekend with Green Mountain Metal Detecting
Great finds! I love your enthusiasm and knowledge of your artifacts, and love that you showcase the natural beauty of Vermont. Unless those gloves have sentimental value, maybe time to retire them? : )
Pretty sure I see that second coin in the shot of the first coin on my first time thru wasn't surprised when you said was nearby. Enjoy your content immensely from Warren Co NY
Good to see the weather is still on ur side! A hand carved button, wow that to me would be worth more than the British coins! It would have been an expensive item for who ever wore it!! 💙💕💜
When I lived in Gallatin Tennessee I sure wished I would of done metal detecting. The town was held captive during the Civil War by the Yankees. Lots of history outside of the town as well as in town.. There was an underground railroad going from Gallatin to Nashville.
Always a privilege to join you on a detecting journey Brad, I hope you and all the family are well. Is there going to be a join up with Chris and Eddie sometime hope they are doing fine as well.
Brad, I really like the way you show a picture of your coins, then fade into a more legible image of a better preserved coin. It's a nice touch.
As a retired antique dealer, seamstress, and minor history buff your videos are always a delight. Thimbles were used by both men and women and were for them a basic tool. When you consider that trappers, cobblers, shopkeepers, farmers, tailors, and doctors as well as housewives were sewing often, if not daily. Just as neighbors gathered for house or barn raisings, harvesting, auctions, and hangings, women gathered for quilting bees, birthing, and burials. Women kept their hands busy with needlework while waiting.
As a Vermonter, history enthusiast and hunter of treasures I truly appreciate these videos. Every find, big or small tells the story of who inhabited the places you go. It gives me goosebumps to find something so many years after the owner last touched it and to imagine who they were. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on these amazing finds!
Your ability to converse with your audience is stellar!! That's what makes you special on UA-cam!! Your videography is on point, as well!! Thanks for the entertainment!!
People used to shred old clothes into the fields as fertilizer and moisture retention. This is why fields have so many buttons. There were even repositories that collected old tattered clothes for farmers.
What a beautiful area, beautiful weather, and beautiful bunch of goodies! How fun!
Brad, your videos are of such great quality, the scenery, the views, the presentation as a whole. Such a treat to watch.
Hey Brad, maybe that was a place where there were gatherings, maybe horse races or fall fairs where lots of people gathered. That would explain all the buttons and it would explain the tack pieces you are finding... and of course the lost coins ...
Brad, you are the best metal detectorist on UA-cam! 👍🤠🇺🇲
Brad, I think we all have that one special detecting spot that gives us a combination of great finds and memories. It's always a good day when we are able to get back to that spot and re-live the magic.
IS BRAD NOT A LEGEND!!?? I appreciate who you are being in these videos. My daughter and I watch all your videos and it has inspired us to get metal detectors and we are now bonding together and making memories! Thanks so much! (Travis)
The dream field that keeps on giving. Awesome finds on this adventure.
I don't mind looking at the buttons. They are part of the history. I for one appreciate you showing them. They are beautiful in their own way.
Beautiful, relaxing, intriguing, educational, as usual. What a place! Thanks for another great Friday morning.
Great way to begin the day.. coffee and GMMD!
I’m hooked! Your knowledge is amazing, your excitement tangible, and your gorgeous smile is so genuine and warm. Who knew I would spend the morning watching a guy with a metal detector?
Thank you , Brad for the adventure , seeing amazing finds and beautiful scenery !
Brad,
Looks like you finally got a new hat!
Enjoy your videos and your sense of adventure never wanes.
Thank You for your videos- Look forward every week for them!
Bob
Good Friday morning to you, Brad. Enjoyed seeing what you found at your favorite lucky spot this week. I was surprised to hear you spend almost every waking moment metal -detecting. Silly me... I just thought you went out one day during the week to film the show for us. It was amazing to see such quality finds in one special and sacred space to you. The button thing is crazy. Hope you find out someday what's up with that.... and all the other buttons you find in Vermont. Thanks for another delightful show.
So incredible to have permission to such a giving site. Thanks for sharing the hunt and finds, Brad!
An awesome hunt Brad! Thanks for bringing us along!
Thanks Brad I look forward every Friday to your Video
Good morning Mr Brad! That's a beautiful place you are at detecting. Some awesome finds.Thank you for sharing with us Sir.
Congrats on the great finds, Brad! Always love finding the buttons. They tell such a great story.
Great view Brad and the fines are awesome and great history about the place again stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 👍🎃🌺🙏
Brad as always good to see you again, its always special when you can go to place near and dear to your heart great finds .Thx for letting us tag along. God bless be safe stay well until next time
Awesome finds, beautiful place! Congrats Brad!! That hand engraved cuff button was so fantastic, to think someone sat there and hand engraved it.
It seems so odd to see you out in a field, but I love it! Many of my hunts are limited to about 2 hours as well. Glad you made the most of it! Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting
After being intrigued by metal detecting since I was a wee lad I finally got one recently, in no small part due to being inspired by you. After messing around the yard for a bit figuring out how to work it, my next trip was to venture out in the woods around my place. My third hole I dug up a 1979 Susan B Anthony. I know it's no big deal to a seasoned vet but it was to me in that moment. My next trip, just yesterday, in another section of my property on what appears to be an old farm road to get up to the top of the hill, I dug up my first real relic. A cut back tombac button! It's really on now! lol If you ever get up to NW Vermont I'd love to have you check my place out. The farmhouse that once farmed this piece was built in 1840. I'm sure the history goes back farther than that. Thank you for the knowledge and the inspiration.
You found a tombac and stopped hunting??? I don’t want to be the one to say it but…. *get back at it!*
@@homemprovmentguy My wife thinks I'm nuts. She came out looking for me last evening. Found me looking in the "one last hole" by the light of my phone. I'm pretty sure I found the remnants of another button. I am most definitely hooked. Might even have to decide between deer hunting or relic hunting! lol
@@Lazybones1340 Tombac’s are 1700’s. Get a quality machine and pound the area!
@@homemprovmentguy I'm on it my friend. My budget allowed an ORX. I'm brand new at this and still figuring it out. Like Brad talks about in this video... I fall asleep thinking about the next hunt. I'm very fortunate to have this 17 acres of what was part of a "hill farm" going back to at least 1840. There was a colonial presence in the area. I don't believe there are any remnants of colonial structures. I did find some square nails in a concentrated area near a manmade pile of stones. I believe that to be part of the farming operation but who knows. I'll do my best to figure it out. The house here was built in 1972 so there is no shortage of modern targets in places. I found 2 45 long colt bullets which have me intrigued. They could be 150 years old or they could be 25 years old.
@@Lazybones1340 If you can figure out where the least disturbed soil is, that’s where you want to be! It takes a trained eye to see it. We’ve just decided to hit a local field we had some luck in last year. Happy hunting!
It's always great to go back and revisit spots and find things that you've missed in the past
Beautiful place and cinematography! Wow! You found a lot! I think you should go back. I have a feeling it got you started and it's still got a lot more to find! As always your enthusiasm and joy is contagious! Just the best ever!
Really nice finds Thanks for sharing your video I really appreciate it ♥️♥️🗝️
Brad,
Two hours of excitement and wonder!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
I look forward to your videos. Fun, interesting and beautiful photography.
Ok. I have to disagree. It could very well have been a doctors house. Back then people had to rush to the doctors house to either be treated or to get the doctor to come help them. They would have arrived in a hurry and all flustered so it would have been very easy to lose buttons as you swung out of the saddle or off the buckboard seat to run pound on the doctors door. Or as they brought people sick or shot and they were unloading them from the back of a wagon and buttons flying because of them being carried in a hurry. Same as with horse tack. Horses racing up and reins being pulled violently to a halt so tack being broke off in a hurried manner. Rich and poor they all needed a doctor at some point. Same reason so many other items found in one spot. People carelessly rushing to get help and losing items out of a pocket. I look forward to your videos every week. I wish I could metal detect but it’s just not possible anymore so I live through your videos. Thank you for your sunshine. Can you imagine having a house sitting right where you were searching? Seeing the backdrop of beauty every time you looked out the window or went out to tend the garden. Stay safe and God Bless
Your theory makes sense. Amazing to find so many buttons and coins in a clover field. It makes sense that a doctor lived here. I am sure they traded goods such as food items for payment of service as well.
The half pennies would fit right in with that. Payment for the doctor, if you had any money.
Good point!
Take a look at those metal detecting videos shot in Germany. Places that are sugar beet fields today were thriving villiages 1700 yeard ago, in Roman times. Just like modern people, the residents of those villiages dropped all manner of metal objects. Makes me wish our modern coins were made of silver and copper [and yes, gold!]. If I'm gonna' lose a coin, I want the fellow who finds it 150 years from now to be excited about what he just found!
There has been 500 years of human western human habitation here, many occupations have lived here.
Perhaps the thimbles are for sewing buttons. Seems to be a thing.
Love your videos, Brad. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.
Thank you Brad! I love your music.💖
Awesome adventure Brad, thanks for sharing
Thanks again Brad, I love coming along to see what we find😉🇦🇺
I really like the overlay dissolve in the coin closeups. Really helps to see the faded image
Brad I so much look forward to Friday because of your videos. Thanks for the wonderful job you do. As a history buff, I can only imagine the excitement of what you do. Keep the videos coming!
What a beautiful place to spend the day looking for pieces of the past!!!!! Happy hunting and be well Brad
Thanks for sharing this awesome site. 😊
Great finds and vid.
Thanks for sharing.
Always look.forward to your videos
Nice job Brad!! Gotta love New England for detecting!!
Thankyou very much Brad you describe the things you find very well. Thankyou
You always bring me home to Vermont. Thank you.
You have the most relaxing voice. I could listen to you all day. Your content is very interesting. I am always anxious for Friday to roll around
People used to have community picnics a lot more often that we do now. They would all gather in a place, like yours with the lovely view and have big potlucks and social gatherings outside. They were often hosted by the farmer who owned the lovely view. We still follow this old tradition on our own farm and have a big fall hayride and bonfire . I wonder if this is a place like that.
Makes sense, thanks
Wow…. Nice saves bro. Look forward to seeing you return to this site. Happy Digging !
I Loved your interview with Eddie. I love your channel and would love to visit your neck of the woods but at 67 i don't see being able to get up there. I live in Lubbock TX. Not much archeology going on here. Keep up the great job that you do. Looking forward to many more vid's
Nice half penny. Umbrella wire, good thinking. Do not straighten the key. I would agree with you on the tailor's thimble. They would push the needle with the side. Awesome button haul. Lota history in those coppers. Good episode Brad for only 2 hours.
I envy you your state! Some of our best friends moved from Ohio to outside Montpelier, VT back about 2005 and we went to visit them for a couple weeks in 06 and I had never been further northeast than Philly. Wow is Vermont a beautiful state. I was born in Ca, but moved to Ohio in 66 (when I was 2) but I would move to Vt in a second if I could. Love your videos. In 1976 a friend of mine’s dad let us use his RadioShack, 25 dollar “kit-made” detector. (We had never touched one) and we walked to the park at the end of the street. We looked over the baseball diamond, then saw the two small shelter houses and decided to search around the shelter house first. Turned the machine on and on my FIRST SWING at the base of the shelter house, I got a beep. My friend pulled out an enormous bayonet and handed it to me and, me being my 12 year old self, I jammed that blade about 6 inches down and pried-back and out popped a 1945 Liberty Walking Half. (Which I put a deep gouge right across the middle, from edge to edge, with that bayonet) You’d have thought we’d found Blackbeard’s treasure chest. Searched the rest of the day and found nothing but trash-pull tabs were still ON cans in 76 so I imagine we found about 100 of those, but it hooked me. When I got my first real job I saved up and bought a Fisher CZ 6 detector and found some very cool stuff with that but I’m an arrowhead hunter at heart and have had a couple articles published in The Ohio Archaeologist (a quarterly journal of The Ohio Archaeological Society.) Thank you for sharing your videos and your gorgeous state with us. I always look forward to seeing them and appreciate the work you do just for people like me, who still love the hobby but have had to whittle their own hobbies down to just one “favorite” to squeeze into a very limited schedule. Keep your powder dry and your detector buzzing. Best wishes for many more decades of success to you and yours. Semper Fi
Sweet man!!🎸🎸🎸
Field of Firsts! Great video and finds!
I always watch for your vids every Friday. So enjoyable! Have a great weekend 😊
Thanks again for the Friday morning video and I'm never disappointed
Amazing finds! Congrats!!
I love your videos, don't change anything., I would like to see, follow up videos of the things you clean up or repurpose.
Great video as always, Brad
Awesome! take me with you next time!
Love all your videos, Brad
Beautiful field and a great hunt!
Awesome finds !!
Your vids are absolutely top notch. I always learn so much. I particularly like your "fade overs" on coins. And your new hat!
My ancestors were in VT and NH in the 1700s. Regarding buttons, they were expensive. Even as recent as my grandmother who was born in the late 1800s, she saved buttons. Women always saved buttons. When clothing was no longer repairable or useful, they would cut off the buttons to use on a future garment. This could be why you find a lot of them in one place. Someone's old button jar was broken over the years.
Looking at the view. You know why the original people stopped there. Amazing finds
Great stuff Brad thanks
Beautiful view...thanks for taking us with you!...all the best to Becca and Bentley...be safe!
Very nice post production!
Some awesome finds there dude, thanks for the video!
I am new to your site...I am next door in NH and have been crystal prospecting for years ...now you have me interested in metal detecting ♥️♥️💪 great site, thx for your videos!!!!
Great video Brad , I work 3rd shift and I always look forward to watching your videos every Friday when I get home from work . I always start the weekend with Green Mountain Metal Detecting
Brad, loving the colonial digs again, they are my favorite for sure : )
That is a beautiful place!
way to go... Keep digging
super cool finds! going detecting tomorrow and hope I'll find a few things I've never found before.
It's Friday so that means Brad's smiling face on youtube! That is a gorgeous place. Thanks for taking us along.
awesome finds!
That button engraving was probably done on a rose engine lathe.
Nice collection of finds Brad. Thanks for taking us along.
GOOD MORNING!
Great finds! I love your enthusiasm and knowledge of your artifacts, and love that you showcase the natural beauty of Vermont. Unless those gloves have sentimental value, maybe time to retire them? : )
Love the videos of all your finds. Really entertaining and informative!
Pretty sure I see that second coin in the shot of the first coin on my first time thru wasn't surprised when you said was nearby. Enjoy your content immensely from Warren Co NY
Must have been a busy spot - perhaps they had a fayre there or such - nice historical relics.
The love of History is incredible and why I always watch awesome Brad
Congrats 🎉🎉
I like the British coins, makes one think of the history of the place! Thanks again!🇨🇦
Well Done Brad !!
Good to see the weather is still on ur side! A hand carved button, wow that to me would be worth more than the British coins! It would have been an expensive item for who ever wore it!! 💙💕💜
Love ur videos!! Thanks!!!!!
Awesome saves Brad
I'm sure this has gone through mind. Where was their nearest neighbor. Here in Kentucky and Tennessee they lived in clusters. Another fun video.
Great video brother!
Wonderful to see you in a Colonial site again 👍
When I lived in Gallatin Tennessee I sure wished I would of done metal detecting. The town was held captive during the Civil War by the Yankees. Lots of history outside of the town as well as in town.. There was an underground railroad going from Gallatin to Nashville.
Nice finds buddy
Good job! Nice effects on the coin! What a professional!
Always a privilege to join you on a detecting journey Brad, I hope you and all the family are well. Is there going to be a join up with Chris and Eddie sometime hope they are doing fine as well.