Strange Artifacts and Unexpected Treasures Found Metal Detecting
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- I return to an abandoned mountain community where I found my first and only Vermont Copper, and the relics I find are both mysterious and amazing.
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I am so glad to find your channel. It's a rarity to find someone with an appreciation and regard for both nature and history. Your camera skills and editing are above par and makes all your videos enjoyable to watch and learn from. That sounds dangerously close to a man crush so I'll just roughly clear my throat and grumble something about needing a beer....hahaha.
Haha thanks Doug, I appreciate it!
Well said
One of my favorite GMMD videos! Fantastic photography, cool finds and beautiful background music make this adventure just perfect !
Thanks so much Dwayne!
I like your close-ups of trickling streams, ferns, flowers and close-ups of various fungi, some of which I recognize as the same here in Scotland but others look really strange and are completely unknown to me. Thanks, the filming is excellent and I feel that a certain degree of whimsy makes for a superior video.
Thanks so much Robert, glad to hear you enjoy them!
Go man, go! We're right there with you. So glad to have you leading us into the unknown and finding adventure! Thank you
WoW. The house I grew up in in NE Ohio was built in 1840. I love your videos. I love how you smile when you talk. Such a pleasure exploring with you.
Hello from Jena, Louisiana - Grammy here, I'm watching - awesome
Fantastic again. Beautiful hike
Another adventure with Brad in the woods, nice finds! and all served up on a bed of shelf fungus
Haha it seemed appropriate!
I love the shots of mushrooms... Always happy that I found your channel. Another great video..
Nice reale and otber coins.
Thanks so much, glad to hear that!
I sure enjoy your monologue/commentary! I wonder if that funny shaped small handle is from a salt spoon?
Love your mushroom pics. That narrow twisty one?, never seen before. Thank you for adding them.😂
Wow! Great site- graphics, photography, music, dialogue all excellent. Bravo! Love to watch your discoveries. Job well done.
Thanks so much, Jon!
@@GMMD/ Great job i appreciate the professional presentation, attention to detail & the beautiful photography. keep it up.
Great finds today! You have such a great eye for the beauty of nature. Ever thought of putting out a GMMD calendar with some of your photos? I'd be a buyer for sure.
That's a great idea, I'll look into it, thanks!
I want one, how much?
Beautiful area, I'm envious of all your time in the woods. When I go to the woods it feels like I'm home. The skull you found is a cat as you thought.
Congrats on the 1773 silver, Brad! Thanks for taking us along for the journey. Take care!
Thanks for coming along Ralph!
Just watched this and the wee spoon looks like a mustard spoon. Really enjoying watching, slainte from Scotland.
Great adventure ;thank you very much for taking me along.
Bless you!
It’s an old vinegar bottle stopper it used to have a cork on the lid
Don't know where to start... Absolutely love the content, videography, music and your personality! If I lived near you we'd be best of friends for sure, but I live over 3k miles away in Northern California.
Beautiful place. Beautiful Spanish silver. Great video!
Nice hunt, 1773 Reale very, very Cool, I pick morels & leave all of the other mushrooms alone, nice selection of relics
Very nice again.....week after week you don't disappoint. The emotion comes through when you find the quality items. Great job!!
Thanks a lot!!
Anxious to see the video when you go back to that spot where you heard all of the Hi-Tone targets but decided to walk away without digging them! Yes, that really does take some willpower. We've done it before and it's always a rewarding experience knowing you're heading back to a spot that you already know has good signals!
I’ve been back! I’m saving the video for a couple more weeks because I found something so amazing I couldn’t out-do the 8-Reales so soon!
@@GMMD That's great! I knew it! I've been thinking about that spot ever since you walked away from it LOL! Can't wait to see that adventure!
Thanks for the hint with the gun cleaning rod, its now in my pack
the gold plated item you found is probably a collar stud. they used them to hold their collars onto their shirts back in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds
Your mystery lid with the tube appears to me as an old refillable type perfume jar lid that had a squeeze bulb attached. That’s my guess. Dig on!
mystery pewter items could be an inkwell stopper
You might be right, thanks for the info!
Mushrooms are fantastic to eat fried -but fattening. Stick with morals and hens. I really enjoy your videos. You seem like a genuine person. Refreshing these days.
Brad GREAT video as usual, nice to see the re-purposed cleaning rod, that is what I use for bottle digging as well. A WW2 Lee Enfield rod it's brass and thinner. Works great. Really enjoy the mushrooms and bush shots, Your right 3/4s of the fun is the bush itself. Finding cool stuff is the icing on the cake.
Well said Mark, thanks for watching!
A Spanish coin from three years before the Declaration of Independence was signed...amazing. What a feeling to find and hold a coin like that. Be careful on the mushroom thing, when I was younger growing up in CA, a couple went mushroom foraging with their kids, and by the end of the weekend, they were all in the hospital, with kidney failure. I've eaten morels, they are delicious fried, but I would probably not trust myself to gather them. Beautiful pics of them though. Thanks again for the video. ~Larry ~Dirt Nerds
Yikes, good to know Larry! Thanks!
thanks for another fun Friday morning. love waking up watching the beautiful scenery of Vermont. the small spoon may be a salt cellar spoon I have a few silver ones similar in size. I fried up a hen of the woods last year, not really my thing either.crazy looking shrooms
So glad to hear that, thanks!
Enjoying your videos here in the UK,they are very relaxing to watch and well put together, looking forward to the next instalment 👍
Awesome Half Reale ! that is in great shape !
Great video
Such beautiful woods up there. They remind me of the woods here where i live that i refer to as the claustrophobic woods because there is so much foliage everywhere, and it sometimes makes me dizzy. I also love to think about how crazy it is that those coins were last touched by someone in the 18th century. That would be such an amazing honor to be the next one who touched them after the owners lost them. What a connection to historical people. Good video as always and happy friday to ye.
I agree. It gives me chills to think in all of that vast acreage a person was meant to find that tiny coin from nearly 250 years ago and share it with us. Amazing!!
Couldn't agree more, thanks Clive!
WEVE HAD FOUR FRIENDS THAT ATE MISIDENTIFIED MUSHROOMS AND CAME CLOSE TO DEATH🫣
The gold-plated button that broke looked like a collar stud from the era of detachable collars. It goes through both ends of the collar and both sides of the shirt, before adding a tie or cravat. That's why the neck is long enough for several layers of cloth - maybe gilt to go with silk rather than for cotton or linen.
I just wanted to tell you out of all the Metal Detecting show's I watch I really injoy your's the best, You find unbelievable great stuff and I learn so much from you because you take the time to explain things that you find and that's amazing well I think we just do not have that kind of stuff in So Calif and I just wanted to say Thank you very much.
Thanks so much, Jon!
Really enjoy your videos every week. Being out in the woods hiking is always peaceful and I get that same sense of peace with your videos. Love the finds too!
So glad to hear that Laura, thanks for watching!
Your stuff is educational, cool, and entertaining.... Thanks for your work. The twitching weed at 7:06 made me dizzy lol
Glad you think so!!
man another awesome adventure, what a find. your on fire this last two weeks, good 4 you. happy hunting my friend
Thanks!!
Very cool - and I've never seen golden wavy mushrooms like those before! So many Goodies! I'm sure you're going to find a BIG silver up there soon! 👍🤞💰
One can certainly hope!!
The mystery Lids would go to a Powder Horn muzzleloader container. It's a Topper nozzle rifle Powder Horn
That would be awesome!!
Chicken man is correct!
Good film! Thank you!
The lead stopper-nipple- thingy is a brush holder stopper for a jar of animal
glue, used to glue leather.
I knew a leather worker when I was a kid. He lived in Vermont ( up near Mt. Snow ski area in the 60s) anyway he had a glue bottle with a stopper and brush on it !!! He had bought out an old leather workers shop and that was one of the tools !!!
Another beautiful day with great finds. Well done my friend.
Thanks Scott!
Great video as always. Thanks for the journey.
Nice finds and gorgeous reale.
Thanks so much Sam!
Nicely done on the SILVER it made you grin ear to ear even after you got fool by that gold cufflink thingy the finds were very fun no doubt a bout where's Eddie at is going hunt with you soon!!!
We'll see him next week!
I noticed that turned autumn leaf.....dont push it Brad! Winter will get here soon enough! ⛄
Haha They're out there, more and more each day!
Your ability to bring out the beauty of your hikes is top notch!! Nice 1/2 reale!!! Great saves!!
Thanks so much!
Brad your videos are always so nicely put together from beginning to end. Always beautiful and fun to watch, and informative too.
Glad you think so, Becky!
Great finds! Raccoon skulls are more elongate and tapered. Felines have very round, short skulls, with large ocular holes. If you were way out in the woods, it was most likely a young bobcat. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome, thanks for the info!
August in the woods of Vermont with friends! My idea of Paradise on Earth!
You and me both, Jerry!
Wow!!!! Love that 1/2 Brad!!!!!!! Congrats!!! Keith (In Florida)
It is crazy that a coin can sit in the dirt for 200 years and you happen to swing over it and find it! Cool hobby for sure.
Cool finds again. I like your Touch of placing your finds on the mystery mushroom. I 2 have notice abundance of mushrooms in the woods this year. I just told my wife I’m going to get a Field guide for mushrooms two days ago. LOL..
Glad to hear you liked it, good luck with your mushrooming!
Your mystery lead item is surely a stopper. I would have a cork on the end of it to fit the bottleneck. It could also have been used for a colonial canteen or even a powder horn to keep a tight seal from moisture. nice find
Wow! Another Spanish silver Real, looks great. Gongrats! Enjoy the finds, the weather and the weekend. Thanks for sharing!
Heck yeah, thanks a lot!
Great video as always!
Brad. Great video once again. The scenery is just as good as the finds this time. I gotta make a trip up that way one day, just to see the Vermont - New England area in person. Cooperstown NY is as far north as I’ve been and that was with my youngest son for baseball last summer. These videos make me wish I would have taken another week while I was that close , just to see it.
Keep up the good work. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I recommend the autumn, it's truly unbelievable!
Just Wowwwww Brad, Another amazing historical coin ! Another Carlos III Reale, with a truly historical US date of 1773. The owner, of which. could have been a Green Mountain Boy, and participated in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Washington,s Siege of Boston, General John Stark's Battle of Bennington. Or even the Defeat of Bergoine at Saratoga , to name a few of the Historical hi-points in your local history. Brad ! One of the best books I own on Mushrooms, and I have found none better. Is "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms" ! It is back pack size and features a plasticized cover. Half the guide are color photos of the mushrooms, which refers you to the description and edibility second half section of the guide. If you cannot find one, I have one at "your" best price possible ! LOL Let me know ! Thank You for sharing your outstanding hunt my friend :-))
Thanks so much! You just jogged my memory, I think perhaps my father has the very same book I can borrow, I'll check it out this weekend! Thanks again!
I had a wonderful hardcover book on mushrooms but it was stolen by my ex along with many other things including tin type photos and an 8X10 photo of Lydia (Webster) Pratt with her daughters, pewter cups and saucers, family land documents and letters from the early 1800s. This is only part of what I was entrusted to keep safe and I failed.
So much gone forever. I feel so guilty I ever trusted the man I was married to nearly 30 years.
I'm sorry I got off topic. I meant to say I don't recall the name of the book because it was stolen. I used that book for a long time. Audubon books are good too.
Perhaps flask stopper for gun powder?
Awesome job, thank you for sharing with us. ATB!
That gold-plated item looks very much like a men’s collar button, used to attach detachable collars to shirts, from the Victorian period through the 1920s, fwiw.
id say you are correct.
Came here to say the same thing
I agree 99% that's what I also came to say lol.
I thought cuff link, but, your probably right...
Thanks for the info!!
Morning treat! A walk in the woods!!
Congrats, !!!good stuff , keep rocking!
Awesome hunt my friend! Your videos have become part of my early Friday morning routine! Thanks for the video!
So glad to hear that! Thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable content and commentary Brad. Thank you.
Congratulations Mate on the spanish silver well done ... 👍👍👍👍
I saw this on you tube, I love your stuff. Please do not stop.
Another super video 👍
Another adventure much enjoyed as usual! Nice variety of finds. Your wrap-up of finds show the thought you always put into the layout - well done! The stone (?) background this time is especially interesting.
Thanks Joe, today they're displayed on a woody tree fungi! I carefully arrange my finds at the end of each day for a nice photo for my album!
The small stud you found looks to me like a collar stud for attaching the collar to shirt as in time passed they were detachable
Spanish silver looks great!!! Very nice!!! Congrats on that...spectacular views once again...you never disappoint! 🤩
Heck yeah, thanks a lot!
You make me proud the way you handled that 1/2 Reale!
Another great adventure ! Spanish Silver is way cool ! Thank You for your time spent making these videos of which I and many others totally enjoy ! Todd from Virginia....
It's my pleasure Todd, thanks for watching!!
Another great video Brad! So happy I found your channel. Beautiful reale. Look forward to the next.
Thanks again Jeff!
I don’t know if I’ve ever actually commented this before but your B-Roll footage is absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks so much, glad you think so!
Awesome hunt buddy thanks for sharing. Carl HH
Thanks for watching, Carl!
AMAZING FINDS, HAPPY FOR YOU, LOVELY SCENERY, MUSHROOMS, DO SQUIRRELS REALLY THROW THINGS AT YOU? 😂 LOVE THE WHOLE TRIP THANKS C OF AUSTRALIA
The item at 2:40 is a collar button used to attach a removable collar to a man’s shirt. Some Catholic and Episcopal priests still use them.
That's what I thought!
I NEVER COMMENTED ON YOUR VIDEOS, BUT I GOTTA TELL YA, I REALLY ENJOY YOUR STUFF. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Thanks a lot John!!
Definitely a raccoon skull. Some awesome finds as usual Brad. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Here I was, trying to imagine what your last unidentified object was, and you pull Spanish silver from the ground! Brad, I love seeing all the mushrooms, and fungi in the woods. I can't get places like this anymore (not wheelchair friendly) Every Friday you take me to the woods, and show me things that I really miss seeing, thank you!
So glad to hear I can get you into the woods via the videos, thanks for watching!
Just wanted to say that I think your videography is really good...I love the random shots you share with us...like the closeup of the mushrooms, and paths, etc. Really well done and adds a lot to your videos in general. Good job editing.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoy it!
That gold thing is a dress shirt button. Dress shirts used to be made without sewn-on buttons, instead they had two button holes. They were closed with post buttons like you found, with the large side next to the body and an ornamental engraved or inlaid stone or mother of pearl on the out side.
11:02 Lead pacifier.
I like the music on your videos
WOW 1773 great find!! It must be so cool to touch that part of history!
Cool video and beautiful woods. Ty for sharing man
Nice hunt. Always love mystery items.
Great site, Another Reale... Awesome.... Never seen one quite like it! Great find and thanks for sharing your trip thru the woods!
Thank YOU for watching!
Almost didn't recognize you without the rain! hahaha Mystery items are fun and so are reales! Love the nature shots. See you next week! HH
Haha I got lucky on this trip for sure!
In my younger days, ran trapline for a number of years. That was NOT a raccoon skull. You were on the right track with cat. Was either from a feral housecat or an immature Bobcat. (P.S. I also have a metal detector and sure envy the great finds you come up with back East. Congrats!)
Nice half real! Pirate silver matey!
Great as always
Excellent treasure hunt. That site seemed to be a bit older than you originally thought. Very enjoyable video. Nice production, congratulations.
Thanks a lot Jay!
Congrats on the Spanish silver. That remains on my bucket list of finds. Thanks for the great video. I look forward to the next.
Thanks so much, I’m sure you’ll find yours soon!
If I had to guess about the round lead thing at 3:35 or so, I'd guess that it's a pot-mend, possibly on ceramic or wood. Lead got used as your basic duct-tape for so much stuff; pot-mends were done with tin onto tin pots too, but pure lead ones were often done to seal up or modify things that would be used to hold liquid that didn't get hot, like a bucket.
Awesome digs...love your videos..
Keep them coming ..
awesome variety of finds and gotta love the 3yrs before the founding of our nation spanish 1/2 realle....you reckon the person who lost it was running from a red coat and stumbeled as they were closing in on him and he fell hard spilling his hard earned money but managing to lay still as it were getting dark and they passed by him...he cussed later knowing he lost his bread money for the week but he soon got home and smiled knowing he had escaped the gallows yet once again! Happy ending especially for you as you have found his bread money so many years later..8 )
or it could have just been that pesky 10ft griz chasing him once again..
Haha I think you're on to something...