An unexpected find....
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Finally excavated a new piece of the ruins, expanding my search into the undergrowth covering the front elevation of the row of buildings. Found some new metal pieces too, including a hand sickle blade.
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Some more progress finally! And some new finds, thinking about restoring the rusty hand sickle for use.
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I am more apt to buy from companies that aren't afraid to give their products to someone who really will give it a work out. I am glad you got new safety boots before the soles fell off the old ones
I use to be a hard worker , now I'm paying the price in pain.
You need to look behind those arch shaped rocks on either side of the steps you came down in the beginning of the video. Someone has hidden something behind them.
It makes me feel kind of warm and fuzzy knowing that “Mike from Franklin, Tennessee” and myself, an hour away from him in Kentucky, both watch a stranger from Wales dig up his property in search of treasures. 😊
I keep waiting for the Time Team to come out and do a "geophys".
I have notifications turned ON for your videos. I love it when a new one pops up! Thanks for sharing Afron!
Thanks for watching Laurie! 😀
I think my favorite part about your channel is the curiosity and the exploration, keep up the good work and wonder❤
Debes continuar, sin duda, hacia la carretera.
I am so grateful that you care enough to unearth this land and that you are taking us on your journey! Bless your sweet heart 🙏💞 Fascinating 👍
I do envy that lovely soil.
Looks like an ash box from an oven.
Thank you for keeping us up to date. I always enjoy your videos.
Your videos with that old building, are very interesting👍
A shop vacuum with a cyclonic separator is really handy for digging around obstructions without damaging any of the underlying masonry.
All very interesting. Can't wait for the next video.
Good idea to dig anywhere because they may not have even thought about aligning to the other structures.
That curved blade may PERHAPS be a spoke shaver. These walls, not being originally mapped, may have been outbuildings and loading dock for cut spokes to be loaded onto carts at the roadside.
Although you've dug yourself a bit of a hole, you are taking all the right steps!😸
So excited for your new post.
You are literally uncovering history...i love this channel ❤
Yay! A sponsor! You’re in the big leagues now, fella! 🎉
haha yes, real influencer territory now!
Wow, it's amazing how things just seemingly disappear without a trace 😮❤
This was thoroughly unexpected but definitely most welcome on a murky winters evening.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you deal with the tree. Getting those roots out will make for an epic video.
Good luck. 😊❤❤❤😊
Thanks! I was up the tree on a ladder the other day thinking about it. Mainly thinking.. this is a lot of work! ha, but I'm hoping to dig out the tree over the Spring.
@afontirs About 30 years ago, I tried to remove a conifer for my mother, out of her front garden. With roots going under the driveway and the concrete path under the front window, it nearly killed me. I don't envy you one bit.
I've had good luck taking out roots using a Li-Ion Dewalt reciprocating saw with 9-inch Porter-Cable pruning blades.
Best part of your videos is seeing how slowly things deteriorate, can’t believe all of this is intact! PS nice boots, looking forward to seeing how they wear in
I really enjoy watching your process! Our property was the original gas pumping station that sent gas into the city of New Castle.It was built in the early 1900's. We have an eight foot wide concrete foundation in our front yard. We have some photos of the site back then and have uncovered some really cool things around the property over the years. What some people consider trash is always a treasure to me! Thank you again for bringing us along on your adventure!
I bought a $40 electric chain saw and cut small trees out at the root. Best $40 I ever spent. For roots, long handle pruning shears. A little bit each day. Rain or shine 5 days a week I would fill a bucket or two and move rock. It ads up at the end of the month.. 30-60 buckets of dirt moved and a huge collection of stone. Make it part of your regiment. Just an idea or two. Love the project and the updates!
Takes the same amount of time as going to the gym; keeps you in shape; costs nothing -- and you get something done at the end! Win-win!
I've got an electric reciprocating saw I use for roots, with 10 inch blade, works very well. It's the tree itself that's the challenge to remove, not the roots. I need to fell it in sections as there's nowhere for it to fall safely.
move all stones you find to a corner, move all of the soil to another corner, unveil all of structures, rebuild the house and the paths :P
Amazing
this is home archeology. Would love to be able to do that. Thanks for sharing.
The metal box looks to me like part of an oven of the kind you get with those cast iron ranges from the 19th century. There are even some lips about halfway up one side to support a removable shelf. I doubt it was from the range already uncovered, it may be from a range in another fireplace in the building that hasn't been excavated yet.
I hope so! that sounds promising. I would really like to unearth another fireplace.
Or part of a firebox of sorts...
To use the steps better, one thinks of raising every second step to give you a better sized step to use. Love your videos. Thankyou.
I had thought about that, I may extend them when I rebuild them, would make them more usable.
Hi hi, I'm glad you got a free pair of shoes! I think the metal box thingy looks like part of the kitchen, I believe I saw that in some old firewood kitchens' ovens
It's the oven from the old stove - I found a similar one
Love your journey restoring the past.
I'm loving the mini time team.
Glad to see another video! Could the metal box be part of the stove you uncovered in the barbecue area? 🤔 looking forward to seeing more! 👍🏼
Yes maybe, I hadn't thought of that but a few people have suggested it may have been.
It's so great to see that there still are young men who can work hard😊
I suppose it’s possible if the second building had been enlarged, maybe the steps were removed or turned sideways or something. Anyway good luck on your digging 👍🏻
Thanks! that might be the case, but I would think it's more likely the steps were removed after the building fell out of use and became ruins.
Thanks for taking us along! Happy New Year to everyone.
Love these backyard archaeology videos!
Another awesome video. Can’t wait to see more. I like your new boots. Joyce❤️🙏🇺🇸
Remember to keep your eye out for depressions that might have been an old bathroom. All sorts of garbage will be down there.
It turns out the best way is to dig randomly.
Sounds like me when I was eight.
I suspect you'll be treating the entire area like an archeological dig. Personally, it seems like great fun.
It is good fun!
This is fascinating. So much history beneath our feet. Thank you and cheers.
Maybe you metal box is part of an old cistern or the stove
I was thinking the same!
I am going to check if it fits around the stove anywhere.
Looks like that cast iron box would be part of a kitchen range, maybe the oven
The Mystery continues! YAY!! Very nice looking boots and excellent Christmas socks. 😊
Thanks for the progress update, love when you pop up on my feed, I think that chunk of metal looks like part of a toilet cistern, possibly? Good luck with the tree removal Afon.
Keep the tree mate!! Work it into the end result!!❤ keep doing what your doing. Starting to look great!!
I'd like to, but I need to cut through about 75% of the big roots to dig out the front section and build the arch and path I want to make, which isn't sustainable for the tree. It gets very windy at that spot because it's at the top of a hill. recipe for destruction digging all around it but leaving it up.
Prettty cool to see,we dont get that much history here in Canada.
Great start, thanks for update. Feet are looking sharp.
lol, thanks 🙂
Watching from from Australia eagerly awaiting the next update
I just love these videos. I feel like I am on the journey with you
From Deb…Man digs in dirt, what will he find? I’ve been hooked since your first video. Watching from Charlotte NC. I lived in the UK for three years in the 1960s. I’m sure that’s part of the appeal.
Wow, very exciting! Thanks!
I love this. More interesting than my own finds... When leveling a slope by hand I found steep steps going down, had to dig them out and I found a cellar to an old building, turns out it was just a small coal cellar with an arched ceiling and a coal shoot. Couldn't think of a use for it as it was so small so ended up filling it back until when/if I can ever think of a use. Glad that your ruins are finding a purpose!
We love watching your videos and agree the tree has to go, there seems to be quite a few trees in that area, so Yes it has to come out!,, we are sure it’s going to be quite cumbersome and difficult to work with , as it might have many roots big and small.
There are a few other ash trees. I don't take any glee in cutting a healthy tree down but yes it has to go. It will get re-used as fire wood eventually.
Love it. Can't wait for the next installment.
Lovely to watch. Thank you for sharing!
Maybe what you are finding now is the house, the other part you have already found, when was first built could have been the wash house /Kitchen with an old copper boiler. That would make sense of where you built the pizza oven, being a built in copper boiler. You may also find, the first building is stepped back from the new one. Shame about the tree, but covered in ivy, will kill it slowly anyway. Plus bonus wood (once dried) for pizza oven.
yes I'm increasingly coming round to the idea that the building I've uncovered was not a dwelling but a utility type/outbuilding like you say, adjacent to an actual cottage.
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I read somewhere that only a fraction of the built environment of past civilizations have been found. Your project helps illustrate this fact. Thanks for the unfolding mystery.
John in Bethel, Missouri. USA
Great to more progress, it’s captivating… keep up the good work.. 👍
That piece of metal could be part of a fireplace or Kitchener stove.
Brilliant! Didn’t expect this bonus video until well into 2024. More fascinating find and thanks for your hard work.
Happy New Year. 👍🏻
Awesome! So happy you found something new! And glad you’ve got some boots to try too- keep us updated!
I imagine how offensive it was to the sickle, when you've cut a vegetation with other tool to free this thing XD Anyway, it's great to see you found another piece of wall! The digging shall go on!
As for the steps, I suspect that anyone who blocked up the wall, did so by using some stones by first harvesting the stones from the top of the steps and the top of any side walls, so there may be some portion of both steps and side walls further below. Once they had the wall gap filled, they probably filled the void with whatever soil, etc. that they could find.
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Good point, that would be the easiest way for them to have done it. Another thing I've considered is there may just been a longer flat walkway at the roadside level and the stairs start and finish further away from the road, but if that's the case I hope to find them eventually.
That metal you found looks like the ash box for your stove.😊
Fascinating
You must have arms like an all in wrestler with all your hard work 😊
Just fascinating. Thanks for your posts.
Thanks
If I was to venture a guess, I would say there was a duplex or a series of row houses for farmhands. At some point both houses or all of the houses were knocked down leaving just one set of steps.
This is great thank you sharing
That could be an anchor for the retaining wall .. from experience doing that much digging is tough on the body, well done!!
Thanks!
Thank you for your support, I appreciate it.
I subscribed just for telling your mum and dad to comment below about the kitchen scales. And for a former kid who made potions outside in the garden.
That object could be part of a cast iron back boiler. It looks familiar.
Very nice !
It may have never been a stairs and at sometime in the past, that wall at the street fell in and someone who was unskilled repaired it.
I’m always so unreasonably happy when you find another wall. It’s a big jigsaw puzzle under there lol❤️🤗🐝
Hi, thanks for your wonderful videos, very interesting. I think that the lump of metal could be cast iron and might have been part of the oven chamber of an old range, or a side boiler, my grandmother kept her coal range long after everyone had turned to gas etc, so its construction became very familiar to me as I grew up.
Oh, yes, it might be the shelf for the side boiler. Good call.
@@CricketsBay As I grew up and became interested in such things I well remember having someone make what was called an oven saddle. this was an angled piece of cast iron that sat over the fire inlet under the oven itself to stop wear and tear on the actual oven bottom. I had to ask a mate to weld a thick piece of steel to make an angle and i had to install it as the original oven saddles were no longer available as spares. My earliest memories of my grandparents and that range were from around 1958 when I would sit with my feet in the hearthplate, a big mug of cocoa and thick slices of buttered toast before bed. My mum and dad would let me stay with them occasionally, truly magical times with the last of the old Edwardians.
You need to get a metal detector and a pin pointer ASAP! Who knows whats in all that dirt!
Could that metal box have been an ash draw or some kind of draw from the iron stove??
at least you can follow the wall towards the road and follow it that way
Perhaps, install 2 front wheels upon an axle on that wheelbarrow, for stability,or use a child's plastic sled for hauling all that dirt etc away.. Sled pulls over anything,
I love your videos. My house was built over top of an old farmhouse that burned down. Below is still all the old sandstone blocks that were the foundation. We run into them whenever we try to dig any holes. I would love to dig and see what we could find.
You should give it a go! Just do a small section. Though I guess you don't want to dig too close to your house or destabilise it?
Commend your detailed and methodical work! The vid shots and tunes are 11/10. Subbed from Bloomington IN.
Thanks 🙂
The scale you found is from the Netherlands. Top line is dutch and translates to : For household use. Source: im dutch
I did not know that, I couldn't find a brand name on it.
@@afontirs Your Mum is going to want it back now for sure!
That lump of cast iron/box, you have uncovered one already (maybe). An oven from a cooking range.
Hello Afon, love all your videos! In a previous video, it was nice to see your lovely wife, father, and I think brother, making pizza in the oven! As always, I was happy to see this new video drop and eagerly watched - yep, I'm one of your fans! I'm wondering if that broken metal box you found is part of the oven in structure #1? Best wishes for you and family in 2024! Greg from Puyallup, Washington, USA. (Puyallup, named for a local Indian tribe. Pronounced, P-you-all-up. Say it quickly and you'll have it). Eager for more videos!
Keep at it
Is it me or does there seem like there is way too much dirt on top of this structure to have accumulated naturally, suggesting that these may have been intentionally buried. Does it seem like that to you? And if so, any idea why?
Exactly my thoughts too.
100 years of natural ground cover turning into mulch/dirt is about 15 inches or 38cm. Not including stones, logs, debris or roots.
Use the tree you have to cut down for wood for your project.
You are also Thehistoryexplorer aren't you? I love your work. East Tennessee here.
Hmmm, that's a poser. Test pits all round then.
How long do you have to wait to get such lovely dry soil ? 😉
Great that Larnmern got in touch in the nick of time 🥾
Looks like the next step is removing the dead tree. Don’t forget a helmet! 👷♂️
While your finds are fascinating, they are also a reminder of how long things that are "thrown away" or "buried" last, even in damp climates. Egypt is an example of how long they last in dry climates.
I think that chunck of mettal was part of a range oven.
The metal box may be a cistern from an old toilet.
Very intriguing, always a shame to remove a tree, but necessary here if you are ever going to finish your excavations, it will provide some wood for the fire pit and pizza oven maybe in time too !
If that new section of wall extends to the road, it's possible that the apparent opening was not steps but into an under storey accessed from the road, I have seen other rural properties with this sort of arrangement but am not sure what it would have been used for.
Yes it will find a new home as firewood eventually. I hadn't thought about that being an understorey, but if anything that would be more interesting.
I really dig your videos. 😅See what I did there. Keep up the good work!😁
EDIT this the ash collection box for your kitchen stove
3:50 that is a side box for a stove to boil watet in
That metal looked like part of a stove.