I'm watching in Bristol England and loving your vids. My Dad and brother used to be Mudlarks on the river Thames and would come home with incredible finds. Loads of clay pipes hand made brass pins from 1500 , coins and loadsa cool stuff. They would always show their finds to the British Museum. Really love your approach man, much rather tune in to you than TV. Real drama. Massive Respect x
Some of my fondest memories are from exploring creeks about 50 years ago as a kid, so I get kinda jazzed watching your videos. You also share great tips as you go along. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday.
Beau . Love the pipe bowl , breast plate , shell ! Amazing to think of that being in that small stream ! Just goes to show that you can find relics in unusual places ! Well done , thanks for sharing .
great vids I have been detecting for 2 years and enjoy it with my young daughter although we do not live in an area that gives us these cool relics you find, we still try . There is more colonial stuff where we are but it still eludes us.I do really enjoy seeing the history you find thanks! very interesting.
As an old farm boy, the unknown device appears to be the center section of an iron wheel hub. Probably from late 1800s and off of a wagon or farm implement wheel. Do a Google image search for 'iron wheel' and you will find similar. The spokes of the wheel would have fit into an outer section that was heated and forced over the inner hub. One possibility anyway.
That looks like you found a shrapnel shell. Boom! (Ouch!) Nice breast plate, and that old safe is good for a laugh. I hope all they found was a set of old dishes (priceless memories, better put them in the safe!)
Beau, I used to be an auto mechanic, and that unknown object looks like it might be a blown piston skirt from an engine. If so, it's a really old one -- only one compression ring and those three holes might have been pressure relief holes for oil to move through, but not really sure. Modern ones have more parts, I think, but older ones were more primitive. Cool stuff, neat vid!
Truly enjoyed the creek walk! Some great digs and some great eyeballed finds as well. Congrats on the breast plate, love the pipe bowl as well! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks beau. Hey I got over to that road I was writing about..didn't get out for long today.found a pounded out 3 ringer. Its like some of the fishing weights I've seen on your show and the rings are still visible on one side.looking. forward to hitting that spot hard. love your show.thanks for the help:)
no had the find of a lifetime today I was metal detecting on property that had been in my family for ever and the last person to live on it was my great grandmother in the 1940's-1970's when she died an while metal detecting I went under a tree and got this awesome signal and I dug it and got one of those old ammo Boxes and I took it back home and opened it and inside was a square locket and a 1946 schrade walden hunting knife so I went to open the locket and when I did there was a picture of my grandmother and grandfather so I took it to my grand father and he said a few days before he got sent to Vietnam he buried it and he said he told his brother to dig it up if he didn't come home and take the locket and through it into the Cumberland river with the knife an my grand mother who is in Florida with my mother will have a nice surprise when she get back and old picture if them from the early sixties and I was also given the knife by my grand father it was definitly the best find I've ever found
I realize that this video is almost two years old, but I recognize the find at 1:07 as the lock plate for a black powder muzzle loader, not the side plate. And the item shown immediately after it could very well be the hammer for the lock plate.
A fair selection of awesome civil war relics, especially that superb breast plate. I had to laugh about the dumped safe, now wouldn't that have a story to tell. :) Hope you do as well on your next hunt. GL and a Merry Christmas to you and yours. Rich :D
Great looking Eagle breast plate! Love the pipe! That was an added bonus...it not being metal, I bet you find a lot of non-metallic artifacts on your digs. BTW, awesome collection room! The ultimate "Man Cave" !!!
you never know, you said that was the site of a civil war skirmish, those horse shoes could have been thrown during the battle, or even from a horse killed in battle. awesome finds!
Ever go down to the weaverton area? Got the canal and the old tracks that run under the 340 bridge that go for miles and miles. There's an old run down shed and house foundation above a huge cliff that was cut out for the tracks back then. May find some goodies there
According to a story my sister told me many years ago, the little country store down the road, a girl got a job at, and every so often the boyfriend would rob the store and make off with the safe... they'd crack them and then throw them into the river. Somewhere around here in the creek is a lot of safes. I research the late 1890 and early 1900's railroads here, look at old maps online, and the civil war sites, and am Jonesing for a real metal detector. Not for profit, I just love history.
MAN you must REALLY love what you do to tromp around in all that runoff and muck...having watched some of your videos and seen some of your finds I'd say it's worth it.
Congrats on your finds, I'm always amazed what you find in those creeks. Like they say, "Right place, right time" It's hard to believe that items from the Civil War are still laying right on top of the ground, or just a few inches down. Take Care, Be Safe & HH Merry Christmas...........
That's amazing and some history there, just stilling right there. Those are all really cool. I'm just thinking of the story behind all of those objects.
I live out west in Tucson AZ near the famous town of Tombstone, and the old Tombstone railroad line uses shorter, thinner spikes; I've seen other old spikes on other non-standard rails that were like you describe. Don't think they standardized them til the 20th century maybe.
I confess to knowing so little about the American civil war, that I did a bit of research... I think I'm so wrapped up in our local wars in Europe, I had no idea what USA areas were involved.... I really enjoy your videos btw..... Thanks.
thanks for your responce on the garret earlyer:) got a quick question for you,,have you ever seen a medal that looks like a small 3 leaf clover with a GS in the middle? looks like it was a necklace or something like that? I live in manassas near the train tracks where the soldiers camped and find stuff a foot down or so and have trouble figuring out what some is?any clues? thanks:)
It must be awesome to live in an area where you don't have to constantly look out for gators or water mocassins . Call me nerdy but what you do looks like a lot of fun .
That last item you didnt know what it was...it looks like part of a hydraulic cylinder to me, but then thats my opinion and opinions are like armpits...everyone has two and they usualy stink.
+dzlfreek Yup, thats what it looked like to me as well. Kind of odd not to have the ram still attached, so it probably broke, and they just tossed it over the side.
Thanks for your responce:) just found out the medal is an a 1940s girl scout charm.lol cool find..I live about a quarter mile up the tracks from a confederate camp site. Gonna try near there today. Also I found a dirt road in the middle of nowhere near the camp.has a tree in the middle of it that's about a foot around.looks to be a hickory tree.. I think it was used by them or it may be part of that unfinished railroad Jackson fought around:) I will keep you posted on my finds if you like? Thnks
I dont know if you got an answer to what that broken pipe was? To me it looks like a part of a hydraulic tube...those holes in the end are where you open the tube with a specific wrench. ( I think i see some treading on the end there.)
I was just remembering the frag shells they used during the civil war in th eold canons. They were a newer invention,it seems to me,used at gettysburg.
Great videos! I was wondering what motivates you to search particular streams? Under bridges makes sense but why streams in the middle of nowhere? Just ordered my first detector-an AT Gold!
***** I've been doing the same thing for awhile in preparation for buying my detector. It's reassuring to know that I'm on the right track. I'm actually researching a very interesting story I read in a 100 yr. old newspaper about lost gold coins in my area. I've found the area they're talking about made up of woods, crop land and a stream but it's over 100 acres. Any tips on searching such a large area?
Man, you find some amazing stuff! You make some of the best videos out there! Idk what that shell looking thing is? No clue, but if its a round of some type is it possible it could be CW era? Merry Xmas to you and your family!
That clay pipe was complete. The pipe stem was made from any hollow material that could be found in nature. You can buy modern reproductions so it's interesting to see the real thing in situ.
Lots of cool stuff, some people just don't appreciate the little relics that come along with metal detecting, they are sometimes just into it for the gold or silver coins. So what area are you in, I noticed in some of your video's you mentioned Virginia, West Virginia, referred to like the coal mines. That area is where my mothers side of the family comes from. And my fathers side also comes from Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. My mother's father was a coalmine foreman in West Virginia.
I have to agree with the starter id; often the nose cones are made from pot metal and older low end Asian imports had a case made from at best low grade recycled materials.
probably a dumb question, but im going to hit up some streams and creeks in a area in Va i know had a lot of civil war activity, and was on a major route between richmond and raleigh, you seem to go a lot in the summer months, im going in the fall months, arent you worried about snakes in them places your in? ill have a side arm on me with shot shells but what do you do? awesome vids, hope i start finding bullets and shells and all
sadly i live in the wrong side of the country to metal detect for stuff like this but im curious how do you decided where to check do you just pick a random stream or is there a little bit of research and method to it?
I was just detecting at a friends farm in bealton VA where there was a bunch of civil war traffic and found a horse shoe just like that one in the woods,,thats a heck of a cleat at the back of it just like the one I found.I cant help but wonder what was happening right at the moment the things I find was lost or left behind.:) been a civil war nut since I was a kid.my uncle kieth carol had tons of relics and an old whites metal detecor and use to find lots of stuff on our dairy farm.
Great videos. But you missed seeing the lost city of Atlantis. I'm not going to tell you at what point in the video. I plan on going back there myself with my Garrett AT Moonrock.
Don't know if you have figured out what that cylindrical piece is but to me it looks like the end of a hydraulic cylinder. The three holes look like where I would use the spanner wrench to unscrew the cap through which the piston rod exits the assembly and the shoulder inside the hole looks like the machined surface that the seal would butt up against when installed.
You must have a big electrolosis set up. That breast plate is awesome. You make me want to get a n at pro or gold!! There are a lot of streams around here to detect.
What part of the country are you in? You find some cool stuff. I'm in New Jersey, and we have alot of natural "bog iron" in our streams and creeks, which often results in disappointment when metal-detecting.
I'm watching in Bristol England and loving your vids. My Dad and brother used to be Mudlarks on the river Thames and would come home with incredible finds. Loads of clay pipes hand made brass pins from 1500 , coins and loadsa cool stuff. They would always show their finds to the British Museum.
Really love your approach man, much rather tune in to you than TV. Real drama. Massive Respect x
Great Video, thanks so much for taking the time to share your adventures with us.
Thanks for taking us along on these hunts. Gets the Relic Juices flowing. Best of luck to you.
Some of my fondest memories are from exploring creeks about 50 years ago as a kid, so I get kinda jazzed watching your videos. You also share great tips as you go along. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday.
Beau . Love the pipe bowl , breast plate , shell ! Amazing to think of that being in that small stream ! Just goes to show that you can find relics in unusual places ! Well done , thanks for sharing .
great vids I have been detecting for 2 years and enjoy it with my young daughter although we do not live in an area that gives us these cool relics you find, we still try . There is more colonial stuff where we are but it still eludes us.I do really enjoy seeing the history you find thanks! very interesting.
Colonial stuff In My opinion is better :D
As an old farm boy, the unknown device appears to be the center section of an iron wheel hub. Probably from late 1800s and off of a wagon or farm implement wheel. Do a Google image search for 'iron wheel' and you will find similar. The spokes of the wheel would have fit into an outer section that was heated and forced over the inner hub. One possibility anyway.
That looks like you found a shrapnel shell. Boom! (Ouch!) Nice breast plate, and that old safe is good for a laugh. I hope all they found was a set of old dishes (priceless memories, better put them in the safe!)
Beau, I used to be an auto mechanic, and that unknown object looks like it might be a blown piston skirt from an engine. If so, it's a really old one -- only one compression ring and those three holes might have been pressure relief holes for oil to move through, but not really sure. Modern ones have more parts, I think, but older ones were more primitive. Cool stuff, neat vid!
Could it be a broken off end of a drive shaft?
Great video! I liked the little pipe you found right at the end and the Breast Plate! Thanks
WOW! fantastic finds :) Thanks for taking us all along for the great adventures this year :) Hope you & yours have a very Merry Christmas :) HH!
Truly enjoyed the creek walk! Some great digs and some great eyeballed finds as well. Congrats on the breast plate, love the pipe bowl as well! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
u had a great spin down that tiny river there.
great finds tooooo
we await the posting of your next adventure
seeya
Thanks beau. Hey I got over to that road I was writing about..didn't get out for long today.found a pounded out 3 ringer. Its like some of the fishing weights I've seen on your show and the rings are still visible on one side.looking. forward to hitting that spot hard. love your show.thanks for the help:)
That unidentified piece looks like It could be like the casing for a modern submersible well pump. But mainly the new ones are alluminum.
no had the find of a lifetime today I was metal detecting on property that had been in my family for ever and the last person to live on it was my great grandmother in the 1940's-1970's when she died an while metal detecting I went under a tree and got this awesome signal and I dug it and got one of those old ammo Boxes and I took it back home and opened it and inside was a square locket and a 1946 schrade walden hunting knife so I went to open the locket and when I did there was a picture of my grandmother and grandfather so I took it to my grand father and he said a few days before he got sent to Vietnam he buried it and he said he told his brother to dig it up if he didn't come home and take the locket and through it into the Cumberland river with the knife an my grand mother who is in Florida with my mother will have a nice surprise when she get back and old picture if them from the early sixties and I was also given the knife by my grand father it was definitly the best find I've ever found
I realize that this video is almost two years old, but I recognize the find at 1:07 as the lock plate for a black powder muzzle loader, not the side plate. And the item shown immediately after it could very well be the hammer for the lock plate.
Somehow me and my grandson missed this one, excellent
Great find with the chest plate! Love your vids AC! GL out there!
A fair selection of awesome civil war relics, especially that superb breast plate. I had to laugh about the dumped safe, now wouldn't that have a story to tell. :) Hope you do as well on your next hunt. GL and a Merry Christmas to you and yours. Rich :D
That's a great day! Thanks for posting..
that was a very nice civil war find.the horse shoe was cool and pity there was no old coins in the safe.great video :-)
Great looking Eagle breast plate! Love the pipe! That was an added bonus...it not being metal, I bet you find a lot of non-metallic artifacts on your digs. BTW, awesome collection room! The ultimate "Man Cave" !!!
Great finds. That is a nice little spot. LOVE the breast plate.
you never know, you said that was the site of a civil war skirmish, those horse shoes could have been thrown during the battle, or even from a horse killed in battle.
awesome finds!
Ever go down to the weaverton area? Got the canal and the old tracks that run under the 340 bridge that go for miles and miles. There's an old run down shed and house foundation above a huge cliff that was cut out for the tracks back then. May find some goodies there
Thanks for another great video. You inspired me to get a detector! First 3 hours I found bottle caps, pull tabs, and an old wire.
According to a story my sister told me many years ago, the little country store down the road, a girl got a job at, and every so often the boyfriend would rob the store and make off with the safe... they'd crack them and then throw them into the river. Somewhere around here in the creek is a lot of safes. I research the late 1890 and early 1900's railroads here, look at old maps online, and the civil war sites, and am Jonesing for a real metal detector. Not for profit, I just love history.
Great finds , and yer did enjoy video, well done, cheers AL.
cool stuff Beau!!! Thanks for sharing!!
these videos are intertesting! keep up the good wok!
MAN you must REALLY love what you do to tromp around in all that runoff and muck...having watched some of your videos and seen some of your finds I'd say it's worth it.
Really nice finds! Congrats on all the Garrett ads! You'd make me buy an AT if I didn't already have one!!!!!
Congrats on your finds, I'm always amazed what you find in those creeks. Like they say, "Right place, right time" It's hard to believe that items from the Civil War are still laying right on top of the ground, or just a few inches down. Take Care, Be Safe & HH Merry Christmas...........
Not bad finds for a small creek. Looks like a plasma cutter was used on the safe. I like that pipe bowl(is that a clay one?)
GL & HH
yeah, that threading was throwing me off as well. part of a pump or stove? Great finds though! I cant wait till i get my set up straight.
Beau the shell looking item reminds me of part of a drill bit like for a well.
That's amazing and some history there, just stilling right there. Those are all really cool. I'm just thinking of the story behind all of those objects.
Well Done awsome little hunt
you find some neat stuff, seems like you could dam up the water and see whats there , that funny unknown part looks like an altenator shell, for cars
I live out west in Tucson AZ near the famous town of Tombstone, and the old Tombstone railroad line uses shorter, thinner spikes; I've seen other old spikes on other non-standard rails that were like you describe. Don't think they standardized them til the 20th century maybe.
I confess to knowing so little about the American civil war, that I did a bit of research...
I think I'm so wrapped up in our local wars in Europe, I had no idea what USA areas were involved....
I really enjoy your videos btw..... Thanks.
Love your videos, keep them coming !!
do you ever find human bones with these relics ? Seems weird that there are belt buckles with no people attached.
lol
@ 0:24 your reaction is priceless... thats it im a fan .
You ever go around in north VA? I found an old civil war bullet in the backyard when uprooting the driveway...
thanks for your responce on the garret earlyer:) got a quick question for you,,have you ever seen a medal that looks like a small 3 leaf clover with a GS in the middle? looks like it was a necklace or something like that? I live in manassas near the train tracks where the soldiers camped and find stuff a foot down or so and have trouble figuring out what some is?any clues? thanks:)
It must be awesome to live in an area where you don't have to constantly look out for gators or water mocassins . Call me nerdy but what you do looks like a lot of fun .
That last item you didnt know what it was...it looks like part of a hydraulic cylinder to me, but then thats my opinion and opinions are like armpits...everyone has two and they usualy stink.
+dzlfreek Yup, thats what it looked like to me as well. Kind of odd not to have the ram still attached, so it probably broke, and they just tossed it over the side.
Definitely the gland end of a hydraulic cylinder tube. those little inset holes in the end fit special wrenches that unscrew the end cap.
Enjoyed, great finds.
Is the electric tape your glove replacement?
Did you try to pan gold in these streams? With this much blacksand there has to be gold in it.
Awesome, as usual!
I concur with the Hydraulic Cylinder.
Do you have a museum set up or similar to display your relics? Do you catalog where you found things?
Great finds!
Interesting day... good finds
Nice breast plate...You always find great stuff. Have a Merry Christmas....
DAMN that plate is sick! NICE!!
Nice relics and a very nice pipe.
Thanks for your responce:) just found out the medal is an a 1940s girl scout charm.lol cool find..I live about a quarter mile up the tracks from a confederate camp site. Gonna try near there today. Also I found a dirt road in the middle of nowhere near the camp.has a tree in the middle of it that's about a foot around.looks to be a hickory tree.. I think it was used by them or it may be part of that unfinished railroad Jackson fought around:) I will keep you posted on my finds if you like? Thnks
aqua is there any skull u found in ur life adventures?
1:03 thats a brass artillery shell. For something like a howitzer. (anti aircraft artillery)
I dont know if you got an answer to what that broken pipe was? To me it looks like a part of a hydraulic tube...those holes in the end are where you open the tube with a specific wrench. ( I think i see some treading on the end there.)
Is that a regular garrett pro pointer? Mine says you can't submerge it but you can put it in water to a certain point. Did you modify it?
I was just remembering the frag shells they used during the civil war in th eold canons. They were a newer invention,it seems to me,used at gettysburg.
Great videos! I was wondering what motivates you to search particular streams? Under bridges makes sense but why streams in the middle of nowhere? Just ordered my first detector-an AT Gold!
***** I've been doing the same thing for awhile in preparation for buying my detector. It's reassuring to know that I'm on the right track. I'm actually researching a very interesting story I read in a 100 yr. old newspaper about lost gold coins in my area. I've found the area they're talking about made up of woods, crop land and a stream but it's over 100 acres. Any tips on searching such a large area?
Man, you find some amazing stuff! You make some of the best videos out there! Idk what that shell looking thing is? No clue, but if its a round of some type is it possible it could be CW era? Merry Xmas to you and your family!
That cylinder reminds me of an artillery canon shell that held a bunch of steel or iron balls. Probably not, but ???
That clay pipe was complete. The pipe stem was made from any hollow material that could be found in nature. You can buy modern reproductions so it's interesting to see the real thing in situ.
dude suh
Lots of cool stuff, some people just don't appreciate the little relics that come along with metal detecting, they are sometimes just into it for the gold or silver coins. So what area are you in, I noticed in some of your video's you mentioned Virginia, West Virginia, referred to like the coal mines. That area is where my mothers side of the family comes from. And my fathers side also comes from Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. My mother's father was a coalmine foreman in West Virginia.
I have to agree with the starter id; often the nose cones are made from pot metal and older low end Asian imports had a case made from at best low grade recycled materials.
probably a dumb question, but im going to hit up some streams and creeks in a area in Va i know had a lot of civil war activity, and was on a major route between richmond and raleigh, you seem to go a lot in the summer months, im going in the fall months, arent you worried about snakes in them places your in? ill have a side arm on me with shot shells but what do you do? awesome vids, hope i start finding bullets and shells and all
sadly i live in the wrong side of the country to metal detect for stuff like this but im curious how do you decided where to check do you just pick a random stream or is there a little bit of research and method to it?
Wow awesome plate!!!
I was just detecting at a friends farm in bealton VA where there was a bunch of civil war traffic and found a horse shoe just like that one in the woods,,thats a heck of a cleat at the back of it just like the one I found.I cant help but wonder what was happening right at the moment the things I find was lost or left behind.:) been a civil war nut since I was a kid.my uncle kieth carol had tons of relics and an old whites metal detecor and use to find lots of stuff on our dairy farm.
Great videos. But you missed seeing the lost city of Atlantis. I'm not going to tell you at what point in the video. I plan on going back there myself with my Garrett AT Moonrock.
That unknown exploded round may be from a rocket (?). Maybe like the British were using in 1812. Just a wild guess. Really enjoy your videos!
Is the bottom lip od that large shell threaded
Chigger you are the luckiest person I ever seen ! lol !
Cool Finds!!!!
Some how we missed this one
Some type of arty fuse?
Don't know if you have figured out what that cylindrical piece is but to me it looks like the end of a hydraulic cylinder. The three holes look like where I would use the spanner wrench to unscrew the cap through which the piston rod exits the assembly and the shoulder inside the hole looks like the machined surface that the seal would butt up against when installed.
yeah that's what I thought it was
You must have a big electrolosis set up. That breast plate is awesome. You make me want to get a n at pro or gold!! There are a lot of streams around here to detect.
Thanks!
Yep I enjoyed it.
Really interesting video...... Where a bouts are you searching?
What I mean, is what state?
great video! nice finds what kind of camera do you use?
What part of the country are you in? You find some cool stuff. I'm in New Jersey, and we have alot of natural "bog iron" in our streams and creeks, which often results in disappointment when metal-detecting.
After watching vid, that I might give it a try. My dad has a very old metal detector, could be fun, lol. Good Vid.
Looks like the end of a hydraulic cylinder. Like from a tractor or tow truck.the holes are for a spaner wrench.
Would you be able to recommend any good metaldetectors? One guy referred me to some GMaxx II xp or something like that. Dunno, cause he's in Europe.
great chanle love it best chanle ever.
The big odd looking round part kinda looks like some form of a steering column. I could be way off for sure though.
EARTH ANGEL THIS APPEARS TO BE A VERY FERTILE AREA FOR FINDING CIVIL WAR ERA RELICS! HAVE YOU BEEN BACK THERE SINCE???
Another great video.
When I go fishing during low tide in the Occoquan River you can clearly see a large safe thats been opened in the water.
Hey beau I live in Alabama do you have any idea where I could metal detect without getting shot
What kind of metal detector are you using