Stunning scenery some great finds and an awesomely presented video.

Thanks for the adventure Todd. I really appreciate how you present the artifacts in a clean and clear method.

Great adventure! Love the design of the old axe head.

What a beautiful area to detect. Amazing finds out there, love the history. Happy hunting

Another great day out detecting on the old home place Todd. What a beautiful place to be detecting Todd. An so much history to be uncovered there. An such a beautiful day to be out in the woods looking for old relics. An another awesome video Todd as always. There's just so much ground to be detected in this place. An so many old home sites. There's just no limit to what you might uncover. Congrats on all this finds you guys uncovered on this adventure. Todd have an awesome weekend my friend. We will catch you on your next outing. As always Todd, keep the history alive. 😁👍👍

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard and these places are always exciting to find in the woods. They are getting harder though as more and more are getting detected by treasure hunters. I even have those here where I live who watch my videos, recognize where I live and go and gain access to the site rendering a second dig at the site impossible. I can no longer take anyone local to me to these sites as I have had this happen too many times now. This video though is very remote location and the access road passes the owners house so it is kept safe.

Awesome adventure and gorgeous place. Could be a park. The artifacts tell the story and the story itself provides great context Todd.

This was a pretty property. You found a lot of nice things. I like all the iron too.

It's really nice to be able to research your own family by detecting in your back yard. Not many people have that opportunity. Although with the fires it's kind of unfortunate, im sure there were a lot of family heirlooms lost every time they lost a house. Still theres probably more items to yet be discovered. Great historical hunt. Thanks for the video.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

I definitely will be back there and check out in the yard. We just concentrated around the house itself. The property is very scenic so I look forward to going back just to walk through those woods.

Todd a beautiful location and your backstory. Button mania, makes me wonder why so many were lost. Loved the axe head and the iron items you found. So nice your friends came along to help dig history. Take care.👏👍😀

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Is it Pam or Pat? Just wondering which of you comments. I would love to have you guys down sometime and sure do love your enthusiasm. It is crazy how many buttons they lost back then. I’m unsure why Gordon and Tom never found any of them but detecting so much I have learned the machine real well. God bless.

Awesome hunt and finds thank you so very much for sharing 👍🇺🇸

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

You bet….and thanks for watching.

Great video Todd! Once again, thanks for sharing!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Roger

Thank you

You had some great finds Todd. The design of the buttons look like Roses. I wonder what kind of garment they went too?

I love the history you share with us

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Kathleen.

I was great video you guys had some really nice finds.I enjoy your videos and good luck to you.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jimmy...

Most all family homesteads had a small family grave yard. I know this because I’ve seen many. While I was relic hunting old big homesites .

Very cool buttons Todd! All that neat iron at that one house site! It’s so fun to find items of our past to date and determine what they were used for!! Thanks again Todd!!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

You betcha James....

Good stuff, enjoyed the video!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I think at 14:20 it's a butterfly nested in a flower wreath. This was a really cool site! I'm one of those that really love the iron stuff. It emits the history of craftsmanship, use and toil. But the buttons were quite the find.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Hey Penny I agree. Some dislike me showing the iron but wow does it speak of daily life. Coin hunters are treasure hunters but the pots, the axe heads, the China now that was real life and daily living. I feel it connects one to the site. The buttons were a nice surprise and I was surprised that neither Gordon or Tom found any.

Wow so beautiful there. I love the patina on your buttons. Very serene and peaceful place. The story was very interesting.

Hello my friend I’m sorry I’m so late watching but I was at the eye doctors yesterday. When I got home I couldn’t see a thing until today. Great video I love those old places and all the history in the ground. Stay safe say hello to the family for me.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Hey Steve I pray your eye gets well. I’m actually home bound due to a severely sprained ankle that renders me to the recliner. So far 2 days without getting up. If not better by Monday I’m going to have it XRay to see if I broke it. Good hearing from you.

@stevespears3341

Жыл бұрын

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives I hope it’s not broken get better soon and make those great videos.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

@@stevespears3341 going to the Emergency Room tomorrow for an XRay. Thanks Steve.

That's such a beautiful place. You do such a great job of telling the history of places. I watched some of your older ones last night. I still love the one where you talked to the older man Ralph I think was his name. So much history is lost because people don't listen to the older people who lived those times. My crazy landlord and I argue because he says he loves history too but what he watches is current events. He says well it will be history one of these days. I laugh at him and tell him yes but we won't be around and he is already living history. He's really only about a yr and half older than me but I like to aggravate him. He's a lot like my brother who at 83 still thinks and still does stuff like climbing on the roof to remove an old chimney that was cracking off and they don't use any more. My landlord was one the house next door one day washing the roof off with a rope tied to the chimney and one end ties around his wrist. When I asked why he said he could grab it if he started to fall i told no his arm would be dangling from the rope and he would be laying in the ground. So I came in and made him some home pimento cheese spread and he came down to eat. His rope is still tied to the chimney. So when he does crazy stuff I know I can distract him with food. Lol thank you so much for letting me enjoy your adventures and you can tell me to shut up any time you want to. God bless you and your family

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Hey Gaye sounds like your brother is a spry old coot. Many his age, including my dad when alive, believed they could still do young peoples stuff. My dad when he turned 84 I asked how it felt being that old. He said it’s like having the mind of a 42 year old trapped in an 84 year old body. He died one month shy of his 88 birthday. I miss him so. I did research his family history before he passed and shared it with him. I loved seeing his shock at how historically connected his family was and this began my journey to exploring what history remains. Ralph is not doing well. He is 85 and not doing well. I love sitting and visiting with him but he is running out of time. We are all passing and I don’t like what the country is becoming so my videos are my connection to the good Ol days.

@gayeyount7948

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome. My brother is adopted and would never let his girls try to find out about his bio family. A couple yrs ago they did a DNA thing but didn't tell him. His came back with absolutely no info. I don't know how or why but I told my nieces see I told mom and dad got him from under a cabbage leaf. They swear he found out about the test and did something. I don't think he did but if he had known he would have tries. He's a mess. We could never play monopoly or any board game because he always cheated. He's always had a slight speech impediment and my sister in law loved playing the card game authors with him cause he could never pronoujnce the names. His granddaughters always said when picking out names for their babies they had to get one papaw could pronounce. He told them don't worry about papaw he'll be fine. And he is. All 5 of his great grandsons which range from 2 to 19 adore him. He has one beautiful great granddaughter and she is a daddy's girl but she will stay with papaw and he spoils her rotten.

Thanks! GBO!!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for gift Buddy. I see that Herndon got drafted to the NFL. Looking forward to some SEC FOOTBALL aren’t you?

@buddyhenson2559

Жыл бұрын

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives oh yes sir! Looking for good things from our Vols! If nothing else, they should be exciting once again. Thanks for your channel. The way you do it, including the history of the site, family etc really adds great things to your content. Your home setting is beautiful too. If you ever get any digs in around the East Tn area, it would be awesome to hunt with you. God Bless you!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

@@buddyhenson2559 I will be down maybe in the fall. I was in Rogersville last year and Johnson’s City.

A lot of iron on this hunt.l like the coins better. Have a great weekend

@crannycrow

Жыл бұрын

A lot of everything…not so much iron. LOL. The buttons were beautiful

@renaissanceman4ever

Жыл бұрын

That’s all the Hoover Boys show. No history over there. LOL

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Me too Ron...love finding old coins and I'm sure they are there so I need to go back and find them....but not every site has them and you never know until you try....Have a great weekend too....cheers!

Always worried when detecting old homesites wondering where the grave sites are. Three of the same buttons in a row, regardless of the depth. Gives me the shivers.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

6 ай бұрын

I hope this is not the case. These were less than 10 feet from the porch. I think it is likely from a clothes line.

Todd, the cut lead looks like someone may have been making a makeshift rear sight for a musket. Of course the original would have been made of iron or brass, but if someone was out in the bush they may had to make due with what they had with them. I know I have jack legged things like this many times.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

You know it does look like a gun sight....very good observation.

I recently found your channel and I can’t stop watching it. Lol. I’m amazed at the number of the old shanked buttons you find! I was wondering if anyone knows how they were sewed on, did the shank go through the fabric and sewed from behind or just sewed from the front? Looking forward to your future videos!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Earl what a great question and one nobody has asked me before. The buttons were sewn with cotton string which gets brittle over time. I do not know if they make a Hoke in the garment to countersink and see from behind but that would be a solution to losing them from getting caught. I do know that the buttons did not go through a hole like today. There was a loop on the other side and the loop went around the button. You can imagine the loop constantly tugging at the shank and thread eventually popping it off. I think if the mother back in those days whose son was out frolicking and losing buttons. I bet she has a can full of spare buttons.

@earlcaudill2897

Жыл бұрын

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives OK yeah that makes sense. I didn’t think about the durability of the thread back then. I was thinking they had to be experts at sewing because they made all their own clothing, but they hadn’t quite figured out how to sew a button on yet lol.

I wonder if that flat rounded object with the tube connected could be a coffee pot basket that held the ground coffee ?? That’s what it looks like to me !!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

6 ай бұрын

Yep I think so.....it was found at the 1920's house site so it could be period.

The MineLab rules….of course anything but Garrett. LOL. Poor Tom and his shotgun shells. Enjoyed the video.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Now now...Tom just got his MineLab before this so was just learning his machine...thankfully is wasn't trashy.

i think the loops and the other piece with them are more parts for the saddle cinch.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Yep that ring is a cinch ring I think...Seem to find them often.

Hi! I identified the pattern of a piece of the china you found, the one with the brown little lines. It's an Ironstone china pattern called Tea Leaf. Mfg by Alfred Meakin from England. 1890 - 97. I cant get a pic here for you to see. I can send it to you if you want. Its unmistakable. My mom collected Ironstone china and I recognized that was Tea Leaf!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Bonnie that’s why I love fans like you who can help identify things like this. Of course you can email me the photos at Appalachianhistorydetectives@gmail.com

That weird shaped piece of metal looks to me that it could have been a homemade rear sight for a rifle of some kind. Just a wild guess but the v notch in it is what reminded me of a rear sight

Love seeing you in Hardy Co. My fathers family (mom and dads) are from there. There was a restaurant and a small motel that was a See family. Not sure it is there anymore. I still have some cousins that are there. Wardensville.. another area that was surveyed by George Washington.....

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

The See Hotel is in Wardensville to this day! What a small world. Hardy County is beautiful and wild and near me so I have a number of videos in that lovely place.

@bonniebertrand1189

Жыл бұрын

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Thanks for replying! Its been a lot of years since I've been there.. The house where my grandfather was born used to be there on the outside of town. It was a 2 story log cabin with siding. He was the oldest of 16 kids, born 1883. Dont know if it is still standing any more.. was not owned by any family. 'And Im pretty sure that there are Sloanakers either in my dads mom or dads side. I remember hearing that name! I love watching your travels in that part of WV!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

@@bonniebertrand1189 thanks. My second video on my channel was filmed at the entrance of the State Park in Mathias. I have a dozen videos or more in Hardy. Several were filmed in Wardensville, some in Baker, some going towards Moorefield on Corridor H and some south of Moorefield but still in Hardy. You know I might have over 20 videos down there. The Keller Iron Furnace video and several others are up Waites Run.

@bonniebertrand1189

Жыл бұрын

I knew I recognized the name Sloanaker. That is my great grandmother (on my dads side) maiden name! She and my great grandfather are buried in Rio WV..

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

9 ай бұрын

Rio is not far from me.

Your videos keep getting beter! Great job👍And thank you!

That round hollow piece that looked crushed reminds me of a powder flask.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Goodness I hope not. I think Gordon tossed that thing. 😩

Part of a clock? At the original homestead. The Germans had amazing clocks. You may have found a clock brought all the way from the Rheinland during the Prussia/Hapsberg Era. Cool.

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Hey Penny I need to send you some photos of the clocks I found in that old 1789 house that matches up to this back I found. You will see what these clicks looked like. Beautiful.

Another button. Wait another button. Wait another button…. Lol great hunt!

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

Some say what you found was a Powder Flask. Do you still have it? 😂😂

@gordonreynolds4599

Жыл бұрын

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Yes I have it. I agree it is a powder flask that someone brazed the stem back on it.

I moved to West Virginia and I don't know where to metal detect. I live close to the place known as the county actually Welch. What advice can you give me

@AppalachianHistoryDetectives

Жыл бұрын

I have been there to play football and know it has a great mining legacy. My advice would be to start door knocking on residence of old company houses. You won’t find a lot of old history there but you will find history from the time of the coal camps and wars and find tags and scripts. That is great history right there. Another group detects not too far from there and for the same things. Blue Creek Detectors. Isaac and Chad are their names. Check them out and let them know I sent you to them. Good luck!