Metal detecting and searching the woods, rock piles, beaches, glass dumps, farms, yards, creeks, rivers and ruins for coins, buttons, bottles, fossils, shells and old artifacts lost to time. The items we find tell the story of the places we search and the people, now long gone who were there before us. Our goal is to inspire other folks to get out in the natural world, explore and experience history. Each video we post are highlights from hours of searching. We carry out and dispose of all the trash we dig from the sites we hunt.
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Searching in South Eastern Pennsylvania (US) and the surrounding areas.
Video playlists to come include exploring cemeteries
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I wanna see what you found that you decided against showing could you at least tell us plsssss
@EthanLenz-gb7pv That video is from a few years back and I truly don't remember what else I found those trips. I do remember there were a couple of plastic toys, leather shoes and auto parts I found. I know I didn't show them in the wrap up because they honestly weren't that interesting. Check out the dump digging videos from this past winter I posted - it's the same dump as this video. Thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
Some of those small milk glass jars have milk glass lids, they are harder to find. If you go back scratch around for them.
@scottmorrow7552 - Thanks for the intel! I'll keep an eye out for them this winter when I head back there again, unfortunately dump digging season is over here in Pennsylvania. Too green, too ticky anyway, thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
Love Higbee Beach. Thanks for the colder video, I can cool down in the summer.😂 I've collected 1000's of stones which I polish from the beach.
@coldpond - Love Higbee Beach, love Sunset Beach, Love Cape May! Sad to see the crate in ruins. Anyway, thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
Nice finds, we love exploring the farmer's pitch piles!
@masonmercmetaldetecting - Thanks for watching. Good luck next time you're out with your metal detector. I hope you find silver - Paul
Still a great video
The shell lived in the deep sea. The coast will turn it to sand . In a week it will be destroyed. Someone saved it and you returned it to be destroyed
No one saved it. It was buried in a glass dump. I put it back where it belonged. If it turns to sand, then that's what's supposed to happen.
This was posted 7 days ago. Were are you that has snow on the ground? In june.
The first line of the description says it was - WINTER FOOTAGE -
That whistle is valuable
@chrissettles4127 - Thanks for watching and the comments, I appreciate the info. Please check back again sometime soon - Paul
All of those bottles I sell for ten to fifteen each in IL. The pot is 60 dollars to 100 if it has a number
That"coal" or "bone" might be lava
@nikidgm18 - Yes! I guess it could be. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment - Paul
I found a seahorse washed up along Reed’s beach, close by where you found yours… 04/29/2024 about the same size :( 🧜♀️
@jackieh925 - I found two that day but haven't found another since then. I think they are a pretty rare find in NJ. But it's sad too. Thanks for the comment and thanks also for watching - Paul
Thank you for sharing!
@markmcintosh9448 - Thanks for watching, and the comment -Paul
Can you tell us where you are?
@KT-rl1dy - I'm sorry I don't tell you where I am in this video (or most of my videos), but if you do a little research on the internet, you can find that location pretty easily. My fear is that if I tell people exactly where we're rockhounding on the internet, that place will get crowded and eventually ruined by too many people going there. Thanks for watching though - Paul
Nice! It might become a hermit crab home now 😊
@j.roach-evans1010 - Thank you! You understand exactly where I'm coming from - Paul
Some cool old bottles and relics enjoyed the video
@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340 - Hello from across the Atlantic! Thanks for watching and the comment. Please check back again sometime soon - Paul
Interesting information about the boring sponge!
Lots of great finds! 👏🏼
@j.roach-evans1010 - Thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
New subscriber here! Nice finds! Those are northern Moon snails 😀 the sharks eye cape cod and south.
@j.roach-evans1010 - Hey, thanks very much for the subscription. Thanks also for the ID! We normally beachcomb in NJ, so shark's eyes are more prevalent there. Thanks for watching and please check back again soon - Paul
Happy to help! I'm always learning too 🙂
Hello from Chester County, pa. I want to take my son out searching for cool rocks but I also dont want to get into trouble taking or breaking rocks. Do you have any tips or links regarding what we can and cant do?
@yahwhay - Here are a few tips - Stay off private property unless you get the owner's permission. You can't take anything from any National Park, so Valley Forge is off limits even though the rockhounding there is pretty good (look, but DON'T take). State parks, township parks and waterways are you're best choice for rockhounding. We try to be very selective and only take a few samples (taking too much gets heavy anyway). If you have access to a spot and can make return trips, you can even return samples you've photographed and checked out already, but make sure it goes back where you found it and not someplace else (otherwise you're making a mess for future rockhounders) . Finally, try carrying out a bucket of trash while you're out collecting. There's never any shortage of trash practically anywhere you go. Waterways are the worst in my opinion which is pretty sad. Thanks for watching - Paul
i just found my 1857 flying eagle last week i love it congratulations to you
@williamstewart1378 - Wow! way to go William! They are tough to find. I hope yours was in better condition then mine! At least I hope you treated it with more care then I did. Good luck with your next hunt - Paul
@@dirtsandandrocks I wish I could share a picture it's Awesome in my book
Thank you@@dirtsandandrocks
I have dug mineral hill for 9 years my friend who is a geologist believes the peg that produced all this is connected some how to smedley where you fine the green beryl. I believe there are a bunch of peg out crops around delco. Mineral hill you will find what I be sunstone to be embedded in the moonstone and amazonite, but it needs to be tested. There is an area where the moonstone bleeds out of the side again by the 1000s, not all is moonstone but i usually fill a large bag with potienial pieces , I think you get everything correct, I have cabbed about 100 pieces of amazonite and moonstone and maybe 5 sunstones they are pretty rare, I even cabbed what looks to be a sunstone mixed with blue moonstone.
@kiddkarnelian3723 - Wow! It sounds like you're a pro! Thanks for watching my video and the comments. I will check out those spots you mention the next time I'm there. Thanks for the information - Paul
The best amazonite you need to dig down for, next to the old wooden bridge on the back side of the hill if you follow the stream up from there towards the condos you will see where it erodes out of by the 1000. I have a solid 100 plus pound of the amazonite and maybe 50 plus of the moontones which weathers out at the top of the creek on the other side of the hill.
On the other side of the hill it’s all amazonite
I been here 1000s of times
Awesome! New sub here, saw you on "Adventures in Dirt", happy hunting!
@masonmercmetaldetecting - Thanks for checking out my channel and the sub - Paul
Been following you for some time and always love your vids brother
@airosasco3639 - Thank you for watching and the positive comment! I appreciate the encouragement. There's more too come - Paul
Paredrine-sulfathiazole suspension is a preparation introduced by the Smith, Kline and French Pharmaceutical Company (1943). For upper respiratory tract infections.
@lizarrrdbeth - Thanks for that info. I checked it out on line and it looks like they don't use it anymore? Thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
Good video content. Thanks!
@coldpond - Thanks for watching & the comment - Paul
The cigar boxes are worth 10 to twent bucks. As long as they were paintable. I paint and bejewel boxes with stones like turquoise mother of pearl garnets and jade other semi precious stones. I would have bagged those up right away. I got the idea from the hundreds of people who do it online. And that Winston lottery sign is a automatic. The yellow and red sign could not see totally but was definitely over 1500 for just size.
@chrissettles4127 - I don't take stuff from the abandoned places I check out. I just record the decay and waste before they get demolished and are gone forever. Thanks for watching
Those signs you walked coming in for advertising were worth 500 to 1000 bucks . As paper around 500 to 700. Porcelain sign 1000 double sided 2000 or more. Plastic around 1000.
Very nice eagle badge
I thought that was a cool find too!
That was a lipstick container not a valve stem cover . I think.
No, it was a valve stem cover
Just discovered this channel. Watched your video and I subscribed. I hope you have luck next time.
Welcome - Thanks for the subscription
The bottles craze is so big broken bottles are half price in the antique malls and lip chips and cracks don't matter anymore. One KZread/eBay site just sells broken and chipped bottles. The slicks also sell for five to ten people are using them in their towns the built on their property like the gas station or the general store. The broken shards of the uranium glass are high dollar 25 a lbs for crushing to dust and putting in paint. The other color shards are being sold for mosaics and color pottery shards all mosic art work. The old glass was made with better materials that's why the old Pyrex and fire king and anchor Hocking kitchen ware is valuable it's still not broken but all the new glass breaks right away. Sorry for going on.
@chrissettles4127 - Wow, thanks for the information.
That's a myth screw tops started in1880.
Can you find amber at this beach, like at other spots in new jersey?
@AidenTripe - Not that I know of and I've been beachcombing this beach for years. Thanks for watching - Paul
I love those bricks!! I’ve just recently started collecting bricks in addition to rockhounding 😂
@aborchert7 Wow! That's TWO heavy collections! Thanks for watching & for the comment - Paul
if fact all those bottles are worth a lot on etsy, not of antique value but for crafting value, several hundred dollars worth there just laying around
@spudspuddy - Carrying out two buckets of bottles was plenty for me. That dump isn't the easiest to access - lots of bushwhacking and it's at least a mile from a place to park, so we had to be selective about what we took. Anyway, thanks for watching & the comment - Paul
@@dirtsandandrocks ok didn't know where it was, i often sell dump stuff crafters buy bags and boxes of shards for mosaics, driftwood, broken glass, they can't be bothered to leave there houses lol
Nice video by the way
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes the other one with your wife was nice too
Phonetical way to speak the name Bayer is. B(y)er of that way it would sound like the german word
@schmitzkatzewupper - Thanks for watching & the comment. I appreciate you spending time watching my video - Paul
Linseed oil on that wood part on opera glasses
@lindajuneau3290 - Thanks for the tip! I'll try it, but that wood is pretty far gone. Anyway, thank you for watching - Paul
I'm from Western Pa and have heard we have silver in my area. But on my hikes I do see all kinds of crazy looking stones. Makes me want a tumbler lol
@waltergeer2048 - Then you should start picking up those crazy stones and take a closer look! Thanks for watching and the comment. All the best to you from the other side of the state - Paul
What was that green stone called that the Mrs says you find in Media?
There's a spot outside of Media, PA where you can collect samples of that green flaky mineral called Actinolite. You can find all kinds of information about it on-line. Thanks for watching - Paul
Can you sell them???
@shellyfoster7319 - I don't think they have much value other then being an interesting different mineral to collect. We mainly just collect cool samples for our collection. Thanks very much for watching and the comments. Please check back again sometime - Paul
Do you cut them. Can you chisel them out????
@shellyfoster7319 - No, we don't cut them. They really aren't "gem quality" stones. The mining operation from a hundred years ago used the garnets mixed with sand to make really abrasive sandpaper that could polish other stone products like marble and granite, so even they weren't finding much "gem quality" material
Interesting finds.
@Ontario_Rockhound thanks for watching & the comment. Please check back again sometime soon - Paul
Wow you’re right through the woods from where I’m working I work in Wilmington Delaware
@harryhumstone3149 - Yes! We're in PA, but pretty close to Wilmington. Thanks for watching and the comment - Paul
Very cool. ty for posting!
Thanks for watching! Check back again sometime soon
Congrats on the Cox bottle. It actually is not really called a blob top but instead it is referred to as a squat soda or mineral water. The Cox is fairly common but of good age (1870’s) so you should really poke around that area and see if there are more bottles burning nearby.
@historyhoarder634 - Thanks very much for the ID! I made the thumbnail before I really new what I had. As for looking for other buried bottles there, I've had success at that spot a few times and got some of them on video in other metal detecting episodes I've published. Thanks for watching - Paul
Car is a Sunbeam Alpine, pretty cool.
Thanks very much for the ID! I was hoping someone would comment on what that car was. Thanks for watching - Paul