Metal Detecting: Searching For And Discovering A New Colonial Era Homestead

[@aquachigger]

I hope you enjoy this little adventure. I think many of you may find it interesting and learn some of my techniques when I am searching for sites while hiking. If any of you have any insight as to what the rock piles might be that I show (especially the ones grouped close together) please let me know. It has been suggested that they may be Indian graves, but I've never heard of them piling rocks on gravesites like that. Follow the Chigg’s Army! My Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Instagram: instagram.com/aquachigger/ Facebook: facebook.com/chiggsarmy/ Twitter: twitter.com/BeauOuimette Affiliate links to see and purchase the gear I use: General Gear: bit.ly/MetalDetectorsAndMOAR T-shirts, mugs and MOAR!: teespring.com/stores/chiggs-army T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachigger/ Garrett Metal Detectors: goo.gl/nbzDYH As always, my videos are advertisement free and served fresh off of the press at the “Sneak Peek” level and higher on Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Thanks for watching…. The Chigg

[@newgeneration1540]

Nice hunt chigg

[@brianfitzpatrick6554]

U shuda called him like the Squatch hunters by bangin big limb on tree😁 You sure get to explore sum beautiful country😎

[@r.j.lombardi111]

Great hunt sir. There are a few great spots here (near my that's rich in history, prehistory to 1990's (my town was a frontline/army town since the Roman times), the only problem is that I don't know if we can have detectors. (The law is a bit strange and confusing when it comes to metal detectors).

[@joannebarton9191]

I believe the “comb” is just that, but to hold a women’s hair back. Great dig, thank you

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

Aww Beau!! That baby spoon was just Awesome!! I've never seen any old pewter silverware with any writing on it!! A design or two but that was a great find!!

[@adamholven2870]

I am an archaeologist and have spent a lot of time in the Dakotas. Your stone piles look familiar. We differentiate before stone piles and cairns. We use stone piles for land clearing activities, which can include piling along the edge of field or in randomly in fields. We find piles in active ag fields and former fields now in pasture. The use of draft animals vs people power may provide some explanation to how far rocks were moved, or it could have been some initial clearing activities that may have proven the area was too rocky to farm. Cairns on the other hand are defined as burials (primary or secondary) for Native Americans and Euro Americans, markers for trails or events, or even hunting blinds if big enough. Burials are mostly people size if primary, and small round piles if secondary. The piles could also be sourcing for building stone that was never utilized. Cool area, definitely beats the 1900s historic sites we mostly record.

[@dogmosatchmo]

Fantastic information. Thank you for doing what you do!

[@paulmerritt7540]

There are ALOT of those stone piles in the forest north of Newville, Pa. and a pioneer cem. there too. If you're on that forest there's much history there, as the local farmers would send the cattle into the woods in spring, then in fall fetch them out and have a big meal with all the other locals when they got 'em all gathered up. Home sites were scattered around. I've found a few. As I'm sure you're aware, the folks there didn't have much in the way of silver or gold, but buttons, lead, and brass they did! Great vid Chigg!!

[@itzcaseykc]

Very nice finds there Chigg. Lot's of buttons. All you need now is a saddle for those stirrups.

[@timjb19621]

Those piles of rocks are ammo collected by Samsquinches to hurl at unsuspecting Chiggs.

[@colleenposadas8415]

😂

[@melissalove2463]

timjb19621 💕😂👍🏻🤣💕

[@CatalinaThePirate]

A nice day with great finds. It is awesome to see those stirrups - buttons are always welcome, and the coins help date the site. 😊 Your spoon handle with the makers mark is excellent! I love to see your postings - regardless if your search is fruitful, you always manage to make the video interesting and entertaining. 😏 Looking forward to more! 😎 GL, HH, and please travel safe.

[@goldsnuffer3234]

Really enjoyed your talking and showing us how you locate old home steads in the woods with the help of the metal detector. I am a new sub of yours and just purchased an AT Pro. Im sure it will take me a long time to figure out what its telling me but looking forward to the hunt. Tim

[@jeffadams7]

Hi Tim, I hunt with the pro, save yourself some time and start in pro-zero mode! Learn the sounds. Put the discrimination around twenty-five to get rid of small iron. That’s where you would end up anyway. Been using mine four years and that’s the setup that works best. Jeff

[@goldsnuffer3234]

@@jeffadams7 Thanks Jeff, I will give that a try, I can use all the hints and tips I can get. I have tried hunting with a much cheaper metal detector that had no ground ballance feature in the past and was getting a little frustrated with it constantly going off on what appeared to be nothing,,Tim

[@clivewarren780]

Man i love colonial finds so much. They thrill me more than most other finds.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Clive Warren I have many more with the Chigg....he loves them too.

[@clivewarren780]

Appalachian History Detectives i shall subscribe and check those out good sir.

[@coiltothesoil1765]

You are still one of the best at locating old home sites! Keep up the great work :)

[@dougalexander7204]

Much respect for the mastery of your detectorist hobby. Hey Todd, you have my respect as well and hope you find old gold.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Doug Alexander thanks but Chigg is a pro and he runs in the woods. He’s grease lightening.

[@rogerdempsey7227]

Would like it was long day today chigger found some stuff but you have to go back and find the best I'll see you on your next

[@rogerallen6644]

The thing that I always think of when watching these videos is who built these homesteads and the families raised there. Thanks for posting!

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Roger Allen check out my channel and you will find out....I will be posting a video on who lived in this cabin as well. Moved away by 1815

[@bigjarn]

native American burials in my area have stone mounds similar to the one you point out with no iron signal

[@hamshackleton]

Did you notice the daffodils where you found the spoon handle?

[@colleenposadas8415]

He said before that also indicates an old home site

[@hamshackleton]

@@colleenposadas8415 - I know Beau has said it previously, but didn't notice him comment on this particular vid! I must have blinked and missed it!

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

We looked. No daffodils or any other Spring flower there. The Chigg is a pro at finding these places.

[@hamshackleton]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives - He put his coil on them! Never mind.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

@@hamshackleton Thanks for bringing it to my attention. This is one of my permissions and we suspect more cabins there. I've known about the daffodils, but I don't remember seeing them there. If the are, maybe we can find other house sites.

[@JDWells-jr6nl]

Chig, The piles of rocks are Bigfoot Graves.

[@brianpedziwol3226]

NO, That is ridiculous!!! They are graves of Giants. Let's be realistic in our guess's !!! LOL

[@MrBruinman86]

The comb like thing you found - if it's steel, it may be a music box comb - the part that when plucked by the pins on the rotating cylinder, makes the noise.

[@johnnyphillips9735]

I believe you two might be long lost brothers you work good together yall can learn some stuff you both know a lot of good stuff and good places keep on digging guys

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Johnny Phillips thanks! We dig a lot together. I have many colonial sites you will be seeing him with me on. Stay tuned. I post the history on these sites too.

[@rogerclaiborne6815]

Every time I metal detect old rock pile in the middle of the woods all I find is old bones, buttons, gold teeth and occasionally old rings;-)

[@richardwarnock2789]

Beau that must have been a lot of digging that day all them pots and nails that half pennie that was interesting and stirrups too!!!, did you hear that Babbling Brook I know she's getting older still but looking good!, so it will be getting warmer huh!!! You know what that means DO YA!!!! He hehe!!!; )

[@alansullivan5913]

Nice finds Mr Chigg love the video

[@TheVatonaught]

amazing how few of these detecting old sites videos are as truthful as you...thanks, a fan

[@AndrexT]

Your spoon is Llewellyn and Ryland of Birmingham, England. The company is still in business, but no longer making cutlery. I was born in Birmingham.

[@jeffreynichols6367]

They make paints and such today. I recognised the name from some specialized lacquer I used a little while ago. www.llewellyn-ryland.co.uk/corporateprofile.html

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Andrew T how early did they get their start in manufacturing? We would live to date this site as accurately as possible.

[@BenJamin-ny1kw]

Here is something for you books.google.co.uk/books?id=qxlKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=did+llewellyn+and+ryland+make+cutlery&source=bl&ots=oz3YpLjT8j&sig=ACfU3U1BCh5eC9BvqbNGf1h42vFO5FkYmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-n9rV-dfnAhV5Q0EAHV4vCMUQ6AEwDXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=did%20llewellyn%20and%20ryland%20make%20cutlery&f=false

[@BenJamin-ny1kw]

Ridiculous url i know but what it takes you to may interest you 😊

[@AndrexT]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Hello Todd. I have a friend in London that is very good on finding information on companies, even coming up with advertisements from the day. I will write to her. And confirming, I have just written.

[@ryanglidden2051]

Another great hunt by the Chig! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@frankblazi5842]

Hey Chig, The rock piles you were wondering about happen when the farmer encounters a boulder too big to move. He then places boulders he can move on top of the massive trouble maker,thus maximizing his tillable land.

[@VickieV1333]

Amazing finds! It’s so exciting to see those objects come out of the dirt then I wonder how and why they are there. Oh the mysteries of our past.

[@aropals672]

Really great site! Definitely a settlement of farmers. The rock piles could an older or lazier farmer that made multiple piles because there was so many rocks. Do y think it would be worth digging one of them up just to find out? Curiosity would get the best of me and if have to be dig the center of one to find out😊

[@randlerichardson5826]

Great video Chigg be safe out there and GOD BLESS you and your family Amen 🙏

[@michaelklinge1857]

we have the same rock piles here in Maine found an old saddle buried in one of them and a lot of broken tools in others maybe they just got tired of building walls

[@TheRustyCorner]

Just found your channel recently and I've been hooked! Keep up the great work.

[@freezeinak]

Those woods are just beautiful. Gotta be more home sites with coins.

[@johnwalczak4229]

Hey chigg love your videos. You were wondering about all the rock piles in such a small area. I was told once by my grandfather that when he was a small kid in western North Carolina his family worked like dogs making pile of rocks for a barn they were planning on building on the property.most rocks would come from the plowed fields close by but they also cleared the area close around the building site. Those piles may be for a new bulding.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Always like watching the Chiggmaster relic hunting In search of historical pieces and of course his epic jar of Gold find ✨🍀

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

WOW !!!!! Never seen so many Colonial sites that close together. Wish we would hit a place like that one day. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE see ya on the next

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Alabama Dixie Diggers stay tuned I have lots more of these with him.

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Thanx will be watching

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives go and check out our channel. Sorta new but we're getting there

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Alabama Dixie Diggers definitely will. Thanks!

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

@@alabamadixiediggers4714 thanks.

[@artboeck5876]

Learn something every time I watch. Great for us beginners!

[@dpmaine]

Always look forward to the hunt with you on the tube....I'm guessing ît was a one man field clearing operation .... Why lug further than you have to.... Could have also been strategically placing Stones in piles for future wall building ? Just my 2ihc.... Happy hunting !!!!

[@shaneskinner5385]

Look around the big trees they have been there for hundreds of years and there is a reason why there’s only one or two of them in a Area

[@theluckystrike6371]

Maybe settlers graves hard winter and the ground was frozen....

[@honkanen72]

Something good in this sad day: Aquachigger. Sad day, because my 15 year old boy lost his battle for sickness, but last breath happened on his favourite blanket on my lap.

[@VickieV1333]

honkanen72 I am so sorry to hear this❣️ I pray you remember all the good and keep his memory with you. It sounds so peaceful that he went on his favorite blanket on your lap...🙏🏻❣️

[@tommy2facetv]

Sorry to hear about your cat.

[@brianfitzpatrick6554]

I dont know ya Honkanen,i really cant say how u feel as i cant dont wanna imagine such. Thatd b tuff. Take care .

[@pmoore4710]

honkanen72 My heart aches for you. Prayers for you and yours.

[@anettebpgry]

I am so sorry for your loss ⚘

[@janethuffman5280]

The piles of rocks may be from teepee rings since they are spaced apart. Especially with the creek so close.

[@JaCk-bj6hs]

Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it so much that I'm thinking of getting another detector. Now that I'm retired I've got the time. Please give me some suggestions about detectors. 30 years ago I bought a Whites and really enjoyed it. Of course not being retired I hardly ever got to use it. Appreciate any advice and again, thanks for the video. Looking forward to the next one.

[@huntingtonbeachsasquatch]

This is like your resume video. If somebody like Oak Island or another show that has the need for a metal detecting archaeologist of sorts. YOU'D BE DA' MAN 4 THE JOB!!! 👍😁👍

[@sdavis7916]

Thank you once again for your time and effort! It's really entertaining, fascinating and in fact inspiring!

[@advenzures]

Another great episode. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@richardofsylmar]

Nice show. Thank you

[@ThePennyPopperMetalDetecting]

Good video as always. Gotta love those iron patches. I seem to find a lot of those big pot pieces myself.

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

If you were planning on building a rock wall or foundation you'd make little piles like that so you had your rocks closer to where you're building. They look about the size of what a horse could comfortably haul in a cart. Only way to find out if they're graves is to go back and dig some up.

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

I know of a guy who does nothing but metal detect old abandoned RR beds. Has a huge collection of old old RR items like conductors lamps and parts from steam engines. Old tools - name it.

[@marygarner5249]

Love all your videos Chiggs Army GOING BE GOOD NIGHT 😉

[@richardwarnock2789]

Beau a drone might help spot some Chimley's in the area!!!; )

[@zekesgirl100]

Two stirrups!! I would have loved to have seen the saddles.

[@freedpeeb]

All the hard work and hope put into what is now a barely detectable line of rocks. I wonder who those people were.

[@UpstateBreezy]

Probably slave owners. No good. Their trash is our treasure now.

[@dirtdetective344]

Is that your issued M-65 Field jacket? If so that is really cool. I have mine but I was just a wisp of a lad in 1984 and have no chance of it fitting me now. Thanks for taking us along on another adventure.

[@aquachigger]

It is... a wee bit tight on me too.

[@scottt8424]

Hey man thank you for the video I enjoyed it some more nice finds there to add to your collection I like those stirrups not bad

[@SheepDogActual]

Thanks again

[@randlerichardson5826]

People use the power line for target practice great places to shoot rifles get them gold coins and gold buttons

[@barfass]

There were so many rocks that it was a matter of "Work smarter, not harder". Instead of handling the stones two or three times moving them far away to a single pile. They could just throw them into piles from where they stood and picked. This was just to put cattle out and have them not break their legs. Ingenuity at it's finest.

[@DetectoresRJ]

*Great vídeo Hunter*

[@texaswader]

That pile of rocks sure looks like a lot of unmarked graves that I have found Chig.

[@isaacbyrnes376]

Great video mate

[@bethpeelar3435]

Handle from a salt spoon.

[@cleggsadventures]

Comb looking thing looks like a harmonica reed.

[@mysterious_tim]

Native american burial piles. Everytime a fellow native would cross the burial site, they add another rock in memory. Found a lot of them in Vermont on steep hill sides. Typically on a hillside facing a body of water

[@chrisjordan4574]

Nice haul Chigg!! Thanks for saving history 👍 You might be right on those piles being grave sites. Nice tracking skills👌

[@MotoFlashMotoVlogs]

Ryland street, Birmingham UK? Maybe an old spoon company was there and that spoon made it to the USA haha long way from home that’s for sure

[@deserthunter8363]

I'm surprised that you don't wear "Florescent Orange" Vests while in the woods while the Hunting season is going on? I wouldn't take the chance going out without a vest on! Besides in our state it's mandatory!

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Deserthunter we normally do but this land is private and the owner only has so many permissions he gives out. We were assured nobody would be up there. Normally we wouldn’t risk it.

[@deserthunter8363]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Thanks for the reply.... and be safe, great video, love the history.

[@SavageWhiteBread]

Dude i stayed up untill 4 in the morning watching your videos... It feels like i know you... But to you, im just a stranger. lol

[@johnrobertson8156]

The chigg don't need gloves, all them bandages work just as good.

[@camwinston5248]

Excellent video,the rock piles could be any number of things,most of which have already been mentioned,they also could have cleared out of the trace itself. Thanks Chigg !

[@TheDetectits]

Well done mate 👌 enjoyed watching

[@reginaromsey]

From the sounds of you driving, I hope you make it home!

[@whodat3750]

Rocks may be just where a new field was being cleared, small piles were made and never moved to the final spot. Easy to tell if they are graves the rocks will keep going down when you dig it out.

[@theofficialdiamondlou2418]

This may have been an attack sight.? Horses would’ve been taken , saddles discarded. And as you said , home sites burned ,and remains later covered in stone where they lay. Just a guess ? 🤠🎸🎶🙏✌️

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Diamond Lou lots of Indian attacks there during this time period. I think they may be Indian.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Move of a pile rocks and look underneath them!

[@chasecrowe3034]

I have found alot of rock piles like this in woods and always assumed they were graves. I would love to know for sure what they are

[@judygarman7217]

My thoughts on the piles of rocks are gravesites

[@bearflagmercantile8113]

Hey chigg, remember those power line cut's are samsquatch super highways. And those rocks are probably road signs for them..

[@Diggerek]

Hi ✋😃👍

[@tracybranham8648]

Possible Indian barrel ground.

[@ErikjStudios]

The comb is a harmonica reed.

[@3ncrypt3dcod3s]

Harmonica reeds have cut out slots with much wider spacing. What he dug was a broken comb, not a harmonica reed.

[@michaelleeper3649]

Have you ever considered carrying small stakes with marking tape on them? I understand that you're already humping a 100 lb rucksack on a 20 mile forced march. Overall it seems that it could possibly assist in your discoveries.

[@MrThenry1988]

No caves? Awesome.

[@leecarbunkle1]

Piles of rocks in one area says they were using a wagon, dumping each load off of their fields in a wood lot along an old wood lot road.

[@johnnydeplorable5124]

Sasquatch corridor. Looked like tree structure sight at one point.

[@SWWisconsinMetalDetecting]

Enjoyed very much.👍

[@ericsackman6896]

Awesome video thx DUUUUUUUDDDDDEEE

[@rodneybushnell1249]

Would love to make a hunt with you sometime here in Louisiana.

[@johnnydeplorable5124]

Suprising you didn't hear any tree knocks or rock clanking. Did you walk through any places where you caught wind of a pungent odor?

[@getin3949]

There is probably iron there because it wasn't once a FIRE LANE. They had to bring in trucks, equipment, etc....to cut a path and I'm sure that left bits and pieces of metal.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

get in we found an old pioneer forge nearby. It is poor quality ore. The pots broke easily and are everywhere

[@randlerichardson5826]

Come and get it sounds like a dinner bell 🔔

[@knothead5217]

Could it be possible that those rocks were piled there in preparation to build a stone wall through the middle of them?

[@julzmgrforll7278]

I was thinking that too but I watched again and although it's difficult to actually tell the poles don't seem to be lined up in a way to make a wall. They also look too random for graves. He is just gonna have to go dig one of the piles and let us know.

[@dickjohnson1158]

I thought perhaps they were placed in a perimeter for a possible home foundation that never got built.

[@SheepDogActual]

Well attempts?

[@ecotangokeithfugittrkkf733]

I Dig your humor . Nockamixon pa Tohickon rock walls - Interesting rock piles Hmmm -

[@timw6596]

So a couple hundred years ago some farmer told his son that in time Aquachigger will come out here and hunt for our junk....lets have some fun....I'll go get the trash bins and toss trash all over the place and you go get the mules and run them up and down the hills in circles ........... chigger will hunt around here for days !!!!!!!! LOL

[@adventureswithjethro5474]

I'm curious. Is there any history in the mountains on western side of Maryland Interstate 68 in that area?

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Jethro's Adventures yes lots. We are close to there.

[@adventureswithjethro5474]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives I'm a truck driver. I'll come through that area last night. And I got to wondering if I was any kind of history there. I was also thinking how cool it would be just to take off of the metal detector to just see what a man would find.

[@josephderrico6254]

Hi Chigg, remember "Deeds Not Words".

[@MandoDando]

Love it Chigg. What state do you reside in? I am getting ready to head to Kentucky and don't want to detect if you live there because probably not much left. :)

[@AndrexT]

Northern Maryland.

[@RHinners1971]

LOL!!

[@randlerichardson5826]

I’m like you Chigg I don’t see the farmer putting so many stacks of rock like that instead of just making one big pile

[@doak4886]

Does it help to sneak up on the relics when you whisper?

[@garynichols8186]

I am curious Chiggs, why do you and other metal detectorist find so many pieces of broken up pots and cook ware?

[@tbone8839]

I have to disagree, the talking was a great use of time. Those were pretty good tips for someone like myself who doesn't metal detect but recently got a machine to get into the hobby. A lot of youtubers don't seem to be giving much advice, so thanks.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

T. Chigg says a lot of people says he talks too much but he really wants to educate and inform and has a lot of kids watching his channel so wants to communicate a message. It’s a shame he gets so many who complain to him about that.

[@tbone8839]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Sure is a shame! I don't understand why someone would even complain. Subscribed to your channel too by the way. Some great historical content there. Half of my family are from Appalachia originally so it's cool to learn about that history. I appreciate ya guys for putting something of substance on KZbin.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

T Bone thanks for subbing. I have young kids and it’s one of the reasons the Chigg helps me so much. He loves kids.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

@@tbone8839 thanks. Beau and I have fun digging in the middle of nowhere. We both like talking and laughing. We both get comments negative to that fact. I'm sure I get "dislikes" as a result. You cannot please everyone I've learned and the videos are what we want them to be....informative and entertaining. There are thousands of Metal Detecting videos out there including some with no talking at all. I'm cool with someone not liking mine because I do and Chigg says the same.

[@patrickm6073]

Look me up when you're in pa. We can do the Delaware RIVER together. Calhoun bridge.