Digging Out A Colonial Era Trash Pit In South Carolina

[@benpena2832]

“Hey look there, broken glass” immediately starts digging with bare hand… lol 😂 I got a good chuckle out of that

[@tterbay]

Me too!

[@woundguy5934]

fyi from the colonial sites here in southern North Carolina, the first things the settlers would do is to try to locate clay beds. They needed them to make pottery and bricks if they were going to build anything substantial. Maybe you got onto a site that they harvested clay and used the holes for trash pits.

[@ferngulleyhomestead]

From southern nc too, the area I live in is mostly white sand with white clay that is good for eating but not for making bricks or pottery. But for building purposes, clay might have been brought to the site to make a more stable foundation as that powdery sand shifts and erodes so much.

[@dougalexander7204]

Southern Capt. Billy is “a top pocket find.” I’m enjoying this collaboration.

[@rockreader4298]

Good vid, Beau and Southern Captain Billy. Thanks for calling us gals gentle Ladies, even though I'm acting like a cry baby because it ended too soon. ( : Looking forward.

[@josephoneill3197]

Great adventure! I like the southern Capt. Billy because he speaks English. 😉 Hopefully you all will find the motherlode!

[@jbelme1]

That feathered edge is called “pearl ware”, and it’s my favorite.

[@raeraewells7053]

I get so excited over pottery shards!

[@aquachigger]

First of a few videos from my recent camping trip. I hope you like it. If you would like to invite me to go metal detecting or have some property that I can make a video on myself, please send an email to my “aquachigger” gmail account. I can’t trade hunts with you, but will you trade a hat or two and try to stay on my best behavior. Special thanks to all of my supporters over on Patreon! Follow Chigg’s Army! My Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Instagram: instagram.com/aquachigger/ Facebook: facebook.com/chiggsarmy/ Twitter: twitter.com/BeauOuimette T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachigger/ Thanks for watching…. The Chigg

[@tonycurry3352]

Man you could come to Pensacola Florida anytime you want we don't even have to metal detect anything but the beach and catch pompano.(drink beer and soak bait.) Side note our local college have found many relics related to this country's first settlers. It takes permits to detect the cool spots.

[@chancer7558]

Moar detecting! dig them gold coins put some excitement back in your videos o.k.

[@deadmetal8692]

If ya' can't dig it, Chigg it!

[@rickzacher1797]

Bring it brother ..I gotta the spots 🌲😎🌲

[@leannvlewis]

OMG 😛 When you said Southern Captain Billy I was sipping water & I laughed & water came out my nose! 😂

[@marygarner5249]

Billy and CHIGG back Action got too Love IT 😁😁💟

[@waynecartwright9478]

I'm thinking it was built on a flood plane way back and thats why the sand deposits are there , looks like you are down 20 inches +......great video

[@jamesholmberg9091]

Both them Cap'n Billies are all right in my book.

[@prestonhodge5151]

I am from South Carolina!!!!!! So I love the video!!!!!

[@markcarson1844]

Another great show, thanks for all the awesome videos Chigg. Stay well.

[@neillh]

You always take us along on another great adventure 👍

[@QuestForDetails]

Billy ! good to see you two out treasure hunting another season!!

[@michaelkullas2031]

Good to see Billy again. He hasn't put out any vids in a while. Good spot promising ground. Good luck. Thanks

[@FatboysOutdoorsChannel]

Yeah I gave up on YT. Don't really have the time to make videos. Might start back one day. Till then I moved to tic toc. It's easier.

[@michaelkullas2031]

I get it! Good to see you! Maybe I'll ask one of my kids about tiktok. Don't know much about it. Take care pal.

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

Wow ! Dude that is definitely a very interesting artifact layer and different depths with different kinds of soil. Reminds me of a creek or river where there is sand bars then changes to clay in spots. Very strange unless maybe that was flooded at one time. Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE see ya on the next

[@Sirshackleton]

That Billy is a good guy!

[@derekmorse8171]

in England before the railways brought standardisation to the whole country, they would clump up piles of bricks in situ and cover them with a large bonfire. that's why early bricks were very thin, to make sure they were baked hard right through. if you look around further I think you will find an area with burned limestone which they would slake with water and mix with sand for mortar. You have found the sand and the clay already. nice episode thank you.

[@normawinton6832]

You guys are onto it now! I just feel it Beau!

[@turkeysandwiche8552]

I’m going to dig a speak easy bar trash dump in the woods by a lake. It’s on state property that I hunted. I found it by sitting down on the spot and seeing a bottle sticking up out of the ground. And it was a father John’s medicine bottle. And I found some other pharmaceutical cough medicine bottles in the same spot.I’m going to dig it this spring I can’t wait

[@johnwalsh5762]

getter done!

[@__WJK__]

@@johnwalsh5762 - Film the adventure if you can!!

[@MikeHere]

Thanks Chigg

[@thesunreport]

That looks like a really interesting site...I can't say for sure what's happening there but they must have been quite well-to-do people at some point comparitively speaking, the pottery was nice and perhaps building materials as well??, clay used for lining water storage??, and sand for drainage or building??. Really Cool. 🙂

[@fartzinacan]

You're in the LowCountry which is my stomping grounds. I hope you were treated well. I used to find blue and green pottery like you're pulling out all the time as a kid.

[@andreamills5852]

Looks like a good place for a Copperback or a Rattlemouth maybe a Waterhead.

[@aquachigger]

I actually cut out something like that...lol.

[@jeffinphx517]

Gentlemen, Gentleladies, and all 167 Gentlegenders. 🎤 😅🤣😂

[@midwestjuan2263]

Always coming back , me too!

[@joshuataft5541]

I didn't get this in my notifications..that sux but I found it randomly..can't wait to see it...love ya chigg hope all is well I'm sure I'll coment again when I see the whole video

[@billdingpermit9847]

HAY BEAU YA SPACE CADET!!!!!! you should colab with brad from GMMD!! im sure im not the only one how would enjoy it

[@zatho96]

Awesome hunt! I just found a bunch of awesome bottles at an old property myself.

[@dustyc324]

any bartels?

[@zatho96]

@@dustyc324 I don't know much about old bottles, but I don't think I found one of those. I have a video on my channel of me finding them all if you wanted to check. :)

[@hardyakka6200]

that pit may have been used to get the clay for the homemade bricks.

[@markandrews2942]

Your blue feather china is known as Leeds ware. It is commonly found in early 1800s site up and down the east coast of the original colonies. Good video as usual.

[@SandyWolf-]

I really thought you were gonna find Hoffa's body🤣🤣🤣

[@kim11757]

Billy wears gloves, be more like Billy, wear gloves 😂

[@rapiddog1491]

Hey Chigg, stay hydrated lol.

[@brandonrobinson1114]

i think you should make a video of your whole civilwar collection i would love to see it

[@tonycurry3352]

Thanks man.

[@aquachigger]

You bet!

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Great work guys.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

The Chigganator 👍👌

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

[@ed-el5yy]

The sand could be to give runoff water a place to go, and the clay could be a natural barrier against runoff getting to a foundation, maybe?

[@pastachan1477]

Ah yes, my home state!

[@budrohammbone2806]

Sifter time !

[@janlester4399]

Ever since my back surgery a couple of years ago, I need ME a “shovel man!”

[@keithadkins4735]

You were a hard on ol billy lol he’s big southern boy he can take it lol

[@garrycomeno2731]

Could those different holes with the sand and clay could those materials have been used for mortar foe the bricks? Not sure

[@loriward5512]

Great video as always 💛

[@EZDiggin]

I've never seen a dump structured like that Chigg

[@juneyshu6197]

They should have hired you to find the treasure caves in the Grand Canyon!

[@thegallowsdetectorists666]

Hi, another great video my friend very interesting it would be great to hook up some time , hope all is good with you ATB Rob ☘👍

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg and Captain Billy

[@CHAD-RYAN]

I was about to get excited when you pulled out the bricks to show if you can tell its old or not. Hahaha, next time!

[@steveanderson5888]

I'm drinking a cold beer right now I'm just finishing up your video

[@richardwarnock2789]

You got a sweet spot MOOOOAAAARRR!!!; )

[@mandermaid]

Wish I knew you were close by. I have few great spots similar to that I could have taken you to.

[@westenicho]

If there was fine sand, ash, bones/oyster shells, and clay it seems like a candidate for a place they were making mortar, bricks, lime for building a home.

[@johnmcgarvie1]

Damn chigg i started metal detecting because of you. And im waiting on my mokai. If i knew you were in sc i would have had some places for you to detect.

[@donaldstrickland8093]

Well maybe there was a hike there and they were filling with garbage and different soils or anything they could throw in

[@petekbleeepingaustralia8720]

Chiggs 🤘👍🏽🍺😅✊

[@stevexray6253]

Drink one for me! 😁👍

[@rickzacher1797]

I got one of those 😂🌲😎🌲

[@TangoCharlieAlpha]

Almost seems like a kiln area (sand, clay, and charcoal). Wouldn't think it would be a trash burn pit.

[@SuperHambergers]

Clay layer might have been an old outhouse trap. Poop has to decompose into something

[@DwayneRouthierJr]

Sand, clay, brick, glass..... Maybe a blacksmith shop. Clay all in one spot like that? Sticky sand for casting perhaps? I don't know... I'm just thinking back to a show on the BBC I saw a long time ago. They were at a castle and they said they located where the blacksmith shop was because they found CLAY and SAND.

[@wildman6785]

is that you and your son singing in the background ' if soo sounds really good.

[@TheGoodOlBoyzChannel]

We need another M cave video chigg!!!???

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Thinking that you can get isolated deep holes in the natural, if a large tree has grown, died and rotted out. Then the hole left is filled in by the surrounding topsoil.

[@SamCoyle-cc6kv]

I think maybe the sand was added later to help with drainage

[@Fatspurios]

Could the clay and sand bars be liquefaction from earth quakes?. Just a thought.

[@fernkitten]

get your bare hands out of that glassy soil sir omg lol

[@sinelocum]

That’s pretty sweet! Message me when you’re in the GSP area and I’ll show you another legit site.

[@aquachigger]

GSP? No comprendo.

[@jamieheim8009]

Does that mean garden state parkway? 🤷

[@davideo1954]

@@jamieheim8009 or George St. Pierre of MMA fame!

[@__WJK__]

Georgia State Park area or wait... maybe.... Greenville/Spartanburg?

[@donaldrogers3162]

Greenville-Spartanburg Area.

[@paulwhitney8058]

May be what we know as a washout in Australia,

[@garycousino4016]

Those skeeters are thick

[@kenny5676]

chigg needs to change his name to aquaslacker lmao

[@connorsrelicsandtreasures9862]

flat buttons are dated to 1790's-1820's.

[@haroldishoy2113]

What if the site you are on is actually where the house was and it would have burned down?

[@nazimray5101]

Maybe the clay was brought in from somewhere else to make a harder base for the foundation

[@nazimray5101]

As SC has a lot of sand

[@snowballil3133]

😀

[@ifindmetal]

Beau you and not wearing gloves digging by hand lol

[@UncleDonDon]

What county was this hunt?

[@waynefrost931]

Have you ever found a three cent penny from around 1850 ?

[@williamhurt8512]

so, i was raised in low country south carolina, would it be fair enough to ask what county??........................

[@oldbamadirt2148]

If You Dont Dig It I Cant See It Well Your Doing Ok.🙃

[@P.B.Theriver]

I'm thinking the sand and clay was used to make bricks and chinking.

[@woundguy5934]

that bone looks like a human tibia

[@waltsisco]

Should everyone wear snake boots?

[@mjj6870]

I live in SC where is this ?

[@prestonhodge5151]

Low country

[@aquachigger]

I can't say exactly but lower coastal.

[@reginaromsey]

First rent or borrow a brush hog and clear a trail and spot.

[@samueljames9342]

Get in too old to cut the mustard Beau?

[@kermitmawyer1743]

So1

[@joekeigans]

You still in town lets hang out!!

[@aquachigger]

I left.

[@joekeigans]

@@aquachigger aw dammit let me know next time! I can recomend places.

[@wildman6785]

they probably bulldozed the house in and buried the house.

[@tickertapes]

I wish you would wear gloves Beau. Years ago you lectured us all on digging soil with your fingers. Please don't spill blood for us and take care of yourself.

[@raynin]

Hi

[@aquachigger]

Hi

[@davideo1954]

I can’t lie, officer…I put that china under that pile of garbage.

[@billdelaney4222]

That’s a part of a deer leg bone and oyster shells and bones are non artifacts only man made things are artifacts

[@kyle1120061]

Question? How do you not get eaten alive with poison ivy?

[@a_zombie_killaonpsn1572]

First

[@bingo7799]

I didn't realize how clumsy the colonial people were breaking so many plates and losing buttons.

[@ElCid48]

And you think that 21st century people are not clumsy? Go on a walk and you'll see all the trash they dump in the streets and parks.

[@bingo7799]

@@ElCid48 It was a joke of sorts. We're all a bit prone to breaking things but we can go down to Walmart just down the street to replace. They couldn't.