Exploring Historic New England Cellar Holes

Today finds us in historic New England searching old cellar holes with our metal detectors. Mark Brown invited me to come up from Maryland to his coastal Massachusetts home to visit with him and explore some of his metal detecting permissions. We found some old coins, buttons, and other relics, plus we saw several old wells and even a mysterious cellar hole with a strange underground room.
About Aquachigger:
I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
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[@aquachigger]

Today finds us in Massachusetts searching cellar holes. I have a number of videos coming up from my current New England metal detecting adventure. I hope you enjoy them!

[@trolltaker]

Does Mr Brown have a KZbin channel? I'd love to see more of that area!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

I hope you are going back a few times. That's a really nice location. So many home sites to comb over...and over ..lol

[@davestelling]

Digger Charlie from Not Thursday/Stealth Diggers has found some marvelous artifacts from searching New England cellar holes in New Hampshire...

[@ladanivadriver1578]

Anything happening about the scotland trip you hinted it a while ago ?

[@trolltaker]

@@davestelling He's an ass. I stopped watching him a long time ago.

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

Thanks Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE

[@davidweeks1709]

The little room in the cellar hole with the flat rock on top is for ice blocks. This was used like a refrigerator to keep stuff cold. Being up here in New England it wasn't to hard to get ice block from local ponds and lakes. I live in New Hampshire and in a area with tons of old cellar holes and some towns that's have been forgotten in time, over grown and easily miss if not looking for them.

[@lonniechartrand]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@richardwarnock2789]

Tannic Acid Beau !! That little maybe ice cellar for beer 🍺 or fridge!!

[@jeremyo8233]

It has an FU ....LOL....thanks for another great adventure beau!!

[@rogerdempsey7227]

Awesome day chigger love the fines great place stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 🙏👍🐰happy Easter to you and your family 🐈

[@richardbauman4731]

Dang , that was a surprise location and a treat. What scenery and a great history lesson. You guys didn't even have to find anything to make it super enjoyable!!

[@aquachigger]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@stu-j]

Good evening from the beautiful North East of England!

[@Portageediggah]

Hi Stuart. I dig in Dartmouth also.

[@JustPlainSteve5372]

Vellly Interesink! - Arte Johnson!!!

[@half-assedandnotfast3375]

Massachusetts! Nice to see you up here enjoying the Beautiful history!

[@valiantwarrior4517]

Such a cool location. Would be very interesting to just wander around and explore.

[@RACKS2024]

Chig u in my neck of the woods!!! Awesome to see! You are the one who got me into metal detecting again after my grandfather passed. Me and him were dump diggin and detecting buds. After his passing i gave it up cuz it didn’t feel right. Watching ur channel gave me fresh motivation and a new found curiosity to explore the world again!

[@aquachigger]

Happy to hear that.

[@HoboRailroad]

Thank you Aquachigger ✌️😎

[@aquachigger]

My pleasure.

[@arctiknitter]

This was a good one. Enjoyed the woods. Very different from Alaska.

[@richardklapka5147]

Hey Mr. Chig! I just got a quality cell phone just a few months ago. Enjoying your videos daily. I see a lot of your adventures going back 10 years! Incredible outings! And of course "very interesting" ( I recall, laugh in too) You teach us so much! Thanks buddy! Rk.

[@mission1125]

In the foundation was the little room on the north side of the building? If so, maybe a root cellar.

[@franksprague7550]

My guess as well, that's where the potatoes would go.,

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

Chigg I have been detecting for over 35, and put me out in the boonies, the hardest place to hunt. I have found some of the best things I have found in places other detectorist have avoided over the past years. I would be much happier digging old relics and what's it's than modern things any day. Love ur videos Chigg. Ive been watching for yrs

[@aquachigger]

Thanks, glad you enjoy the vids.

[@jacksampsonforever]

OMG! You're in my old backyard! I need an autograph LOL!

[@aquachigger]

My family roots are in East Freetown.

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Beautiful location Chiggs. Nice Mark shared a historical place to dig. 👏👍😀

[@andreamills5852]

Awesome finds ! Good place for a "Samsquinch"

[@tylertripp618]

I grew up in Freetown Massachusetts and spent most my life up there. Got into detecting right before moving down south to escape.

[@SuperNetSpyder]

I like the two videos you've done with this guy. I love the forest videos and seeing all the old things coming up from / out of old trees.

[@aquachigger]

Thanks.

[@threewheeler624]

Great video! Thank you!

[@markattardo]

Always fun to see what people dig closer-ish to home. Thanks Mark & Chigg👍👍

[@mokpot]

Awesome place!

[@irvingbrown2389]

Thanks as always for the great video. I’m from upstate, NY and the woods around me look so similar with old stone walls everywhere. Random piles of stones, I’d imagine the original farmer would pick stones up and throw them on a pile. Although difficult to find wells and foundations. There’s a lot less left behind. Many of the areas if love to detect are state lands. Of course there’s plenty to find if you put in the time and research. I always learn great things, signs of human habitation. Thanks Beau ! Take care

[@sammsdream]

You should take a magnet to those wells! Give it a go and let us know if you do.

[@richardwarnock2789]

You have to call Mark Rambo!!!; )

[@lenoraeaton]

WOW ! Thanks Chigg!!😁👍

[@grant6165]

Brings back some memories of digging cellar holes when I lived in New England.

[@barrycormier230]

We had those little rooms for potatoes and such We called them root cellars '

[@jamesanderson2099]

I realy enjoyed this video thank you

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@aquachigger]

Good afternoon from Maine.

[@alanmoffat4454]

WELL WE ENJOY A NEW AREA JUST AS MUCH AS YOU , KEEP UP THESE GOOD VIDS 😊.

[@ClarksCoveDetecting]

What an awesome place to hunt in, love seeing those old homesites like that,

[@johnramirez5032]

Hey chigg! Ive watched you for a few years. The tenacious nature is a pleasure to watch. Your part historian and part archeologist. Part treasure hunter and part nature lover. I never tire watching you. Aint too many people left like you. I mean that with great sincerity and admiration. You are a good sole. Thank you for enriching my life as well as countless others. !

[@aquachigger]

Awesome, thank you!

[@johnramirez5032]

@@aquachigger you have earned it. Trust is not given its earned.

[@glass1258]

Oh wow you were in my home state .. I love Massachusetts so much history I’m about 25 minutes from Dartmouth

[@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630]

Well that is a fun surprise! Thank you! Beau, you are such a good guy and a gentleman! You are forever apprenticing people and letting them find the goodies!! Even the awesome "dagger" turns out to something lost you found for your buddy! You Sir are an Officer and a Gentleman.

[@mwdjr3158]

Great video Gig

[@bluecorona868]

love your vids. thankyou.

[@richardperkins6132]

What an awesome place to be out detecting. 😁👍👍

[@JosesGaraje]

Now you know what we have to deal with all the time: thin soil, rocks and roots. It's a nightmare to dig large holes in and a true testament to the grit of our ancestors.

[@susansmith6680]

That was fun.

[@dartmart9263]

You found a witch’s fire starting kit and fire circle! Lol

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

So much history up there, Beau! I'm glad you got to explore that new area...and I'm sure Mark is happy you found his knife!🤣❤️

[@barbarafritchie2000]

My grandparents had a spring enclosed like the well you found. They kept a tin cup hanging near by.

[@philipcallicoat3147]

All the stones are a testimony of the brutal and hard work that occurred back then...🥺👍

[@670tazman]

Love the videos. I learn a lot of the past with the videos

[@JustMe-mx8hq]

Oh wow cool ur in Dartmouth, I live in New Bedford . Loved the video as usual 😃

[@Portageediggah]

I love in Freetown. Grew up in NB. I dig mostly in Dartmouth.

[@aquachigger]

My mother was an Ashley from Freetown. Spent a lot of time there with family as a kid.

[@neillh]

Thank you for taking us along on another great adventure 👍

[@bruinsfan8278]

Well Done chig, Down in Dartmouth, my back yard! Some very cool finds! Love Marks Bruins Hat!

[@sethherron5926]

That aluminum piece you found at the small foundation hole looks like a part of a Warn locking hub from an early Jeep!

[@oldbamadirt2148]

Look Like Fun To Me. 😎👍✌.

[@gregtheodore2581]

Welcome to MA Chigg. Nice finds.

[@johnnyphillips9735]

Nice finds thanks for taking us along that's a beautiful place

[@kickapootrackers7255]

Good finds, got his knife too. Cool area y'all

[@madamecampsalot6384]

Come to Litchfield County, Connecticut! Yay Chigg!

[@cg256y9]

Amazing site.

[@48thstateprospecting]

Hey chig that was an EGGCELLENT video so much cool stuff to see I’m surprised you detected at all. That secret room… you put your reefer madness in it… the British are coming the British are coming. could that secrete well could have been a valuables stash. Did you detect the secret room? Great adventure thanks for sharing see you on The Next one 👍🏼👊🏼p.s. watch winder watch winder…😬

[@omitthelies]

Great adventure Chigg. I'm near the historic triangle right now in Virginia, running my AT Max on all of the beaches.

[@frankblazi5842]

We love it here in New England. Hello from Ct.

[@helenburke9507]

Thank you so much . What a great video. And new history.

[@alanconnors8881]

BRUINS! Cool dig and finds. Welcome to NE Chigg.

[@ladywisewolf3942]

Chigg, It would be great if you could do a collaboration dig with Brad Martin of Green Mountain Metal Detecting. He's located in the mountains of Vermont and has some incredible permissions there. He finds rare Colonial artifacts every time he goes out! It would make a great episode.

[@dannmccord1923]

Cool finds Chigger. Neat buttons. No telling what's around there

[@robertdecrock4038]

I love adding value to areas of life I see soo more when you post 😊

[@aquachigger]

Thanks

[@jeffbettez4355]

CHIG!! You drove RIGHT BY my house in RI and didnt stop by!! 😧😅😅

[@rickyb2200]

Nice place to detect , those open wells look a little scary , to easy to stumble into them if you don't see them. Thanks Chigg

[@cathyrobi3891]

Most likely that hole/room in the wall is a root cellar to preserve foods

[@janjohannessmith7033]

That was my guess also

[@cindyriviera6455]

Great footage ❤

[@markbrown6236]

Your host has an awesome name.

[@leeharbert1192]

❤❤❤

[@robertfahey3875]

Hi Chigg, another great video, I detect and bottle dig in MA, RI and CT. We’ve come across these type of rock lined caverns, they are root cellars for storing potatoes, carrots and other produce.

[@aquachigger]

Thanks for the info

[@FestusHaggen]

Howdy Chigg. Very cool area. Ain't no telling how many other treasures that are still there waiting to be found. It was mighty nice of Mark to invite you up to explore. Does he have a YT channel?

[@laureng6412]

As a college student, wish I had that kind of time! Looks like a blast!

[@oleradiodudea.m.4735]

Take time off college and live a bit.

[@chuckjenkins4348]

I would kill to be your shadow for a year and go all the great places you go. Always moving never letting the moss grow under your shoes. Always a great adventure with The Chigg.

[@tomcook5813]

Very common for folks like me to keep a chunk of lint from the dryer handy for fire starting, works really good

[@williambrandondavis6897]

00 steel wool works better. Lights even if it’s wet because it’s not porous and it burns extremely hot similar to aluminum or magnesium.

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

thumbs up great finds enjoyed the video

[@lostrailbeds8289]

Great to see ya up in the Northeastern part of the Country Chigg! Maybe...JUST maybe! we'll see some Capn. Billy vids soon???!! Maybe?......

[@aquachigger]

Yep, coming soon.

[@BuddyChartrand]

"Verrry interesting" comes from a show called Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in from the 60s. Arte Johnson was the comedian who played a German soldier who said that.

[@aquachigger]

Yep, you're an old timer too, eh?

[@Justfollowthecrumbs]

I can remember it,due to being an ancient person, 👵🏻it was popular here in the U.K.

[@davestelling]

#SockItToMe

[@BIGALL7777]

That was an amazing spot you guys explored. Always learn new things watching your videos. Both of you made some nice finds too. Take care & best regards always !

[@granvillewooster7673]

Beautiful property 👍👍❤️

[@robertcribb3859]

Sure was a lot of wells for that little community

[@Mountainmonths]

wow amazing place. I bet you could find all sorts of stuff out there

[@128file]

This trip reminds me of my trip to Strasberg Pennsylvania up in the north east corner. There were wall of stones 5’ tall and about 6’ wide at the base and you could walk on them. They were like small paddocks or something. Love the history in that area of the country.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

I find some like that in Kansas City. I have noticed in my area they are only built in places where you can’t set fence posts because it’s too rocky. I agree with the pastures. I have found evidence of live stock in the ones near me. Horse and cattle stuff and suspender clips from the early 1800’s. The ones I’m familiar with are on the Oregon California trail near a camp depot. One guess is they might have been used during that time for storing animals for sale and trade to the people heading west. Or perhaps they were built by the military during the civil war. There are a lot of rock structures here that are known to have been built for military use during the civil war.

[@christophergillet5688]

I live within a 10 minute drive from Dartmouth,Massachusetts. Wish I had known you were coming this far north,lol. I have watched you for a while now and would have liked to meet you.

[@Lesbodoggofest]

Always awesome , great host

[@roccoracer]

That is exactly what my back yard looks like. It's nice to live in a colonial area. I found a KG2 at my local school Saturday.

[@sms61]

I think I know where you guys were hunting, I live in Dartmouth and hit a few spots like that. I think that little area you were questioning what it was is actually a cold storage area for keeping perishables cool, at least that's what I've been led to believe, like an indoor root cellar so to speak. Good to see Mark sporting the Boston Bruins hat too, you know you're a true native when you see that patch. There's so many places you'd love to hunt here, especially 1700's and indian stuff. Good to see you in my neck of the woods and hope you come back for some really good sites to hunt.

[@kevinhavens8289]

It was a secret room like u said to hide their treasures that’s my type of thinking anyways lol I’d a dug it out lol

[@dawncarpenter9869]

If you find anything from the families Dudley or Bradstreet in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My great... Grandpa Simon Bradstreet was the first mayor of MBC.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Cool-house ??? , to preserve food ? Pity you didn't find an out-house, to explore. Coins roll out of pockets while sitting. :D

[@loralou-djflowerdove]

"Beddyyy intadestenk..." - (Arte Johnson, "Laugh-In")😊

[@poohhoney816]

Hey Beau....Casper here...if you drove on the Ma. turnpike - then you drove right by me I live right behind one of the rest stops...I could have met you The room could have been like others have said - a root cellar - though many times the whole cellar was for storage It could have been for ice storage also - they would cut huge blocks out of a lake or pond and the block or blocks would last for month until the "ice box" was invented. They also created small rooms under the floor to hide from the early indians. You should if possible - try running your coin over the cellar walls - i have many friends that have found small caches of coins and small firearms in between the cellarhole rocks - some times other relics.

[@dartmart9263]

You should go metal detecting in and around Hockomock Swamp, in October or thereabouts. Now THAT’S an experience you’ll remember till your dying day! But, whatever you do, don’t go alone!

[@ScottHead]

Little alcove is a root cellar I'm guessing.

[@newlevelgraphicsdavidframe2870]

You probably had better light over where you were looking for that knife first lol

[@Langonica]

Welcome back to your old stomping grounds!

[@ronoutwest]

Great video!!

[@8bitisthesh1telwell74]

Yes no question that was a root cellar cold storage for root veggies. Carrots, potatoes, things of that nature