Oldest US Coin and More Found Buried in the Dirt

On this adventure I find the oldest US coin and something that has no business being here.
Original music by Brad Martin
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[@GMMD]

First adventure here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzSYqKqm7KVZqc Second adventure: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIGqin6XgquVo7c

[@tincuptimmetaldetecting9259]

Digging the iron signals has produced MANY outstanding relics for me over the years. I never shy away and it's payed off! Good job and congrats on the finds Brad!

[@deloreslowndes762]

I've just had a vision of a long line of folks from various times in history following you around trying to get your attention. "Hey man n that's mine " lol

[@jeanponce2017]

I dont mind digging iron when I'm relic hunting because I like the early hand forged tools. In my area they don't get to bad.

[@EZDiggin]

10:57 I located a sewing circle at my 1840's farmhouse permission. I've found several buttons,needles and a silver thimble all in a 15 foot area.

[@ryanosourus]

I have been a long time subscriber, but today when this video popped up I wasn’t a subscriber anymore! Well I hit sub again, thanks for the adventure Brad!

[@kennysherrill6542]

Those iron stakes Brad are for holding tents, the one with the eyelet is used to tye off the top, the other is to take down the bottom.

[@ttrguy9952]

Absolutely! Spot on Sir! I've found them here all over CT.

[@breathofhome6315]

When there are few undiscovered mysteries left there's always the rediscovered, things most people in this time don't know or think about. I love history, especially of the people who lived in times past. Thank you Brad for bring us along on your adventures of rediscovery. I truly enjoy seeing the past dug up/found.

[@1898time]

Brad this is worth staying up for , thanks from New Zealand

[@mariamjehn7071]

I lived in North Shrewsburry and then Barnard for total of five years.. I loved it !! The history of the entire area is fascinating!!

[@zukiguy2640]

U know something good is found when the music starts lol

[@lessarten8486]

Awesome videos been watching a while now nothing else to say but absolute perfection with how you do your short educational films my partner and I detect in Tasmania always welcome to stay with us if you ever come down

[@EZDiggin]

Great bit of Diggin Brad!! Love the coins and relics

[@dengerdj]

Your videos are the best. I agree with the many others who have praised your work. I’m a newcomer who has binged your old videos so I especially appreciate that you show very little of that infernal beeping! Keep up the good work!

[@peggybaxter8480]

Thanks for taking me along Brad!

[@gregl2459]

Ima few days late to catch your video Brad but I can’t wait any longer so here we go!

[@maggiesfarm7970]

Always good music.

[@donaldphelps536]

Great video Brad, I really enjoy watching your videos, the quality is far above everyone else. You have a definite artistic talent that comes out in your videos.

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you Brad for the adventure and seeing some amazing finds !

[@xmj6830]

Thanks for sharing. Cheers from NZ

[@janas7088]

Nice piece of shoe buckle. Awesome Nova coin.

[@danieldeanmasterfinisher4715]

It’s definitely a kettle point Brad the shape and size are perfect, It makes perfect sense for it to be deeper for the age , Native American trade routes were vast and wide , some worked along side the colonialists as guides

[@BillGuyHawaii]

Thank you again for the great adventure and the fantastic music, it all comes together for an excellent presentation. Good luck!

[@johnjacobs1625]

Awesome dig Brad!

[@glendasiviour9936]

Hello Brad I believe the long straight piece of metal is a to swing a gate from. Also I'm amazed at the beautiful turf you are digging through.i would like my lawn to look as good. Greetings from Australia

[@ecotangokeithfugittrkkf733]

Super awesome dude. Nice work.♥️😊

[@toddrodgers5108]

I think you won . I found one her in Wyoming. But it was a trade point from 1860s. Our military traded to them . Way cool blessings

[@chrisgabbert658]

👍😊 the little thimble and it’s not bent.

[@danarnold3239]

Its a gate hinge , both pieces go together , still made very close to the same pattern yet today

[@joycekennedy1730]

Sweet Digs Brad!

[@dawnwilliams4625]

Another day of treasures in the field of dreams

[@DustTbotMs]

Really enjoy your videos. I watch them with my boys, we are all getting into the hobby. Is there a website or app where people can post pics of their finds that they need help identifying?

[@donrepcon7704]

That kettle point makes sense. It is possible that native Americans could have been hunting or even living in that spot a hundred years before the settlers moved in. Is there a water source nearby? Could that area have been forest then later cleared for farmland? Makes a good story anyway.

[@richardalley5091]

Always interesting, even on “Dud Days”…

[@blushingbunny3074]

Shape says kettle but.. No hole?

[@rppvt]

The kettle piece: what if a person found it, a hundred plus years ago, and just as you're doing, kept it as a historical keepsake, and if that person was a kid, along with a marble and a compass or the tooth of a bear.

[@Davidrcobb]

Its an old gate hinge. one side hammered into a heavy post the other on the gate.

[@comozo924]

The L shape thing reminds me of a holdfast a type of clamp

[@hellomcflyy]

what did Deep Digger Dan used to say - "cmon - get in!" - awesome ...Ive been chasing that white whale for 30 years....though the **oldest** coin would be the one that says NE on one side - and a Roman numeral on the back......the tree coins are a little more interesting looking - well done - my friend Paul just found one as well....they are out there

[@mackymintle7806]

Great fun 👍

[@FreeThingsUSA]

That little piece of 'silver' spoon handle looks like tombac to me... I have actually found a tiny 1700s baby spoon bowl made from the same material! Smooth and silvery dark metal broken cleanly (not bent as silver would likely have been). Remember tombac is brittle ;)

[@kennysherrill6542]

Great finds Brad, wish I could go out and do things like that an maybe soon I will. 👍❤️🇺🇸

[@BillGuyHawaii]

Also, Aloha from Hawaii

[@randycowles1894]

Could be a gate pin and its mate

[@obieobrien5883]

Could the big objects have been used to hold a kettle over the fire?

[@v.brackins2265]

Enjoy your channel! My opinion is a Native point. We all make our lives on top of past cultures. I think we would all be shocked if we could see the landscapes of just the 1800s after all the old growth forest were cut! I've seen then and now photo of the same areas and the difference is mind boggling. I m sure if the area you're detecting were plowed there would be Native artifacts(stone) in found in abundance!

[@TheBellmare]

One's a hinge, one's a latch

[@GlenManier-pv6vv]

Iron 2 pcs. Door or gate hinge

[@sonnyharrelson3897]

As flat as that possible kettle point is that would fit. I mean even Native Americans traveled from area to area so putting it the kettle point name works because roof flashing trash would have rolled edges on atleast one side.

[@hardyhodge2538]

Brad if I remember correctly native Americans fought alongside the French in many a skirmish, and if not fighting I'm sure they were scouting?

[@erickmischke38]

If the cut piece of copper/brass point was the only piece you found? I’m sorry, but that truly is native. Any roof work, of any metal material, would have scores of them around. This was the only, you have found. Native.

[@ozarkscarguy540]

What the heck was this place? Why does it have so much stuff?

[@randallfritts1600]

I think the point would have been blunted if it had been in an animal

[@tstuff89]

I'd find a blacksmith friend to give the scrap metal to they can identify or repurpose it into something modern or something special!

[@tannerpaxton4348]

TENT STAKE

[@geffreyjewell6546]

Broken Shoe Buckle Farm

[@rachelthompson9324]

Natives associated with setters so a native point may well show up anywhere

[@stanmonk2851]

Buttons tell me of hand to hand combat, pulling\tearing of clothes.

[@GavinNatur]

Ma nem bob

[@janettetippetts7942]

Hooray! Thank you for taking us along on your adventure! I love watching you finding objects and giving us a history lesson on what they are, how they were used, why they might have been in this area, etc. THANKS BRAD!

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you Brad for the adventure and seeing some amazing finds !

[@sailordx2]

Has there been maybe an instance that even the colonialists took a page from the natives and also made their own points for hunting? Great finds Brad!

[@stantilton2191]

Nice finds Brad. The looped end iron piece looks like it could be the pintle side of a forged hinge. It would be pounded into a predrilled hole in the frame and hold the hinge from a door. Thank you for sharing with us. Happy hunting.

[@jeanponce2017]

Yep that's what I think it is also. Some can get pounded into stonework between the stones in a small pillar and stone wall like for a gate hinge in to an early cemetery. Either way it's too an early strap hinge

[@sheryl6241]

Great finds! I have family history from Vermont, Addison County-Monkton. In 1778 their farm was raided by Tories & Native Americans. So I vote it’s a kettle point. 😊

[@billroberts5779]

Agree on the door pintle the brass “arrowhead” could be entirely plausible do not assume history began with the 17th farm. I can say this having made the same mistake. 16th century deer hunter passing through lost an arrow?

[@briankesterson4365]

Brad - It is not uncommon for different time periods to be intermixed with each other. We have found Native American artifacts, colonial artifacts & Civil War artifacts all in the same area here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. So, it is not uncommon for that to happen. Hope you find out what it is and congratulations on the coin! Best wishes from 35th State Relic Hunters. Keep up the great videos as they are among the best on KZbin! Thanks again for sharing the adventure & the history!

[@robinsmith5442]

On the possible kettle point, I wondered if it had stuck in an animal but didn't kill it. The animal could have died and the point would have been left at that spot. Maybe a long shot but is a possibility.

[@dananderson128]

Great hunt. I can see why you didn’t take a break! The Nova is fantastic and I’m going with kettle point!

[@digginhistoryoncapecod7506]

I loved your reaction to the Nova Constellatio coin- only your 3rd or 4th- I wonder how many people west of us have ever even heard of one, never mind found a few! It would indeed be a lifetime find for thousands of non-New Englander's. Congrats for an amazing find, in pretty darn good shape I might add! Oh, and that tiny thimble- fantastic!

[@ezekiel8630]

Great stuff as always Brad. Thank you for the consistently rad content with second to none production value. Sincerely network broadcast ready.

[@BillGuyHawaii]

I agree. This content is ready for network marketing.

[@grandmakellymcdonald]

let's go let's go treasure ✌👵

[@gaiterbugg]

I vote kettle point. Indigenous people were everywhere before being displaced by European settlers. Great hunt, Brad.

[@timothybond100]

Love ya bro You give me an escape from the times we are living in now... By bringing the history of America's past. It looks to me that humans keep repeating the same stupid mistakes. We have GOD given rights. Life, Liberty ,and the pursuit of Happiness. Thanks again

[@alanmoffat4454]

NEW GLOVES ITS ABOUT TIME , GOOD HUNTING FROM SCOTLAND 😮. 😊

[@kevincrock1202]

Great Show Brad as always I enjoyed the video very much !! It seems like everything you come across I have something similar I've found in fields near my home in N.France ! You help me greatly with your speculations ! Thank Again Your pal Kevin in France and Florida

[@old5andimer713]

Great day in the Green Mtn's Brad .. You always seem to uncover some very cool artifacts, and I'm certain the "cuttings on your editing floor" highlight neat stuff as well .. As for the Kettle Point Arrowhead .. Possibly, could it be a previously "discovered" artifact uncovered by an earlier resident ? .. Who's to say .. Thanks for another great morning in the Green Mtn's.

[@brianwalker9185]

Kettle point is a probability. The home owner could have found and lost it, could be a random loss by indigenous peoples...it's to uniform to be random scrap. A hundred years from now, archeological dig at my parents house will find 800 year old pottery, tools etc., fossils and rocks from all over the world and rusty relics from times gone by...so it's possible it's a kettle point.

[@katlyn57inParadise]

I think the triangle object IS Native American. With it being so deep, it could have been there when the house was built. I hope you are able to found out. That is an Awesome find.

[@swampyankee72]

Its so sad that we lose our history. Locations like this, it had to be once served a important function to demand such traffic to bring a wide variety of coins, so many shoe buckles etc. We have to ask, who lived there? Who were they? What did they do? Sadly, except for a few fragments, all we can do is speculate.

[@traceebruce]

Thanks Brad Never disappointed, love what you do

[@mikehardwick6607]

i see you broke down and got new gloves, just noticed, probably some videos back, but love the stuff good luck

[@relicrat]

I know it is tough to dig all the iron but after recently pulling a beautiful carriage step out of the mud it is just hard not to dig a few? Thanks for sharing! Beautiful finds and a beautiful location.

[@zekesgirl100]

The Nova is in really, really great condition!

[@danlindey7368]

A gate hinge and a broken clevis.

[@jennywalborn7769]

Very deep, I'd say kettle point 100%!

[@chiplacey256]

The first item looks like a carpenter’s bench hold down.

[@FoulOwl2112]

Man y'all don't realize how blessed you are up there with that "easy diggin" dirt. Sometimes down here in south Alabama, you need a pickaxe to break this sun baked earth.

[@121dough]

When Brad finally comes to his end of days, many years from now, it's not hard to imagine his square of Heaven has this field on it.

[@Spitnchicklets]

It could be a spike for a tent line

[@tonyk1584]

!!!!!! NEW GLOVES !!!!!!!

[@krisgalusha9820]

The indigenous of the area would have been trading, scouting and fighting with the French. The triangle could have been tied to the camp site. I am no expert though.

[@deereating9267]

I am not familiar with metal points from the historical period, but I do find arrowheads in singular contexts, without any other signs of occupation. I think they might have been fired and lost, like stuck in a deer that ran away and they didn't get to recover the point.

[@genegorringe7395]

Great video really enjoyed it thank you good work Gene Gorringe Mi ✌️ 🇺🇲 🇬🇧

[@metaldetectingnoco]

Love your channel. Sorry I don't comment more often, but I watch KZbin on the fire stick. Glad to see you finally got new gloves. 😂 Greetings from Colorado.

[@bethcorey6022]

Friday morning coffee with Brad❤

[@662OutdoorAdventures]

Field of dreams!!!! There had to be lots of trading going on there hundreds of years ago!

[@docfax]

The piece with the loop looks like the one Staelth Diggers found . they thought it was the handle to open the stove

[@randallfritts1600]

How can so many coins be at one Family home? Is this normal or could there have been an army encampment there. This would explain the copper kettle arrow head. American, British and French all used Indian scouts. Just a thought. Also the L shaped iron object could be a tent stake.

[@jenniferneedham5514]

Thank you again for another wonderful video of metal detecting!! One more reason to look forward to Fridays! 😊

[@1kittybob]

Iron with 90 degree looks like a workbench dog. Thanks for the videos