Treasure hunting near an abandoned graveyard - Part 1

Follow Si and Terry as they go Treasure Hunting near an abandoned graveyard. They discover stacks of graves that have been left to the elements, the perfect location for searching for artefacts from history!

[@telseddon]

I very much enjoyed taking part in this video Si, nice work... 👍

[@Sifinds]

telseddon You are a natural sir! I thank you!! 😉😋

[@rhondafleming1194]

Love when Terry is mud larking with you. He’s a riot!

[@johnrobertson5981]

At 8:25 look on the ground behind his hand!

[@Woolfy_420]

Exactly 😅

[@thurin84]

8:24 i can see a coin on the ground center left, maybe a foot from his hand, a couple inches to the right of the big dirt clod. its always sad when peoples last resting place gets disturbed and the gravestones get moved from the graves.

[@juliet5114]

OMG 😲!!! I saw it, too!!! The camera was pointed right at it, just to the left. I was shouting at my computer screen " Si, Si, look a coin. Just to the left". 🤦 How embarrassing...my cat surely thinks I've lost it for sure, now!

[@sionaharrop4486]

Great day and really good finds, I loved the coins they are so interesting ❤️🇦🇺 xxx

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Telya mate, back in 02/04, we occasionally went down Water Lane/Asbourne, between the 7 Trent water works/sewage set up and a council yard. A little field was STACKED. All well, til an Alec went veining tracing right under the councils concreted yard. They weren't happy at all and it ended. Thing was that the hedged off field in front was chest high with a pile of straw and farm waste, with some hard light grey squared corners. Bit of poking about revealed inscribed gravestones, enough eventually to have filled a city church yard (Derby?), dunno. We wasn't all digging daft, under the council yard but we all got cleared orf ! Fine, eh, and look at the so called respect the council showed to the dead. None of us dug near them stones. In fact I'm going back for a look see, if those under the crap unremarked G.stones are still under all that cow muck.

[@wollbullit1632]

Please make in a diy a lovetoken! This story about it is so amazing, sometimes sad. I want one. Good find's.

[@davewhittington1368]

Loved the sixpence !! Can't wait for next episode. Thanks for sharing

[@Sifinds]

David Whittington Thanks David!

[@johnkashka803]

It's amazing to me.....in the United States finding relics from the 1800s is a huge deal....for you all, it's not even considered old.

[@Medieval_Digger]

Cool video! Greetings from the Netherlands! 🇳🇱

[@cynthiarowley719]

Didn't expect to see the stones stacked like old roof tiles. I bet they weren't supposed to remove the stones. Mistake, then ducked out. 🕊️

[@snickers2877]

Si on land! I'm used to seeing you on the foreshore. Great finds, especially that William III. Congrats! Disturbing to see all those gravestones chucked up in rows together. If the bodies were moved, why not the stones that went with them? Not only is it disrespectful of the departed, but it wreaks hell for genealogists. HH and GL.

[@Sifinds]

Hi Snickers, and thanks! Yeah I've not sure what happened there, just what the farmer told me... I do a spot of Genealogy in part 2.....

[@minnieearhart221]

Beautiful coins!

[@Bananacustardcostuming]

My masters degree is in gothic studies so all things morbid and historical are of interest to me! I’d love to do a spooky dig with you guys, I’m sure I bore my friends and family with my “interesting” facts!

[@willbejamming1532]

Nice tracking shot of that love token.

[@Sifinds]

Will Be Jamming Thanks Pal, took a few try's. Haha

[@SmallWonda]

That is something to find, remnants of a shot-down plane - some poignant modern history - Good hunt, hopefully next time will be better weather & you'll have your pinpointer! 😉

[@Sifinds]

Small Wonda Hi! Yes! The coin was found on the edge of the aluminium strewn field, and I think previous detectorists abandoned that area due to all the Ali, so I thought about hitting that area in the hope of plane parts and more coins that have been missed. Sound good?

[@SmallWonda]

Well, if you imagine what it might have been like back then, assuming it's WWII-era, then I doubt everything would have been picked up, so maybe there is more of interest to be found. I wonder if the locals know more about what plane it was. WHen we lived on the Quantocks, there was a high field which had seen a plane come down, I was quite amazed - I doubt anyone had detected it... Good job, Si 👍😎

[@BrianClunie]

Awesome video!

[@Sifinds]

Brian Clunie Cheers dude!

[@theresac.3216]

Great video! Can't wait for part 2. Old graveyards are so interesting and full of history. Just imagine the people buried there could be the ones who've lost the coins you've just discovered.

[@Sifinds]

Theresa Coonen True! And the congregations losses... Thanks for watching!

[@jeansprettypups]

great finds guys

[@Sifinds]

jeansprettypups Thanks pal!

[@juanitaskelton448]

The six pence...wow! Si and Terry, don't you think they should take those grave stones and make a way to keep them in a sor of historic wall with inlaid tomb stones? I love old grave stones...seems sad that so much human history is going unseen or remembered.

[@pulltabking5884]

good job!.....subbed!

[@kayegb7938]

The most memorable days usually end with the dirtiest clothes!! Happy hunting 😊

[@Sifinds]

Kaye gb Now there's someone talking from experience 😉

[@kayegb7938]

I like to play in the dirt 😉 Life is too short for clean fingernails 😉

[@jeanneamato8278]

I helped a gentleman research old graveyards in southern Rhode Island and he remarked that you usually saw very young children or old folks on the gravestones.if you survived to a certain age you were likely to live to be old. Very few middle aged.

[@52Morgan52]

Another great video and very informative. Thanks Si, do you ever go anywhere and not find a pipe,,,? 😂

[@Sifinds]

Chris Morgan haha, they follow ME around!

[@MrTumshie]

I might be wrong but the 2 shilling piece you found reminds me of a coin that was used as a 10p when I was a wee laddie. I was born a few years before decimalisation and only vaguely remember pre-decimal coins being used, but that one was called a florin and became worth 10p when the new money came in. I think they were around, in ever decreasing numbers, until the new, smaller 10p's came into use. Whenever that was.

[@nevarNJ555]

Love your videos. I noticed many of the rocks in that field seem to be rounded like washed river rock.. I keep thinking I see beads but then see its a stone.

[@Sifinds]

Lise' Stanley Thanks for the love! I did find a bead, unbelievable really it's so small amongst everything else.

[@talk2kev]

Abandoned graveyards its so sad to see it like that. It would be nice to return and video the headstones. A light dusting of flour and the epithet can be easily read even shows up well on video. We all say Gone but not forgotten . All of these folks are both. And what better way to be remembered than your name being spoken out loud. Great video hope you return to the old graveyard site again. These people should be remembered. .

[@Sifinds]

Kevin Davis Well said Kevin! One family does get a special mention in part 2!

[@lizbrown7232]

Epitaph. Epithet means a swear word.

[@untbunny]

Unbelievable! As resently as 1900 a church could be moved without consideration for the graves?! That's really difficult to imagine in civilized times. Correct me if wrong but Lord means large land owner correct? Enjoyed watching Terry join you today. As always, sincerely enjoyed the video.

[@Sifinds]

Rebecca Eddy Thanks Rebecca, yes a Lord or some other important person wanted it moved...

[@karenshortland6238]

Not sure on this...but about 8mins in when Terry is getting the coin out of the clod of earth, look just to the left of his hands. In the background it looks like another coin laying on the surface?

[@Sifinds]

Karen Shortland Hoping it was a stone!

[@themudbugjuggler9912]

I saw it too!

[@DeltaDonnaLynn]

I saw the same thing and wondered if anyone else caught it too.

[@dianaforbes6679]

It does look like a coin.

[@lmp8932]

18.26, looks like a coin....

[@sherryrector2275]

I think that’s horrible they moved the gravestones off the graves. Sad you couldn’t find them if you looked.

[@jofuji8255]

Bodies are often moved elsewhere and no room for gravestones

[@jamesedmonds7519]

The old graveyard down the road from my house is changing naturally all the time. Half the stones have sunk or fallen over. They have to periodically refill the graves because the soil sinks in. Great spot for old bottles and bugs though. My two hobbies in one!

[@jumpinjack3506]

Quality Muck so good luck..

[@vilstef6988]

The very thin silver coin-possibly a Viking silver penny?

[@shovelhead4558]

Live in Jersey uk here they dug up the graves and built a car park soil was moved to another site nobody came forward no contacts so many people are buried with rings ect gold galore hope people respect that fact.

[@GuessMyName234]

This might sound creepy but Si you are fine hun 😘

[@clauwilla]

Hola Simon, que tal? Excelente vídeo enhorabuena , saludos y hasta el próximo.

[@Sifinds]

Claudia Siverio Díaz Thanks Claudia!

[@ChillBill1]

Nice silver!

[@Sifinds]

Chill Bill Cheers C!!!

[@Thebigmanmetaldetecting]

Surely a silver William lll six pence has got to be worth at least two coins lol😜😂 therefore the deus must have won lol then again I might be a little bit biased lol great video si GL&HH Simon

[@LifeontheHalfShell]

Did they move the bodies? Why would they leave the stones behind?

[@Sifinds]

Life on the Half Shell 2.0 I've no idea....

[@52Morgan52]

Normally the stones are removed to the sides and stacked in old church yards once the deceased’s are removed to be reinterred in another location. They often make features out of the stones around the boundary fences as can be seen in a lot of the City of London churches today. Depending on the date of the closure of the church and the reason for the moving of the burials I would imagine there is a memorial in a local municipal cemetery (or even in the replacement church) to those who were buried there. The legal hoops to jump through and the paperwork required today to do that is mind blowing.

[@Laura-Kitty]

I'm wondering the same thing. So sad, so many were still in near perfect condition for their age. Seems so sacrilegious to do such things.

[@lindafarner9755]

This is the saddest thing I have ever seen. Peoples are either moved or not. Church fell down or moved and now your stone get stacked on a pile to be forgotten. But yet you can’t look for lost items where the stones and graves used to be because it hallow ground. No church ....bodies moved ....stones stacked together....still hallow ground...interesting

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Sort of linked - few years back (02/03) bottle tip dig between sewage farm and council depot at Ashbourne Derbyshire... In the next field on, up in a corner, hidden under a pile of cow shed waste and straw we found a massive pile (a churchyards) of gravestones, we left them covered but rather shocked by the 'find'. Bet they're still there! Some silly aids began to underdig the concrete floor of the council depot so everyone was cleared orf! Not making anything of the gravestones but speculating we wondered if they had come from maybe a local town redevelopment or something - but talk of disrespect, crikey!

[@HammyHunting]

Good video Si so what happened the bodies why were the headstones not relocated with the bodies GL&HH Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

[@Sifinds]

Hammy Hunting I've no idea, but now I want to know so I might have a look at the record office and report back!

[@suedefringe]

@@Sifinds any word. I'd love to know.

[@dorisdady8758]

How sad and disrespectful what they have done to the old gravestones someone should go down there and record them before they are gone over time

[@sandscratcherbri5574]

good video

[@Sifinds]

sandscratcherbri Thanks!

[@blondbear2]

They moved the Headstones, but they left the buried bodies!

[@jaxxoceans3866]

You die twice. Once when u die and are buried and once when ur name is last spoken of on earth. Not sure where I heard that saying but I feel it's such a sad one to say the very least 😢

[@t84t748748t6]

isnt it when u die and than when al ho remember when u where alive foget/die and last when al information/name is gone ? dunno where i got that from

[@bloodybonescomic]

If they abandoned the headstones they likely left the graves in the ground. Odd really.

[@tinarennett9041]

Awful that the headstones were stacked without a second thought. The people commemorated tithed to keep the church going and not a 2nd thought by the diocese. The coins were probably placed over the eyes

[@kentuckylady2990]

The names are the gravestones need to be recorded for genealogical purposes. Besides all that some could be my ancestors. I have been researching my family tree for years and find this neglected cemetery sad. Thanks for showing this

[@jaxxoceans3866]

Know u prob wont see this comment but they say u die twice. Once when u die and are buried and once when ur name is last spoken of by people so a family tree is a nice

[@janetmckin]

I was thinking just that - I am looking up my ancestors gravestones at the moment, and thought - Oh geez, people looking for these gravestones would never find them

[@PompeyChris71]

Chances are the area history society would have already recorded them and anyway the parish registers of the church survive and would be recorded. If you are stuck, consult the IGI which is free. (held by history centres, the Church of Jesus Christ latter day saints - Mormons) and also if you google it, available on the net. (family search) Good Luck.

[@Hailstonepie]

Wondering if they were buried with the pennies on eyes or pennies removed when lid went on ?

[@cockertoo8920]

They wouldn't have moved the bodies. I know of two churchyards in Worcestershire where the churches have been removed, and the bodies stayed

[@Vault57]

At 8:25 in the center of the left half of the shot is a round coin like object...

[@Sifinds]

Well spotted! Lots of stones that show up like coins on camera! Thanks for watching!

[@NickRatnieks]

When I was a kid I bought a whole load of foreign coins in a bag for a few shillings- a real pile of rubbish. I can remember that legend on the back of the Belgian coins "L' Union Fait La Force" and I think I asked my mother what it meant. Well, over 50 years later, I think it's a bit of wishful thinking about the Flemish and Walloons (and a few Germans) in Belgium getting on like a house on fire- when in fact they don't. Yes, "unity is strength" if you actually have it!

[@a.martinhamartins7632]

You dont have afraid?!😱

[@sarahstrong7174]

When he is showing us the Victoria penny theres another coin you can see on the ground.

[@925inder2]

Sweet 1700s silver, congrats!

[@Sifinds]

925inder Thanks!

[@darlaarias9593]

At the 8.27 mark theres a coin clear as day laying in the dirt beyond your body

[@donaldbush5404]

Always enjoy your videos but isn't England just one big graveyard

[@littlecherryful]

Why did they move the church ? What happened to all the coffins etc ? Did they move them aswell ??

[@julielumsden5184]

Very sad that those grave stones aren’t organized on a small piece of land that’s looked after. Just stacking them is really disrespectful

[@justingraves3148]

At 8:23 you can see what looks like another coin on the ground.

[@Sifinds]

Justin Graves Wow, certainly does! I will return!

[@Little_Red_Riding_Hoodlum]

I hoped someone would mention that!

[@shishkebab5306]

Is that a coin to the left of his hand 8.26?

[@cyndeecollings5738]

If the head stones are there where are the bodies? That is so sad.

[@phyllisdeninger2095]

It is sad.The bodies must still be there.Why,What,Where?????????

[@stevenacton359]

no church = no longer consecrated ground I'm thinking

[@Tappit333]

Is that a coin on the ground at 8:26?

[@Sifinds]

Probably.... not

[@annewinchester6945]

Awful the headstones were moved from the graves.

[@pengy4792]

there are some companies that record gravestones for geneologists like findagrave.com. They might be interested in the site to record what is there.

[@Sifinds]

Norma Martin would they send someone out?

[@pengy4792]

Once they know its there I think they would - it could help solve a few brick walls people have in their family trees.

[@florenceanonuevo4646]

I see a coin 08:27

[@josephfreehill6810]

At 8:11 yo missed a coin to the left of your hands tnat are holding a coin,

[@labratamber]

But where are the graves?????

[@lindafarner9755]

The comment on those silver pieces could have been an airplane crash wow. Are you going to do research to see if a plane crashed from the war or a commercial airline or a private plane crash

[@alanroberts4060]

Even the poor where important mate, i don't get what you meant by that ? i really like this channel but im a bit put off by that wording.

[@smurph4959]

You've a beady eye 🙈🙈🙈