Digging Out A Colonial Era Trash Pit In South Carolina

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Digging Out A Colonial Era Trash Pit In South Carolina

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2 жыл бұрын

Today finds us in the low county of South Carolina preparing to dig out a colonial-era trash pit that Billy discovered the day before. This is the first video in a series of videos I recently made while on a camping and metal detecting trip way down south.
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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@benpena2832 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tterbay 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@woundguy5934 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@deadmetal8692 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rickzacher1797 2 жыл бұрын

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

@josephoneill3197 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jbelme1 2 жыл бұрын

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

@raeraewells7053 2 жыл бұрын

I get so excited over pottery shards!

@rockreader4298 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Sirshackleton 2 жыл бұрын

That Billy is a good guy!

@prestonhodge5151 2 жыл бұрын

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

@marygarner5249 2 жыл бұрын

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

@waynecartwright9478 2 жыл бұрын

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

@neillh 2 жыл бұрын

You always take us along on another great adventure 👍

@QuestForDetails 2 жыл бұрын

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

@leannvlewis 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jamesholmberg9091 2 жыл бұрын

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

@markcarson1844 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alabamadixiediggers4714 2 жыл бұрын

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

@normawinton6832 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MikeHere 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chigg

@andreamills5852 2 жыл бұрын

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

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

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

@derekmorse8171 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@rapiddog1491 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Chigg, stay hydrated lol.

@fartzinacan 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@michaelkullas2031 2 жыл бұрын

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

@FatboysOutdoorsChannel 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@hardyakka6200 2 жыл бұрын

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

@thesunreport 2 жыл бұрын

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. 🙂

@turkeysandwiche8552 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

getter done!

@__WJK__ 2 жыл бұрын

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

@midwestjuan2263 2 жыл бұрын

Always coming back , me too!

@budrohammbone2806 2 жыл бұрын

Sifter time !

@janlester4399 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jeffinphx517 2 жыл бұрын

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

@brandonrobinson1114 2 жыл бұрын

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

@joshuataft5541 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ed-el5yy 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@tonycurry3352 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man.

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

@SandyWolf- 2 жыл бұрын

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

@beverlyhanlon8376 2 жыл бұрын

Great work guys.

@zatho96 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dustyc324 2 жыл бұрын

any bartels?

@zatho96 2 жыл бұрын

@@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. :)

@kim11757 2 жыл бұрын

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

@billdingpermit9847 2 жыл бұрын

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

@loriward5512 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always 💛

@slimwantedman6694 2 жыл бұрын

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

@keithadkins4735 2 жыл бұрын

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

@markandrews2942 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@cheaplaughkennedy2318 2 жыл бұрын

The Chigganator 👍👌

@pastachan1477 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, my home state!

@juneyshu6197 2 жыл бұрын

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

@garrycomeno2731 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rickzacher1797 2 жыл бұрын

I got one of those 😂🌲😎🌲

@richardwarnock2789 2 жыл бұрын

You got a sweet spot MOOOOAAAARRR!!!; )

@donaldstrickland8093 2 жыл бұрын

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

@westenicho 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@randlerichardson5826 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Chigg and Captain Billy

@CHAD-RYAN 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@SamCoyle-cc6kv 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SuperHambergers 2 жыл бұрын

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

@EZDiggin 2 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a dump structured like that Chigg

@thegallowsdetectors666 2 жыл бұрын

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 ☘👍

@johnmcgarvie1 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@wildman6785 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mandermaid 2 жыл бұрын

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

@stevexray6253 2 жыл бұрын

Drink one for me! 😁👍

@paulwhitney8058 2 жыл бұрын

May be what we know as a washout in Australia,

@petekbleeepingaustralia8720 2 жыл бұрын

Chiggs 🤘👍🏽🍺😅✊

@corringhamdepot4434 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TangoCharlieAlpha 2 жыл бұрын

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

@steveanderson5888 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sammarcum4931 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a summer kitchen that was burned/destroyed

@robertkeable1627 2 жыл бұрын

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

@fernkitten 2 жыл бұрын

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

@TheGoodOlBoyzChannel 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DwayneRouthierJr 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@haroldishoy2113 2 жыл бұрын

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

@LittleOneSlaysThem 2 жыл бұрын

Piece of greenware looks like German jug to me

@sinelocum 2 жыл бұрын

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

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

GSP? No comprendo.

@jamieheim8009 2 жыл бұрын

Does that mean garden state parkway? 🤷

@davideo1954 2 жыл бұрын

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

@__WJK__ 2 жыл бұрын

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

@donaldrogers3162 2 жыл бұрын

Greenville-Spartanburg Area.

@kenny5676 2 жыл бұрын

chigg needs to change his name to aquaslacker lmao

@garycousino4016 2 жыл бұрын

Those skeeters are thick

@ifindmetal 2 жыл бұрын

Beau you and not wearing gloves digging by hand lol

@connorsrelicsandtreasures9862 2 жыл бұрын

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

@snowballil3133 2 жыл бұрын

😀

@nazimray5101 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nazimray5101 2 жыл бұрын

As SC has a lot of sand

@UncleDonDon 2 жыл бұрын

What county was this hunt?

@waynefrost931 2 жыл бұрын

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

@P.B.Theriver 2 жыл бұрын

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

@waltsisco 2 жыл бұрын

Should everyone wear snake boots?

@reginaromsey 2 жыл бұрын

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

@oldbamadirt2148 2 жыл бұрын

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

@samueljames9342 2 жыл бұрын

Get in too old to cut the mustard Beau?

@mjj6870 2 жыл бұрын

I live in SC where is this ?

@prestonhodge5151 2 жыл бұрын

Low country

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

I can't say exactly but lower coastal.

@woundguy5934 2 жыл бұрын

that bone looks like a human tibia

@williamhurt8512 2 жыл бұрын

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

@joekeigans 2 жыл бұрын

You still in town lets hang out!!

@aquachigger 2 жыл бұрын

I left.

@joekeigans 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wildman6785 2 жыл бұрын

they probably bulldozed the house in and buried the house.

@kermitmawyer1743 2 жыл бұрын

So1

@kyle1120061 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tickertapes 2 жыл бұрын

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.