Adding to the comment about taking lunch to the fields. I would imagine that occasionally a piece of silverware might be dropped during an outside "social event" such as wedding, family reunion, or just a community-based dinner of some sort.

Farmers eating lunch in the field in the days before plastic ware. Sometimes my grandmother would take lunch out to the guys working in the fields.

They were on a picnic when sudden storm approached. They packed up everything so they thought. They grabbed their picnic basket and yanked their blanket from the ground to cover their themselves from the rain that had started, but did not see the two forks go flying through the air.

I have another theory on the utensils. Here in Norway, a lot of meals were eaten outside during the work day. Especially when harvesting the grain in the late summer. I find alot of utensils metal detecting both old homesites and fields. Mostly spoons, but sometimes the odd fork and knife. I guess it was easy to loose when put down to the ground mixed within the straw and stubble. Btw: Great videos! Looking forward to every friday👍😊

always enjoy the music Brad, the videos go without saying

FYI the aqua color of glass that you find in many bottles starts early and comes from Pennsylvania. When sailing ships came to America, many used sand for ballast, because they were not loaded as full as the cargoes of raw materials they would take back so the sand was off loaded and used to make glass. The sand wasn't pure by any means and held sufficient quantities of iron which tends to give glass that aqua marine color. Other chemicals in the sand created other colors and often this was simply random. Clear glass early on was only found when you needed to see the contents of the bottle, medicine for instance, and it was always lead glass and usually very fragile and small. Clearing glass became a technological problem in order to do it cheaply. Manganese was used to make clear bottles, but Manganese glass solarizes and turns blue in sunlight over time. Another chemical was tried that did a better job, but it too solarized a bit and gives glass a sort of wheat straw color and is caused by Selenium in the glass. Both Manganese and Selenium glass come late in the game, and often bottles were bought empty and filled from larger supplies found in barrels or jugs. Vinegar and whiskey being common liquids that were often taken by bottle from kegs.

At my house the silverware disappeared because my husband used them for tools.

Wandering in the woods is it’s own treasure…thanks Brad😊

Great hunt. This just shows that every time is not a banner day. You really have to swing the coil in order to find the good finds. Thanks for keeping it real Brad. Really enjoyed it.

As a Farmer's wife, I can tell you that many lunches are taken out to the fields in Summer and Fall. Silverware gets lost all too often. These days, it's cell phones that disappear into the dirt and hay. LOL!!

Forks and spoons..... A long time ago we were hunting an old farm place and kept finding forks and spoons, mostly the same pattern and probably 30 or 40 in about a half acre area. Very odd.... We talked with the land owner about it and found out that in the early 1900's his family kept pigs in that area and they would get buckets of food trash from a couple restaurants in town delivered to feed to them. So best guess is all of the silverware we found had been accidentally thrown in the trash by a dishwasher in one of those places.

The marriage of that rod and reel was awesome - a beautiful display piece for sure!

I'm from the hills of Tennessee and my favorite part of being in the woods was the smell of the dirt that I dug in. Nostalgic...

I like your channel, very cool.

Always enjoy your channel. The other key is for a model T. Excellent finds.👍✌️

You are right, that the item is a fishing rod. If the threaded mechanism to hold the reel is at the back end of the rod, it is for fly fishing. If the there is more handle behind the threaded mechanism, it is probably a bait-fishing rod. The spinning-reel was invented early in the 20th century, but I don't know how popular they were in the US before the end of WWII.

Brad, another great episode... This is the best part of my Friday... Any chance that you might do an episode on how you actually clean up some of your finds?

My father builds and repairs bamboo fly rods. Definitely the butt-end of a two-hand casting rod. The fittings are likely nickel or nickel alloy. They liked those because they don't corrode. I'll show him this when I see him tomorrow. Maybe he'll have some input.

Two forks? Maybe lost by kids sneaking off with a plate, fork, and a piece of not-quite-cooled pie. Or a young couple, out for a picnic. Or just the farmer's wife bringing him lunch out in the field while he worked. As always, a great video. I grew up in New Hampshire with relatives in Vermont. Your videos always make me a little homesick for the mountains of New England.

I am not involved in the hobby but I like watching your adventures. The areas you detect in look absolutely beautiful. Keep on!

Great hunt Brad! Due to the nature of the sites I hunt, I have a small handful of those aluminum thimbles. Still one of my favorite relics to find, especially the ones that were advertising pieces or for political campaigns. Took me years to find my first silver one, then I found another not long after the first. It seems like most of the post WW2 thimbles were aluminum once it became a mass produced metal. Prior to that many of them were still silver. Sites as new as the 1930's can still cough up the silver ones. It's usually early 1900's sites where I have found mine.

That is, almost beyond doubt, a fly rod. It was common for the wood portion to be split wood. Bamboo on higher end rods and local woods on lower end rods. The hook, although a little on the large side, is to hold the fly when the fisherman was relocating himself to a different area of the stream. Sometimes the maker mark is etched but, it is possible that one of that age would not have one at all. Not even a sticker, It is also possible the owner made it himself. People really into fly fishing still make their own, even to the present day. Nice find.

You are so gracious and thankful for all the treasure you find Brad. You are the only metal detector guy I watch. I enjoy your treasure quests each week.

Hi Brad, Awesome video as usual! You should carry a small magnet 🧲 with you. Then a better guess as what type metal you have . Keep them coming! The neighbors are remodeling their shed. It's quite old, trees for rafters,hand hewn Post and beams construction. Well, they dug out for a foundation and leveled out the dirt floor under the plywood floor.Sooo I'm going to Have to go detect the dirt! The guy spread it all out and everything for me with his excavator! Couldn't be any easier! Thanks for the videos

Another great hunt. That key and those cufflinks are amazing!

Brad, your newer key appears to be the standard Ford T-Model key. Great find! Always enjoy your videos!!

Awsome findes. I got s question would you do a Metaldetecting room Tour to show us your finds over the years would be very fun and intresting to Watch.

Some really cool finds today,thanks brad!

Hello Brad, my first thought was ‘sniper coil’ (that tells you how much time I spend watching mudlarking/metal detecting). When I was a little girl in the 50s I was given a beautiful silver thimble, but I lost it and I still regret it. Loved the fly fishing rod, lovely memories that brings back to me here in South U.K. with trout streams.

Brad, another great day in the Vermont woods .. Thanks for posting and sharing with us .. I couldn't help but notice the lack of Black Flys, I have friends I'm sure who are rejoicing in NW Vermont .. The brass key is very similar to one I have for the locking mechanism to my late 18th C. Slant Lid desk .. usually, hollow barrel keys would be used for smaller utilitarian objects i.e Dresser Boxes, chests of drawers, and the like ... Whereas solid barrel keys were typically more durable and used for the more significant items in the Homestead, i.e. Desk, Blanket Chest, Sugar Chest and the like .. Overall, another adventurous day of discovery and questions .. Thanks !

Brad, I see some beautiful big trees around you, it's so sad to think of that area ruined by logging! Cheers, Rik Spector

sorry Brad BUT the reel you showed is NOT a fly fishing reel-it is a bait casting reel

Hi Brad, some really nice finds, especially the salt shaker lid, the cufflinks and of course the fishing rod which is such a cool find. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

Great video love love the old artifacts

Nice finds Brad every day in the woods is a good day my house still uses those skeleton keys

11:42pm Fri: just finished watching your video. I loved every piece you found, but especially the two keys and the thimble (not sure why, I just do). Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the items as well 👍🏽⭐⭐⭐⭐

They had outhouses then? At least for the earliest homes. Those are classically the best place for all kinds of bottles and more. Always a fun journey with you. Remember, aluminum was considered a precious metal until they established the electrolysis process for refining. So an aluminum thimble may have been an expensive gift. People wore cardboard cuffs and collars until quite recently. Lid is part of a Cruet set maybe? For the table.

Hey Brad I believe that second key is from a Ford Model T. Back then all of their keys were that exact kind/shape. Most of the time it would have the word “ford” but not always. Your skeleton key is my white elephant! Congrats on the day!

It was a while until I finally found a old Skeleton key. I found one this year they the next week in a totally different spot found other! I have to admit when u said you weren’t finding anything good so u showed the fork I smiled. I was thinking even Brad has slow days. Then u took the words out of my mouth. There’s no place I rather be then out in the woods Metal detecting. Even on a slow day. Great video has always. MC&TT 🐆🐆

Thank you for posting content I can watch with my six year old granddaughter. She found it interesting and had lots of questions about what you were doing.

It's always so pretty when you go in the Vermont woods! Come up to Colo and dig! Great finds after all! I do wonder if the keys were in the same families also! If things could talk!!!!!😂 what stories they'd tell! Have a great safe 4th of July weekend! 👍🙏😘

Many of my relatives had farms, they worked in the mourning early then they would all have a large breakfast, their wives would bring them lunch out in the field everyday. They always had lunch in the field. Hence utensils far from the house.

You always have interesting videos Brad, professional, well crafted, and thoughtfully engaging. My ancestors moved from Manchester, England, to America in 1834. They then made their way to California in 1845, by following a mountain man named Caleb Greenwood on the second year of the California Trail from Idaho. James was a member of the Bear flag Revolt in 1846, and journeyed from Sacramento, to San Francisco, to Monterey where he was ordered to take Jacob Leese, and Mariano Vallejo prisoners back to Sutter's Fort. My great great grandmother owned a lot at Kearney and Vallejo Street in San Francisco from 1848 to 1850 where she lived in a tent on Telegraph Hill. I have multiple photos of Eliza's tent sitting high above Yerba Buena Bay. After James panned for gold starting in 1848 they moved to Sullivan Road in Green Valley, inland from Bodega Bay. He built a log cabin on the property, and in 1930 my grand father lost the property at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1930-31. I know there has to be things on that property, but I have no way of getting to it. Let's just say it's frustrating. But at least I have 8 generation of my family in photographs, which includes both sides of each marriage going back to 1844. Nicholas was born in 1798 in Manchester, England, where he was a millwright working on 5 story cotton mills for his son's future wife's family. His boss lost all his cotton mills after gambling with the local lords, and losing everything after trying to recoup from one of his massive mills burning down. My great great grandmother became a debt slave, and worked in a factory 14 hours a day along with a sister, and brother. The father escaped a Debtors Prison, and the family escaped by going on the underground railroad from Manchester to Liverpool, where they boarded the ship Atlantic to Rhode Island in 1834. So in a nutshell that is why your videos fascinate me on one level, but also you are great at what you do Bard. Wish you all the best Brad, and good hunting.

Love the mystery

Thanks for the video. I'm watching from a rehabilitation center in Green Cove Springs Florida for medical reasons and I would rather be where you are, doing what you are doing. Keep posting content and I'll keep watching.

Good morning Brad! You had some good finds, personally my favorite is the Brass Key! Happy 4th of July to everybody!

Great music, wonderful finds, thanks for sharing.

The links were a great find but that fly rod handle is a rare find. That would have been a loss for sure. great day even if it started off slow. Thanks Brad nice video. happy fourth! 🇺🇸

I ALWAYS like your finds, like you I wonder about the people who had the items .

As always I look forward to your videos! I really like the cufflinks that were connected... All in all for a day that started out slow I think you did really good. As always I enjoy the shots of the fungi and the trees and the surrounding areas. And I just enjoy listening to you talk. So I'm looking forward to seeing another video next Friday from my favorite metal detecting guy. Ty!

Great hunt and awesome finds. Love the skelton key and keys are a favorite find.. Still looking for a thimble. Thank you for sharing your adventure. Keep swinging. Peace

as always, a quality video and music. Super Finds! Patience and Persistence does it - always!!

Its probably been mentioned already, but that is a Ford Model T key, I believe. Also, not a fly rod, but a casting rod. I think that may be what was called "greenwood". I'm not sure exactly what greenwood is/was, but it was replaced by split bamboo and later, of course, synthetic fibers. I thought at first that it was an umbrella handle, but you convinced me by showing it with the reel in place. Not your usual show, but we have a saying around here for days like that, "At Least Its Something".

Great video and thank you 👍 👍 👍

You are so freakin good. The best in this industry. Not just because of your great finds but because of your ability to add context to the time period. Your da man.

The aluminum thimble doesn’t seem to have the corrosion I would expect, but not having any experience you might be correct. My first thought was “German Silver” as an alternative material. I alway enjoy the slow pan still life you include in you videos. 😊

This was most educational and as always when you're metal detecting there's times when you do not find ranything but you found some awesome finds I enjoyed your video thanks so much 👍👍👍🗝️🙂

Nice fork & key. Love the cuff link. Fly rod is very interesting but IMO the key was the find of the day. Love old keys.

Hope the loggers don't destroy the old cellar holes!😪love the cufflinks and the skeleton key. Love finding relics and hey, ya found the musketball and ox knob! Could have been alot worse. Maybe you'll find some bottles that the loggers dig up? Ya never no!

Fun little hunt! Congrats on the cuff links. They are beauties!

Such great finds always a awesome adventure 👍Nice video Brad

I'm really surprised that you haven't found a silver Thimble yet Brad!!!!! The 2nd one I ever dug is a sweet silver thimble. Happy hunting and be well

I found my first scythe handle piece yesterday. Man they sound good through the detector. Quite happy with it though as my country is young and to find something that old is cool.

This has to be one of the most rewarding hobbies. I think your brass key is to a box lock for a door. Furniture keys are usually “Barrell” keys. Nice finds!

To add to your thought on the forks, I was raised in Missouri until my parents moved to New Mexico in 1957. On our farm in Lebanon Missouri my grand mother would bring us lunch in the field while we were working hay. Maybe they were lost while the farmer was eating in the field,,,,,just a thought

Brad, check inside the thimble for a makers mark. I found my first thimble this spring and hoped it was silver, but (like you) I assumed it was aluminum because of its light weight. I was surprised to find a makers mark, sterling stamp, and size on the inside when I pried it open enough to clean out the inside. Another great video, even if it was a slower day for you. Thank you for showing you are a mere mortal like the rest of us. Jim

Fork and spoons; don't forget prior to 1960 or 70's, most folks did not have AC. On warm summer days it would be very warm inside the house but pleasant outside. Most rural folks had an outdoor table or two so they could have their meals outside where it was cooler. Many folks also had what was called a "Summer Cabin" or "Summer Cookhouse" añd did much of their cooking and eating outdoors. Citified folks loved to visit their friends and relatives in the country to enjoy, what was to them, the "country experience" of eating outdoors (and in some cases, a free meal). Also, these folks weren't as todays people who, when the kids wanted to play, thought it was fine to take the silver-plate outside to dig in the dirt and leave the stuff behind. Also remember, the grass was not cut short and manicured to a perfect 3/4 inch Bermuda grass show lawn. The grass was normally allowed to grow long to graze cows, horses, and sheep, even just outside the back door. Most country folk before the 1930's did not even know the meaning of the word '"lawn mower". When the grass got too long, it was cut with a sickle bar (powered by a horse and later a tractor), then raked into rows with a hay rake (same power source), and forked into the hay wagon for storage in the barn. So the most probable reason you find pewter spoons and forks with your detector is not the carelessness of children leaving it outside during play nor dumping the stuff with the compost bucket, but because someone dropped it while eating outdoors and could not find it in the grass. When you make up stories to explain your finds, you really have to place your mind in the past and forget current society and modern norms.

Very cool video Brad-Thanks for bringing us along my friend. ATB Pull Tab

Great video Brad,, definitely the highpoint of our Fridays. that flat key is a Model T Ford ignition key

I'm glad you still got some cool finds even if others have detected there before! That old copper key is really neat! Congrats and GL and HH!

Perseverance pays off big time. My dad had a fly rod similar to that. He was born in 1909

Great looking fork. Awesome skeleton key. Beautiful cuff link.

Edge of the property or in Old stump holes. Those work out for bottle digging.

Mr. Martin - you are someone who I think is very trustworthy and believable. I would bet a LOT of money on your being forthright because of this. Then you attempt a fiction production. You can tell I enjoy your productions - I think I have enjoyed each and every one. To see you "fictionalize", I think, tarnishes your believability somehow. I can't wait for your next adventure. Thanks for what you do.

I agree with you about walking in the woods. It’s better than going to church for me.

That's exactly what happens to me. I'll be metal detecting but finding lots of glass. That's when I decide to take a few days to dig and look for bottles. Awesome video. Makes me wanna search the nearby woods.

I stared at those beautiful locks for 5 mins. trying to visualize who used them last! The square nails are a great idea!!

Crazy cool.. fly rod … really… hard to catch them biting flies… lol.. great vid as usual.. dig on brother..

Been watching for a couple of years.. first time commenting.. You rock Mate.. love your show.. I am a detectorist from SA Australia..

Nice relaxing video, thanks for taking us along!

Nice finds love that area. I wish I could spend some time in VT, hopefully this autumn I'll make it up there. Great vid !

The top you found and called it a salt shaker could very well be from a condiment or cruet container. They had bottles for vinegar, oil, mustard and salt and or pepper shakers. I have my great grandparents and the tops are very similar to what you found.

I enjoy watching your hunt every Friday. My wife and I vacationed in Maine last week and on our way back to our home in Ohio, we stopped in your state to eat at a beautiful restaurant named Publyk's in Bennington. Great food and beautiful view. You live in a beautiful state my freind.

Hi Brad. Years ago I was walking along a North FL beach. I found a piece of broken clear glass, smothed by the waves and sand. On this little piece of glass was written MILK. I gave it to my sister.

The salt shaker top is from a caster set, in the old days every house had one on the table, it would have usually 5 bottles, 2 with glass stoppers for oil and vinegar, salt and pepper and a fifth one for dried mustard. (I would have put sugar in it) often had a small spoon in that one.

Thank you Brad, I enjoyed my visit to the Vermont woods and your funds!

That’s some good stuff brother keep them coming enjoy all the videos and the story’s

Good video I enjoyed it will catch you on the next one. 🇺🇸

Hands down the best Metal Detecting show on KZfaq. So historical and educational. Keep up the great work 👍

Seems like one really great haul. Love your channel.💙

Never disappointed narration and detail are always awesome

Since you do a lot of metal detecting in the woods. Here's you a tip that may come in useful. If there are any fallen trees around you that you can move when you are close to an area that you are finding items. Move the tree trunk and detect under it. I have done this in several places where Civil War battles have been fought. I have found some of my best items under old trees.

I'm almost 77 and I remember shaker lids like that in my younger days.

That bottle top is from a set of various sized bottles held in a metal, usually silver plated, set called a Condiment Set. The set usually was on a base that would swivel.

years ago way before i started metal detecting, i was on a jobsite digging up the old part of town. looked down and saw something silver. turned out it was a sterling silver salt shaker lid. so cool, it had stars and crescent moons for the shaker holes. wish i still had it. scrapped it with a bunch of old scrap silver not long after finding it. wish i kept it dang it b

Aaaarrrgghh...blackfly alert! On your left temple? Good luck hunting history....you are on the menu!

Picnicking was popular in the early 20th century. Another possibility for finding random cutlery. Is the guy was out in the fields or in the woods he'd have to either take a lunch or one would be brought out to him. Also camping, kids playing, and getting thrown out are possibilities as well.

Some one told me that when they used feathers to wright , They used a shaker jar to shake some kind of dust on ink to help it dry faster when they were writing several pages , that shaker cap likely went on one of those kind of shakers , I think I have seen old travel stationary sets with a shaker and a ink well both in them .

Brad you always find these old stone walls! The outhouses can’t be far away from the house. Look up how to probe out a privy it is so much fun trying to find bottles:)

Good video, and now my thoughts on the abundance of spoons. When my children (3) were smaller they were always taking spoons for either the sand box or make believe tea parties and the like. We had a rural property and who knows how many are still out there.