The item with the blade is a guillotine. It may have been used for sorghum, which most farms grew for syrup, or for some other kind of plant matter like straw or flax. Simple and efficient.

I believe the shovel had an integral metal handle. It was all stamped out of one piece. The shape added strength to the handle area.

Thank you. I am a descendant of the Morse' Samuel is my Uncle. So cool thanks again for sharing!!

HEY! Good morning Brad and thumbs UP!!

Awesome to see you working with the historical society! Very cool!

Thank you Brad for another great day exploring Central New England's fields and farms looking for artifacts of our past .. Croydon, N.H. is very familiar to me having traversed the roads of New England, New Hampshire in particular, in search of my passion, Antiques, (above ground) .. I have driven by the Samuel Morse House innumerable times while "on the hunt" for my next great discovery .. Thanks very much for sharing your day in Croydon at the museum, you're a gracious host and commentator. I always look forward towards the next adventure on Friday morning.

The second saw blade is for a wooden bow saw. If you don't already have a copy of Eric Sloan, a reverence for tools, look at a copy. He was a historical artist specializing in early American life. Mike

At 7:20 Before elastics in socks, city men had "garters" for their lower legs to hold their socks up with clips like this. Country men had boots to fold their socks over the top.

I think your big bladed flat item is for making slaw or sauerkraut from cabbage! There was usually a square box of1-3inches depth for holding the cabbage safely, which probably didn’t survive.

Samuel Morris was born February 7, 1784 in Dublin New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1811. He married Chloe Carol of Croydon New Hampshire in 1827. They had at least one daughter and possibly another daughter. Samuel died January 1, 1865 in Croydon and is buried there. Chloe was born in 1803 and died in 1900. She lived her later years in Boston with her daughters family.

Without closer inspection, the "hammer" looks like the movable jaw of an adjustable wrench. Early wrenches made by smiths were locked with wedges because screw threads were a pain to cut by hand. My guess would be prior to the 20th century.

Brad have you ever watched the Ghost Town Living channel ? He owns a former mining town in California and invites everyone there to metal detect. I would love to see a collaboration between your channels.

Still working on all your previous vid's. Like the ground and aerial shots. Enjoy the history, old stories and overall style of your work. Never been to Vermont, but you make it seem familiar. Very entertaining and well produced. Thank you.

Hey Brad, I believe wrist watches came into fashion in the early 1930’s. I have a friend who’s grandfather worked at the Waltham Watch Co from 1927 until they shut their doors in 1977 and we have talked about watches. I think the idea of a wrist watch started in WW1. The military simply had watch makers add straps to pocket watches so artillery bombardments could be more easily timed.

I'm thinking the blade tool may be a slaw cutter, for making cole slaw from cabbage. The thing you called a little hammer is the top jaw to an old style adjustable wrench.

Part of the little shovel I think was broken off where the handle would have been attached. Cool token. Nice watch pieces & buttons. Interesting iron pieces.

The dates on the Woodrow Wilson token were his birth and death years. They were made in the 1930s and also came in Cracker Jacks boxes. You can buy on eBay for, anywhere from $5 up to $20.

Cool finds and an awesome opportunity! Congrats!

I love hearing people react like she did and appreciate what can be done with a detector. Awesome job.

Brad, another great video! Thanks for sharing your experience at this unique permission. We all have our favorite types of permissions to detect. It's at these locations where we are most comfortable and feel at home. It's the true detectorist who can translate their skills to other locations on which they might not be as comfortable. Again, nice job! Jim Parry, Backroads Metal Detecting

Greetings from Norway! 🇳🇴Regarding the part of the iron you found: I believe it is the inner part of an iron. People used a hot soldering as heating method. Usually it was a little door in the end of the iron, where they could put the hot solder inside.

That blade looked like a mini guiotine...another awesome video/ adventure thanks for sharing ...

How cool to be able to metal detect the old museum. Very cool finds! As always loved your video! Thank you again. See you next week!

What an awesome opportunity. I love this kind of experience. I wish I could do this for a living. Working grounds of historical significance. Like when they get torn down or saved. Just to be able to help preserve anything from that time and have them display it. Great job Brad.

I liked the Presidential token! LOL. Some nice finds Brad, very cool you got to do the grounds of a museum. Working on that here locally! Another fantastic hunt and expertly made video. ATB Rob / FlThunder

Thanks for sharing your videos from Texas USA

Great bit of Diggin Brad!! A nice mix of Finds on the day. That large cent was all kinds of messed up. Happy hunting and be well

Wrist watches came into vogue during WW1 and pocket watches became the purview of railway workers!

Great video

It's always good to have a good reputation, it helps in building contacts and more sites to search.

Hey Brad! love all your videos, long time follower. Today i was at a local small museum and they seem to have lost a time capsule on the property . The curator asked me to have a look, So naturally I talked to my lifelong friend who is just as addicted to metal detecting as us. Asked him to come give me a hand. Pretty stoked to have this opportunity, as there will be a new museum built on top of the location and ground breaking will start soon. wish i could be there and monitor the excavation, but i have to work.

That iron piece without a handle is the insert of an Ox Tongue iron. That bit would be heated directly in the fire or stove. Then it slides into the iron body and a little door would click shut to hold it in there. Check out a page on here by " my mechanic " or " my mechanic insight" he saves old tool and he has a whole video for an Ox Tongue Iron. And that slider thing might be a sliding door for a grain bin or silo? And the wristwatch frames are probably around 1920-40? When pocketwatches went out of style a watch was worn around the neck and then on the wrist. Watches moved west across the US with the railroad and watches slowly went from the pocket to the wrist as schedules became important with the railroad. Good funds Brad. Drink Bit***s.

Great video!! Thanks for making Friday's even better.

Another great video

Nice digs at the old Morse house. I'm hoping for similar luck at an old 1870s Stimson haunted house this week, and will also donate all objects back to house

Awesome finds

That iron very likely had a handle. The blacksmith might have heat welded it, molten onto the cast piece. That would corrode away to nubs. I like that find. It may have ironed his clothes 👍🏻 That little hammer looks like it would fit into a slit of an anvil? I'm guessing, but, I think you're onto a blacksmith shop from Morse's time?

The round two piece item was a take up fishing reel spool, the gear matched up to the crank handle .

Cool homie, my old stomping grounds, fished Croydon many many times. ✌🏻💚

The watch frame at 14:28 looks just like a watch that I have of my grandfathers that was issued by the US Army during WWI.

That bladed tool had a wooden frame at on time. We used one like that growing up for chopping up cabbage.

I’ve heard of toe taps, still looking for my first, but never knew they sometimes had patent dates on them. Thanks for the new info!

Love the watch.

Wristwatches became a thing around the time of WW1. Being as it was difficult to withdraw and replace a pocket watch in the heat of battle to for coordinated charges, soldiers began to develop methods of strapping them to their wrists. Today these can be found on eBay.

Brad, Love your videos and the great new hat....

the bent spool with the gear seems like it could be a spool from an old fishing reel, or some piece of machinery that would have held a spool of some yarn or string

Enjoyed the day and loved the fines just awesome Brad have a blessed day with your family 👍🛐😇

Hi, Brad. Great finds as usual especially the 'chopped' coin. April's ironing find was very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Stay healthy and safe 👍🏽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

The frame with the blade looks like it is rugged enough to shave wood into box sides, shingles or other repeatable wood pieces. the two screws standing up would have adjusted the thickness, Nice heavy rails to keep it accurate. A nice pre-cardboard item. Nice hunt as always :)

Looks like a toy shovel, fireplace ones were much bigger. There would have been a metal flange that has broken off the top of the blade which would have wrapped around a wood handle. The groove left is there for strength.

Brad, Figgin Awesome Video !

Great homestead finds from the past from different occupants! Shows the history of homesteading from long ago! I thought there would be some clad finds as well seeing there's still history being made there! Good finds for the Museum that will display well...

Perhaps that little shovel was once a solid piece that wore away at its shaft, where it joins the flat part as it takes most of the weight there?

1920's Rolex ?😆 Great place to dig, enjoyed learning about Samuel. Croydon is about 20 minutes from my neck of the woods.

I looked up Samuel Morse and although he was an important person in the area, he wasn't THE Samuel Morse (of Morse code fame), who also, for a time lived in New Hampshire. That other Samuel Morse had an ancestor from Wiltshire in England and perhaps they shared this same family root. That ancestor, Anthony Morse, arrived in New England in 1635!

I so look forward to your weekly adventures!

I like that hammer! Cool find!

Great video Brad, would like to see you do more things like this. We metal detect and dig for our local historical society. Take care.

Love ur videos

Also that sprocket is from a bicycle. It’s known as a skip tooth as the chains has less links. Even 1950’s bicycles had 1” links and skip tooth chains.

Excellent opportunity to find many diverse items... Out of the them of normal compared to your area

Thanks for the video

First, I don't tend to say that ☺️ A toe tap is still on my bucket list!! So is a Largie though. It's cool that you were called to hunt the historical location with April 😃. Several finds that everyone else had missed, cool 👍

If you look at any modern regular long-handled shovel you will see where the groove on your shovel head comes from. your shovel head is just a piece it is missing the part that wraps around the wood shovel handle.

Dude, have you seen the structures at the bottom of Lake Mead? Now, that's a place where you might find some great stuff!

Nice dig Brad!! Tc Buddy! Cheers JJ

that large odd iron piece is probably some sort of cabbage slicer / mandolin.

The iron was heated up and placed inside an apparatus with a handle. Cools off, put in another.

Nice job, buddy!

Hey Brad thanks for all the great video's you give us to enjoy you find the greatest things hopefully i can get back in to it . i lost the bolt rhat holds the coil on when i was moving maybe some day but thanks again .

Your mentioned "mystery find" looks like it could be a spool from an old fishing reel.

Wrist watches for men did not see common usage until after World War I. So, after 1918. The first ones were developed for usage by a man by attaching a leather strap to a pocket watch. Prior to that women wore a wristlet. Which was much like a charm bracelet with a small clock attached. All these years later those beginnings are still evident, A man's watch is more task at hand specific. A woman's more a piece of adornment. Cool find, though.

The spool thing with the small gear is fishing reel spool.

Large triangle frame looks to be from a rototiller. Small hammer looks like a early adjustable wrench. The large item with reversible blade looks like a cabbage slicer.

Very nice

sooo cool

Just think, that button was last touched by the person from the early 1800s whose shirt it was on. From Samuels hand to yours, Brad... Imagine that!

I enjoyed your video.

Great you got to work with the historians . enjoyed

The little hammer is what Jim Sweeney described.

Hi Brad, keep up the videos

Seeing inside the place might have been interesting.

The slicer thing is for like bread or bagels and the shovel had a metal handle that was part of what you found was not riveted or anything on was all made in one piece

Have you ever been metal detecting in Colchester, or Milton area? The Cobble Hill is the home of my family.

The big blade type thing could have been used for making sauerkraut. I have a similar one and the open area may have been wood.

My ex-husband's family are from the morse line and I do believe that they populated there in that area there's probably definitely some connection to the morses in Mansfield Massachusetts or all of New England

I can't recall the specific name, but some irons used to be hollow with a lid. Some made of brass or copper, some made of other metals. They were heated by filling with hot coals, or a large piece of metal that was heated on a fire or range. I think the 'iron' you found is one of those fillers and that would explain no sign of any hint of attachment / handle. They were lifted from the fire / range, to put inside the iron using tongs.

I remember you finding something unidentified recently but can’t remember which video. The following item was part of an old sewing machine attachment.

I swear to god you are the bob ross of metal detecting.

very cool 💕👵

Newport and Croydon is my home town area.

I've seen pictures of tomahawks that had rocks in that shape attached to a handle with leather straps, not handles as we think of them.

The little hammer is/was an adjustable wrench. There would have been a lower jaw and a wedge to lock it in place.

The "guillotine" or planer- looking item looks like an old slaw cutter. Nice finds!

The blade is used to de-horn livestock.

thanks

There were irons that didn’t have handles… they were heated and than put into a caddy that was the part that came in contact with the clothes… if you would like to see examples check out the SueMe KZfaq channel. She did a series on the history of ironing!

I love the fact when I look at you, your facial line are smile lines not frown lines an they flow across your whole face.

It's an iron insert. They would heat that up and put it inside of the iron shell

Great finds, cool video, but more importantly, what's with the new hat. Or was this a travel hat!