Six days exploring metal detecting finding ancient lost places in New England

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7 ай бұрын

A compilation of all 6 days we spent exploring, metal detecting and discovering lost places from the past in this huge NH forest that we call the Abyss. It all started out with a day of hiking and finding an ancient stone bridge hundreds of years old that lead to a wagon trail. Using metal detectors as we searched out this are knowing very well that people were out here working, living and settling. These sites go back to the 1700s and were in use or populated up until the mid 1800s. With all the searching and following the cart paths and reading the land we found a site that had no cellar hole but with the metal detectors we found nail iron in the ground. We ended up spending days there digging up artifacts from the 1700s and 1800s but still could not figure the site out. Oh yeah , we don't want to forget the black bear that walked up on us after digging that 200 year old coin....whoa! A lot of what brought us into the are was using old top maps that showed two structures along the river back in the early 1900s. We assume they were loggers camps being that was about the era the area had been logged but never found the location. An amazing experience finding sites that have never been mapped before and proof of people living out here.
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Six days exploring finding metal detecting lost places in New England
reading the landscape history of old places in new England figuring out what people did hear here a long time ago searching for cool old places

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@Dopa-MiningFam 4 ай бұрын

Just a thought - if you take pictures of each item in situ and have an apple phone with the location tagging option enabled you can then look at where each item is in relation to the gps map to kind of create a visual of where the dwelling may have been Love your content!

@Relicgarden 4 ай бұрын

I’m really diggin your channel, I love the fact you don’t go hunting with the latest greatest most expensive gear on the market. Yet you still have the capability in hand to detect the items your in search of, nice. All my favorite videos are hunts with you and Dane involved. Great blue collar working man’s video’s containing detectors and accessories the average dude can afford and obtain without taking out a bank loan. Hittin the like button on all your vids keep goin guys!.

@Relicgarden 4 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@theodoredicks3305 6 ай бұрын

You keep saying that the land is not good, but we'll say 200 years ago there were probably no trees on that land to speak of. They probably used that land for cattle, so it didn't matter what the land was.

@tonytrimarchiat 3 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this video, thanks

@ToxxicRemedy 2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if you detect or not, and I will speak accordingly. Sometimes when detectorists say things like, this is bad... it isn't to disrespect the property or its owners. It could be to say the over growth is extremely thick, the land is low lying and is extremely swampy, or its bad because it simply holds nothing but logging trash. Knowing this man's mentality a little bit, I'd say he means "bad" referring to the overgrowth from what I'm seeing.

@legacyXplore 2 ай бұрын

What would make you say that it’s probable there were no trees 200 years ago there?

@DigginWithDeej 6 ай бұрын

Great series Charlie! Its funny how watching this series in a connected video gives a similar but different perspective compared to each episode separately. I didn't realize until the yearling bear showed up. You & Dame should have camped there to explore and investigate. Well done! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 to you, Ninjen, Dame, Waynos & the Stealth Diggers crew! Time to start cooking the holiday feast! 💜Deej

@johnhayden5013 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for putting this together Charlie, and it beats watching the Macy’s parade any day!

@dhankins51 29 күн бұрын

such an interesting place and diverse finds! Great job Charlie and Dame

@darbysdownhomedetecting 6 ай бұрын

Heck yeah! I love long videos! Thanks Charlie and Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽️

@johncroteau1796 6 ай бұрын

That was a great time! Thank you for all your adventures. Dame also. Happy turkey.

@danno3497 6 ай бұрын

What a treat! A 2 hour Thanksgiving Day morning "Not Thursday" Special on a Thursday! Happy Thanksgiving Charlie!

@RrayBean 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Charlie, extended viewing for my Thanksgiving morning! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! p.s. I won an Olight cap spinning the wheel this morning!

@ColinHarperSummerson 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video, congratulations on finding a great location, awesome finds too , very interesting, thank you 😎👍🙏

@keepdigginmetaldetecting 6 ай бұрын

Heck yeah! I always want more time with your videos. Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving! ❤LL

@virginiawestcot3111 6 ай бұрын

Thank you I enjoyed your nice long video while enjoying my Thanksgiving dinner. I am enjoying the beautiful woodlands as well as the items you are finding ... even the bear.

@jaywolf2519 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, Charlie, for the compilation. I had missed a couple of videos I think. Great work!

@goldendredger 6 ай бұрын

It would be amazing to find an old logger that logged this area still alive. And could do a little hiking to get out with you and tell some stories of what they saw in the the area while logging. Heck even if to old to hike out just able to look at a map and tell you what they remember.

@robertbush8327 6 ай бұрын

Those cart paths, could be travel areas to wood cutting lots, especially by the waterways.

@johneb6084 6 ай бұрын

I really enjoy your hikes into the unknown… hope you discover a new homesite to detect!

@GrandPrixJ 6 ай бұрын

Great long video! Enjoy your content every time! Happy thanksgiving!

@johneb6084 6 ай бұрын

Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Charlie, Dame, Wayneos and all ❤

@cherisurdahl9791 4 ай бұрын

If you look up old old pics of NH, you see it was open in places where it now looks fully grown up and grown in. Mother Nature takes back areas quicker than we think she can.

@ksjones687 6 ай бұрын

Love this video. I like that you made a long video and it was put together well. I'm not able to walk in these WV woods, so watching me allows me to have that experience. TY

@jasonstafford3754 3 ай бұрын

Good to see you in my stomping ground, i reckon nearer Horbury Bridge could be good because you've got the canal and the river to dip in 😊

@williamlinton1460 3 ай бұрын

Just found your channel. So far I have been interested.. keep up good work . I love history and I love doing the things that you do with the exploring, I don't know where your located. Looks in the south. Maybe we found several walls like yours. But they were not long like that. Keep us informed. Love the colonial bridge you found awesome.

@grandmakellymcdonald 6 ай бұрын

Yes! I love seeing you one my home screen first thing in the morning! Let's go let's go treasure and adventure.✌👵

@donnadow436 4 ай бұрын

I once did the same thing with a bear! Was camping in Waterville Valley, standing with 5 other people, and right by the outhouse I saw something and thought, “awfully big weird shaped dog”. It was a young bear! Unlike yours, the one I saw ran FAST. Unfortunately its mother probably taught it to hunt for food near people. 😊

@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 2 ай бұрын

Watched the series when it was first released. And enjoyed it the second time around also. We keep learning that people could have been anywhere. Topography changes and weather takes its toll.

@JaneDoe-ur8rg 6 ай бұрын

I'm finally catching up on watching this nice and long super video. What a walk in history and that gem of old road. Nice scenery too. Thanks Charlie and Dame for taking us along. NW ILLINOIS

@DetectaBull 4 ай бұрын

Not Thursday The Movie. Awesome is all I have to say. Can't wait to get the movie merchandise like the Charlie & Dame action figures with the star wars smell from 1977 😁

@angelahorne867 6 ай бұрын

Love watching you two

@spicencens7725 6 ай бұрын

Great series! Many miles, many digs, neat finds and an uninvited guest! Only one thing...more Dame please.😊

@MetalDetectingAdventures911 2 ай бұрын

I lost this channel a while back, wow glad I found it again. Sure missed it when I was gone.

@stantilton2191 4 ай бұрын

The piece Dame found at 126 min. looks like a strait razor blade to me. One massive hunk of land to search. Thanks guys for taking us along. Love the channel.

@shirleyrice5779 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful bird habitat. Many voices. Could it have been logged for tall, straight, white pine for ship masts?

@maraengelson5799 4 ай бұрын

Could the day 4 bear area be an old moonshine area? You've got water, a Mason jar and people hanging out making music in a remote area... maybe a bell trip line warning...it could've been a generational production area.

@patrickdevillier530 3 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you for the entertainment and education! Perthshire feels like my second home.❤

@SGM97B 2 ай бұрын

Great day for you. Yes, there could have been a hoard buried there. But also, if that is a Roman road, it is possible that there was a roadside shrine there and you are finding offerings. Regardless, great stuff.

@ericorff9994 6 ай бұрын

The last person killed by a wild bear in NH was in 1789. Maybe when some of that stuff you are digging up was in use. Not to worry about a bear attacking you.

@m1anm 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video. The bear, lol, you never know what's watching you from behind.

@toddtrierweiler958 4 ай бұрын

Great video wish I could have went with y'all I need a vacation

@granvillewooster7673 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful country Charlie thank you so very much for sharing hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving I’m in Newport New Hampshire for the weekend from glens Falls New York going to do some magnet fishing have a wonderful weekend and keep the awesome videos coming please 🇺🇸👍👍❤️

@johneb6084 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing place… with a bear 🐻 bonus, lol 😂 crazy…

@damoose1829 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Charlie and Dame. Great video. Like the long videos. Spent 3 days watching. I have acquired two Fisher F19's with two coils and hope I have as much luck as you all did here. I hunt very similar terrain in Western NY and a old map helps But if not available or 🤔 🧐🧐🤔🤔🤨🤨😉😉🤪😝 Thank you for sharing.

@kevinshowers6477 6 ай бұрын

Dame has the right idea on finding early round nail to see what time period. You find iron signals dig one to see what kind of nails they are for time period. The Jews harp my Grandfather gave me one like the one Dame found Circa 1920's. Awesome finds Charlie. It is like a jigsaw puzzle finding the missing pieces..

@richardbaumeister466 6 ай бұрын

A firearm would to me be a necessary piece of added equipment guys, Just saying. At least a good can of bear spray. Great series guys I've been missing you. Happy Thanksgiving!

@bobjones8372 2 ай бұрын

Roughly 70% of the East was cleared farmland, 150 years ago, now it's 70% overgrown forest most of them are filled with old homesteads, roads, and even whole towns.

@rogerdempsey7227 6 ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving dame and Charlie nice to see you outdoors on this wonderful day

@IndianaStoned 5 ай бұрын

Wish I had woods like this around me. Can’t wait to get back out in spring. Happy hunting brotherman

@joyceclark8476 6 ай бұрын

It’s Not Thursday, it’s Thanksgiving 😊 . Great video. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving like I did. Thank you Charlie for all you do. Joyce ❤️🙏🇺🇸🦃🍽

@lagerthasMDC 4 ай бұрын

Great video bud 👍🏻

@fennynough6962 6 ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving,🦃 Pilgrims!🎃🐻🦔

@dink182j4 4 ай бұрын

1854 maiden head wheat penny???? Found one near an old dirt irrigation ditch in new mexico years ago. Awesome video! Thank you for sharing.

@markrodney6682 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Chaz

@davidlacey146 4 ай бұрын

There may have been a rough cabin/hut where an outcast type lived, a helper during haying, wood cuttingand other tasks on the nearby farm that were extremely labor intensive and an extra hand would be helpful, preferably one that could be paid in rum. Almost everything you found supports this picture. The one item that is an exception is the tiny knob from a lady's hatpin.

@ducksauce1290 2 ай бұрын

That button that left that impression in the metal. That metal wasn't lead was it? Somebody got shot, or was shooting buttons maybe.😲

@tomj4506 6 ай бұрын

Map sites. One is for living & other animals & tools. . Very crude so no trace after the wood rots away. And you dont need much space for them. LFOD !

@chrisleigh777 3 ай бұрын

You guys would really benefit from using a TFR rod with a silver and gold end cap on it. In a large area like that getting a silver hit on the tfr and finding a silver target could help you find a.building or other area of interest especially if you turn your fishers on and find alot of iron in the area where you get your silver or gold target hit 😊 I use a TFR 1 Pro for these situations and I live in the UK and got my TFR from a chap there who has a small co who makes them. Best bits of kit I use in my treasure hunting gear :) hope it helps you guys ir anyone watching

@bradpritchett3161 6 ай бұрын

Good job guys

@melaniegates5955 6 ай бұрын

Awesome explore! Happy Thanksgiving.

@rshutterbug47 4 ай бұрын

That Last Coin Has A hole In It For Sewing It In Their Clothing For Safe Keeping & A Bear Surprise

@wendylou_who 6 ай бұрын

I was wondering, what hiking boots do you use?

@pezozpezoz 6 ай бұрын

Most intriguing

@chrisackerley1842 4 ай бұрын

After living in the Arizona desert for 39 years I would get hopelessly lost after 5 minutes in your forest! How do you find your way through it without being able to see the Sun and the mountains around you? It's a very beautiful place, but it looks like another planet to me!

@achristiansilluminosity2596 4 күн бұрын

that thing that you found that you said might be a scythes tool might be a pickeroon tool. that round thing looks like a scale weight

@BramHepburn 6 ай бұрын

New Subs. Really like the looks of your content. Its the same spirit Im trying to capture on my DownEast Digger channel. Piecing together the lay of the land from 200 year old homesteads. And finding their old trash and bottles

@tg242ovlov 4 ай бұрын

As soon as you said action figure smell I thought of a Tie fighter pilot 😂

@MNpicker 6 ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving Charlie!!

@nedrakrodgers7976 11 күн бұрын

A rock fence like that was slave built. For hogs and cattle but can you imagine how tough that was There’s one out of Talbot Georgia that is miles long

@treasuredog-ci9ir Ай бұрын

You guys should check out the treasure dog of maine.he gets some insane stuff off colonial beaches with the minelab equinox series

@OptimisticFlyingSaucer-mq8rl 20 күн бұрын

A lot of that stone doesn't even go long from a cedar swamp or a hemlock, or camera swamp doesn't even belong in a geo system, so that was transferred in from another quarter

@bransoncullimore3474 5 ай бұрын

Charlie love your channel and videos ! In past episodes you have mentioned (the great abandonment) why did the people leave? Westward expansion?

@Bassfishingthefingerlakes 5 ай бұрын

Well in New York where I’m from the military put up the stone it’s hundred acre parcels giving to the military guys French American Indian war when the natives where defeated the land was giving to the soldiers a lot to them never came to get there piece and some did. And put up saw mills and farmed it like where I from there was 45 saw mills at the height of clearing hope it helps

@jennifer.2722 3 ай бұрын

The rock wall thing was brought over by tbe Spanish Settlers. They brought over a particular breed of sheep. They would mark pasture and property lines. The sheep would wander while grazing. So it was sort of a fence. I forget who, however one of the great Poets or Authors in VT. I think. Lived in that sort of fashion and was a Professor at a College. It was his biography that i learned the specifics. I live in CT. These walls are in all The New England States, out deep in the woods ans can even be followed into NYC along the Merritt Pkwy. .Id becareful walking around the woods up north during hunting season.

@jennifer.2722 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact : 1860's there is reports of there being a 2 to 1 ratio of sheep to human population in NH. Probably more in VT.

@philh664 4 ай бұрын

Loggers durring that time would have clear cut. Igf you look all the trees are small. So you could be in a farm field. Ground got bad and people left for fresh dirt

@davidg813 3 ай бұрын

I would be detecting around those larger trees that are 200 or more years old

@davidg813 3 ай бұрын

I tell you what that metal ring sure looks a lot bigger than what a wagon wheel would look like nothing's almost 5 ft in diameter

@NZtreasureHunterJG 4 ай бұрын

Might want to check your camera for damage, when you stopped and filmed looking at the walls angle and finding a path, there was smoke drifting in front of camera, then you mentioned that you smelt burning plastic;)

@terrinelson2677 4 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who saw that smoke. It seemed very odd to me 🤔

@patches4470 4 ай бұрын

144.21 looks like tombstone in the background.

@tomburdett6639 6 ай бұрын

👍👍👍😁

@2dazetake 4 ай бұрын

Seems like a drone could help you out with your exploration, you should get one and learn to fly, instant top mapping,and a view you may not get from the ground.

@markthornhill519 5 ай бұрын

If this is your bad, rough terrain. You would die in South Ga. I enjoy your videos.

@Barber1979 4 ай бұрын

That wasn't a knife, that was a late 1700's early 1800's straight razor, stubby tang

@tedc7714 4 ай бұрын

Those places were abandoned in the depression. People could not pay taxes or the bank....

@robyncrouse8339 6 ай бұрын

Could the roads/bridges be an army road?

@extremecowgirl3629 3 ай бұрын

Not for nothing, but looking at the orange staining in that creek, in the odd bumps as you refer to them, could you have been in a colonial mining area, say iron? Just curious

@extremecowgirl3629 3 ай бұрын

Hear me out, ( mines are my thing) if there were smaller mines working in the area, most of those work sites are not on maps. But those lead nail caps as you call them, could most assuredly been from hobnail shoes often worn by miners for a long time up to early 1900s, the other object look like it might be a weight for a scale... In the olden times minds would close, but then be reopened and reworked later...

@robertmckelvey4134 3 ай бұрын

Maybe a sawmill .

@michaellucore4311 4 ай бұрын

Seems to drag on a bit long wondering in the woods

@paulproulx4860 Ай бұрын

@1:25:29 A straight razor perhaps?

@OptimisticFlyingSaucer-mq8rl 20 күн бұрын

Have you imagined that maybe the native americans had built that wall for boundaries and the white man when Add the time add to maintain their boundaries. Also, so they use that, in addition, for their mapping after the wars and so on. And so forth, so they just went with it. Cause it was the easiest way to map at a point of reference same thing, such as you are seeking a point of reverence that might have been that way for the settlers. Play made ultimately by the natives

@diamanta3 6 ай бұрын

is this a repeat video?

@northeastexpanse 4 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this Charlie! If you ever want to explore my land in Vermont then let me know. There is an abandoned town road, Brook, and ravine land. My email is in my bio on my channel. Be well!

@larryritch591 4 ай бұрын

no chimney stacks or nothing

@sharonpape4343 3 күн бұрын

You need a drone to get an overview??

@roveobispo-ey4go 2 ай бұрын

that is buttons...

@diggingindiana1464 6 ай бұрын

I'm disappointed that we have already seen all of this 🤦😔

@user-xd1gt9if2v 2 ай бұрын

Dude found an ancient hay and cow field

@Notsureanymore441 3 ай бұрын

What is a juice harp? Jew sharp?

@MrPepper312 4 ай бұрын

Hope your protected from Ticks

@pty8s 4 ай бұрын

Dudes….. that most assuredly is a new growth forest. And you two are certain, that hunters utilizing shotguns hadn’t been hunting oh let’s say 30, plus years in that vicinity post settling. No original Carolina forest, from Ontario (not westward, north bearing) to the namesake, site exhibits timber gone and new growers? Replant? They didn’t give a shi! then, and wood farming land that’s commercial property will in 20-30 years recut.