8,000 Artifacts Found Hidden Under This 1740s Cabin – What Will Our Metal Detectors Uncover Next？

What's up guys? Court Order here. Out today at this incredible old cemetery. Now I am not metal detecting the cemetery. On the other corner is this 1740s log cabin. From 1790 to like 1830 it was a general store. It was purchased by a private owner about a year ago and he's been finding all sorts of things. I'm going to show you the stuff he found later in the video. He's trying to put together a whole little museum all stemming around that incredible log cabin. Doug couldn't make it today so it's just me, Rich, Charlie and Lynn and the property owner himself is going to join us, Jeffrey. So let's fire up the machines and see how we do. Back in the first dig and we'll see you guys soon. Later. Charlie the Heritage Rail Encounter actually has the first thing of the day. You beat out Rich for first find of the day, Charlie. That doesn't happen very often. Let's take a look. He had the first find of the day. It was a ball cap. Oh okay, but you had the first good find though. No, it doesn't even count. Even if it has that, what's that old man you had on there with the bottle cap? Oh, old Mr. Boston. Old Mr. Boston. Oh, let's not find another one of those. Now, which hole is better, Charlie? Equal maybe? Equal. All right, let's start with this one since you're standing in front of it. Well, I found you guys are in the cabin so it's right there. Oh, is that a large copper? It's green. I think it's a coin. It rang out 41. A little bit too high for a button. I think it's a coin. I think it's too big for a farthing. It's really slick. It's slick. Yeah, we're gonna have to sidle. I think I might see a bust. Oh yeah. Yes, but it is a copper. I'm sure it is. Let's give it a light brushing and we'll see if we can get an idea on at least what it is. Is it thin? It's thin. Yeah, it's very thin. Let's kind of see what this hole is before we go brush the copper off. I also covered this. I have to bind it. Well, I heard it. Put your pinpointer back in. Is this it? Oh yeah, that's it. Oh yeah. I think it is a button. I covered it up so it wouldn't dry. If it's a button, I don't think it's an old button. It looks like it could have been like a snap button. Yeah, yeah. The top side had a cross on it. Yeah, there's a marking on it, but I don't think it's super duper old. While you're brushing this, I'll brush the copper. We'll get some side light. We'll get an ID on that and we'll get an ID on that 1970s Levi's button. Well, there's Charlie's copper and we brushed it. We brow sweated it. We've been rotating it. I can't see a darn thin thing land on either side. I thought I saw an oak leaf. One lone oak leaf, I think, right there at like three o'clock. If it's even a leaf, it could just be a slightly raised area. So, I'm not sure what Mr. Harley has here. Turn it that way. I know. I keep thinking I see something on this side, like down near the bottom. For a split second, I did, and then he moved it. Yeah, like somewhere around there, I think I see something, but I can't tell what the heck it is. I think this is 1700s, though. I don't think this is an 1800s US. Yeah, I think it's at least foreign. I can almost see it on this side, but not not quite. But, it's a good first start laying right outside of this super old cabin. Whoa! Outside of the super old cabin. So, hopefully, we're gonna have a good day and really find some amazing things to add to his archaeological search here. The property owner has been excavating the inside, and he's going to give us a little tour, but just take a look at this. Holy cow! Where do you see the inside? It looks like an old Egyptian archaeological site. Oh my goodness! Now, Jeffrey, what year was this originally built? Parts of the way it's constructed downstairs could indicate that it's built as early as the 1740s, unless they reused parts of an earlier building in 1789. You said that this back corner used to be a general store in the late 17, early 1800s? There was a general store here from 1789 to 1823. William Mullen bought this property in 1788 from George Day and opened up a store here, and then his two son-in-laws, Elisha Kirk and Levi Kirk, they took over the store around 1810 for William Mullen. When you bought it, these floors were all here. You pulled them off and you've been sifting the ground, finding... How many pieces have you found throughout the year or two that you've owned this place? So, between what was in the cross face and doing around the back border of the foundation were about 8,000 artifacts. Did you cancel? I did. We're going to go take a look at them later, they're around the corner. I counted most of what I dug up out of the cross face, and I was about 6,000 artifacts. Made up over 400 different ceramic and glass vessels, along with wooden artifacts, iron, seeds, and beans, and you know, things that didn't decompose. And that was mostly stuff from the old store? Yeah, about 85% of what came out of the cross face was all broken store stock and things that fell on that time period. Old plates and pieces of pewter spoon, bottles, things like that? Yeah, tons of cutlery, sets of dishes, which was really unusual, because typically with a house trash context, you might get one or two pieces that match, but in the case of this building, you know, I have multiple sets of four plates, or I have one matching set of six cups and saucers. Going back how old? You know, it's all in that 1800, 1825. Wow, that's incredible. All right, Charlie just called with another find. Charlie, we've been here about 45 minutes. I haven't gotten my detector out yet. I've just been fascinated by this old cabin, inside, outside, upside down. But Charlie and Rich are taking advantage, and Charlie gave the copper sign again. I come up this hill, huffing and puffing, you know me. I know, you're good. I stopped here to rest, and all of a sudden I got a 48. How deep was it? Three inches. Oh, shallow. I think, I think, did you put fill here, Jeff? It's all stuff that I've sifted out of the crawl space. Oh, you missed something, Jeff. You missed something. I think it's from the fill. Let me see. Really shallow? Yeah, well, there it is. Oh, oh, yes, sir. I see a wreath already. It's American, this one. Yep, it's American. That sun shade is in a weird spot. I don't want to rub it, because I think there's going to be detail. I'll have to get the brush, but I can clearly see one scent in the wreath on the back there. Let's get a light brush, Charlie, and see where it is. I think it's going to be abraded hair. It looks really thick, so I'm going to guess it's going to be abraded 1839, 1850s, but maybe I'm wrong. Could be a Liberty cap. Who knows? Let's toothbrush it down and see what you get out of that sucker. All right, there's Charlie's second copper of the day. Charlie is kicking some butt, Lynn. He is, beating Rich. This one is a big, thick, braided hair, large scent. 1830s, 40s, 50s, error. The last of the large scents. We had a feeling just based on how thick it was, although it could have been a Liberty cap. Light, just a light toothbrushing in the field. Enough to be all the idea. You can see one scent there in the back. I don't think this was an area where Jeffrey sifted, because he obviously would have found this with a probably just outside of it, but man, Charlie, three inches down. Who knows? There could be some incredible things in this front side yard, even though it's not massive, you know, acreage-wise. It's really the quality that matters more so than the quantity. Or did I reverse that? That's what my wife says about me. Yeah, I know. You're the same way. Yeah, you're the quality. You've got both, Charlie. Well, nice find. We're going to add this to the little container, and at the end of the day, see all the cool things we found. Awesome find, Charlie. All right, Lynn, I came around to this side of the house, and Rich has one, two, three holes open. Now, Lynn, when we got here, I said, I'm going to go take a tour of the cabin. I've been there for a while, Rich. Can you wear this GoPro on this hat and record everything live? Dig them. It's real easy. It's cheap. It's voice activated. He's done none of it. No. Every hole he's done, he hasn't used it. I didn't hear the every hole. Every hole, yeah. I thought it was just good high tones. No, no, no, because we're looking for all sorts of crazy things. Okay. All right, so going forward, we will. I will start. Yeah, but these three, these three are going to take our word for it that Rich did indeed find. Oh, it looks like a two-piece button. Yep. That's going to have a design on the front, too, I bet you. Have you found military buttons inside, Jeffrey? Yes. Yep, I think you might have another one here. Yeah, this one's got it's got an eagle. Yeah, most of them have been eagles. Like that. Oh, Rich, it's going to be, yep, it's going to be, it looks like it might be an I for infantry. I can't see. It's hard to make out what, if there is a letter. One of them was like a New York something. Now, what's interesting, though, now, Lynn, and I'm going to try to double check, inside, and we're going to go look at Jeffrey's collection later, from you sifting and look under the floors, you How many metal eagle buttons have you found, approximately? Three or four. Only three or four. I can't imagine that they sold infantry buttons in the store. Like, these were earned. So, there must have been someone who served that probably lived in the house, maybe not 1812, but I'm guessing 1840s to 18, up to the Civil War, maybe slightly beyond. So, in our records, we're going to have to take a look, and actually, it's not an I. It looks like this is general service. I've been rubbing it gently with my thumb. Oh, yeah, there's just lines on it. Yeah, so, this one's general service, but still, like, you wouldn't sell these at the general store back then, and the store was closed by that point, anyway, right? Yeah, so, it closed in 1823. Yeah. Well, we're going to give it a brush down while I go walk over and check out hole number two and three, that Rich also did not film with the big GoPro on his head. All right, let's see. Hole numero deuce for Mr. Van Winkle. Where is it? Sorry. Up there. I see it right there, Rich. It's a circle. It looks like another button, though, more so than a coin. It is. Oh, wait. Maybe it is a coin. It looks like it's probably going to be an Indian. Yeah. It's weird. It's got, like, shiny speckles on it. And I saw... There's a lot of mica in the soil. Update. I saw 187, Jason. Oh, really? I did. I actually see it right at the bottom, Rich. You're right. One... I see 187 and a straight line. Could it be another seven or a one? Oh, this is going to be quite the reveal. Let's move it to the sun, Rich, and we're going to do a reveal on the date. All right, here's Rich. Look, he's got the quarter hoarder hat. He's got the GoPro on. You look professional today, Rich. All right, we're going to try to reveal the date on this Indian. Let me get it nice and close. Make sure it's in focus, Rich. All right, go ahead. Give it a gentle little rub. Can you see it, Rich? 72. Oh, 72? That's a nice early one, though. Yeah. The 70s Indians, Lynn, are the rarest ones. Even rarer than the 60s and the one from the 50s. The 70s are the scarce ones. Yeah, I don't ever remember finding, like, even a 71 or anything. That we do, but they're just not as common, and the 77 we've never found yet. That is the holy grail of Indians. We'll find it today. There's a possibility, and it's weird because I do see, like, little shiny speckles, almost like Jeffrey dipped the coins in glitter before we got here. But that's a nice hole number two, and Rich still has one hole left. Let's go see how we finish off. All right, hole number three, and then I'd like to get my detector maybe out of the truck. Did you bring your detector? I did, but I'm still filming the cabin. It's really cool. Oh, that looks like a... Oh, almost looks... I'm gonna put your button here, Rich. That's what I thought, an angel or maybe a finial of some sort. It feels like it's lead or pewter. This looks like pewter, but it's heavy like lead, and it looks shiny up top. Let's see what he's got there. If that is an angel, that's gonna... Oh, I do think it might be an angel. It's... No, it's not. It's just designed. This side's gone. Yeah, the plating came off on that side. I don't see... I don't know, but... It's actually... It's heavy. Oh, it's super heavy. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really nice piece. Could be a wax seal. Could be... Yeah, I guess it could be a lot of things. I'm not sure. Well, we'll brush it down. I mean, I'm really curious to see Jeffrey's entire collection of everything he's found so far. We're adding some hopefully cool pieces to it, but this one I'm not sure. I'm gonna go at wax seal though, Lynn, only because it's possible, and that sounds much cooler than finial. All right, so Jeffrey said we can go upstairs. Now, I asked if it was safe, Lynn, and he's leading the way, so... Yeah, if he didn't fall, I don't think we'll fall. All hewn logs the whole way. Yeah, all chestnuts. The top logs back here, they span the whole length of the house, so they're over 30 foot. Those are huge pieces of wood. And there's another room back here. This room had been plastered in 1869, and so when that guy plastered the room, he signed the plaster, so it's on that wall there. This is safe to stand on? Yeah. Okay. I weigh a lot, Jeff. I'm a big guy. Oh, yeah, there it is. Yeah, plastered May 30th, 1869, and signed James Barriker in the lower left. Do any of the families still live around here? James Barriker. So, his sister was Miss Fitzgerald, whose grandson I bought the house from. I've been trying to do some genealogy, and I haven't found any surviving people with the last name Barriker, but there are, you know, James Barriker was one of 10 children, and then he had four step-siblings, too, so there were 14 of them all together. I love the wallpaper, Lynn. I want to get that in my house. Yeah, I think you do. Yeah, Miss Fitzgerald, wallpaper like crazy. One of the rooms downstairs had 10 layers of wallpaper. Look at the view. The woman, you said, was born and died in this house, and she lived 90-some years, her whole life in this cabin. She saw the addition of electricity. Oh, can you imagine, Lynn, your whole life in this cabin? I would love to see progress. You have a Facebook page where you're kind of showing the work. Yeah, so Facebook and Instagram is both under the name Mullins Folly Restoration. Mullins Folly Restoration. I'll put a link to it, and then they can follow the progress as you restore this incredible 300-year-old log cabin. I can't wait to see when it's done. I'm guessing in about 73 years. You'll be an old man in three years. Yeah, it's a good thing I'm young, because it's going to take me forever to finish this. All right, let's see. Bright light out here. Let's go see if the guys found anything yet. All right, Charlie called and said he's got something colonial. He's right at the edge of the property, right up against the graveyard, but still inside the property lines, at least I hope. He's right on the edge of the property. Let's see. He said something colonial, I think, I think. Is it in the hole still? What's in the clump? Yeah, what's in the clump? Oh, I thought I saw the edge of an old bell, a crotal bell. I only saw it for a half a second. Yep, it's an old crotal bell, and that looks like it's tombac, and I see some flower petals on there, too. That alloy is hardly used anymore. Look at that. Look at the petals, Lynn. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's nice. Just a piece of it, but it tells a story. It sure does. Can you see the number? Well, this is the other side. It has a B on the part of the maker's mark on it, though. It tells you there's a horse here. That's what it tells you. Well, where wasn't there a horse back then? But I just love when you see it shiny like that, because you know it's one of the really early ones, and you only have a little piece of it. This would have actually been this way. This would have been on the bottom. So, one hole showing. Yeah, one hole showing. The number would have been on the other side, but that's a nice one, Charlie. You've got all the best stuff. I'm happy to find a piece of a crotal bell, though, because that's old stuff. Yeah, well, you're kicking some butt with this and the two coppers so far. I'm glad I brought you along. Doug's going to be jealous. Well, nice find. That's going to go right in the collection. I got my beach uniform on under here. Charlie's going to the beach after today. We're not far, so supposedly he's got a speedo. Maybe we'll get, yeah, maybe he'll give a little modeling, a little turn. I'm too sexy for my shirt. Nice find on the crotal bell, Charlie. Thank you. All right, Lin, Rich and Charlie are in the back of the old cabin. We are in the front. I've got my first signal. I haven't detected much at all yet today, but listen to this one, Lin, right? I didn't find it yet. Right there. Now, this might be really good. As I rotate it on it, it sounds good, too, and it's got some depth to it. It's about six inches deep. I'm going to hand the camera to Lin. We're going to try a live dig, because Rich has my GoPro on his head. Hang on, let's see. Okay, Jason's first good signal of the day. I'm excited, Lin. This is going to be a winner. He's jumping up and down. Well, I don't really jump a lot. Oh, I went in nice. I thought I was going to hit three. Okay, so we're going to do a live dig. Now, Jeffrey said this used to be the old road. If you can see, Lin, how it's kind of like a hill. It's kind of like a gully. Yeah, this was the old stagecoach road. Somebody dropped this on the way to or from Philadelphia. Where we are, brick mating house area, was two days from both places. Oh, right in the middle. And even today, we're still about an hour from both places. Already. Oh, right there. I think it's going to be a modern quarter. Oh, shoot. Jeffrey, this is one of those weird hobbies where when you find something with George Washington on it, it's no good. Square nail. I got a button. Yeah. Another one? Yeah. It's another concave, big, thick one. It might even be another military type button. It looks like there could be an eagle on it. Just on the surface. Really? Yeah, like it's probably like a cuff button. Look at that, Rich. Jeff just got that on the surface, just going with the pinpointer. Whoa! A little bit, a little bit. There's holes everywhere, so I'm trying to be careful. But we're just kind of pinpointing as we go inside this cabin. Jeffrey already found the one two-piece button, and I think he said he found a second one. Yeah, laying right there on the surface. Can you hand that to me? Throw it out. Wow, so two buttons just on the surface using the pinpointer, or did you eyeball that? I just saw that. Yes, I eyeballed it. All right, we're going to mill around here. Maybe we'll get a seated dime in this place, Rich. Who knows? So we're going to try around and then move on to see some of his collection from doing this at this place. All right, I barely made it back to my detector, and Charlie yelled, I got another copper. Charlie, you're on fire today. You're right on the edge of his property and the cemetery, so be real careful that you don't go over the edge. I got a lot of energy today. My wife made cookies last night. Oh, how many did you have? Well, when she went to bed, well, I'm not telling you, but when she went to bed, I took the little few. Yeah, yeah, the breakfast of champions. I got it. You got that sugar rush of the cookies. Let me see. He yelled out copper. This will be your third copper. Well, I'm pretty sure it is. I covered it. I say it. I say it. Oh, wow. It's another thin one. I want to move it out to the sun, Charlie. It's another thin one. It's got some other metals stuck to it, like clumped up on it, too. And it's got a lot of that shiny soil. This one's pretty slick. I want to toothbrush it so we could try to. Yeah, there's not much detail left on it. I don't want to lose it. And I'm in a weird sunshade area, but I think I see writing, but I'm not sure. Let's give it a light brushing, Charlie. I think it's going to be British, though. Yeah, it's pretty thin. Yeah. Hold on. We'll come right back. All right. The Howard Adrela-Conner again with another copper, but again with another slick one. We've been rotating it and sidelighting it and brow sweating it. Can't see a darn thing on either side. This side does have a clumpy, lumpy piece of iron that kind of got stuck to it. You said there was a nail in the hole with it? There was a nail with it, yes. Yeah, some of it fused to the back of the coin a little bit. And if I pop it off, it might damage the copper even more. But at the moment, just a slick copper disk. But at one time, Charlie, this was money, baby. So, hey, nice find. One out of three got ID. Two out of three, no ID. All right, I'm going to put it in my pocket. Maybe you do. Maybe the human tumbler will strike again. All right, we came down to see the collection of stuff that Jeffrey's found just from sifting under the cabin. Look at this. The large majority of all the redware, all the ceramics over here are all, you know, in that 1790 to 1825 time frame. There's some beautiful pieces. Lynn, you would make so many necklaces out of this stuff. Yeah, all these clay pipe pieces. I've never found one yet. And some of them he's even gluing together and taping together, trying to, all the bowls, just doing restorations. All these buttons were found. There's dandy buttons, bone buttons, he's got pewter buttons, military buttons, mother of pearl, porcelain. A couple blowhole buttons here. Yeah, everything just from under that cabin. And he's got flatware over here. Fiddleback spoons and all those bone handles, pewter, all this, every piece painstakingly pulled out from underneath of that cabin. If you're into this, it's like Christmas day. I think he bought the cabin not even to restore it, just so he can do this. Just to have fun for a couple years. And under this table there, I'm not gonna have him bring it out, there's boxes and boxes and bags of more pottery pieces. And if I peek my head out here, at 23 years old, young Jeffrey, I'm going to call him, owns this entire antique store also. What's the name of the antique store, Jeffrey? East Nottingham Antiques in Northeast Maryland. Lynn even bought a piece already. Lynn saw the bowl. But if you want to come down and check it out, he's got some incredible things here. Man, what a super old cabin that was. I usually don't spend so much time on the inside of these old places, but I was just fascinated that this cabin was not only still standing, but that Jeffrey found so many treasures hiding right under those floorboards. And don't forget, this Thursday night, there's going to be a special quarter after live stream, 7.15 p.m. Eastern, right here on the channel, with my good friend, Steph Tangway from Steph Digs. We're going to be talking metal detecting, old colonial coins that she finds up in New England, her YouTube journey, and all sorts of fun. Again, this Thursday night, 7.15 p.m., the quarter after live stream, right here on the channel. And of course, if you guys need a metal detector, pinpointer, sand scoop, anything hobby related, you can always shoot me an email at quarterhorteryahoo.com. Just let me know where you live and what your budget is and what kind of terrain you plan on swinging over. I'll help you pick out the best machine for your budget so you can get out and find some of the incredible things like we do every single week. I'm telling you, you're going to love it. It's a hobby of champions. Otherwise, thanks for watching, everybody. Happy hunting, and I'll see you Thursday night for the big live show. Later.