More unusual relics found at the new colonial site.

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Coming up this week on Virginia Dirt Pirate.

[00:00:06]>> Strongest signal that I've gotten on there today.

[00:00:09]>> Let's see what we've got, actually.

[00:00:11]>> Okay.

[00:00:13]Mary and I just dug this up. This looks like This looks like a watch winding key. That's my best guess anyway. Oh, you got to be kidding me. Is that what I think it is? Oh my god. All right, hold on.

[00:00:30]There it is. It's a button >> right there.

[00:00:32]>> Yep. It's a button. Oh, >> you were right.

[00:00:36]>> Am I good or what?

[00:00:37]>> Wow.

[00:00:39]>> Hello everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Uh this week I'm going to be joined by Dave and Mary aka the Richmond crew and they are going to come out and help me explore the recently discovered colonial period site and do do a little bit of digging around this uh this mysterious mound that I found. Uh I'm still not sure whether this mound is actually a home site or possibly there was a barn there or some other kind of building. Um, I'm finding very old buttons and pieces of shoe buckles and musk balls and things like that all around the area, but uh I think it's still a little bit too early to tell exactly uh what that was. But we're going to do some digging and hopefully this week we can get some answers.

[00:01:33]They're back.

[00:01:38]Hello. Hey. How's it going?

[00:01:41]>> Pretty good here.

[00:01:43]>> Nice to see you all again so soon. Yes.

[00:01:46]The Richmond crew.

[00:01:47]>> Yes, man. Man, >> beautiful day.

[00:01:51]>> Wow. I mean, of all the the the weather we've had over the past couple of months, this is about perfect.

[00:01:57]>> Yes.

[00:01:58]>> We've had some very perfect weather.

[00:02:00]>> Here we go.

[00:02:02]>> We're going to hit it again.

[00:02:03]>> The Richmond crew is here. We're going to find some good stuff today.

[00:02:36]So, Mary, >> yes.

[00:02:38]>> Have you decided what type of metal detector you're going to get?

[00:02:41]>> Um, I haven't researched it any further, but I might get the Vanquish.

[00:02:46]>> Okay.

[00:02:46]>> Mine Lab Vanquish. We'll >> see. Yeah.

[00:02:51]Well, I'm definitely a Mine Lab guy.

[00:02:53]Yeah, there's a, you know, there's there's several models and they all sound really good, you know.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.

[00:02:59]>> Oh, my lab makes some quality stuff, >> for sure.

[00:03:04]>> Uh, but this um >> this creek is very small, so you don't need to use garbage bags to get across it.

[00:03:12]>> That's good.

[00:03:13]>> You know, the Richmond crew is on site.

[00:03:19]>> Here we are. I'm Mary.

[00:03:21]>> I'm Dave. And we are the >> Richmond crew.

[00:03:27]>> This is the mound.

[00:03:29]>> Looking at this, I >> the ground cover kind of gives it away.

[00:03:32]>> Well, it's it's interesting. I I walked up on it and I was like, you know, this looks really interesting. Like there should be something here. I saw this little mound and I was like, I don't know. That's just too close to the creek. Why would you put a house here, you know?

[00:03:46]>> But uh I started scanning. You can see where the mound is.

[00:03:51]>> Oh, yeah. this whole whole area here.

[00:03:53]>> Yeah.

[00:03:54]>> So, that's what we're going to hit today.

[00:03:58]>> So, I think I think this mound goes a little ways down here in this direction.

[00:04:03]And you can see I mean there's there's rock >> all through here.

[00:04:09]>> And there's see the see the chunks of brick.

[00:04:12]>> Yeah.

[00:04:13]>> When you dig down and I've dug down quite a ways, too. And I still haven't hit the bottom of it. It's like it's pretty deep.

[00:04:22]>> Know what that is?

[00:04:27]This looks like a pretty good hit here.

[00:04:35]And Mary's going to go ahead and dig it up.

[00:04:37]>> Okay. Whereabouts again?

[00:04:39]>> Uh hang on a minute.

[00:04:40]>> Let me let me let me uh let me show you.

[00:04:54]Right about there. Right under the E.

[00:04:57]>> Right. Right about there.

[00:04:58]>> So, right about here.

[00:04:59]>> Yep.

[00:05:02]Just dig down really deep.

[00:05:04]>> Yeah.

[00:05:05]>> And when you get enough of it out, I'll rescan and we'll see if we can't track it down.

[00:05:14]It's a It's a kind of signal where I have found buttons in that range. Could also be lead, too. I found several pieces of lead, lead uh musket balls, things like that. Yeah, there you go.

[00:05:24]Oh, you got the little shovel going on here.

[00:05:27]>> Oh, that's good.

[00:05:28]>> Yeah, this might be fast.

[00:05:30]>> I'll tell you what though, this is okay.

[00:05:33]But I found the ultimate.

[00:05:35]>> What's that?

[00:05:36]>> The con the loggers left a shovel >> really >> on the side. And it's what I think they call a drainage clearing shovel.

[00:05:45]>> Really?

[00:05:45]>> So the blades like this wide, but it's this long.

[00:05:50]>> Huh.

[00:05:50]>> And it's really strong.

[00:05:52]>> Wow.

[00:05:52]>> And you can go down there and you can pop up the whole thing.

[00:05:56]>> It's makes things way easier. But >> it's got to if the thing is hitting it, it's got to be right there.

[00:06:06]>> I know. It's >> here. Let me Let me try mine real quick.

[00:06:16]Must be the smallest shard of metal.

[00:06:23]Here it is, I think. What the heck is that?

[00:06:29]That's it.

[00:06:31]>> Huh?

[00:06:32]>> Key.

[00:06:32]>> What is that?

[00:06:35]>> Oh, wow.

[00:06:36]>> Huh?

[00:06:37]>> I have no clue what that is.

[00:06:39]>> Oh, wow. It looks like >> here. It's yours.

[00:06:41]>> Oh, thank you.

[00:06:42]>> Uh let's let's uh >> Huh.

[00:06:44]>> Let's get a closer.

[00:06:46]>> That might be that might be a watch winding key.

[00:06:50]>> Oh, >> that that might be what that is.

[00:06:55]>> This is very interesting.

[00:06:58]>> Uh Mary and I just dug this up. This looks like This looks like a watch winding key. That's my best guess anyway.

[00:07:08]It has some kind of a little design on it.

[00:07:12]>> It's going to take some more cleaning back at the house maybe to figure out what's on there. But this this is very cool. Very cool.

[00:07:23]Yep. I love finding little things like that. There you go.

[00:07:31]>> Oh, >> okay. I think we might have a tomb backach button here. And >> that's a root.

[00:07:36]>> Dave is trying to pop it loose.

[00:07:48]>> Getting pretty deep now.

[00:07:51]>> Some of this stuff was down a long ways.

[00:07:53]>> Oh yeah.

[00:07:56]There it is.

[00:07:57]>> My money's on toback button >> from the looks of it. Smallback button.

[00:08:08]Where did it go?

[00:08:11]Okay. It's right.

[00:08:20]It's right there. There it is. There it is. It's a button >> right there.

[00:08:25]>> Yep. It's a button.

[00:08:27]>> Oh, you were right.

[00:08:29]>> Am I good or what?

[00:08:30]>> Wow.

[00:08:31]>> Am I good or what? I I'll bet you anything the way it was reading on my detector was just screaming Tom back button.

[00:08:37]>> Those are colonial.

[00:08:38]>> Yeah.

[00:08:40]>> Let me uh let me take a good look at it.

[00:08:43]I'm not sure if this is to back button or not. I'm looking at the edges of this thing. It almost looks like maybe it's lead pettor or something. I'm going to have to clean this up a little better when I get home and we'll see what that shank looks like. This could be a really old button.

[00:09:01]Rang up just like a tomach though.

[00:09:04]Okay, let's see what else we can find.

[00:09:11]Very low and deep.

[00:09:21]All right, let's see what that is.

[00:09:24]It is out and it was down a good long ways.

[00:09:32]Very low tone be right there. I think I see it. Maybe.

[00:09:45]Maybe.

[00:09:53]No, that isn't it.

[00:09:58]There it is.

[00:10:05]Got a tom back.

[00:10:08]>> Yep.

[00:10:10]Huh. This is interesting though. Again, this this one rang up really low. Lower than it should. This is like one I found last week.

[00:10:58]I'm going to head up the hill here.

[00:11:01]See if I can't find the spot where I found that early buckle last week.

[00:11:07]And Maybe I'll get lucky and find more of it.

[00:11:27]Looks like something else small and deep.

[00:11:33]All right.

[00:11:42]And of course as it's out right about there might not be very big.

[00:12:15]Come on.

[00:12:32]All right, let me see if I can pull it out.

[00:12:57]I know it's right there.

[00:13:01]See if that got it. Let me see if that got it. No, it did not. It did not get it.

[00:13:23]Now I've got it. Now I've got it in my hand.

[00:13:45]That looks like more musk ball. That's what that looks like. That's what that looks like.

[00:13:52]Yep.

[00:13:54]It was kind of ringing up in that range, too. That's another one. Another one of those, huh? Okay.

[00:14:13]Big deep signal. Let me turn the sensitivity down just in case.

[00:14:20]Nope. Still there.

[00:14:29]Take a pretty good size signal.

[00:14:41]All right, let's see what that is.

[00:14:47]Signal looks weird.

[00:14:54]like it's below the line.

[00:15:01]Let's try it anyway.

[00:15:40]All right, let's try it again.

[00:16:07]It's weird.

[00:16:13]It's reading way down there.

[00:16:19]That's a solid signal, though.

[00:16:24]Let me see if I can dig it out.

[00:16:27]That was some digging right there.

[00:16:39]Come on. be something good. I have a feeling that this is more lead like another musk ball, but we shall see.

[00:16:51]Actually, it could be pretty much anything.

[00:16:59]Okay, there it is.

[00:17:08]It is not a musk ball.

[00:17:12]Wow. What?

[00:17:15]What?

[00:17:19]What? Oh.

[00:17:22]Oh.

[00:17:26]Oh my.

[00:17:29]Oh, you got to be kidding me. Is that what I think it is? Oh my god. All right. Hold on. Hold on.

[00:17:39]Let me get my phone out. Okay. So, this is this is obviously spectacle buckle.

[00:17:46]This is a piece of a large spectacle buckle. For a minute, I thought I had the other part of that buckle that I found, but I don't think that's what it is. But this is something This is something very old.

[00:17:58]This is obviously like half of a spectacle buckle. And this was way, way down.

[00:18:04]Oh my gosh.

[00:18:07]Okay.

[00:18:09]Well, that just makes my day.

[00:18:13]All right. I'm going to hunt this area here. See if there's anything else right in this area.

[00:18:36]signal.

[00:18:39]>> Okay, I'm done with the blackberry patch.

[00:18:44]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:18:46]>> Yeah, >> we got something coming out of the hole.

[00:18:53]Don't know what it is yet, but whatever it is, it's going to be awesome.

[00:19:00]Here it is.

[00:19:18]>> Oh.

[00:19:19]>> Oh. Oh.

[00:19:21]>> Ooh.

[00:19:22]>> What is it?

[00:19:24]>> It is.

[00:19:25]>> This, by the way, >> it is a baton.

[00:19:27]>> This was the strongest thing.

[00:19:28]>> It is a baton. It just yet another button.

[00:19:30]>> Okay. Strongest signal that I've gotten on there today.

[00:19:34]>> Let's see what we've got here, actually.

[00:19:37]>> Okay.

[00:19:39]>> There you go.

[00:19:40]>> Huh.

[00:19:40]>> There you go.

[00:19:42]>> Wow.

[00:19:59]cuz I have been finding um nails and stuff up on up on the top, but I did start finding some brick today, too.

[00:20:06]>> So, it almost makes me think that somehow this was all up there, maybe cuz it doesn't make any sense for it to be down here. No, we don't just close in the water.

[00:20:16]>> No, I mean, you know, you can tell from the sediment and it and it looks to me like the when when they dumped this, the this area was a lot lower and it probably goes all the way out into there >> and the sediment from the flooding just covered like, you know, the whole first quarter of it, >> you know.

[00:20:37]>> Interesting site.

[00:20:38]>> Yes.

[00:20:39]>> Interesting.

[00:20:41]So, I think we're going to call it for today.

[00:20:48]>> Okay, we are back. Uh, and it is time for the weekly wrap-up. And I had the privilege this week of hunting with uh Dave and Mary, the Richmond Crew.

[00:20:59]>> The Richmond Crew. That is us.

[00:21:01]>> And we did a lot of digging and a lot of finding stuff. Uh we found just a load of buttons uh today. Everything from from dandy buttons all the way down to little tiny flat buttons and uh what look like uh tom back buttons and things.

[00:21:21]Uh and found some other stuff that's very interesting like this this which has a a very interesting design on it on both sides. It looks to me like maybe it's a watch winder.

[00:21:38]I believe that's probably what it is, but I'm going to need to uh to post it on one one of my relic ID sites and see if somebody can identify it. But I have I have a feeling that's probably what that is. That was a very cool thing to find.

[00:21:56]I have no clue what this is.

[00:21:58]Some kind of a decoration or maybe a tool.

[00:22:02]I don't know. There's something else that I'm going to have to post and hope that somebody knows what it is.

[00:22:10]Uh my favorite thing this week is part of a spectacle buckle. A pretty good size spectacle buckle. Uh that's the second week in a row I found what I believe is a spectacle buckle. The piece of buckle that I found uh the other week I believe is also a spectacle buckle.

[00:22:28]So, this is this is definitely a very old site. When you're finding stuff like spectacle buckles, you know, you've got an old site.

[00:22:37]And, you know, combined with the buttons that we're finding, none of these buttons have any back marks on them. And the shanks are all offc center and everything. They look like very old flat buttons.

[00:22:48]And all the nails, the nails appear to be uh rose head nails and early cut nails. all, you know, blacksmith hand rot nails.

[00:23:01]And aside from that, we found some uh some odds and ends of things. I found a another smashed musk ball and just some pieces of iron and probably part of a a metal pot.

[00:23:15]And Mary found this just kind of laying on top of the ground. And it looks like pressed glass.

[00:23:23]I don't know how it got there. Uh, our theory is that maybe somebody had found it in the creek. There's a a nearby creek that's a fairly substantial creek with a number of home sites that kind of border on the creek. And our theory is that perhaps somebody found it in the creek and pulled it out and set it aside and forgot about it because this looks very similar to uh a piece of pressed glass that I found at another site uh several weeks ago.

[00:23:53]So, it was a very interesting hunt and we definitely have an early sight here and I my feeling is that there's still a lot of stuff in the ground there and I will probably be going back there again uh probably throughout the rest of turkey season because it's a very easy site to get to.

[00:24:15]Anyhow, if you like what you saw today, please like, share, and subscribe. And remember, dig it all, fill in your holes, and leave nothing but footprints.