Tricks I Use To Find OLD Homesites So I Can Metal Detect And Bottle Hunt!

Tips for learning how to use maps and physical signs to find old homesites so you can metal detect them. Join me as I locate an old home and metal detect and look for bottles in the trash pit!

[shanedurrance]

Bro, you obviously don't like detecting. If you did, you wouldn't post videos like this. Finding good areas has become a major problem. Giving people the goods just for clicks pisses me off!

[brushbros]

The most valuable objects are not made of expensive metal. Bravo, bro!

[michellestone]

I really enjoy your channel. My old kin are from Virginia they owned over 50, 000 acres back in the day. One of their kin, my relation, purchased alot of land in Ohio, that's where I'm from. Wish for the old days, better living

[heatherjordan]

Thanks for all the information!! This makes treasure hunting sooo much easier and more fun for me

[DigginWithDeej]

I love the dumps! Glad you found some keepers & got out

[xaviermclellan]

Thank you for the historic aerials website. This is so helpful considering our historical society has absolutely nothing. Thank you so much!

[jerrydineen]

Those old maps are interesting to me, I love looking at them. The old trash dump is where I would love to look for treasures!

[triadrelicrecovery]

That dobro in the intro is beautiful. Very nice touch with that, and some good content sir!

[ellen]

I don't know if you'll ever see this, since this video is 3 years old, but I am trying to find where Alexander Hughes had what he called a plantation in his will. It was in Mooresville on Coddle Creek and was 400 acres by the time he died in 1825. He and his wife Margaret Kerr Hughes lived there from about 1780 till they died in the early 1800s. The land was sold to Alexander Hughes by James Carruth of Mecklenburg. It took me decades of research to even get that much information! I might go try to find if anything is left of the place this summer. I imagine there won't be a brick of it left, but you never know.

[boondox]

I've decided to take a rake anytime I get to an area that's wooded. Makes it easier to search once I'm able to scratch the surface a little bit. I do a scratch with the rake and check that very spot and then put that small pile together scratch next to it check that then put those piles together. Just makes things easier.

[jodihepler]

That green medicine bottle might glow if you put a black light on it.

[crtreasures]

I’ve heard of historic aerials but never used them-till now. Thanks for the tutorial and adventure. Stay safe.

[tincuptimmetaldetecting]

Good job Ben. For me its the excitement of researching an area and then hitting it with the hopes it hasn't been hunted! Always exciting and satisfying when it pays off! Stay safe and all the best brother!

[jameyracine]

Thanks for the video. Im also in wnc. im new to this when i tried to find a map of my area, road, address, etc nothing comes up. Didnt think about records being lost. Good video

[CapnDanTreasures]

Thank you Sir for taking us along with you on your adventure. Those were some pretty cool bottles... Thanks also for the tips on the Historical Aerials, I knew about the site, just wasn't very familiar with how it works, and you cleared that up for me... Have a Blessed day and Happy Hunting!!

[rickmessina]

That blue jar looked like an old Noxema container. Not too old….

[underdiggeroakley]

Thanks for bringing me along Mr Ben.
Happy hunting.

[steveyounger]

Those bottles will clean up nice...fun outing...

[allenrusselljr]

I know this video is 3 years old but i just stumbled on it and i wanted to say thank you.

[markdoehrman]

Awesome tips. I have been using this site for years now, but have been skipping past the topo's. I'll have to quit doing that.