Digging Out A Colonial Era Trash Pit In South Carolina
Digging Out A Colonial Era Trash Pit In South Carolina
Today finds us in the low county of South Carolina preparing to dig out a colonial-era trash pit that Billy discovered the day before. This is the first video in a series of videos I recently made while on a camping and metal detecting trip way down south.
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I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed by most people who are not familiar with outdoor adventures and nature. I keep my Youtube “Aquachigger” channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
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Good vid, Beau and Southern Captain Billy. Thanks for calling us gals gentle Ladies, even though I’m acting like a cry baby because it ended too soon. ( : Looking forward.
Great work guys.
I wish you would wear gloves Beau. Years ago you lectured us all on digging soil with your fingers. Please don’t spill blood for us and take care of yourself.
That’s a part of a deer leg bone and oyster shells and bones are non artifacts only man made things are artifacts
Damn chigg i started metal detecting because of you. And im waiting on my mokai. If i knew you were in sc i would have had some places for you to detect.
I didn’t realize how clumsy the colonial people were breaking so many plates and losing buttons.
That looks like a really interesting site…I can’t say for sure what’s happening there but they must have been quite well-to-do people at some point comparitively speaking, the pottery was nice and perhaps building materials as well??, clay used for lining water storage??, and sand for drainage or building??. Really Cool. 🙂
I’ve never seen a dump structured like that Chigg
Should everyone wear snake boots?
Piece of greenware looks like German jug to me
Almost seems like a kiln area (sand, clay, and charcoal). Wouldn’t think it would be a trash burn pit.
is that you and your son singing in the background ‘ if soo sounds really good.
I get so excited over pottery shards!
Maybe the clay was brought in from somewhere else to make a harder base for the foundation
OMG 😛
When you said Southern Captain Billy I was sipping water & I laughed & water came out my nose! 😂
Ah yes, my home state!
Sift that dirt chigg
HAY BEAU YA SPACE CADET!!!!!! you should colab with brad from GMMD!! im sure im not the only one how would enjoy it
they probably bulldozed the house in and buried the house.
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get your bare hands out of that glassy soil sir omg lol
They should have hired you to find the treasure caves in the Grand Canyon!
What county was this hunt?
Beau you and not wearing gloves digging by hand lol
First rent or borrow a brush hog and clear a trail and spot.
Ya, that’s what y hubby said …. Shortly before he had a Triple bypass…. Successfully ❤️🩹❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thinking that you can get isolated deep holes in the natural, if a large tree has grown, died and rotted out. Then the hole left is filled in by the surrounding topsoil.
so, i was raised in low country south carolina, would it be fair enough to ask what county??……………………
I’m right down the road
It’s a cutdown. Soil is up and down through forestry.
Swamp shovel 😊
Your blue feather china is known as Leeds ware. It is commonly found in early 1800s site up and down the east coast of the original colonies. Good video as usual.
What if the site you are on is actually where the house was and it would have burned down?
That Billy is a good guy!
Hi, another great video my friend very interesting it would be great to hook up some time , hope all is good with you ATB Rob ☘👍
You’re in the LowCountry which is my stomping grounds. I hope you were treated well.
I used to find blue and green pottery like you’re pulling out all the time as a kid.
Ever since my back surgery a couple of years ago, I need ME a “shovel man!”
If there was fine sand, ash, bones/oyster shells, and clay it seems like a candidate for a place they were making mortar, bricks, lime for building a home.
Clay layer might have been an old outhouse trap. Poop has to decompose into something
in England before the railways brought standardisation to the whole country, they would clump up piles of bricks in situ and cover them with a large bonfire. that’s why early bricks were very thin, to make sure they were baked hard right through. if you look around further I think you will find an area with burned limestone which they would slake with water and mix with sand for mortar. You have found the sand and the clay already. nice episode thank you.
Question? How do you not get eaten alive with poison ivy?
Sand, clay, brick, glass….. Maybe a blacksmith shop. Clay all in one spot like that? Sticky sand for casting perhaps? I don’t know… I’m just thinking back to a show on the BBC I saw a long time ago. They were at a castle and they said they located where the blacksmith shop was because they found CLAY and SAND.
The sand could be to give runoff water a place to go, and the clay could be a natural barrier against runoff getting to a foundation, maybe?
Maybe a summer kitchen that was burned/destroyed
Never really liked gentle ladies…
Hey Chigg, stay hydrated lol.
I got one of those 😂🌲😎🌲
First of a few videos from my recent camping trip. I hope you like it.
If you would like to invite me to go metal detecting or have some property that I can make a video on myself, please send an email to my “aquachigger” gmail account. I can’t trade hunts with you, but will you trade a hat or two and try to stay on my best behavior.
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Thanks Chigg
Sifter time !
Get in too old to cut the mustard Beau?
I think maybe the sand was added later to help with drainage