Metal Detecting Along the Civil War Corduroy Road

In this episode, we find ourselves in Virginia in the middle of the site of a large Civil War Union Army winter camp. Here we have located an old corduroy road bed at about 4 feet down, give or take a foot or two. On this beautiful day many remnants of the Civil War would be unearthed. So grab your shovel and come join the dig!

This is the one that I submitted recently into a film contest. Thanks goes out to everyone that gave me suggestions on which clips to use.

Subject: History, Metal Detecting, Coins, Bullets, Bottles, Buttons, Belt Plates, Privy,Trash Pits, Civil War, Virginia, Shells, Artillery, Cannon, Sifting, Civil War, Union, Louisiana, Confederate

Equipment: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P41 with 1GB Memory Stick, White's Blue and Gray, White's DXT, Troy Custom Detectors Shadow X2, Shadow X5, and Tesoro Cibola.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• treasure
• hunt
• adventure
• Civil
• War
• digging
• archaeology
• history

[2coop2]

NOT archaeologists....fucking pot-hunters, AKA "thieves"

[mudslideslim]

@2coop2

1. PRIVATE PROPERTY 2. NOW A RETAIL PARKING LOT IS ON THIS SITE. 3. ARCHAEOLOGISTS NOT INTERESTED / FUNDED IN SURVEYING THIS SITE THEMSELVES. 4. ALL INFORMATION AND MANY RECOVERIES WE GATHERED WERE SHARED WITH LOCAL PUBLIC MUSEUM FOR ALL TO BENEFIT.

Thanks for the comment.

[mudslideslim]

Thanks bud!

[RecoveringRelics]

Cool finds! The song you use at the beginning and end is a nice one! What is it called?

[mudslideslim]

its not a song just a nice short sequence - not sure if it had a name. thanks bud!

[longbow1415]

Yea! Im English and love this sort of thing, I found a relic on the Battle of Towton fought in 1461,one of the last allowed to dig it years back. Also got lots from the English civil wars fought in the 1640's

Happy hunting Yanks from us Limeys (ignore the idiots and keep digging)

[deino117]

Very cool

[JesseJamesGang1]

Great research and great finds. Congratulations. First time I have seen a corduroy road--think it would be nice to preserve it (keep trench open) so people can see it!

[TheMachinePUA]

@2coop2 Retard, you are the same type of person that would ban metal detecting on the beach. What about all the rusty nails, bottlecaps, batterys, and other trash I pick up when I go out? Is it better for you that that stuff remain out there because your ilk got to create some rules to control other people?

[SSRogue88]

@mudslideslim This site is now a parking lot? That's sad.

[Trackside1234]

@2coop2  Idiot.

[Drew55Tyler]

Is this in staffored , va??

[ATSF1927]

My Great-Grandfather was in the Indiana Infantery during the Civil War. He told a lot of stories of the war before he passed away in 1937. Great findings.

[24theillusionist]

and one or two of the lines are crooked, doesn't look modern

[24theillusionist]

nice finds, i found a old bullet or most likely a minie ball, wich where used during the civil war, they where introduced in 1847 or 1849, but it's small, and has a grid pattern, can you please send me an email to help me identify what it is? my dad might identify it before you, try to send me an email before friday (now is august first)