Pound The Ground in Suckertown | Metal Detecting in New England

The Pound the Ground 2019 metal detecting event gave me the opportunity to do some metal detecting in New England. 🏴󠁺󠁡󠁦󠁳󠁿 GOLD Find of a Lifetime ➡️    • Find of A Lifetime | Metal Detecting a GOL...   I had never been to that part of the country before and it was breathtakingly beautiful. Traveling with my buddy, Jeff Lubbert, from American Digger Magazine's Relic Roudnup podcast (https://www.spreaker.com/show/america...) and other members from my local treasure hunting club, we flew from Denver to Vermont then hit the road to Plattsburgh and Chazy in upstate New York. The fall colors were amazing to see. At the event, It was great to see old friends, finally get to meet people I had only talked to online, and make new friends from the 1000 other detectorists that were there. Hats off to Rhode Island Relics for hosting this incredible 2 day event. ✅ Subscribe to this channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresIn... ✅ Find of a lifetime x2 ...    • Find of a Lifetime | Lightning Strikes Twice   We had over 1200 acres to hunt in some vary historic farmland that had a lot of activity back in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 periods. We had done our research and found that there was once a small little village in a field adjacent to the event staging area, next to the Little Chazy river, called Factoryville. The locals all refer to us as "Suckertown". There was no longer any signs of this town but using a metal detector, we were sure we could find it and we were interested in what kind of metal detecting finds would come up from the Suckertown area. This town had multiple buildings, and multiple mill sites. It didnt take us, and hundreds of other detectorists that had done the same research, long to locate the old road and locations of the old buildings. The hunt was on. One of the main historic events that happened close to this area was the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1814 between the British and the US. This battle is credited as one of the final battles the lead to the end of the War of 1812. The British HQ, where the commander and over 10,000 British troops camped was only about 10 miles away from these fields we were hunting in Chazy, NY at The Scott House. In the second year of the War of 1812, a fleet of British ships sailed to attack the port town of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain, while a coordinated land attack came from the North out of Canada and marched South towards Plattsburgh. The land attack was met with many skirmishes from an under-manned US Army in the region that had elicited the help of any able bodied man in the area to take up arms. In a brilliant move, the commander of US forces who were concealed in the wood line but whose supply road was in site of the British, took small groups of soldiers and marched them out of the woods, out of site, down the supply road, then back into the woods creating the illusion that our forces were constantly being reinforced by many more soldiers and supplies than we really had. When the Navy battle started, it roared through the area and the commander of British land forces hearing the battle was underway, chose to allow his soldiers to finish breakfast before taking up arms and getting into marching formations. The Navy battle was over in a short amount of time resulting in the British ships being defeated by a much smaller fleet of US ships. Seeing this defeat which was not supposed to happen, and also knowing the the US had been "reinforcing" their numbers for days, it was clear to the British commander that this was a lost cause so he made the decision to retreat back up into Canada and abandoned his attack plan on Plattsburgh. A few months later, a treaty was signed ending the War of 1812. In this video you see that I found a War of 1812 pewter US Soldier Cuff Button in the fields adjacent to Suckertown. How did that get there? Did it belong to one of the soldiers that turned back the British Army during that battle? Was this the site of one of the many skirmishes? These are the questions that get our minds turning and excite us as Metal Detectorists. I am so excited to have brought something home that ties to that period of time and in that area knowing what happened there. A very special find indeed for a guy from Colorado. I hope you enjoy the video. I look forward to returning next year. ✅ A 4000 year old Bronze Age treasure hoard was found ...    • Bronze Age Treasure Hoard Found   Adventures In Dirt Info: Contact: [email protected] Business inquiries: [email protected]