Digging down over two feet in the ground and finding old stuff buried metal detecting artifacts

My guess is an old root cellar. That's also a place you would store tools and bikes etc in later years. Once the place was abandoned it just collapsed in unbeknownst to people in the future as it was probably already mostly buried anyway while anything inside of it went along with the collapse as soil and silt naturally filled the void during it's collapse.

It would be great if someone could use those bricks in a small project at home. I enjoyed this video and the one before it. Thank you for sharing with us and keep on digging. To be continued......

This just popped up. I never knew this was a thing. Ridiculously easy to get hooked on this. Keep on! I need to watch more of these now. I too would have to keep digging to see what else there is. History and a mystery. Perfect.

I have been dying for you guys to dig that relic out of the ground. What a massive hole with all kind of things in it. I hope you keep digging until you find everything. I know you must be sore from all that digging. But it is very exciting. Can't wait to see more from this pit.

I love how you guys are endlessly curious and stubborn, with tons of sticktoitiveness thrown in! A lot of those encrusted parts and pieces make me think of barnacle encrusted stuff found at the bottom of the ocean. I've been glued to this one! Here's hoping this site is one you go back to frequently.

Better than any episode of Oak Island. Maybe I missed it but hopefully you detected the dirt piles you shoveled out of the hole. Might have missed smaller metal objects.

Very exciting and what mysteries are in this dig holds all our interest....thanks for a good video. Hope you continue to unearth the past. NW ILLINOIS

Wow!! This is one of the most fascinating videos you have ever posted! I do hope you dig more at this spot; I'd love to see what else is buried there. Quite the mystery site, guys.

BEST EPISODE EVERRRRRR!!! I was screaming, "I'll drive the 900 miles to help dig!!! I would've camped out and dug all friggin night to help. No continuum jump. Just gotta wait with baited pitchfork, till next week. You could make a mini series out of this one cool hole. GREAT JOB Charlie and Dame! koodos to you to Wayneos.

I strongly believe what you found is a well that's been filled in. Most of the time when someone goes in and tears down one of those old homesteads they would fill in the well with the trash left behind and then fill dirt in over it. The items you will find in there are going to be in the time period of whatever was old and broken when the house was abandoned. In one part of your video it appears as though the bricks are stacked in a circular pattern. We had 11 of these old homestead wells on our ranch. We have filled some of them in. Once the house is gone it's an incredible safety hazzard to leave them open. We have had calves fall in and drown, and if a person is out walking alone and fall in one it would be the end. Alot of those old homesteads would have a well and an underground cistern. The well would be dug down deep to water level, and the cistern would go down about 8 feet and start forming an underground bell shape lined in bricks. It's absolutely amazing to look down into one of those brick lined bell cisterns. The cisterns would be right next to the house and sometimes under the porch and collect water from the house gutters.

Your second pitchfork looks like what we commonly called a potato hook back in the day. They had four flattened tines and hooked the potatoes out of the soft hill they grew in. What gives it away is the handle shaft is at 90 degrees to the tines.

I think you might have dug up an old lime kiln. It was used for making quicklime. Quicklime was used for making mortar in masonry work. I know of one such home made lime kiln that was used for the purpose of making quicklime to ultimately make mortar in the limestone structures on a farm. The small limestone quarry, where the limestone blocks were made, was near the kiln

Please try to find out more about this place ! I can only imagine what kind of history you guys may dig up there ! Thank you for sharing this with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy !

Wayneos you don't mind go ahead and fill in the hole, Dame and I are heading out before it gets to dark to see! Charlie I say someone got tired of using that heavy shovel, buried it hoping no one would ever find it. I've dug them that deep, This one will be remembered! God Bless! (Glen). WV.

Interesting dig! Strange evidence. Looking forward to the follow-up. I've been wondering IF you'd continue on this discovery. You've answered my question. Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble-Gobble!

In the 2000s, my mom found a 1980s Vespa moped buried 2 feet underground in the yard of a home she bought. It’s an example of something likely stolen or part of a crime somebody wanted hidden. The Vespa eventually started up and she rode it not long after digging it up! My neighbor told me he knew of a 1920s car that was buried on a friend’s farm in the 1940s. It was involved in an accident and they all got together, used a backhoe and concealed it.

Dig some more...another episode of this would be great!

I dug a 1890s thru 1915 dump and in one area 8 ft deep I dug 13 bike frames, hand forged tool, a large brass whistle of a steam tractor and several other way gonre metal tools.

So exciting to see what was in there. I ran into bricks in a back corner. After clearing out the upper level metals I found out there used to be an old storage building that had gas pipes run to it. The bricks eventually were less scattered and more in formation, lined with rocks that were on the outer walls. I dug all I could out and used them to line flower gardens.

Awesome