Historic Homes

Some of our favorite hunts happen around old homes where generations of history have been left behind. On this page, you’ll find metal detecting videos from historic houses and properties dating back to the 1800s, 1700s, and even earlier, as we search for coins, relics, silver, buttons, and other pieces of the past.


Colonial brick home metal detecting on Quarter Hoarder

What you’ll find here

Colonial home in Barnstable MA metal detecting with Dogtag Doug Stef Digs and Green Mountain Metal Detecting on on Quarter Hoarder
Colonial brick home metal detecting on Quarter Hoarder

A curated collection of Quarter Hoarder videos for anyone interested in metal detecting at some of America’s earliest homes. These hunt videos take you to real places where people still live, that have been standing for huundreds of years as we find things our ancestors lost centuries ago.

A Great Place to Start

Featured Video

Untouched 1820’s Property LOADED with finds

On our first metal detecting trip to this untouched 1820s property, Doug, Rich, Charley, Lynne, and Jason had no idea just how much history was waiting beneath the yard. That first hunt produced early U.S. large cents, old buttons, military relics, unusual 1800s artifacts, and an incredible assortment of silver coins scattered across the property. Since then, we’ve returned several times to keep searching this historic home, and each trip has uncovered even more coins, relics, and pieces of early American history.

Videos in this Collection

1740’s House Had Bizarre Things

Metal detecting this 1740s property turned up a little bit of everything, from cannonballs and U.S. large cents to silver coins and incredible early American relics.

1700’s House With Loads of Relics

Metal detecting a mid-1700’s house and this yard gave some tremendous finds. All sorts of cool relics, silver coins, rare coppers, and several surprise treasures along the way

1700’s House & One-of-a-Kind Coin!

Metal Detecting this early 1700’s house gave up some terrific old coins and relics, but then a total shocker when a rare colonial coin coin emerged that might be the only one that exists!

1750’s Yard Bursting With Treasure

Metal detecting the property around a 1750’s house gave up some incredible finds. Early coins, loads of silver, amazing relics, and so much more!

1720’s Property With Tons of Finds

Metal Detecting a 1720’s House and all around the property we found Early American and colonial coins, some super cool old relics, and all sorts of period artifacts!

1740’s Home with Monster Finds

Metal detecting the grounds of this 1740’s house gave up some incredible treasures, including early U.S. and colonial coins, rare relics, and all sort of amazing treasures!

1740’s Restored Grist Mill

We got access to metal detecting this restored 1740’s grist mill, and all around the property were remnants of the past, including old, cool relics, and all sorts of pieces from the past!

1740’s Log Cabin & General Store

This 1740’s log cabin was being restored by the owner. He had already found thousands of artifacts and coins, but now we have a change to metal detect inside and outside and add to his collection with more coins and relics!

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Check out even more video collections on Quarter Hoarder

Quarter Hoarder metal detecting a colonial farm field in the snow with a Nokta Legend 2 metal detector and an Excalibur Shovel
Quarter Hoarder metal detecting a colonial farm field in the snow with a Nokta Legend 2 metal detector and an Excalibur Shovel

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Visit the Quarter Hoarder YouTube channel for the full library of over 700 videos spanning 10 years of metal detecting at a huge selection of colonial and early American sites up through the 20th century. With old coins, relics, silver, gold, and all sorts of other treasures found, each video is an exciting look back into the past!