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Who Drilled This Hole... and Why?

Not Thursday

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Sometimes the best discoveries have nothing to do with what your metal detector finds.
I was deep in the New Hampshire woods, relic hunting with my Fisher F19 and following old stone walls from long-forgotten colonial farms. As I worked my way through the forest, I picked up a few good signals, found an old coin, a beautifully preserved glass jar, and eventually stumbled onto what appeared to be an old wagon road. Even after all these years, you can still read the landscape if you slow down and pay attention.
Then something completely unexpected caught my eye.
One of the massive stones in the wall had a perfectly round drilled hole in it. There were no cellar holes nearby, no obvious quarry, and nothing to explain why someone would drill into a stone way out here in what was once open pasture. It immediately made me stop and wonder... who drilled it, and what was its purpose?
Moments like this are why I love exploring forgotten places. Sometimes the biggest mystery isn't what comes out of the ground—it's what has been sitting in plain sight for more than a hundred years.
If you enjoy relic hunting, metal detecting, exploring old New England farms, forgotten roads, stone walls, and trying to read the stories hidden in the landscape, I think you'll enjoy this adventure.
About Not Thursday
Not Thursday is about exploring forgotten places, reading the landscape, and discovering the stories left behind. Whether I'm relic hunting with a metal detector, walking abandoned railroad grades, following colonial stone walls, or simply wandering into the unknown, every adventure is another chance to see the past from a different perspective.

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20 Comments

@madmaxofspokane1691 3 days ago

Cool on the drill hole.👍👍 I'm imagining an old-timer with a manual drill checking those big boulders for gold...👾👾☕☕

@MNpicker 3 days ago

Random small holes FTW....
After all.. thats... what keeps us guessing 😁✌🏻

@richardwarren4879 4 days ago

Thank you for the video Charlie.

@eddiecahall3824 3 days ago

Yes it is... especially when you find something good 💪👍

@williamdunn7329 4 days ago

I have a but load of fun watching your videos! Thanks Charlie.

@RandyChesnut 3 days ago

Hello I think it's awesome the amount of old homestead that are over there I live in south west Missouri and there's not very many of them here and there's so much History I wish there was more around here good luck on your hunts

@stevejanek8072 4 days ago

Drill holes found in rock walls aren’t too uncommon. They were used as survey marks for property boundaries. Have a few of them in my rock walls on my acreage here in NH.

@ogamhunter 4 days ago

Charlie, those ants are living high on the hog, living in a stone house. Someone had a good meal also! God Bless and keep you safe! (Glen) WV.

@rondathiesen9317 4 days ago

That jar was someone's moonshine, still inside.😂👍😘

@kittymervine6115 4 days ago

My daughter and I became "lost" in Pisgah State Park. We were nutty enough to go during winter, usually a light snow. Well, the snow was heavier, and the woods look totally different with all that snow (we were dressed correctly). We usually would go after a chill, a hard freeze, so to try to avoid bees. To this day, I take multiple EpiPens, as I have a severe allergy, and if I can't get to a hospital SOON, I'll need several. BUT, have to keep in mind that things look much different

@TheAdambraap 3 days ago

That was a snowmobile stud backer.

@Obscured1972 4 days ago

"DH in wall" "DH in ledge" etc. is seen often on surveys. I've made a few myself. Hammer and chisel back in the day. Cordless hammer drills these days

@robinkhan7468 4 days ago

The hole, I was thinking maybe it was for spikes that helped lift the stone up while oxen pulled on rope or chain connected to it, not having any idea if that was the case. Adventures are satisfying. I’m wondering if you map all the walls.

@davebuc4823 4 days ago

seriously!!! you brought up the old jar and rusted lid and i said: good luck getting that lid off later. just then you easily unscrewed the top. ha

@johnharms6178 4 days ago

good vid-

@stantilton6408 4 days ago

I wonder if the stone hole was for tugging it into place. Rather odd to say the least, thanks Charlie.

@MicheleAubrey-s4m 4 days ago

Oh thank goodness I able find videos on native stone walls my 2nd try. Check "where the stones have a story " . It pains me not to hear you considering this in your many travels .

@scottdean7613 4 days ago

Survey mark made using a hammer and star drill. You should have ran detector over the sides of trees there could have been "X" nails helping to locate the point "hole".