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00:00On the curse of Oak Island.
00:02It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.
00:05Whoa! Whoa!
00:07Yeah!
00:08Look what I'm getting here.
00:09Whoa!
00:11So I've done a CT scan.
00:12You can see it faintly right here.
00:14Whoa!
00:15We'll all be damned.
00:16Yeah.
00:17That might tell a story.
00:19Whoa! Whoa!
00:21We're probably into the void.
00:22If there's the one thing, he could have it in that four barrel right now.
00:26Get in it.
00:27There you go.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:40So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:46Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:50And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:00And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:08Okay team, this is the part of this whole venture I like honestly the most.
01:24Another bright morning has dawned on Oak Island.
01:28And in the laboratory, Rick and Marty Lagina and members of their team are gathered to learn more about a recent discovery.
01:37Catchy and I found something that we thought was really, really cool.
01:41It's a coin for sure.
01:43And we're about to find out what exactly this is.
01:47Ooh.
01:48Wowzer.
01:49One week ago, Marty and Katya Drayton discovered a coin with a curious design on Lot 5.
01:59And in the same area where the team previously found five Roman coins that could be as much as 2,000 years old.
02:08So yeah, so I've done an XRF.
02:10So compositionally, it's copper-based.
02:14There is iron.
02:15There is calcium.
02:16But you see there's a silver content also.
02:19And that's a good sign.
02:20That usually indicates an older alloy.
02:24That's amazing.
02:26Emma says the composition of the coin has silver.
02:30And so I think it could be very valuable.
02:32Everything about this, once again, makes you feel like, geez, I'm not wasting my time and money here.
02:38Uh, this is, this is for real.
02:40I popped it into the CT scan to get a better look at it.
02:44Whoa.
02:46That's ancient.
02:48Oh my God.
02:50So you have the figure standing left.
02:54And we do have the lettering.
02:57Office in A.
02:58Which is N for Novum.
03:01So ninth.
03:02So it's the ninth workshop.
03:03Can't tell which region.
03:05Because the mid mark is gone.
03:08But that would be like in the Roman vicinity.
03:11And if we take a look at the other side.
03:13So you have the head bust facing right.
03:16And you can see it faintly right here.
03:18Looks like a crown.
03:19And a really distinctive pointed, like I don't know, really sharp nose, sharp chin.
03:24And these features, you only see them with Claudius II.
03:29So you have the workshops.
03:34You have the composition.
03:36And then you have Claudius II.
03:39And that puts it more towards like 250, 270 AD.
03:44So this is a Roman coin.
03:45Yes.
03:46Yes.
03:47Roman baby.
03:52Without a doubt.
03:53Without a doubt.
03:55Marcus Aurelius Claudius, also known as Claudius II.
04:00Reigned as the emperor of Rome from 268 to 270 AD.
04:05The team has never found evidence of habitation on Oak Island dating back to that era.
04:13So how did the six Roman coins get here?
04:16We'll all be damned.
04:18Yeah.
04:19We have very few certainties on this island.
04:21Well, there's one.
04:22That is a Roman coin.
04:24I mean, we used to say it with a little bit of hesitation.
04:26Like, you know, we're having a hard time believing in ourselves, but we can't discard it anymore.
04:31It does have a high surrounding silicon layer.
04:35Does that imply it's been there a long time?
04:38Yeah.
04:39How about that?
04:40What were the other metals that Dr. Spooner was finding in the water in the money pit?
04:45Lead, tin, copper, and zinc.
04:47So those are all elements that are found in this coin.
04:50The silver Piblado coin is 1367 to 1383 and has similar elements too.
04:58The fact that the composition of the so-called Portuguese Piblado coin and the Roman coins match the traces of precious metals that were detected deep in the money pit area raises an important question.
05:13Could they all be related?
05:14I have always believed that what happened here on Oak Island happened long ago.
05:20And so it's not out of the bounds to suggest that this might be part of the treasure, right?
05:27Yeah.
05:28Mm-hmm.
05:29The interesting thing now is when was it deposited?
05:32Yeah, exactly.
05:33That is what would be interesting to know.
05:36I think Sandy Campbell can certainly tell us something about that coin.
05:40We should have him look into this further.
05:43Well, as you often tell me, Marty, that's a great find, but you guys need to go back out to Lot 5 and find some more.
05:49Exactly.
05:50Let's do it.
05:51Let's go.
05:52All right.
05:53See you later.
05:55Good job.
05:56Later that morning, as the team prepares their next drill location in the money pit area.
06:03So as we know, it's a very aggressive search agenda this year.
06:09We have a lot of things going on.
06:10I know you've done your homework.
06:12You have the permits.
06:14Rick meets with Steve Guptill, Scott Barlow, and Billy Gerhardt in the Oak Island Research Center to plan another major investigation, a large-scale dig in the triangle-shaped swamp.
06:27The swamp has been incredibly generous to us in terms of finding things.
06:32Think about the timelines that have been associated with the swamp.
06:361200s, 1300s, 1400s.
06:41We've always thought that the bog held secrets, and those secrets might have something to do with the money pit, right?
06:47Yeah.
06:48During the past decade, Rick, Marty, and the team have uncovered numerous stone structures in the swamp.
06:57These include a massive paved area near the center of the bog, which has been scientifically dated to the 13th century.
07:06A stone road in the southeast corner, which may be more than 500 years old and is believed to be of Portuguese origin.
07:15And a cobblestone pathway in the northern region, which led the team to an empty, vault-like feature that has been dated to as early as the 17th century.
07:26We've found some incredibly unique things in the swamp, things we haven't been able to explain as of yet.
07:32But it suggests numerous groups may have deposited things here on the island.
07:37Once you understand the totality of the work in the bog, then you can apply maybe a possible connection to the money pit.
07:46And who was behind this mystery?
07:48So, Steve, where are your areas of interest?
07:51So I have an area I'd like to start us at.
07:53It's just west of the paved area.
07:55You can see it here.
07:56It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.
07:59That end of the swamp is kind of like the area around the vault, right?
08:02You know, we traveled across it a hundred times, didn't know the vault was there.
08:05So, you know, I think that the same types of finds can exist in that corner.
08:09Hopefully there's another one, and hopefully it's not empty.
08:12Yep.
08:13We drained the swamp, and I think all that really remains is, you know, get the excavators in place and start digging.
08:20Yeah.
08:21Let's get to work.
08:23Later that day...
08:26All right, guys, western side of the swamp, brand new area for us.
08:32Rick meets with members of the team to begin their new investigation in the western region of the swamp.
08:39We're only 180 feet off the paved area.
08:42That's just straight east of us.
08:43Yeah, and I love those dates from the paved area.
08:47It's 1200s, and we've seen a certain coin this year, a Portuguese coin from the 1300s.
08:55We might be in for a bit of pork and cheese.
08:58Every year, the swamp surprises us.
09:00The bar every year, it keeps raising, right?
09:03Yeah.
09:04Let's get digging with it, Billy.
09:09I'm really excited to be back in the swamp.
09:12It's been good to us in the past.
09:14We've found a lot of really nice artifacts in the area, and hopefully, we are going to find some artifacts today.
09:27Oh, it's clean at the moment.
09:29Whoa.
09:30Wow, look at that.
09:42What have we got here?
09:46Steak.
09:47Did you see that, Billy?
09:48You just moved the steak.
09:49Yep.
09:50While digging near the western edge of the Oak Island swamp, Rick Lagina and members of the team have just discovered an interesting clue.
10:03Is that one of the sharpened old wooden steak posts, Rick?
10:08Yeah, it looks like it.
10:09What do you think?
10:10It does look like one of those older style ones, the way it's cut like that.
10:17That ain't sore.
10:20No, that's it.
10:21Axe cut.
10:22Yep.
10:23A hand-cut wooden steak?
10:26Curiously, the team discovered a number of similar steaks one year ago in the center of the swamp, lining the cobble path.
10:34These steaks were carbon dated to as early as the 17th century and led them to the vault-like feature.
10:45So that would be your first connection that this potentially at one point in time was a path.
10:48So that could be a really old wood steak.
10:51Is it possible that the team has uncovered evidence of another pathway?
10:56If so, just what might it lead to?
11:00What have we got here?
11:02Yeah.
11:03Whoo!
11:04Look at that!
11:07That's definitely a steak there.
11:09Yeah.
11:10There's one right there.
11:11Yeah, so...
11:12Oh, yeah.
11:13Good eye, Rick.
11:15Oh, that's a little mini work about, ain't it?
11:18Like the ones we've seen in the north side of the swamp.
11:21Mm-hmm.
11:22And the dating on those came back from 1630s all the way to mid-1700s.
11:26The question is, what do all these steaks mean?
11:28Mm-hmm.
11:29This steak is strikingly similar to the steaks that we found in the north end.
11:35The steaks might be referencing some work that is yet undiscovered in the bog.
11:40It is incredibly exciting.
11:42It's odd to have so many steaks in one area, right?
11:46Yeah.
11:47We need to date these to really understand their importance here in a very tight area.
11:53Yeah.
11:54But you still need to find artifacts.
11:57Oh, yeah.
11:58The metals will tell the story in this place.
12:00Yeah.
12:01You know?
12:02I'm open for coins.
12:03Cross our fingers.
12:05As Rick and the team proceed with their excavation in the swamp, several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.
12:13This almost feels like this is that top layer of soil because it's soft.
12:16I notice it's more gravely when you get over there, but that could be from that little pile.
12:20It's from the pile, I think.
12:21Archaeologist Fiona Steele and other members of the team continue their investigation of a mysterious rounded feature near the shoreline.
12:30Okay, your turn for the coolest find ever.
12:33Okay.
12:34Ever.
12:35In recent years, the team has uncovered evidence suggesting that several different groups conducted secret activities here at different times while possibly hiding valuables on the island.
12:49These include a number of buttons and Venetian trade beads that may be connected to the Knights of Malta, a religious military order that descended from the Knights Templar.
13:01Lot 5 is an example of the extraordinary complexity of this island and what happened here.
13:08The multi-generational theory fits with a lot of the dates we found.
13:13I want to keep going because I want to figure this out.
13:18Oh my God, look at this.
13:27Might be a pipe stem.
13:30Hey, pipe stem!
13:32Oh, that's great.
13:33It's got a really small borehole.
13:36Like, really small.
13:38You can actually get an idea of the date range from the size of the boreholes.
13:42So if you get a smaller borehole, it's more likely a more recent pipe stem.
13:47But if you get a really big borehole, it can age it quite a bit.
13:52I always have stuff with me that we can use for this.
13:55This is what we use to check the boreholes with.
13:58All right, so this one is a 464ths, which is what I'm expecting.
14:03Let's see.
14:04And look at that.
14:05That fits perfectly.
14:07So that's saying that this pipe stem was made sometime between 1753 and 1800.
14:12Which actually fits in exactly with what the mean date range of all the artifacts that we're finding here.
14:18Nice.
14:19I think that's pretty cool.
14:20The artifacts we have in general from Lot 5, these artifacts still predate 1795.
14:27So they predate the discovery of the money pit.
14:31To me, that's what makes our work on Lot 5 so significant.
14:36I'm glad we found that.
14:37That's great.
14:38Tansy.
14:39Look what I'm getting here.
14:40Check this out.
14:41Pottery.
14:42Oh, wow.
14:43It's a big boy.
14:44So we're going to take it out in two pieces.
14:45There's one.
14:46So shiny.
14:47Isn't that great?
14:48Let's see with magic.
14:49Oh!
14:50That's gorgeous.
14:51That's really pretty.
14:52Wow.
14:53Can you hold that one?
14:54Let's get the other piece out.
14:55Yeah.
14:56There we go.
14:57Ooh.
14:58Ooh.
14:59Ooh.
15:00Ooh.
15:01Ooh.
15:02Ooh.
15:03Ooh.
15:04Ooh.
15:05Ooh.
15:06Ooh.
15:07Ooh.
15:08Ooh.
15:09Ooh.
15:10Ooh.
15:11Ooh.
15:12Ooh.
15:13Ooh.
15:14Ooh.
15:15Ooh.
15:16Ooh.
15:17There we go.
15:18Ooh.
15:19So pretty.
15:20Wow.
15:21Those will go together.
15:22Look how big that bowl would have been.
15:24It had to have been a big utilitarian type of bowl.
15:27It was probably used for food purposes, preparation of some sort, whether it was breads or preserved fruits.
15:33I find with these coarse earthenwares, it could be anywhere from 1600 to 1800, but this little design on it will help date it.
15:41Good job.
15:42Fragments of an ornate earthenware bowl that may have been used to contain food?
15:48There are no records that any settlers ever lived on Lot 5.
15:53So if Fiona is correct that this pottery may date back to the 17th century, it's a potential clue that could help identify who was here.
16:03The things that we've been finding on Lot 5 have been giving us more of an indication of multi-occupational use of the lot itself.
16:12That's pretty blatant and evident.
16:14So it's getting more and more curious as we're going.
16:17Every piece adds to the puzzle and tells us more and more.
16:20Yeah.
16:21That's great.
16:22Beautiful find.
16:23Beautiful find.
16:24The next day.
16:29The find is quite remarkable.
16:33Laird, I would think you would have to agree.
16:35Finding that is incredibly impressive.
16:38Oh, absolutely.
16:40Rick and members of the team meet once again in the lab regarding another find made two weeks ago on Lot 5.
16:48Tansy, we thank you for that.
16:51It's stunningly beautiful.
16:53It is.
16:54An ornate glass bead that Tansy Rudnicki uncovered in the rounded feature.
16:59Laird, Emma, tell us what this is and what it may mean.
17:03So I do have an XRF results.
17:07So the composition, we have a whole bunch of elements in it.
17:11The color is due to the copper content that you see right here.
17:16So that's what makes it a lovely, lovely blue.
17:20But here's the compositional averages in the comparison with other artifacts found on Oak Island.
17:26Our bead is the one in blue.
17:28The composition of the glass itself.
17:31The closest match that it lines up with are the Venetian beads that we've collected over the years.
17:38It would be interesting to know if any of these are associated with the activity that was going on with the lights of Malta.
17:49It would be interesting to know if any of these are associated with the activity that was going on with the lights of Malta.
17:55So you'd just be curious to see if maybe they brought some beads with them.
17:59They would have 100% brought beads with them to trade with the indigenous people in the area.
18:04In the Oak Island lab, Emma Culligan and Laird have just informed the team that it's possible that the glass Venetian bead found on Lot 5 could be connected to the Knights of Malta.
18:17So it's what we call a seed bead for obvious reasons. It's the size of a large seed. They were introduced in the second half of the 1600s.
18:29It would be interesting to know if any of these have ever been found at Fort Point because, as we all know, Isaac de Rosalie came over and made his capital on the Le Havre River.
18:39In 1632, a French naval captain and prominent member of the Knights of Malta named Isaac de Rosalie helped establish the French colony of Acadia, which is now known today as Nova Scotia.
18:54Curiously, De Rosalie established his headquarters at Fort Point on the Le Havre River, just 15 miles south of Oak Island.
19:06If Venetian beads have been discovered at Fort Point, could that offer more evidence of a connection between the Knights of Malta and the Oak Island mystery?
19:16We can check with the archaeologists at Fort Point, see what they may have for beads that were recovered from their archaeology.
19:23That'd be great. Strange as it sounds, that little simple bead might tell a story.
19:29So, thank you, Emma. Thank you, Laird. Having said that, we'd better get out back to it.
19:35Thank you. See you later. See ya.
19:39Later that day, as the investigations in both the swamp and on Lot 5 continue.
19:49J.5, 8.5, guys.
19:52All right.
19:54We're still about 12 feet above what we conventionally think of the top of the solution channel.
20:01Over at the Money Pit area, the core drilling operation reaches a depth of nearly 140 feet in a new borehole known as J.5, 8.5.
20:13Here, the team hopes to penetrate the natural cavity known as the solution channel and recover evidence of treasure.
20:22Previous holes have shown us how convoluted it is. We've run into actual ledges within it and soft pot below 190.
20:31Hopefully, this one will get into an even looser area and some kind of a chest.
20:35Yep. One full of silver coins.
20:37This looks all about. We live in hope.
20:39Did a treasure fall down to the depths of the solution channel? We don't know.
20:44You don't want to be driven by possibilities. You want to be driven by facts.
20:48And the fact is, right now, we are nowhere near done exploring the extremities of this void.
20:56And we need to continue to be very disciplined in our approach.
21:00But we mustn't relent. We mustn't give up.
21:03We're not there yet. I want the one thing.
21:11Whoa! Whoa! That was interesting.
21:15What happened?
21:16He just lost his rods.
21:18And that means we're probably into the void.
21:20I'll ask him how far they seem to have dropped.
21:25Adam.
21:26Hey.
21:27How far did they drop?
21:28About 8 feet.
21:29Okay.
21:30And that's into a loose area?
21:31I'm assuming.
21:32Yeah. That's what we're looking for.
21:33Okay.
21:34Go get it.
21:35Oh, we'll see you here.
21:36Yep.
21:37Thanks.
21:38It's weird.
21:39Hey, Terry.
21:40What did he say?
21:41So that was interesting.
21:42Okay.
21:43So we're into a loose area, 148 to 158 or so.
21:46The rods just dropped right out.
21:49Now we go deeper to see what they find.
21:51I mean, I got my fingers crossed here, gentlemen.
21:54We are at a really interesting point.
21:56Let's hope.
21:57This is exactly what we're looking for.
22:00We're dropping down into an open space in the solution channel below 150 feet.
22:04If we trace this to the bottom, we could find a lot of amazing things before bedrock.
22:10Whoa.
22:11That is an extraordinary washed out void of material.
22:17168.
22:18Wow.
22:1968.
22:20Whoa.
22:21The rods were 15 feet down.
22:2415 feet?
22:2515 feet.
22:26So is that a solution channel, you think?
22:28Huh.
22:29Exactly so.
22:30That's kind of a void in an open space.
22:32You could lose a whole lot of treasure.
22:34So out of the 20 feet, that's all you got.
22:37Wow.
22:38Yeah.
22:39So that bodes well, gentlemen.
22:40I think this is getting very interesting.
22:43It's not over yet.
22:45I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.
22:48So when we pull a 20-foot run, and we only have a few feet of material in it, that says
22:53we've passed into a relative void where only a small amount of the solid material has been
22:57encountered.
22:58And if we hit that kind of a situation, we know we're into the void in the solution channel.
23:02Clear.
23:03That tells us we could encounter an artifact anywhere between there and the bedrock.
23:11Terry!
23:12Adam, how are we doing?
23:13I'm at 188.
23:14Wow.
23:15And I haven't hit anything hard.
23:16All we got is loose void.
23:17That's it.
23:18Thanks.
23:19What do you got?
23:20So he has dropped another 20 feet.
23:21He went from 168 to 188, and he's still got nothing solid.
23:24So he's going to push forward from 188 to 198 to see if he can hit something solid.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Given what we know, it's a 30-foot void, give or take.
23:29That's exciting.
23:30I think objective number one is to find the bottom of the solution channel.
23:39Absolutely.
23:44Oh, it's 30-foot void, give or take.
23:46That's exciting.
23:47I think objective number one is to find the bottom of the solution channel.
23:50Absolutely.
23:52We're excited because what is below us right here has not been searched by anyone ever,
23:59and we're going to be the first people to look at that.
24:02Hopefully, we'll find something at the bottom because treasure is very dense,
24:07and we'll drop through the material in the solution channel and settle at the bottom.
24:11We have a core, gentlemen.
24:16The sample that we have in that core barrel is very important.
24:19It was just passed down through a huge amount of loose area.
24:22If there's a debris field, if there's a broken-up treasure chest,
24:26if there's the one thing, he could have it in that core barrel right now.
24:30Let's hope.
24:34168 to 198 right in front of us, gentlemen.
24:36We're looking for aspects of the debris field of the fallen treasure, yes?
24:40Exactly.
24:41There he is.
24:42Hey, Rick.
24:43Hey.
24:43Hello.
24:44Very loose area here, Rick.
24:46168 to 198 and J.5 to 8.5.
24:50Okay.
24:50Let's see it.
24:51All right.
24:52In the money pit area, Rick has joined the team to inspect fresh drilling cores recovered from the solution channel.
25:00This material is relatively watery, void-like material, and from 198, we should go to about 218 or 215 before we hit bedrock, Rick.
25:11So there should be another swath of interesting material at the bottom of the solution channel.
25:16Unfortunately, no hits with the pinpointer.
25:29Well, let's see what the next one looks like.
25:30I think this next run is the most important.
25:33That would be the hope.
25:34This hole in particular, it's soft enough for something very heavy to have migrated downward to the point where it would fall to the lowest possible point, i.e. the bottom of the solution channel.
25:47We just have to find it.
25:55It's getting ridiculous.
25:57Like, I'm 228 right now.
25:59That's so weird, man.
26:01Adam, how we doing?
26:03228.
26:05228?
26:06228.
26:07Wow.
26:08That's one for the record books.
26:09And loose all the way down?
26:10Yeah.
26:11Nothing.
26:12Well, it's loose, but I can feel it.
26:14Do you think you're going to be able to retrieve that?
26:16It's going in the rods right now.
26:17Okay, thank you.
26:22Well, you don't see that every day.
26:24228, no bedrock.
26:26What?
26:26What are they going through?
26:27Just water?
26:28Well, it's loose material as well.
26:30It looks like he's going to be able to get a sample, so it looks like we're going to have 30 feet more of torque coming up.
26:35I agree.
26:36It's highly unusual in fact that you're not in bedrock at 228.
26:40It's incredibly interesting.
26:42Yeah.
26:42Previously drilled boreholes that have reached the bottom of the solution channel have suggested that the mysterious natural cavity has a maximum depth of some 220 feet.
26:56However, has the team now discovered evidence that it could be deeper in some areas, presenting a whole new challenge to finding the believed treasure?
27:06The solution channel is wide, it's expansive, it's deep.
27:12I think it's a little bit larger and certainly deeper than we had thought.
27:18Generally, the bottom is 218 to 14.
27:22Well, we're 14 feet past that.
27:23I think what it tells us is we have a lot more work to do to truly understand the solution channel.
27:31It certainly presents some unique challenges.
27:33Will there be issues that arise that we haven't anticipated?
27:37Sure, there will be problems, but we're not going to give up.
27:41It's that simple.
27:42Jump in and I'll guide you in.
27:44If there were something of some significance, it would easily fall through what we just had on the table.
27:52Exactly.
27:53Yes.
27:54Here we go.
27:55Let's hope it's a good one.
27:57You can be very hopeful.
27:59Look, Peter thinks it's hopeful.
28:01I'm on board.
28:02I'm cautiously optimistic.
28:04There you go.
28:05That was the worst.
28:05There you go.
28:05The drill bar has basically fallen almost 100 feet with no hindrance.
28:13Your immediate thought is, well, here absolutely is the collapse zone.
28:18What other explanation is there?
28:21And if there's a collapse zone, then we may be close to something.
28:25So 198 all the way down to 228 and no bedrock yet.
28:32But a lot of loose material.
28:33So you've got a lot of work to do here with your pinpointer, I think, Charles.
28:36Hell yeah.
28:36Okay, so for 30 feet of drilling, we've got about 12 feet of loose material.
28:45Clear.
28:46Unfortunately, in this section, we didn't hit it.
28:48Let's see where he hits bottom and we'll see what he brings back up.
28:55If he's pounding, that's bedrock.
28:59There's a nice white powder.
29:01That's bedrock.
29:03Let's see what we've got up above the bedrock.
29:09Here we go.
29:14What do we got?
29:17228, 233.
29:19The rock was at 229.
29:21So, yeah, it looks like you've got about a foot of loose material.
29:27It's a good four feet of bedrock.
29:30Yeah, it's clear.
29:33J.5, 8.5.
29:34Seems to have come to an end here at 233 below grade.
29:38We hit bedrock at 229 below grade.
29:40It gave us information.
29:42Exactly.
29:42What do you think about this, Adam?
29:45It's been the most interesting one to me to date.
29:48Bottom line is, I'm an eyes and boots guy.
29:50When the driller of record says, this is something different, you can put your nickel on that.
29:55It's different, absolutely.
29:57Based on what we're seeing, the theory that the treasure would fall deep down in the solution channel still is alive and well.
30:05One of the reasons for doing this on a drill program was, okay, where's an area where we might put a case on it down?
30:12Incremental information is incredibly important to help us determine that.
30:17Yeah.
30:18We need to make a decision where we go next.
30:20Yeah.
30:21Yeah.
30:22Absolutely.
30:23As the team plots their next borehole location in the Money Pit area.
30:28So, Sandy, thank you for coming down once again.
30:31Appreciate it, Rick.
30:32Rick and Doug meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell in the research center to get his analysis of the Roman coin that was recently found on Lot 5.
30:44You know, as soon as I pick the coin up, it's quite obvious what it is.
30:49This is clearly Roman Empire period.
30:52It's in remarkable condition for a coin that's been buried for quite a while.
30:57I think we'll need a CT to get a more definitive portrait.
31:04Laird and Emma have actually provided us with a couple of images from the CT scanner.
31:09Let's have a look.
31:10Yeah, the CT's pretty clear.
31:13You know, the reverse is quite spectacular.
31:17Very definitive legend.
31:20You know, somebody's standing holding an oak leaf.
31:23The obverse here is probably Claudius, which makes it 3rd century AD.
31:33That's what Laird and Emma said.
31:35Yeah.
31:36No question in your mind.
31:38It's a Roman coin.
31:39No, no question.
31:41This is a pretty obvious design and period of Roman Empire.
31:45But of all the Roman, this is, you know, perhaps the most remarkable piece that's been found to date.
31:54What do you make of Roman coins being found on this island, though?
31:57Like, how many Roman coins have been found elsewhere in Nova Scotia?
32:00I would say nothing that I'm aware of.
32:05I'm puzzled how so many Roman coins could land on this island.
32:10The question that would be in my mind is, who brought it?
32:13But, you know, Roman coins traded as currency into the 1500s quite regularly.
32:21They were monetarily used.
32:23And that's what possibly brought them to this island, in my opinion.
32:26Who brought them is a different story.
32:28Here's a scenario that starts to paint itself in my mind, though.
32:32The people that were carrying out the work to create the money pit
32:35may have been carrying this as currency in their pockets.
32:39I think that is a distinct possibility.
32:41I think that is incredible.
32:46If you have people on the island building habitations for the works, perhaps, in the money pit,
32:52and they're losing their personal possessions along the way,
32:57these coins might have been actually the pocket change of the workers working to deposit a treasure in the money pit.
33:02So, this, to me, may not be the actual treasure they were depositing, but it's evidence.
33:07Yeah, it could be.
33:10In the Oak Island Research Center, Sandy Campbell has just validated the possibility
33:15that the Roman coins found on Lot 5 may have been dropped by those who buried a treasure in the money pit.
33:23I wouldn't discount it.
33:25You know, 13, 1400s, this stuff was in use all through Europe.
33:31If you walked into any merchant anywhere in the world, you know, whether it's the new world or the old world,
33:38that had monetary value.
33:40It's mind-numbing that this stuff continues to get unearthed.
33:46Mm-hmm.
33:47One of the interesting things about Roman coins is they've often been found in places we've investigated
33:54the activities of the Templars, right?
33:57Mm-hmm.
33:58Another twist.
34:00Here we have the coins.
34:02The Roman coins have been found in Iceland.
34:05During their numerous trips to European sites,
34:08where the Templar order was believed to have operated between the 12th and 14th centuries,
34:13the team has been shown Roman coins from the same eras that they have found on Oak Island.
34:19This is 4th century.
34:214th century.
34:22Yeah.
34:23We were told ours were from 5th century AD.
34:27If those coins were in active use right up through the 1200s,
34:32then they could be associated with activity of the Templars.
34:36This, sitting here on this table, might be representative of that cultural context.
34:42Perhaps with Nolan's cross and then the so-called Pibleto coin.
34:47Right.
34:48Is it possible that the ancient Roman coins could actually represent another Templar connection to the Oak Island mystery?
34:56And could they be related to other possible Templar structures, such as Nolan's cross?
35:02As well as reported discoveries like the silver Portuguese coin.
35:07The wealth associated with a possible treasure in the money pit might have been gathered from all over the world.
35:14And Templars, as we have learned, assimilated power, influence wealth, and specifically knowledge.
35:23So, it may be that this coin is Roman, but you have to take the clues and the data as presented to you.
35:32But you have to analyze that data with a very open mind, because it could all be connected.
35:38We need to rededicate ourselves to continue to look intensively at Lot 5 and the adjacent lots.
35:47And the money pit for irrefutable proof.
35:50Right.
35:51So, Sandy, thank you for coming down.
35:53Really appreciate it, as always.
35:55I appreciate the invite.
35:57And, again, it just, it's always interesting to see something new and different.
36:03It just deepens the mystery, in my opinion.
36:06It does do that.
36:07Yeah.
36:08It's incredibly interesting.
36:10Roman coins were found on Oak Island.
36:12It's just more bizarre.
36:16Later that day...
36:18It's a good place to start, Charles.
36:20Yep.
36:21Back on the trail of artifacts, mate, on Lot 4.
36:24I love it.
36:26Charles joins Gary on Lot 4.
36:30Encouraged by the new discoveries of the glass bead and the Roman coin.
36:35You ready to get stuck in, mate?
36:36Let's do it.
36:37Okay.
36:38Let's start here.
36:39You find them, I'll dig them.
36:40Rick has instructed them to search an area on nearby Lot 4, where excavated spoils from
36:47the round feature on Lot 5 have been deposited.
36:50It's a bit of a jumpy signal, Charles.
36:52It's more than likely going to be a piece of elongated iron.
36:58You never know.
37:03Let's get stuck back in.
37:04You've digled some dirt around.
37:08I think it's out.
37:10Yeah, I believe so.
37:19Yeah, just a little nail, though.
37:21Yeah?
37:21Yeah.
37:22Burn it.
37:25Keep going.
37:26Oh, we've got a nice banging signal here, Charles.
37:37Oh, I like the sound of that, Charles.
37:39Nice one?
37:40Yeah, a real good one.
37:41This could be a coin or a button.
37:43Well, let's hope.
37:44This has got potential, mate.
37:46Just there, please.
37:47Right there?
37:47Okay.
37:48That's a lot of roots.
37:54Yep.
37:56X marks a spot.
37:59Yep.
38:01Take a look-see.
38:03All right.
38:04Let's see what we've got.
38:09Let's see it.
38:13It's in the hand, mate.
38:14And I can feel it.
38:16This is the fun part, mate.
38:20Let's see what we've got.
38:22Ooh.
38:23Ooh.
38:31Oh, what have we found, Charles?
38:35Look at that, mate.
38:37Some kind of lead strip.
38:39That's interesting.
38:41While searching for clues on lot four,
38:44Charles and Gary have just made a curious discovery.
38:48Look at the beveled edges.
38:50I see that.
38:51You know what this reminds me of?
38:52What's that?
38:53It reminds me of an arm of a lead cross.
38:58Really?
38:59It looks like there's an hole at the top.
39:01Yeah.
39:02If you are making a cross, a lead,
39:04and you want to tack it onto something,
39:06it would need holes.
39:08So we could be in Templar country.
39:10Yeah.
39:12A lead artifact with similar features
39:15to the 14th century lead cross
39:17that was found at Smith's Cove in 2017?
39:22Members of the Oak Island team
39:23have seen this exact cross design
39:26at 12th and 14th century Templar-related sites
39:30in Dome, France,
39:32in Camerano, Italy,
39:34and near Reykjavik, Iceland.
39:37And perhaps even more incredible
39:40is the fact that in 2022,
39:44while investigating the mysterious round feature
39:46just a few yards away on lot five,
39:50Gary and Jack Begley
39:51unearthed a lead barter token
39:53that was scientifically matched
39:55to the lead cross.
39:57You see that?
39:59This looks really old.
40:01Yeah.
40:02Is it possible that Gary and Charles
40:05have found another key clue
40:07that could help prove a Templar connection
40:09to the Oak Island mystery?
40:11Let's put this in the bag where it belongs.
40:15Even a little piece of lead like this
40:18could tell a really big story.
40:20It's one of those metals you can have tested
40:23and you never know.
40:25Imagine if this piece of lead
40:27is a match to a certain medieval artifact
40:30we recovered in Smith's Cove.
40:34Medieval lead cross, baby.
40:36I'm sure there's more artifacts waiting for us,
40:39but we need to get to the lab.
40:41I can't wait to see what this is.
40:43Let's go, man.
40:44All right, mate.
40:44Good digging.
40:45Excellent.
40:46Absolutely brilliant.
40:50Generations of treasure hunters
40:53have believed that something of immense value
40:56lies buried in the money pit.
40:59Now Rick, Marty, and their team
41:02may have not only touched a piece
41:04of those fabled riches,
41:06but have found incredible new clues
41:09that could help identify
41:10just who was behind this mystery.
41:14So despite the murky questions
41:16that remain in the solution channel,
41:18this team will keep searching for the truth
41:21no matter how deep they have to dig.
41:25Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:32Hold it.
41:32Whoa, whoa, whoa.
41:33Another feature in the swamp.
41:34What in the world is happening?
41:36This feature could help us unwrap the whole mystery.
41:39Something this small
41:40has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel.
41:43Here it is right there.
41:43Could be a chunk of a coin.
41:45It's got some sort of design on it.
41:46If it's a silver coin, that's treasure.
41:48It's what we're looking for.
41:49Yeah.
41:50Be prepared to be gubstruck.
41:52This is going to be special.
41:54This is quite pure.
41:55Yes, absolutely.
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