The Curse of Oak Island - Season 13 Episode 04- The Smoking Gun
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00:00On the Curse of Oak Island.
00:02Hold it! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:04Another feature in the swamp.
00:05What in the world is happening?
00:07This feature could help us unwrap the whole mystery.
00:09Something this small has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel.
00:13Here it is right there.
00:14Could be a chunk of a coin.
00:15It's got some sort of design on it.
00:17If it's a silver coin, that's treasure.
00:19It's what we're looking for.
00:20Yeah.
00:21Be prepared to be gobstrewed.
00:23This is gonna be special.
00:24This is quite pure?
00:25Yes, absolutely.
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.
01:01And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:09As the sun rises above Oak Island.
01:24How deep is this one?
01:27Two-party again?
01:28Yep.
01:29Well, guys, I know we're pretty excited about starting this next hole.
01:32This is F5.5.
01:35I think we're on a really important site right now.
01:39Right.
01:40Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are drilling deeper than ever in the Money Pit area.
01:47In search of the answers to a 230-year-old mystery.
01:51Because of the collapse last year, we were never able to really see what was down there.
01:56Yeah.
01:57I think that the grid that we have laid out here right now to explore deep down in the Solution Channel, we're going to find it if it's there.
02:03That's right.
02:04Today, the team has broken ground on a borehole known as F5.5.
02:10It is on target to reach a massive cavity underground known as the Solution Channel.
02:17They believe it's possible the legendary Money Pit treasure fell here after two centuries of failed digging operations.
02:25We're only about seven feet away from F4.
02:29And F4 had the highest levels of gold and silver in the water.
02:33Yeah, it makes this a really interesting hole because it's so close to the precious metal finds in the water.
02:38I mean, that's one of the confirming factors we have in front of us to show that there is a buried treasure here someplace.
02:44Yeah.
02:45That brings to mind the Portuguese coin.
02:49The team recently learned that a 14th century silver coin was reportedly found in the original Money Pit in 1849.
02:58And markings on the coin bear a direct connection to a Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.
03:05This has given them fresh hope that the Solution Channel could now hold the treasure and may explain the high traces of precious metals they've previously detected in this area through water testing.
03:18The fact that the Solution Channel could be the culprit in this whole long saga.
03:23And the fact that the gold and silver in the water still indicate the treasure still exists.
03:28You put those two things together along with this Portuguese coin.
03:31It speaks very loudly that there was something very valuable buried deep in the Money Pit a long time ago.
03:39We're going to explore this area thoroughly with the Sonic drill rig and hopefully bring up what we could not with TB1 case on.
03:46Anything that's fallen to that deeper level, we're going to be able to find it and put it right on the money.
03:51Yeah, for sure.
03:52Yep.
03:53While the core drilling operation proceeds in the Money Pit area.
03:58Come this way and dig that?
04:00Yeah.
04:01Let's find something old.
04:02Yep.
04:03Over at the western region of the swamp, Rick, Gary Drayton and Billy Gerhardt search for new clues and evidence of valuables.
04:12Hold it, whoa, whoa, whoa!
04:19Don't move it.
04:26It's a stake.
04:28Great condition.
04:29The swamp really preserves wood.
04:33Should preserve iron, gold and silver if we can find it.
04:36If we can find it.
04:43Yeah, there's another one.
04:46It was right there.
04:47Yep.
04:53Does that look like an oldie, Rick?
04:55It is tough to tell.
04:59It's eight sides, isn't it?
05:01Yep.
05:02Why are all these stakes in here?
05:03I have no idea.
05:06The number of stakes in a 50 by 50 foot area, it's almost overwhelming.
05:11There's another one.
05:12These are coming up.
05:13What in the world is happening?
05:15I would have expected them to be linear.
05:18These are very erratic.
05:23We got something going on here.
05:25Oh, yeah.
05:27There shouldn't be this many in such a tight space.
05:30And they're big, big stakes.
05:32Thanks.
05:33Maybe there's a construction that yet awaits us somewhere that is very well defined, very accurate, but we are currently unaware of it.
05:41Yeah.
05:43In recent years, the team has found similar wooden stakes in other areas of the swamp.
05:48Some lined portions of a cobblestone path that led to an empty fault-like structure.
05:57So could the numerous wooden stakes they're finding here lead them toward another discovery?
06:02I think here is sand.
06:12Rocks sort of under it.
06:14Yeah.
06:16Billy's observation of a sand layer indicates that this is an intentional, man-made structure.
06:22It was developed for some purpose.
06:25It's going somewhere.
06:26We need to find out where and why.
06:34On the edge, it looks very similar to the stone road.
06:37It looks very similar.
06:40Either stone road or the paved area.
06:42Yeah.
06:43It's kind of upy-downy.
06:44Yeah.
06:45More like the paved area.
06:47They're stacked.
06:48They're level.
06:49Yeah.
06:50A rock feature here?
06:52Similar to the stone road or massive paved area that were previously found in the swamp?
06:59Seems like it goes back along there.
07:00Yeah.
07:01See, there's rock, rock, rock.
07:03Is it possible the team has uncovered another man-made feature?
07:08No very interesting area in the swamp.
07:11If this is a built rock something, that's a lot of work.
07:15Yeah.
07:16This construction is eerily similar to the paved area.
07:20You can't dismiss it.
07:22Was it done by the same party or group?
07:25It's still a puzzle.
07:28Maybe we can get a hold of Dr. Spooner and have him come out and take a look.
07:31Yeah.
07:33The plan for the swamp really succinctly is to keep digging.
07:37Find something that points to, you know, Rick's who, what, when, where, why, and how.
07:41Or a clue that helps us unwrap the whole mystery.
07:44And this feature could help us do that.
07:47Well, again, dig the sand.
07:49Be as least disruptive as possible to this, whatever this is.
07:53Wash this as best we can.
07:54See what it tells us.
07:56Yeah.
07:57Yeah, we need to get all of these states tested.
08:00Well, you know, it's pure Oak Island.
08:02More questions than answers, but...
08:04Typical.
08:06Okay.
08:07We'll keep looking.
08:10Later that afternoon...
08:14You know, you find yourselves back at the lab again.
08:16We have an interesting item in front of us, and I really hope to learn more things today.
08:20Rick, Gary, and Charles join Laird and Emma in the Oak Island Laboratory to hear a scientific report on a lead artifact that was discovered while searching near the border of Lot 5 one week ago.
08:35Charles?
08:36I believe you were with Gary when this was found.
08:38Yeah, I was with Gary.
08:40We were kind of opposite where the rectangular feature is.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:43I dug it, and he pulled it out, and I think the way you described it was decorative lead.
08:48Yeah.
08:49It's decorated as in the end.
08:52Those beveled edges, it kind of reminds me of an arm of a cross.
08:58We've found decorative pieces of lead before.
09:02We've found a really cool scallop disc on Lot 5.
09:06And let's not forget the magnificent medieval cross from Smith's Cove.
09:11I've got eye hopes that this is going to match one of those older pieces of lead.
09:16This lead artifact was found just a few yards from the stone foundation on Lot 5, where the team previously discovered a lead barter token that was scientifically matched to the 14th century lead cross, and both of which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
09:37So, Emma, what more can you tell us about this piece of lead?
09:42Well, first off, I did do a bunch of map scans on the surface.
09:47There are no intentional designs.
09:49There's striations.
09:50I think that's more from usage rather than like a decorative intent.
09:54Prior to their meeting, Emma scanned the lead artifact using an X-ray Fluorescent Spectrometer, or XRF, a device that uses non-destructive radiation that can identify an object's composition, as well as potentially help determine its age.
10:13Compositionally, it's a really clean lead.
10:17There is a consistent amount of tin in it, but there's nothing in here that indicates modernity, as in there's nothing that indicates that it's more recent lead alloys.
10:28Lead alloys.
10:29So it has a good potential to be 1700s and older.
10:35Brilliant.
10:36So it has potential to be 1700s and older.
10:43Told you, mate.
10:44Told you this is going to be an old piece.
10:46You said that when we were out there.
10:47Yeah.
10:48So it is a curious piece.
10:49Yeah.
10:50In the Oak Island Laboratory, Emma has just shared a scientific report that suggests the lead alloys are
10:57found one week ago may predate the discovery of the Money Pit by more than a century.
11:04That notch at the top is strange.
11:08Yeah, it is.
11:09Yeah.
11:10Looks like attempted angular holes.
11:12Yes.
11:13But didn't go all the way through.
11:14Mm-hmm.
11:15Mm-hmm.
11:16Yes.
11:17It wasn't recycled, so it's a fresh source of lead.
11:21It has high potential of not being locally sourced.
11:25So these are all great candidates to send off for a laser ablation analysis.
11:30Brilliant.
11:31Because I've got eye hopes for this.
11:33Laser ablation is a testing method that removes microscopic samples from the surface of lead
11:40artifacts using a high powered laser.
11:43These samples are then analyzed to identify the exact isotope values contained in the lead,
11:49which can help determine the time period and geographic region where such artifacts originated.
11:56It gives you the ore source.
11:57It's a good thing.
11:58Yeah.
11:59And it will tell us if there's a relationship to the cross.
12:02Yeah.
12:03Using laser ablation testing, the team was able to determine that the lead cross and the lead
12:10barter token both dated to the 14th century and were from an area of southern France that served as a stronghold for the Knights Templar.
12:19We're always looking for friends at the cross.
12:22And it maybe helps you guys say what's going on in the rectangular feature.
12:28Mm-hmm.
12:29Because it really was.
12:30It was dead opposite there just across the tracks.
12:32Yeah.
12:33Given what you've said that this is quite pure, perfect candidate for laser ablation.
12:38Oh, do you want to carry the ball on that?
12:40Yes, absolutely.
12:41And the three of us will go try to find more.
12:44Yeah.
12:45But one more thing.
12:46Be prepared to be gulp stroked.
12:48This is going to be special.
12:50Thank you, Larry.
12:51Thank you, Emma.
12:52See you later.
12:57The following morning, as borehole F5.5 continues to make its descent towards the solution channel.
13:05So this is the feature, but one thing you need to recognize is that all of this cobble came from here as well.
13:14Rick and other members of the team are eager to have geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner examine the mysterious stone feature that they uncovered in the western region of the swamp.
13:26What you can see in front of you is rocks stacked on rocks and the smaller ones packed in around the big ones to make it smooth.
13:32The other thing that we did find were stakes.
13:35Okay.
13:36Interesting.
13:37Because if these stakes rot off the top like that, then that tends to suggest further back in time.
13:45What gets me excited is these rocks here, they're exactly like we see in the cobble path, Stone Road.
13:54What this reminds me of, too, along the side of the cobble path, we had piles of stone, sometimes with a cut stake underneath, suggesting that somebody put a stake there to tell workers where to put the cobbles to build that feature.
14:09Yeah.
14:10So why were people here?
14:11What were they doing?
14:13This might have been a pathway right through here.
14:16Right.
14:17You always take what you have learned in your past experiences on the island and try to apply them to the current effort.
14:27Last year, the cobble path led us to the most curious thing we found in the north end of the bog, the so-called vault.
14:36Might there be another construction like that here?
14:40That's the hope.
14:41Just keep digging.
14:43Right.
14:44I would certainly, if you have the time, see if this is isolated.
14:49It would be really interesting to see if we came across another feature that might be similar.
14:55It's interesting.
14:57Well, our permits are under review.
15:00Right.
15:01This is on the extremity of the permitted area.
15:03Okay.
15:04And once that approval process is completed, we'll keep digging.
15:09So I think we'll find more answers.
15:11Yep.
15:12The only way you can do it, I think, is to go somewhere else if we get a permit and see if it finds the same kind of cobble.
15:18Yeah.
15:19Yeah.
15:20To meet Nova Scotia's environmental regulations, the Oak Island team must apply for separate permits to dig in different areas of the swamp.
15:29The area they are in now is on the border of where they are currently allowed to search.
15:35Oh, your brother's going to love this, isn't he?
15:38Another feature in the swamp.
15:41Thank you, Ian.
15:42Appreciate it.
15:43Yep.
15:44While the team prepares new permit applications for their work in the swamp.
15:48There's so much activity on lot five, Rick.
15:52Rick and Gary are searching for clues near the middle of lot five.
15:56We're still east of the Roman coins, aren't we?
16:01Yeah.
16:02Oh, yeah.
16:03There's no place like Rome.
16:05After finding a mysterious lead piece nearby, they are eager to search an area of lot five where the team previously found evidence suggesting that Europeans could have visited Oak Island as far back as the 13th century.
16:21This includes six ancient Roman coins that coin expert Sandy Campbell believes could be between 1500 and 2000 years old.
16:32According to Sandy and other experts, coins like these were still being circulated as everyday currency in Europe up into the 1400s.
16:43Roman coins on an island in the North Atlantic is such a puzzle.
16:50But to think that someone was here in the 12, 13, 1400s with Roman coins is not a stretch at all.
16:58Perhaps they were dropped by people from the old world, people who were in charge of safeguarding a treasure or treasures or something that was extremely valuable.
17:09A little squeaker here, Rick.
17:13Just sit there, please.
17:24Ooh, I like the sound of that.
17:28Oh, come on.
17:33Gotta be in there.
17:39Now let us see what we've got.
17:42Oh.
17:43What have we got here?
17:45Another piece of lead.
17:47You know, it's really heavy.
17:49And I actually think this is really, really interesting.
17:53The fact that it's an elongated piece of lead.
17:56That makes that more interesting, you know.
17:58Something like this, you never know, it could be a match to an older piece of lead we've recovered.
18:05Like that medieval lead cross.
18:08We're going to have to bag this and put a flag in it because we don't know what Emma's going to reveal when she scans us.
18:17Another curiously shaped lead artifact?
18:21Could Gary be correct?
18:23That this might be a clue connected to the lead cross.
18:26And perhaps even to the Roman coins found in this area of Lot 5.
18:31Right, mate.
18:32I'm going to put this in the bag and we'll put the flag in.
18:35It's going in the bag.
18:37I think the work of Lot 5 has been exciting, interesting and dramatic.
18:41And there has been an extensive amount of finds that show this place, this story, this mystery goes further back in time than we have even thought.
18:58Oh, not too bad sounding.
19:01Not too shabby at all.
19:02Fingers crossed.
19:07Check it and see if we got it out.
19:11That's not it, is it?
19:16It is.
19:19What have we got here, mate?
19:21What have we got here, mate?
19:25Look at that.
19:26Oh.
19:28Nice.
19:30It's a handle to a pair of old scissors.
19:33Oh.
19:34While metal detecting near the middle of Lot 5 on Oak Island.
19:38See that?
19:39One set.
19:41Gary and Rick have uncovered another potentially important clue.
19:45Look at the fracture there.
19:47Yeah, you're right, Rick.
19:48It looks like it's broken off so there'll be another piece.
19:51I'll recheck the hole.
19:52Yep.
19:53In fact, I can see it, mate.
19:55Look at this.
19:59That's the other side.
20:02Look at that.
20:03Yeah, they go together.
20:05No, wait a minute.
20:07Oh.
20:08I wonder if they're not scissors.
20:10These are the same.
20:12What do you think it is?
20:13We need a second opinion.
20:15Lid's down the lock.
20:16Hey, Lynn.
20:17Check this out, please.
20:19Pretty cool, isn't it?
20:20It is.
20:21Yeah, it really is.
20:22What do we have?
20:23Hey, mate.
20:24Oh, yeah.
20:25We've just dug up a very curious artifact.
20:28When this first piece came up, I was thinking scissors.
20:31Old scissors.
20:32Yeah, for sure.
20:33And then when the second piece came up, I was thinking, look at this.
20:36Mm-hmm.
20:37I think this is something completely different.
20:39Oh, yeah.
20:40Look at that.
20:41I think this is horse tack.
20:43Yeah.
20:44Which is even cooler.
20:45Looks like a bridal cheek piece.
20:47We don't have been two either side of the cheeks.
20:51Yeah.
20:52That is really neat.
20:53Part of a possible horse bridal found on lot five.
20:58While several lots on the island were inhabited by settlers and farmers before 1795.
21:05Known records suggest the lot wasn't used either as farmland or as a grazing area for horses.
21:12So given the fact that the team has found artifacts in this area that could date back to medieval times and earlier, just how old is this horse bridal?
21:24And might it help identify who built the structures near the shoreline?
21:28I mean, look at it.
21:29I mean, you can see it's crudely made.
21:31That's got to be raw iron.
21:33Mm-hmm.
21:34And an oldie.
21:35Yeah, I can't imagine that being on an ox.
21:37I think this is horse tack.
21:39Yeah.
21:40Yeah.
21:41I'd like to do more research on it.
21:43Would you mind if I took it to the lab?
21:44Of course not, Mike.
21:45I'll put it in the bag.
21:47All right.
21:48Excellent.
21:49All right, Mike.
21:50You deal.
21:51As Rick and Gary continue their search on lot five.
21:56Here we go.
22:01Over in the money pit area.
22:03Get ready to slice and dice, Terry.
22:05Charles, Terry, and other members of the team monitor the core drilling operation of borehole F5.5, which has reached the solution channel.
22:16Here we go, guys.
22:17Here it comes.
22:25All right.
22:26206, Terry.
22:27206, thank you.
22:28206.
22:29In bedrock at 204, yes?
22:30204, yeah.
22:36Let's carve it up.
22:37Here we go.
22:38Okay.
22:41That's a more promising looseness.
22:43Yeah, something could slide through that.
22:45Very, very watery.
22:49Into which treasure could have been dropped.
22:52So bedrock at 204, guys.
22:55And above that looks like we've got some relatively loose material, which is a good indication.
23:00Proof of our general premise or idea that the potential of material could fall in a solution channel.
23:07I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.
23:14See?
23:15Yeah.
23:23Right in there.
23:26There's something in there.
23:27Wow.
23:28There's actually something in this.
23:29Drop it.
23:30There it is.
23:31There it is, right there.
23:32A little bit of...
23:33Right there.
23:34What do we got?
23:35Iron something or...
23:36Yeah.
23:37Wow.
23:38Paint it off, Terry.
23:39That's a fleck of metal.
23:41That could...
23:42Oh, that could be...
23:44I don't want to say coin, but...
23:45It looks like a half.
23:46That could be a chunk of a coin.
23:47It looks like a half coin.
23:48Oh, wow.
23:49Really?
23:50Yeah.
23:51It looks just like a coin.
23:53That's wild.
23:54That's absolutely wild.
23:55It's got some sort of design on it, too, it looks like.
23:58You say there's a pattern on it, Peter?
24:00There is.
24:01I got to make a phone call.
24:04Absolutely.
24:05All right.
24:06I'm going to call my uncle Rick.
24:08Wow.
24:09That's very promising.
24:10Yep.
24:14Hey, guys.
24:15Hello.
24:16How you doing?
24:17It was just as we pushed into bedrock, Rick.
24:18Yeah.
24:19We were hit bedrock at 204.
24:20At about 204.5, we came up with that artifact.
24:24After hearing that something of potential interest was extracted from the solution channel,
24:30204.5 feet.
24:33Mm-hmm.
24:34Rick and Scott arrived in the Money Pit area to join the investigation.
24:39So we're sitting right on the bottom.
24:41And it pushed in a bit, yeah.
24:42So we thought it was a cut or split coin.
24:45It's a small piece.
24:47What is it?
24:48The metal detector doesn't lie.
24:50We're looking for precious metals at the bottom of the solution channel.
24:55It feels like a coin.
24:57I feel what Gary calls roundness in my hand.
25:00It could be significant.
25:02It's what we're looking for.
25:03It's a hard metal for sure.
25:05And very dense.
25:06Yep.
25:07No, that's a button off the drill bit.
25:12You can see clearly right size.
25:17There we are.
25:18Sorry, guys.
25:20You think it's a button bit?
25:23Yep.
25:24Yeah.
25:25Unfortunately, the team is disappointed to learn that the find has turned out to be a button
25:31that broke off from the end of a drill bit during a previous drilling operation.
25:36We're directly below case on TV1.
25:40So that could have came off last year's sonic drill program.
25:43So it could be a break off from last year.
25:45And again, it could prove our principle that dense material falls to the bedrock solution channel interface.
25:51Yeah.
25:52Yeah.
25:53Go from a high to a low.
25:54We're all disappointed because it's a piece of carbide off the drill bit.
25:59But then I think, wait a minute here.
26:02It's not really alone.
26:05Something this small and insignificant has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel in the bedrock.
26:12There's proof, definitive proof, that even a possible coin could fall to these depths at the bottom of the solution channel.
26:23It's down there.
26:25We just haven't found it yet.
26:27But we will.
26:28You guys, I am extremely grateful.
26:31But more work to do, so let's get after it.
26:34See you guys.
26:35See you guys.
26:36See you guys.
26:37As a new day begins on Oak Island, while ground is broken on a new borehole in the Money Pit area.
26:48So I'm hoping you guys can tell us what these finds are, or maybe it's just one find.
26:56Rick, Peter and Gary arrive at the lab to receive Laird and Emma's report on the possible horse bridle that was found one day ago on Lot 5.
27:07When I saw it in the field, and you put it together, I could see that being part of the horse tack.
27:16Yeah.
27:17But in our research, we couldn't correlate it to anything like that.
27:22No?
27:23Yeah.
27:24Design wise, so you have the two pieces.
27:28These are cross sections right at that break.
27:30And one is more square.
27:32The other is a little bit more rectangular.
27:35So that just wouldn't have come from the same break.
27:38They were not connected.
27:40Oh.
27:41As one.
27:42Yeah.
27:43So they did break off from the same object.
27:45It's just the handles of scissors.
27:47Yeah.
27:48That's what I thought when the first piece came up.
27:50Yeah.
27:51It'd be interesting to see what the metallurgy is.
27:53What does the actual data tell you?
27:56Yeah.
27:57So the composition, there is a slight chlorine content.
28:02The fact that I am getting some sodium values, it does indicate it's been in prolonged contact with salt water.
28:09Mm-hmm.
28:10Wow.
28:11There's minimal impurities, which means pre-blast furnace.
28:14So it does indicate it's 1700s.
28:16Okay.
28:17Potentially late 1600s.
28:20Yeah.
28:21Good.
28:22Is it possible that the team has found another artifact that could date back to the 1600s on Lot 5?
28:30If so, could it help identify just who occupied the structures there more than a century before the discovery of the money pit?
28:41What country would this artifact be associated with?
28:45It's most likely UK in origin.
28:50You had, I remember, a book here of stylistically how shears changed over the years.
28:57Do you still have that?
28:58I do.
28:59Do you want to take a look?
29:07That would be your closest.
29:09It looks pretty identical to that.
29:10Yeah.
29:11Mid 17th century.
29:13Yeah.
29:14Yeah.
29:15Yeah.
29:16Yeah.
29:17Yeah.
29:18Yeah.
29:19That explains the sheer excitement we felt when we found this.
29:21Stylistically, they represent the period of the 1600s.
29:25It certainly then raises the interest in the item.
29:30Does it prove directly some connection to the money pit and the original work?
29:35No.
29:36But neither does it say it can't be.
29:40Look, let's be honest.
29:41There's two lots on this island that are incredibly difficult to understand, right?
29:47The money pit lot.
29:48Mm-hmm.
29:49And Lot 5.
29:50Mm-hmm.
29:51Given the enormity of finds, Laird is it becoming clearer or more difficult to establish what happened on 5?
29:58Every little find like that brings us closer.
30:04Every artifact we find tells a story.
30:06And, uh, finds like these, even though they're quite puzzling in the moment, the next find might help explain it.
30:13Yeah.
30:14Exactly.
30:15We haven't finished in that area.
30:16Yeah.
30:17That's true.
30:18Needs metal detecting.
30:19And I say we go right now.
30:21Yeah.
30:22Okay.
30:24Great research.
30:25Later that morning.
30:31Come on.
30:32Let's have a signal.
30:33Rick and Gary return to Lot 5.
30:36What about due here, Gary?
30:38Yeah.
30:39Well, that's metal detecting.
30:40You've got to do the leg work, and all of a sudden, finding something good.
30:45Like yesterday.
30:46Yeah, exactly.
30:47Some big old boulders around here.
30:51It's a place where people can sit and lose artifacts.
31:01There's potential in the air.
31:03Oh, yeah.
31:09Looks like I've been here before.
31:10There's a flag in here.
31:12What the heck is this, Rick?
31:15That circular feature there.
31:19Maybe.
31:20You can see in there.
31:24Definitely circular stones.
31:33Is it hollow in there?
31:35No, but it's definitely full of stone.
31:38Seems odd, doesn't it?
31:39Circular pattern of rocks.
31:42Nothing there, huh?
31:43No.
31:44No metal.
31:45But it's interesting as hell, isn't it?
31:48I wonder what this was for.
31:50I see in front of us a rock that's standing on edge.
31:55And it appears to be a circle of rock around it.
31:58It does look as though they were placed with intent.
32:01Maybe we've found another feature.
32:04We may have another stone structure on lot five.
32:08That is worth investigating.
32:10You could peel the layers of rocks away and see if this is a real structure.
32:15I think it's worth having Laird come down and see if there's anything there.
32:19Yeah.
32:20Definitely worth checking out.
32:23This might be the find of the day.
32:25Yep.
32:26What do we have?
32:27I wish I could say I know what we were looking at, but I do know that Gary and I put eyes on this.
32:36Yeah, it's certainly an interesting feature.
32:38Following the discovery of a possible man-made stone feature near the center of lot five, Rick calls in Laird Niven to get his assessment.
32:47Gary did metal ticking here.
32:50I just poked my shovel in here.
32:52And I think it just seemed weird because there's not a lot of dirt, right?
32:58Yeah.
32:59The rocks are piled up and then everything accumulates on top.
33:03It's the shape that hits me first, right?
33:05It seems to be circular, lined with large rocks.
33:08That upright flat rock in the middle, it's like you're putting it there to signify something, which is pretty cool.
33:16So it's done with purpose.
33:18Mm-hmm.
33:19This was a stone that was deliberately placed upright, and my immediate thought was that that was done to mark a location.
33:29This location isn't marking the boundaries of land.
33:33Well, what's interesting is on this lot, there are stone circular formations, right?
33:41Yeah.
33:42And now we have another one here.
33:44I mean, we have the Roman coins. We don't understand how they got here. This may help explain some of that mystery.
33:49Could this stone formation have been built by the same people who constructed the large, rounded feature near the shoreline?
33:56If so, could it somehow be connected to the Roman coins that have been found in this area?
34:05If this is a marker or a monument, this might be a very significant find.
34:11We have found a multitude of items that are unexplainable.
34:15The list of it goes on and on and on.
34:17So might there be something quite unique and interesting about this location?
34:22Yes, certainly.
34:24Well, you know, I'd certainly clear it off.
34:27Bring the team in and then consider bisecting it.
34:31I think that's certainly worth doing.
34:33I'm excited over this. I mean, this could very well be our next big feature.
34:36We won't know what it is until you actually do the work exactly.
34:40And any day that we can dig something up on Oak Island is a good day.
34:43Good day. Best day ever.
34:45Okie doke.
34:46While Laird prepares to investigate the new stone feature on Lot 5.
34:52Later that afternoon.
34:57I'm going to say something that my brother would never say.
35:00Beautiful day in the swamp.
35:01Yep. It's good to be out.
35:03You bet.
35:06You're going here, right?
35:07Yeah.
35:09Rick, Gary and Billy return to the swamp.
35:11If you look over here, that's where we found the stakes and some cobble.
35:17Roughly between those two tall trees.
35:20Right.
35:22The hope here is that they carry through to this area.
35:25While they await a new permit to continue investigating the stone feature in the western region,
35:31they have moved to an area 40 feet to the north where they are currently free to search.
35:37We're roughly on that line right now.
35:42What we need is an artifact.
35:45More artifacts.
35:47Let's see what we find.
35:49Yep.
35:51We are now digging in the southwest corner in the second permitted area.
35:55The idea was to follow the cobble area, we'll call it one of the most unexplored areas.
36:02It's just the western side of the swamp.
36:05So hopefully there are answers here within the bog.
36:12It's not a charcoal, is it?
36:14Is it charcoal, Rick?
36:16I mean, it should do that if it's charcoal, right?
36:19Yeah.
36:21It was right there.
36:23Yeah.
36:25See that little piece?
36:26Grab that.
36:28Yeah, that looks like charcoal.
36:29And I remember the archaeologists found charcoal on the stone road.
36:34That was the one consistent thing we found.
36:36We found that even all the way down the path.
36:39Yeah.
36:41The team has previously discovered charcoal in the southeast corner on the stone road,
36:47which may be Portuguese in origin and more than 500 years old.
36:52You have a bag?
36:54Yeah, yeah, I've got a bag.
36:56Finding more potential charcoal here is intriguing and suggests a possible connection between the two features.
37:03I'm sure Emma can tell us right away whether it is or not.
37:06Yeah, we'll find out from Emma.
37:08If it can be dated to a much earlier time, that's interesting in and of itself.
37:14I've got it in the bag.
37:16I think this sample in particular should be sent to the lab to see if it aligns with the charcoal that was found on the stone road and the stone path.
37:25Because then, possibly, there's a connection.
37:35We've got some iron here by the sound of it.
37:38Let me pinpoint it, Rick.
37:43We've got an ear.
37:45And look how it's right at the side of that boulder.
37:55I think it's out, Rick.
38:01Oh, that's an on-dinger of a signal.
38:03We're having a bit of a look.
38:05Look at that.
38:11Look at that.
38:13Yep.
38:14Look at the way it tapers down.
38:17In the western region of the Oak Island swamp,
38:20the Oak Island team has just made another potentially interesting discovery.
38:26Does it have a notch on top?
38:28You know what?
38:29It does.
38:30Yeah.
38:31Why would it have a notch?
38:34Unless this is broken off, there's a hole in it.
38:37Heavy?
38:39Oh, yeah, it's really heavy.
38:41This is an forged, raw iron.
38:43Yeah, this is an old piece of iron.
38:46This is something different.
38:47What the heck is this?
38:48If it is hollow and yet you're saying it's heavy, that's even more interesting.
38:53Yeah.
38:54But that is unusual.
38:56One end appeared to be hollow.
38:58The other end appeared to have a raised diagonal.
39:01That seems strange.
39:04I just don't know what it is.
39:06It's a unique find.
39:08It's not a piece of rebar.
39:10And it needs to go to the lab.
39:13The way it tapers down, it could be like a petronol.
39:15A really old gun from the 1500s, 1600s.
39:20They were very early weapons.
39:24Just one single shot.
39:26A CT scan is really going to be enlightening.
39:29But why else would it be hollow?
39:31Yeah.
39:32Petronols date back to as early as the 14th century.
39:37They were a short, single shot firearm commonly used by European militaries before the invention of long barreled muskets in the mid 1600s.
39:47Thanks to their compact size.
39:51Petronols were often used by soldiers who were riding on horseback.
39:56Is it possible that Gary has found new evidence of a military presence on Oak Island back in the 1600s or earlier?
40:05If so, just whose military was it?
40:07Definitely interesting.
40:09Yeah.
40:11Yeah.
40:12And what's it doing here?
40:13That's a special find.
40:15This could be a smoking gun.
40:17Literally.
40:18You want so badly to find something that can be tied intimately to another area of the island that has a proper association with the search for answers or search for treasure.
40:35We need to do more work in the area to try to understand that story in its totality.
40:41We are going to go back to that lab with a really fantastic artifact.
40:46It's pretty peculiar and unravel this story.
40:49We better get on the ball.
40:51Anyway, tomorrow, another day.
40:54Good job.
40:56Good digging, Billy.
40:58We've still got a lot of ground to cover.
41:00As another exciting week ends on Oak Island,
41:03New finds offer Rick, Marty and their team more validation that something extraordinary took place here centuries ago.
41:15And while their search for the answers is far from over, they are determined to reveal the truth.
41:24Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:32All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys.
41:34I mean, this is Treasure Central.
41:36There's mounting evidence of something happening here long ago.
41:41Hopefully there's some old gold and silver.
41:45We've got a stone structure here.
41:47Somebody piled those stones.
41:49So somebody put this here.
41:50Somebody went to some trouble.
41:51It could be a 1500s hand cannon.
41:55We're right here.
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