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00:00On the Curse of Polk Island.
00:02We have a cord, gentlemen.
00:04This must be the solution channel.
00:06That has the ability to hide treasure.
00:07I got something right in here.
00:08Oh, there it is.
00:09Yeah, it's there.
00:11Ooh.
00:13Hoo-hoo, what we got here?
00:15Well done, Mike.
00:17Oh, my gosh.
00:18Laird, can you tell if this is a jewel?
00:21It is high grade.
00:23Made in the old world?
00:24Yep.
00:25That takes us to a whole new level.
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.
00:55To 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.
01:09So we're just firing up here.
01:23I'm pretty hopeful about this.
01:25I think it could be a good borehole.
01:27The thing I like about this one in particular, we're going to hit the western side of the solution channel.
01:32Another area where the treasure might have dropped.
01:35A fresh morning on Oak Island brings renewed hope for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina that they will soon hold in their hands the answers to a 230-year-old mystery.
01:48Let's face it, guys.
01:50It's very exciting, right?
01:51The reason we're drilling this is because of the collapse.
01:54That's where it could have gone.
01:55Yeah.
01:56The team is drilling a new borehole known as H9.25, located in an area where new water testing showed more evidence that suggests the treasure may lie some 200 feet deep in the solution channel.
02:12It is also in this region that soil samples are currently being tested to confirm those results.
02:19Tell me how close we are to the key wells, RF1, H8.
02:25So we're five feet south of H8.
02:27That's very close to the chapel shaft then?
02:29We are in the southwest corner of the chapel shaft, so we're in an area I like.
02:32Okay.
02:33Let's see lots of wood.
02:36In 2017, the team dug the five-foot diameter H8 shaft.
02:42We're rotating down, but every now and then we have to come up and clean our teeth out because of the wood, right?
02:47And at 170 feet, it hit a large object that may have been the legendary Chapel Vault, a seven-foot-high wooden box that treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chapel reportedly drilled into back in 1897 and extracted gold shavings, along with a piece of parchment bearing the letters VI.
03:12But unfortunately, the H8 case arm may have pushed the possible vault somewhere deeper and potentially into the solution channel.
03:23Could it be possible that the precious metals the team detected in this area came from the damaged vault?
03:30I think the chapels had the money pick correct.
03:33They just didn't go deep enough, as we've learned.
03:36Yeah, because of the collapse.
03:37So I'm pretty hopeful about this.
03:39I think it could be a good borehole.
03:41If I had to pick the most likely hole to actually encounter some of this deeply fallen treasure, I would think it's this.
03:53The biggest thing to me is that the H8 canister started going down on its own.
03:58Right about the point where we were pretty excited that we might be finding the vault, the plug just fell.
04:03We lost all the material.
04:04Well, that sure sounds to me like the solution channel being able to swallow things up, including treasure.
04:10So we're going to see if we can find it.
04:12You know what I'm looking for.
04:14I want you to find an actual bit of treasure.
04:17That's what I want to find.
04:18Exactly.
04:19And then put the big boy down on it.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Yeah.
04:22All right, guys.
04:23Seriously, I think my work here is done.
04:25Just find me some data and a coin would be nice.
04:28Okay.
04:29Sounds good, Marty.
04:30All good?
04:31Sounds great.
04:32See you guys.
04:33As H9.25 descends deeper towards the solution channel.
04:37Today's the day, Gary.
04:40Yeah.
04:41We're on Oak Island.
04:42Yeah.
04:43The possibilities are endless.
04:44That's right.
04:45Alex Lagina and members of the team continue to expose a stone feature in the southwest corner of the swamp.
04:53One that may be connected to a road-like structure several yards to the north,
04:58where they found part of a European hand cannon that could be as much as 800 years old.
05:05We're just going to comb through this and work our way closer into the swamp.
05:10Got it.
05:11Hopefully find some artifacts.
05:12And keep our eyes open.
05:14You never know.
05:15We might find some old wooden stakes.
05:17I mean, one of the most important artifacts we found in this area was the ship's railing,
05:21which was just over there.
05:23Yeah.
05:24I think that dated to the 600s.
05:25Right.
05:26Okay.
05:27Well, if you dig, we'll metal detect and keep our eyes peeled and see what we find.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Let's find some artifacts.
05:35I couldn't enumerate the number of finds that have been made in the bog to date.
05:40They've been expensive and extensive and important in the search for answers here on the island.
05:46But there's a lot of information missing.
05:49What do you got?
05:50This is interesting.
05:51It's a piece of shaped wood.
05:52Kind of reminds me of when we were digging in this area and we found that ship's rail.
06:06Oh, yeah.
06:07Oh, yeah.
06:08Over the years, the team has found numerous ship-related artifacts all across the swamp that have been dated to between the 1600s and the 7th century.
06:20It's great condition.
06:22It's been buried in the swamp for a long time.
06:24Could Gary be correct that they have found another piece of ship's railing in the southwest corner?
06:30If so, might it be related to the stone structures in this area and help them learn more about their origins?
06:39It's kind of plankish.
06:42Mm-hmm.
06:43It looks like it's curved and beveled.
06:45Maybe I'm seeing things, but it kind of looks shaped like that.
06:49Definitely stood there.
06:50This face really does.
06:52I mean, that's cut.
06:54And here as well.
06:56Yeah, at first I thought it was like a piece of railing.
07:00Yeah.
07:01No, it looks...
07:02At first glance, it looks like it's shaped that way deliberately.
07:05Yeah.
07:06We might be able to show that to a shipwright.
07:08Mm-hmm.
07:09Somebody who knows the older techniques of making a ship.
07:12Yeah.
07:13I wonder if it's big enough for C-14.
07:15I like the fact that this wood's got beveled edges.
07:19Now, that always looks like planking to me.
07:24And that's important because it's well out of place buried in the swamp.
07:28It's definitely big enough for C-14.
07:30Yeah.
07:31So we can figure out how old it is.
07:32Yeah.
07:33Definitely an interesting piece.
07:35I'll put that to one side.
07:38I still believe we're just scratching the surface.
07:41As the dig continues in the swamp, several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.
07:49Found a small shard of creamware.
07:51Oh, nice.
07:52It's really, really small, though.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Perfect.
07:56Laird Niven and the archaeology team search for more clues in the round feature near the shoreline.
08:03After recently finding a sixth Venetian bead in this feature, which could be related to the Knights of Malta,
08:10and unearthing a sixth Roman coin nearby that may be linked to the Knights Templar, the team is working to prove that numerous groups may have occupied Lot 5 at different times long before the discovery of the money pit.
08:25Oh, wow.
08:26Got some pearlware.
08:27Oh, nice.
08:28Yeah.
08:29Been small, but...
08:30Yeah.
08:31We'll have to do more analysis on this, I guess.
08:32Yeah.
08:33What are the dates on creamware again?
08:34Creamware starts around 1762.
08:35Okay.
08:36And then the pearlware would start around 1775.
08:37Okay.
08:38I have long believed that this is a multi-generational attempt over decades, perhaps even centuries, to hide or safeguard something.
08:51I can't prove it yet, but the finds associated with the Lot 5 feature are very interesting and thought-provoking and intriguing.
09:12Oh, nice.
09:13What did you find?
09:15Looks like...
09:22Red earthenware.
09:23Oh, it's got a really nice design on it.
09:26Wow.
09:27That's a great piece.
09:28It's a big piece.
09:29Yeah, it's got a really nice floral design.
09:32The coarse earthenwares are hard to date.
09:35It can be anywhere from 1750 to 1830, so...
09:39Okay.
09:40Right in our time range.
09:41Yeah.
09:42Great find.
09:43Oh, thank you.
09:44You're welcome.
09:45I'll bag it up.
09:46See if there's any more in there.
09:47Yeah.
09:58Oh my gosh.
10:00Laird, I think I just found something really cool.
10:03Okay.
10:04While digging in the rounded stone foundation on Lot 5, Isabel Whittier has just uncovered a potentially important clue.
10:20Check this out.
10:21Oh, nice.
10:22Can you tell if this is a jewel?
10:23It's meant to look like a jewel.
10:24In imitation of a jewel.
10:25Okay.
10:26We found a larger one, but clear just over here.
10:27It looked like costume jewelry.
10:28Then we found out it's kind of a technique that was developed in the 1740s in France.
10:31That's so cool.
10:32In imitation jewelry became very popular with the French royal family.
10:33Oh, that's awesome.
10:34Yeah.
10:35In the early 18th century.
10:36French jeweler George Friedrich Strauss invented simulated gemstones.
10:39By mixing elements such as bismuth, thallium and zinc.
10:40By mixing elements such as bismuth, thallium and zinc.
10:41In the early 18th century.
10:42French jeweler George Friedrich Strauss invented simulated gemstones by mixing elements such as
10:43bismuth, thallium and zinc.
10:44And then we found out it's kind of a technique that was developed in the 1740s in France.
10:49That's so cool.
10:50In imitation jewelry became very popular with the French royal family.
10:53Oh, that's awesome.
10:55Yeah.
10:57In the early 18th century.
10:59French jeweler George Friedrich Strauss invented simulated gemstones.
11:05By mixing elements such as bismuth, thallium and lead with glass powder.
11:11A paste-like substance was formed.
11:14It was then heated and molded to create artificial stones.
11:18Nearly matching the brilliance of actual gems.
11:22One year ago, the team found a simulated diamond just outside of the round feature.
11:29Would this be valuable?
11:31I think back in the mid-1700s, it probably was.
11:36If Laird is correct that this is a similar artifact,
11:40could it be another clue to help identify one of the groups that occupied the stone foundation prior to 1795?
11:47Emma can actually XRF the side and tell you what kind of metal it was sitting in.
11:54So we know that it was set into something and displayed on someone's clothes.
11:59If she finds out that it's set in silver or gold, that just takes us to a whole new level, right?
12:05Yeah.
12:06It just adds a lot of significance to this little tiny artifact.
12:10Yeah.
12:11Adding to the intrigue.
12:12Yeah, that's really exciting.
12:14Yeah.
12:15I can't wait to get that back to the lab and see what Emma says about it.
12:18Me too.
12:19That's cool.
12:20We're finding some neat stuff here.
12:21Yeah.
12:22The following morning...
12:23Back again?
12:24It's good to see you.
12:25Good to be back.
12:26You know I love the swamp?
12:27Yeah.
12:28Let's get started.
12:29All right.
12:30Katja Drayton and Derek Couch join Billy to search for more artifacts near the stone feature
12:44in the southwest corner of the swamp.
12:47Something shiny on top, there might be a piece of glass or something, right?
12:58Oh yeah.
12:59Right there.
13:00Big old piece of glass.
13:01Yeah.
13:02So a really great way to tell if glass is old or not is any imperfections.
13:19Glass nowadays is made, manufactured, there's hardly any imperfections.
13:25Bubbles, seams, anything that may give you an idea if it's hand-blown is a great way to
13:32identify if glass is old or not.
13:34This is probably from a bottle.
13:36This would be like an older, maybe like a medicine bottle or something.
13:42It's square on the edge, so that's how you know it has some date to it, and it's small
13:47as well.
13:48So this is an older piece, which is good.
13:51Yeah.
13:52By learning what type of glass this is and what it was used for, we can see who was here
13:58and what they were doing.
14:00We'll keep this.
14:01Yeah.
14:02Oh, that's some wood.
14:03Here we go.
14:04A little round piece, gotcha.
14:05Let me see.
14:07That's cut there, isn't it?
14:08That's cut.
14:09Yeah, that's cut.
14:10Wow.
14:11Good eye, Billy.
14:12Yeah, that's a great one.
14:13It's real deep for wood.
14:14It's three-and-a-half, four feet, probably.
14:27It's way below that sand.
14:29Dr. Spooner would say that's the topsoll before the swamp was formed.
14:32That's down in the depth of the ship's rail.
14:34that's the topsoil before the swamp was formed that's down in the depth of the ship's rail
14:38that's a find right there i would say how close are we to where the other ship's railing was found
14:44uh less than 100 feet it's one of the deepest finds that we've had in the swamp of a piece of
14:50wood this could mean something right in 2020 the team found a piece of ship's railing while digging
14:59near the southern border of the swamp incredibly it was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century
15:06there's been a lot of people that thought that there have been ships in the swamp
15:11so i think it could be very significant is it possible that the team has found a related
15:17discovery in the southwest corner of the swamp if there's a ship of some sort out there it would
15:23fit really really well to any of the theories that somebody came here and buried old world treasure
15:29we have so many ship-like artifacts at this point but extraordinary theories take extraordinary data
15:36i don't think we quite have that yet but here's another piece if this is a piece of a ship i bet
15:42you there's more pieces of ship i'd rather find what the ship is carrying derrick so let's look for that
15:47right that's true that's true that's why katia is here right well let's try and find some more yeah
15:54keep the lookers peeled yeah as the search in the swamp continues
16:00so thank you everybody for coming we have a really interesting artifact from lot 5
16:07in the lab emma culligan is about to share her analysis of the artificial gemstone found one day ago
16:15on lot 5. this looks like the the paste jewelry gem it's exactly what it is
16:22so this one's obviously dark and the one we found last year was white was clear
16:28and i guess you can explain the composition well it's pretty much the same thing as last year but
16:35this one is black and it's black due to the addition of manganese and calcium um and it has less lead in
16:42it which is why it's not as brilliant so it's not as shiny or sparkly they're called diamante it's like
16:48this is the official term the purpose of it is to be dark and matte but it's the same era similar
16:57composition and the fastener there's a trace of tin around the edges which we also found in the
17:06composition or last year's jewel as well and something like that would have been made in the
17:11old world yep not here no early to mid 1700s in france and from the composition i can tell you that
17:19it is like high grade and it was for people of the upper class yeah because they would have the same
17:26amount of shine or even more shine than the diamonds so these are not trade items per se
17:33i think what makes it not a trade item is the fact that it was mounted if it was a trade item
17:38they'd be loose i see just reading your report there no earlier than 1734 or no later well the
17:47oldest possible days 1734 because that's when it was really being invented and introduced
17:53so after 1734 yeah fashion travels quickly especially with the upper class and the new
18:02shiny thing when did it go out of style it went right into the victorian era that this is high
18:08quality it represents probably the initial phase before it the percolates down and the cheaper copies
18:14are made for less affluent people what's it telling you about what was going on in lot five
18:21yeah well i think it's makes a statement about stature i think this was a higher class
18:27of people so with the black paste jewel i have seen references to military uniform
18:35timeline wise it does fit the duke d'anville's expedition here mid 1700s french
18:43very interesting
18:46timeline wise it does fit the duke d'anville's expedition here
18:52in the oak island lab emma has just confirmed that the simulated glass gem found in the round
19:00feature on lot five is french in origin and dates back to the mid 18th century
19:06you know the duke d'anville's expedition was mid 1700s french um something to keep in mind
19:15in 1746 france launched an armada to reclaim nova scotia from great britain it was led by an
19:26admiral known as the duke d'anville a nobleman from a family with connections to the knights
19:32templar dating back to the 12th century unfortunately due to severe storms and a wave
19:40of disease the mission ultimately failed i found eight pages of what looks like a ship's log
19:47but curiously in 2017 doug kroll discovered an 18th century ship's log in the provincial archives
19:56stating that one of d'anville's ships carried a large cache of treasure to a wooded island
20:02in the vicinity of oak island where the crew buried it in a deep pit this is a very strong indicator
20:11that somebody of high status was on lot five we know that the duke d'anville did come here to nova
20:17scotia and indeed the d'anville family as a connection to the knights templar if there was some
20:23incredible treasure out of history uh that made its way here to north america it could have been
20:29done as part of the duke d'anville's expedition finding these things that belong to somebody in a
20:34military position i wonder why were they on the island what were they doing
20:40is it possible that the two simulated french gemstones found on lot five could be connected
20:48to the treasure reportedly buried by the crew of the duke d'anville the dots are very far apart
20:55right now right but we're accumulating them but you're accumulating yeah exactly you know there's
21:01always been the idea that uh there might be an association here with duke d'anville the
21:07archaeological efforts are strongly hinting at multiple occupations on lot five from the 1200s
21:14right up through 1750 i believe this was a multi-generational attempt to hide something
21:22and perhaps the duke d'anville wasn't part of that endeavor this is step by step clue by clue
21:30and every clue is important because at some point they will connect up at some point they will tell a
21:37story so thank you for for bringing us down it's a it's an interesting fight but i hope we can learn
21:43more about it all right yeah excellent thank you great thank you thank you as the team concludes their
21:49meeting in the lab
21:50we gotta keep looking let's do it billy katya and derek continue to search in the southwest corner of the
22:01swamp oh wow i mean look at that that's excellent that is a cut steak if i've ever seen one yeah and
22:15so close to the last find we just had oh my god that's pretty cool that's definitely cut here
22:24so i need a bigger bag put the stuff in definitely i know it's soaked but it's a really heavy piece
22:36too yeah let's soak because we're below the level of the ocean here right it's so preserved and
22:42basically clean right because it's in a perfect environment to store wood yeah a hand cut wooden
22:49stake there's another one what in the world is happening because the team has found a number of
22:57survey stakes lining stone features such as the structure that was recently uncovered several yards
23:03to the north is it possible that they have just discovered more evidence that the two features may
23:10have been built by the same people if so just who was it we can get a lot of information off that i think
23:19so yeah i'm sure there's a purpose for that just that is definitely cut and so it's the other one yeah
23:25that's a bigger piece right bigger cut right this gives dr sprunet more information yeah we've got
23:33some potential here i'm excited to keep going we'll work to keep the lab busy yeah
23:38as another day dawns on oak island while drilling continues in the money pit area
23:47hey gary hey derek hey dr spooner how are you doing good dr ian spooner joins other members of
23:55the team in the swamp to examine the area where the wooden survey stakes were found next to the
24:01newly uncovered stone structure one day ago that stake there were a hundred percent not in the sand they
24:08were in that peat layer yep which is quite deep and just below the sands to be in that peat layer period
24:14under that much sand we absolutely know people were here a long long time ago so if i can leave
24:19with one suggestion what i'd like you guys to do if you can fit it in is get me a sample of the peat
24:25if i can date the peat here and it's old too then i know that the stick if it's younger was put there by
24:31people and uh if that stick dates into one of our bins of 1200 you know 1700 uh then it tells us there
24:42was activity in this area at that time which is totally new right peat is composed of decaying
24:49plant matter that forms when it is submerged under brackish water for long periods of time
24:55because the wooden stake the team found was embedded in the peat layer just beneath the stone structure
25:02if dr spooner can date the peat he may be able to determine just when the stone feature was created
25:09we've had these sort of three age sort of categories here one that's 600 to like 1200 you know that that
25:19era and then we have the 1600s you know to the 1700s yeah and then we have the more sort of i'd call
25:27post depositor kind of era so we got three kind of categories of potential human activity here
25:37and i want to see where that fits right by dating organic materials associated with the man-made
25:44structures in the swamp dr spooner has determined that the paved area near the center could be as
25:51much as 800 years old the possible portuguese stone road in the southeastern corner may be 500 years old
25:59and the so-called eye of the swamp may have been built as early as 1680 and there's been some nice
26:07big clumps of peat coming up in the digs especially over there where there is sand as well so i'll save
26:15you a big clump of peat with all the wood in it that that's perfect that's what i need i think that
26:21the carbon dating of the wood in the swamp the work that was done the discoveries have been made
26:27can only lead to one conclusion that the work was long involved and purposeful to me what it says is
26:36this was a multi-generational endeavor here and there's possibly more than one treasure hidden across
26:42the island okay so i'm off lab thanks guys we can't wait to hear your results yep thank you thanks
26:49see you later as the dig continues in the swamp we did hit the bedrock plateau hopefully it will go
26:58right down into the solution channel could be in the next run we have a core gentlemen over in the
27:04money pit area the drilling operation in borehole h 9.25 has nearly reached a depth of 200 feet h 9.25
27:14still got a few things to tell us hopefully we're going to find that open area that could have
27:19taken the treasure yep given its proximity to h8 there's every reason to believe that we are in
27:25the area of the original money pit remember we are in the area where something significant happened
27:32that's some very loose material right there this must be the solution channel we've lost the so-called
27:38vault in h8 where did it go and we believe it went to the solution channel it's the perfect targeted zone
27:46the hope is that there'll be something in the core a man-made something adam what do you got
27:53two two twelve two twelve yeah this is promising looking stuff yeah it's gooey very gooey and loose
28:00bring her in yeah this is the loose material we're looking for right here guys
28:05there's the conditions we need right there yep that has the ability to hide treasure
28:10it's a little messy all right now we're starting to get a look at it 198 down to 215 in front of us
28:22guys this loose material looks like it starts at the 198 mark and it goes down to probably a 202
28:31202 may have got a little bit less recovery going down through the slurry as well sure yeah well less
28:38recovery means there it was literally a void it was mostly water i guess that's the good thing now
28:43this is cakey and less likely to accept a treasure down into it this stuff up here is of course it's
28:48much looser and then this is this is the stuff that really should be set aside and we send some out to the lab hopefully
28:56hopefully there you go charles cbc
29:12this is the good stuff right here as we move up along this one
29:18gotta find the one thing
29:26i got something right in here
29:30this thing
29:31you want to pull some of that out terry
29:34oh that's okay
29:40yeah i'm getting a hit right there
29:51okay yeah right in there tough stuff to work with let me tell you come over here so you don't lose it
29:57yeah yeah all right there you go yeah brush area here
29:59not there not there nope
30:02there we go oh there it is here it is right there
30:08here it is right there i'm getting shirts right here it's right in there you know you get fooled sometimes by the screws in the table
30:19okay we're gonna have to bring this over there
30:21yeah it's there it's in there put it right on the table in the money pit area
30:26the team is detecting traces of metal in a drilling core recovered from more than 200 feet deep in the solution channel
30:34nope nope it's in here
30:41okay then dump that over in a different pile so yeah
30:47yeah
30:49that's weird
30:53what's that
30:55it's on here oh it's on you
30:56yep it's on me right there
31:06i wonder if this is the same thing that we're getting before
31:09yeah you know the little little flex yeah
31:12yeah this is a real conundrum here
31:14the team is frustrated to once again detect signs of metal in their drill core
31:19but then recover no objects however could these hits also mean that they are once again detecting
31:27metal flecks in the soil and are getting even closer to a long lost treasure that now lies somewhere
31:33nearby in the solution channel i know marty was really interested in this last time when this
31:39occurred so we probably should get involved here sounds good
31:42hello hey marty how are you talking to me i'm here in the money pit with charles and terry and we
31:52have another interesting four right around 198 all the way down to 208 we had some very very soupy
31:58material and we had ambiguous hits with the uh metal detector sort of scattered stuff it would it would
32:05beep and go off and seem to be detected and then we couldn't find it in the mud all right well this is
32:10right where we wanted to be yeah it's in the right area the right depth the right conditions you know
32:16there's no coin staring at us but who knows what to expect right i mean at least we'll get some
32:21indication we're finally on the right path so that's what he's been on about for a long time but that's
32:27how he explains the metals in the water the pinpointer hits the preliminary indication of metals at the
32:34base of the solution channel could be an indicator that we are in the right spot we're hoping that this
32:40is something that eroded from a treasure that's very close by maybe it's coming from the chapel
32:46vault if it's really there we're going to take all of this and set it aside marty and we're going to
32:51be sure we do a good analysis of all of it yeah but the whole thing not samples the whole thing yeah
32:57i'd like you to take that entire 10-foot of core the entire thing then it needs to go to the lab
33:04the sediments carefully analyzed could yield bits of precious metals silver gold perhaps look this
33:12is what we're looking for something from the scientific reconnaissance data to tell us where
33:17to go to actually find the treasure we're bagging the whole thing for sure marty no question we'll
33:22keep you informed as we go talk to you soon good deal guys later that day
33:33okay man i'm hoping we can find something to help the archaeologists understand what the
33:38heck went on in that round feature and the rectangular feature works for me
33:44after the discovery of the 18th century simulated gemstone right let's find some artifacts cool
33:54rick and gary search through spoils that were removed from the round feature on lot five
33:59come on here's a signal here we go mate we're in business non-ferrous uh in fact just uh don't think
34:14we've got to dig very deep it's going to be enough surface layers that sounds really good you see what we
34:25you've got here
34:37this is my favorite part
34:41oh a bit of roundness look how little that is oh yeah that's a tiny little cuff button look at how
34:50little that is my tiny yeah but you can definitely see it's got a tiny little loop a little on the back
34:57could this small button be related to the artificial gemstones found in at near the round feature
35:04if so might it help identify one of the groups who occupied lot five before the discovery of the money pit
35:12it could be like a little kind of like a decorative button say off the lapel or something like this
35:19definitely copper alloy by the sound of it another nice little artifact cool for a hammer to hopefully
35:27shine some light on i think at this point we always talk about grouping artifacts the archaeologists
35:33should group the buttons yeah and then maybe catalog them and give them to a button expert say who can say
35:41this stylistically this represents this error stylistically this represents this error it's not just a
35:47button anymore no it's a it's a piece of data it's a piece of history yeah it is okay i'll put it in the bag
35:55and we'll keep gridding
36:01yeah we've got a good hit here rick really good
36:18shoveling her i'll try pinpoint it first
36:22it sounds like a great hit that's non-ferrous mate that is not a nail
36:36i've heard this in my hand oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i know what that is
36:53while searching spoils removed from the round feature on lot five what is it looks like a stone
37:00no it's not a stone mate rick and gary have found another potentially important clue
37:07i think what we have found rick is something really really special and unique
37:11that is a folded over coin really that's a copper coin that's been folded over look you can see the
37:21shape of it never heard such a thing uh i have but not in north america because i have found these
37:30type of artifacts in europe before metal detecting really yeah normally when you find something made
37:36a copper silver gold and it's completely folded over i believe this is a talisman to ward off bad
37:43things somebody would fold this piece of metal over and they would put it in the ground to ward off
37:52bad luck when would that kind of ritual be prevalent three four hundred years ago really yeah
38:00the ritual of folding coins as symbols of good luck or an appeal for god's protection dates as far back
38:09as the times of ancient rome however this practice was prevalent throughout europe between the 12th and 18th
38:17centuries it's more than likely 1700 1600s that would be the right time frame for lot five yeah yeah
38:28is it possible that this folded coin was left in the rounded feature on lot five by someone who
38:35wanted spiritual protection for themselves or perhaps for something they brought to oak island if so
38:44could it be related to the artifacts found here that have been linked to the religious orders of the
38:49knights of malta and the knights templar the real story here is why a folded coin
38:58what was truly happening on lot five if that is a coin you just don't throw money away all right no you
39:04just don't do that you do it for a reason that's intentional right yeah you think about it back even
39:12in the 16 1700s and way beyond there those people had a different understanding of the world and so they
39:19did things like this i have always believed as have many others that the work that was done on oak island
39:27was meant to protect something outside of temporal wealth i think what was put here
39:34was meant to advance something an idea a belief a concept something of either significant historical
39:42value or religious value you know this island has resisted efforts to find the treasure for 230 years
39:50there's something on this island and i believe whatever was here is still here
39:54look at that well done mate this is absolutely fantastic mate a first for oak island absolutely
40:03never seen anything like it didn't know the tradition that is a clue as to what may have happened over
40:09there at least part of the story of what happened over there yeah i'm sure it will find a safe home
40:14oh yeah i know where this little view is going and i'm going to bypass the bag but this is going
40:21straight in the top pocket that's absolutely fantastic and we're going to show it to our
40:28favorite lady at the lab emma and we'll find out what this is i want to know mate let's get back to the
40:36lab okay okay cool after uncovering new evidence of man-made workings in the swamp and traces of metal in
40:45the money pit and artifact surfaces that may be related to the struggles many have faced in trying
40:53to solve this mystery for more than 200 years was a treasure of profound religious value really brought
41:01to oak island over the course of centuries by people who are all deeply devoted to ensuring that it would
41:08never be found and could it actually be protected by supernatural forces the laginas and their team
41:17won't stop digging until they know the truth but just what must they endure to find it
41:29next time on the curse of oak island oh wow what is that that's exactly like the sticks we found near
41:35the vault i truly believe there's still another vault there whoa whoa whoa there it is without
41:41a void right is that natural or is that an open cavern only a sonar could tell you that really all
41:46right well that's what we'll do hopefully we'll find the one thing crush your fingers we're in the
41:49cavity yeah you're in we'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault we've got an opening
41:55this is not natural
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