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00:00Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.
00:07Hold it! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:09Another feature in the swamp.
00:10What in the world is happening?
00:11This feature could help us unwrap the whole mystery.
00:14Something this small has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel.
00:18Here it is right there.
00:19Could be a chunk of a coin.
00:20It's got some sort of design on it.
00:22If it's a silver coin, that's treasure.
00:24It's what we're looking for.
00:25Yeah.
00:25Be prepared to be gubstrewed.
00:28This is going to be special.
00:29This is quite pure.
00:30Yes, absolutely.
00:34There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:37where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:41for more than 200 years.
00:44So far, they have found a stone slab
00:48with strange symbols carved into it.
00:51Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:54And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
01:00To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:05And, according to legend,
01:08one more will have to die
01:10before the treasure can be found.
01:13As the sun rises above Oak Island.
01:28How deep is this one?
01:32Two-party again?
01:33Yep.
01:34Well, guys, I know we're pretty excited about starting this next hole.
01:37This is F5.5.
01:39I think we're on a really important site right now.
01:44Right.
01:45Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team
01:48are drilling deeper than ever in the Money Pit area
01:51in search of the answers to a 230-year-old mystery.
01:56Because of the collapse last year,
01:59we were never able to really see what was down there.
02:02Yeah.
02:02I think that the grid that we have laid out here right now
02:05to explore deep down in the Solution Channel,
02:07we're going to find it if it's there.
02:08That's right.
02:10Today, the team has broken ground
02:12on a borehole known as F5.5.
02:16It is on target to reach a massive cavity underground
02:19known as the Solution Channel.
02:22They believe it's possible
02:24the legendary Money Pit treasure fell here
02:27after two centuries of failed digging operations.
02:31We're only about seven feet away from F4,
02:34and F4 had the highest levels of gold and silver in the water.
02:38Yeah, it makes this a really interesting hole
02:40because it's so close to the precious metal finds in the water.
02:43I mean, that's one of the confirming factors
02:45we have in front of us to show
02:46that there is a buried treasure here someplace.
02:49Yeah.
02:49That brings to mind the Portuguese coin.
02:54The team recently learned
02:56that a 14th-century silver coin
02:58was reportedly found in the original Money Pit in 1849.
03:03And markings on the coin bear a direct connection
03:06to a Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.
03:10This has given them fresh hope
03:12that the Solution Channel could now hold the treasure
03:15and may explain the high traces of precious metals
03:18they've previously detected in this area through water testing.
03:23The fact that the Solution Channel could be the culprit
03:26in this whole long saga
03:28and the fact that the gold and silver in the water
03:31still indicate the treasure still exists,
03:33you put those two things together,
03:35along with this Portuguese coin,
03:36that speaks very loudly
03:39that there was something very valuable
03:41buried deep in the Money Pit a long time ago.
03:45We're going to explore this area thoroughly
03:47with the Sonic drill rig
03:48and hopefully bring up what we could not
03:49with TB1 K-Zone.
03:51Anything that's fallen to that deeper level,
03:53we're going to be able to find it
03:54and put it right on the Money Pit.
03:56For sure, yep.
03:58While the core drilling operation proceeds
04:00in the Money Pit area...
04:03Come this way and dig that?
04:05Yeah.
04:06Let's find something old.
04:07Yep.
04:08Over at the western region of the swamp,
04:11Rick, Gary Drayton, and Billy Gerhardt
04:13search for new clues and evidence of valuables.
04:17Hold it! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
04:24Don't move it.
04:26It's a stake.
04:32Great condition.
04:34The swamp really preserves wood.
04:37Should preserve iron, gold, and silver
04:39if we can find it.
04:41If we can find it.
04:47Yeah, there's another one.
04:50It was right there.
04:51Yep.
04:56Does that look like an oldie, Rick?
05:00It is tough to tell.
05:04It's eight sides, isn't it?
05:06Yep.
05:06Why are all these stakes in here?
05:08I have no idea.
05:10The number of stakes in a 50 by 50 foot area,
05:13it's almost overwhelming.
05:16There's another one.
05:17Hey, these are coming up.
05:18What in the world is happening?
05:19I would have expected them to be linear.
05:23These are very erratic.
05:25We've got something going on here.
05:30Oh, yeah.
05:30There shouldn't be this many in such a tight space.
05:34I know.
05:35They're big, big stakes.
05:37Maybe there's a construction that yet awaits us somewhere
05:40that is very well-defined, very accurate,
05:44but we are currently unaware of it.
05:45Yeah.
05:46In recent years, the team has found similar wooden stakes
05:51in other areas of the swamp.
05:54Some lined portions of a cobblestone path
05:57that led to an empty fault-like structure.
06:01So could the numerous wooden stakes they're finding here
06:05lead them toward another discovery?
06:07I think beer is sand.
06:17Rocks sort of under it.
06:19Yeah.
06:20Billy's observation of a sand layer
06:23indicates that this is an intentional, man-made structure.
06:28It was developed for some purpose.
06:30It's going somewhere.
06:31We need to find out where and why.
06:37On the edge, it looks very similar to the stone road.
06:42It looks very similar.
06:44Either stone road or the paved area.
06:47Yeah.
06:47It's kind of up-y-down-y.
06:49Yeah.
06:49More like the paved area.
06:51They're stacked.
06:52They're level.
06:54Yeah.
06:54A rock feature here?
06:57Similar to the stone road or massive paved area
07:00that were previously found in the swamp?
07:03Seems like it goes back along there, yeah.
07:05See, there's rock, rock, rock.
07:07Is it possible the team has uncovered another man-made feature?
07:13No more interest in the area or in the swamp?
07:15If this is a built rock something, that's a lot of work.
07:20This construction is eerily similar to the paved area.
07:25You can't dismiss it.
07:27Was it done by the same party or group?
07:30It's still a puzzle.
07:32Maybe we can get a hold of Dr. Spooner and have him come out and take a look.
07:36Yeah.
07:36The plan for the swamp really succinctly is to keep digging, find something that points
07:42to, you know, Rick's who, what, when, where, why, and how, or a clue that helps us unwrap
07:47the whole mystery.
07:48And this feature could help us do that.
07:51Well, again, dig the sand, be as least disruptive as possible to this, whatever this is, wash this
07:58as best we can, see what it tells us.
08:01Yeah.
08:02Yeah, we need to get all of these states tested.
08:05Well, you know, it's pure Oak Island, more questions than answers, but...
08:08Typical.
08:10Okay, we'll keep looking.
08:15Later that afternoon...
08:19You know, you find yourselves back at the lab again.
08:21We have an interesting item in front of us, and I really hope to learn more things today.
08:26Rick, Gary, and Charles join Laird and Emma in the Oak Island Laboratory.
08:31To hear a scientific report on a lead artifact that was discovered while searching near the
08:37border of Lot 5 one week ago.
08:40Charles?
08:41I believe you were with Gary when this was found.
08:43Yeah, I was with Gary.
08:44We were kind of opposite where the rectangular feature is.
08:47Mm-hmm.
08:47I dug it, and he pulled it out, and I think the way you described it was decorative lead.
08:52Yeah.
08:53It's decorated as in the end.
08:57Those beveled edges, it kind of reminds me of an arm of a cross.
09:02We've found decorative pieces of lead before.
09:06We've found a really cool scallop disc on Lot 5.
09:11And let's not forget the magnificent medieval cross from Smith's Cove.
09:16I've got eye hopes that this is going to match one of those older pieces of lead.
09:22This lead artifact was found just a few yards from the stone foundation on Lot 5, where the
09:30team previously discovered a lead barter token that was scientifically matched to the 14th
09:36century lead cross, and both of which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
09:41So, Emma, what more can you tell us about this piece of lead?
09:48Well, first off, I did do a bunch of map scans on the surface.
09:52There are no intentional designs.
09:54There's striations.
09:55I think that's more from usage rather than, like, a decorative intent.
10:01Prior to their meeting, Emma scanned the lead artifact using an X-ray Fluorescent Spectrometer, or XRF,
10:08a device that uses non-destructive radiation that can identify an object's composition,
10:15as well as potentially help determine its age.
10:20Compositionally, it's a really clean lead.
10:22There is a consistent amount of tin in it.
10:26But there's nothing in here that indicates modernity, as in there's nothing that indicates
10:30that it's more recent lead alloys.
10:33So, it has a good potential to be 1700s and older.
10:40Brilliant.
10:43So, it has potential to be 1700s and older.
10:48Told you, mate.
10:49Told you this is going to be an old piece.
10:51You said that when we were out there.
10:53So, it is a curious piece.
10:54Yeah.
10:54In the Oak Island Laboratory, Emma has just shared a scientific report
11:00that suggests the lead artifact found one week ago
11:04may predate the discovery of the money pit by more than a century.
11:09That notch at the top is strange.
11:13Yeah, it is.
11:14Yeah.
11:14Looks like attempted angular holes.
11:17That didn't go all the way through.
11:19Mm-hmm.
11:20Mm-hmm.
11:20It wasn't recycled, so it's a fresh source of lead.
11:26It has high potential of not being locally sourced.
11:29So, these are all great candidates to send off for a laser ablation analysis.
11:35Brilliant, because I've got high hopes for this.
11:38Laser ablation is a testing method that removes microscopic samples
11:43from the surface of lead artifacts using a high-powered laser.
11:48These samples are then analyzed to identify the exact isotope values contained in the lead,
11:54which can help determine the time period and geographic region
11:58where such artifacts originated.
12:01It gives you the ore source.
12:02It's a good thing.
12:03Yeah.
12:04And it will tell us if there's a relationship to the cross.
12:07Yeah.
12:08Using laser ablation testing, the team was able to determine
12:12that the lead cross and the lead barter token both dated to the 14th century
12:18and were from an area of southern France that served as a stronghold for the Knights Templar.
12:25We're always looking for friends at the cross.
12:27And it maybe helps you guys say what's going on in the rectangular feature.
12:33Mm-hmm.
12:34Because it really was.
12:35It was dead opposite there, just across the tracks.
12:37Well, yeah.
12:38Given what you've said, that this is quite pure,
12:40perfect candidate for laser ablation.
12:43Oh, do you want to carry the ball on that?
12:45Yes, absolutely.
12:46And the three of us will go try to find more.
12:49Yeah, but one more thing.
12:51Be prepared to be gubstroped.
12:53This is going to be special.
12:55Thank you, Larry.
12:56Thank you, Emma.
12:56See you later.
12:57The following morning, as borehole F5.5 continues to make its descent towards the solution channel.
13:10So this is the feature, but one thing you need to recognize is that all of this cobble came from here as well.
13:18Rick 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.
13:30What 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.
13:37The other thing that we did find were stakes.
13:39Okay.
13:40Interesting.
13:41Because if these stakes rot off the top like that, then that tends to suggest further back in time.
13:49What gets me excited is these rocks here, they're exactly like we see in the cobble path, Stone Road.
13:58What 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.
14:14Yeah.
14:15So why were people here?
14:17What were they doing?
14:18This might have been a pathway right through here.
14:21Right.
14:22You always take what you have learned in your past experiences on the island and try to apply them to the current effort.
14:32Last year, the cobbled path led us to the most curious thing we found in the north end of the bog, the so-called vault.
14:41Might there be another construction like that here?
14:44That's the hope.
14:45Just keep digging.
14:49Right.
14:49I would certainly, if you have the time, see if this is isolated.
14:54It would be really interesting to see if we came across another feature that might be similar.
15:01It's interesting.
15:02Well, our permits are under review.
15:04Right.
15:05This is on the extremity of the permitted area.
15:08Okay.
15:08And once that approval process is completed, we'll keep digging.
15:13So, I think we'll find more answers.
15:16Yep.
15:16The 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.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24To meet Nova Scotia's environmental regulations, the Oak Island team must apply for separate permits to dig in different areas of the swamp.
15:34The area they are in now is on the border of where they are currently allowed to search.
15:39I'm sure your brother's going to love this, isn't he?
15:44Another feature in the swamp.
15:46Thank you, Ian.
15:47Appreciate it.
15:48Yep.
15:48While the team prepares new permit applications for their work in the swamp.
15:54There's so much activity on Lot 5, Rick.
15:57Rick and Gary are searching for clues near the middle of Lot 5.
16:01We're still east of the Roman coins, aren't we?
16:06Yeah.
16:07Oh, yeah.
16:08There's no place like Rome.
16:12After finding a mysterious lead piece nearby, they are eager to search an area of Lot 5 where the team previously found evidence suggesting that Europeans could have visited Oak Island as far back as the 13th century.
16:26This includes six ancient Roman coins that coin expert Sandy Campbell believes could be between 1,500 and 2,000 years old.
16:36According to Sandy and other experts, coins like these were still being circulated as everyday currency in Europe up into the 1,400s.
16:48Roman coins on an island in the North Atlantic is such a puzzle.
16:53But to think that someone was here in the 12th, 13th, 1400s with Roman coins is not a stretch at all.
17:03Perhaps 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.
17:15A little squeaker here, Rick.
17:18Just there, please.
17:19Oh, I like the sound of that.
17:32Oh, come on.
17:38It's gotta be in there.
17:39Now, let's see what we've got.
17:47Oh, what have we got here?
17:50Another piece of lead.
17:52You know, it's really heavy.
17:54And I actually think this is really, really interesting.
17:58The fact that it's an elongated piece of lead, that makes that more interesting, you know.
18:03Something like this, you never know, it could be a match to an older piece of lead we've recovered.
18:10Like that medieval lead cross.
18:13We're gonna have to bag this and put a flag in it, because we don't know what Emma's gonna reveal when she scans this.
18:21Another curiously shaped lead artifact?
18:25Could Gary be correct?
18:27That this might be a clue connected to the lead cross, and perhaps even to the Roman coins found in this area of Lot 5.
18:37Right, mate, I'm gonna put this in the bag and we'll put the flag in.
18:40It's going in the bag.
18:41I think the work in Lot 5 has been exciting, interesting, dramatic, and 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.
19:02Oh, not too bad sounding.
19:05Not too shabby at all.
19:10Fingers crossed.
19:11Check it and see if you've got it out.
19:19That's not it, is it?
19:23It is.
19:25What have we got here, mate?
19:29Look at that.
19:31Oh!
19:33Nice.
19:34Is it handle to a pair of old scissors?
19:37Oh.
19:38While metal detecting near the middle of Lot 5 on Oak Island.
19:42See that?
19:43One set.
19:45Gary and Rick have uncovered another potentially important clue.
19:50Look at the fracture there.
19:51Yeah, you're right, Rick.
19:52It looks like it's broken off, so there'll be another piece.
19:56Well, recheck the old.
19:57Yep.
19:58Well, in fact, I can see you, mate.
20:00Look at this.
20:03That's the other side.
20:06Look at that.
20:08Yeah, they go together.
20:09No, wait a minute.
20:11Oh.
20:12I wonder if they're not scissors.
20:15These are the same.
20:17What do you think it is?
20:18We need a second opinion.
20:20Lynn's down the lot.
20:21Hey, Lynn, check this out, please.
20:24Pretty cool, isn't it?
20:25It is.
20:26Yeah, it really is.
20:26What do we have?
20:28Hi, mate.
20:29How are you?
20:29We've just dug up a very curious artifact.
20:32When this first piece came up, I was thinking scissors, old shears.
20:37Yeah, for sure.
20:38And then when the second piece came up, I was thinking, look at this.
20:41Mm-hmm.
20:42I think this is something completely different.
20:45Oh, yeah, look at that.
20:46I think this is horse pack.
20:48Yeah.
20:49Which is even cooler.
20:50Looks like a bridal cheek piece.
20:53It would have been two either side of the cheeks.
20:56Yeah.
20:57That is really neat.
20:59Part of a possible horse bridal found on Lot 5?
21:03While several lots on the island were inhabited by settlers and farmers before 1795.
21:10Known records suggest the lot wasn't used either as farmland or as a grazing area for horses.
21:17So given the fact that the team has found artifacts in this area that could date back to medieval times and earlier,
21:24just how old is this horse bridal?
21:28And might it help identify who built the structures near the shoreline?
21:33I mean, look at it.
21:34I mean, you can see it's crudely made.
21:36That's got to be raw iron.
21:38Mm-hmm.
21:38Uh, and an oldie.
21:40Yeah, I can't imagine that being on an ox.
21:42I think this is horse tack.
21:44Yeah.
21:45I'd like to do more research on it.
21:47Um, would you mind if I took it to the lab?
21:49No, of course not, Mike.
21:50I'll put it in the bag.
21:52All right.
21:53Excellent.
21:55All right, Mike.
21:56See you, Neil.
21:56As Rick and Gary continue their search on lot five.
22:02Here we go.
22:06Over in the money pit area.
22:08Get ready to slice and dice, Terry.
22:10Charles, Terry, and other members of the team monitor the core drilling operation of borehole F5.5,
22:18which has reached the solution channel.
22:20Here we go, guys.
22:22Here it comes.
22:23Here it comes.
22:23Here it comes.
22:26All right.
22:31206, Terry.
22:32206, thank you.
22:33In bedrock at 204, yes?
22:35204, yeah.
22:39Great.
22:40Let's carve it up.
22:41Here we go.
22:42Okay.
22:46That's a more promising looseness.
22:48Yeah, something can slide through that.
22:50Very, very watery.
22:54Into which treasure could have been dropped.
22:56So bedrock at 204, guys.
23:00And above that, looks like we've got some relatively loose material, which is a good indication.
23:05Proof of our general premise or idea that the potential of material could fall in a solution channel.
23:12I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.
23:19See?
23:20Right in there.
23:30There's something in there.
23:32There's actually something in this.
23:34Drop it.
23:35There it is.
23:35There it is.
23:36Right there.
23:37A little bit of...
23:38Right there.
23:38What do we got?
23:39Iron something, or...
23:41Yeah.
23:41Wow.
23:42Clean it off, Terry.
23:42That's a fleck of metal.
23:45That could...
23:47Oh, that could be...
23:48I don't want to say coin, but...
23:50It looks like a half...
23:51That could be a chunk of a coin.
23:53It looks like a half coin.
23:54Oh, wow.
23:54Really?
23:55Yeah.
23:55It looks just like a coin.
23:58That's wild.
23:58That's absolutely wild.
24:00It's got some sort of design on it, too, it looks like.
24:03You say there's a pattern on it, Peter?
24:05There is.
24:06I got to make a phone call.
24:09Absolutely.
24:10All right.
24:11I'm going to call my uncle, Rick.
24:13Wow.
24:13That's very promising.
24:14Yep.
24:18Hey, guys.
24:19Hello.
24:20How you doing?
24:21It was just as we pushed into bedrock, Rick.
24:23Yeah.
24:23We were hit bedrock at 204.
24:25At about 204.5, we came up with that artifact.
24:29After hearing that something of potential interest was extracted from the solution channel...
24:34204.5 feet.
24:39Rick and Scott arrived in the Money Pit area to join the investigation.
24:44So we're sitting right on the bottom.
24:46It pushed in a bit, yeah.
24:47So we thought it was a cut or split coin.
24:50It's a small piece.
24:52What is it?
24:53The metal detector doesn't lie.
24:55We're looking for precious metals at the bottom of the solution channel.
25:00Feels like a coin.
25:01I feel what Gary calls roundness in my hand.
25:05It could be significant.
25:07It's what we're looking for.
25:08It's a hard metal, for sure.
25:10And very dense.
25:12Yep.
25:14Now, that's a button off the drill bit.
25:19You can see clearly right size.
25:22There we are.
25:24Sorry, guys.
25:25You think it's a button bit?
25:28Yep.
25:29I do.
25:29Unfortunately, the team is disappointed to learn that the find has turned out to be a button
25:36that broke off from the end of a drill bit during a previous drilling operation.
25:40We're directly below case on TV1.
25:45So that could have came off last year's sonic drill program.
25:48So it could be a break off from last year.
25:50And again, it could prove our principle that dense material falls to the bedrock solution channel interface.
25:56Yep.
25:56Yeah.
25:57Go from a high to a low.
25:59We're all disappointed because it's a piece of carbide off the drill bit.
26:04But then I think, wait a minute here.
26:07It's not really alone.
26:10Something this small and insignificant has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel in the bedrock.
26:17Proof, definitive proof, that even a possible coin could fall to these depths at the bottom of the solution channel.
26:28It's down there.
26:30We just haven't found it yet.
26:32But we will.
26:32You guys, I am extremely grateful.
26:36But more work to do.
26:37Let's get after it.
26:39See you guys.
26:39See you guys.
26:40See you guys.
26:44As a new day begins on Oak Island.
26:48While ground is broken on a new borehole in the Money Pit area.
26:53So I'm hoping you guys can tell us what these finds are.
26:59Or maybe it's just one find.
27:00Rick, 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.
27:11When I saw it in the field and you put it together, I could see that being part of the horse tack.
27:21But in our research, we couldn't correlate it to anything like that.
27:26Oh, yeah.
27:27Yeah.
27:28Yeah.
27:29Design wise.
27:30So you have the two pieces.
27:33These are cross sections right at that break.
27:35And one is more square.
27:38The other is a little bit more rectangular.
27:40So that just wouldn't have come from the same break.
27:42They were not connected as one.
27:46Yeah.
27:47So they did break off from the same object.
27:50It's just the handles of scissors.
27:52Yeah.
27:53That's what I thought when the first piece came up.
27:55Yeah.
27:55Well, it'd be interesting to see what the metallurgy is.
27:58What does the actual data tell you?
28:00Yeah.
28:01So the composition, there is a slight chlorine content.
28:07The fact that I am getting some sodium values, it does indicate it's been in prolonged contact with salt water.
28:14Mm-hmm.
28:15Wow.
28:15There's minimal impurities, which means pre-blast furnace.
28:19So it does indicate it's 1700s.
28:21Okay.
28:22Potentially late 1600s.
28:25Yeah.
28:25Good.
28:27Is it possible that the team has found another artifact that could date back to the 1600s on Lot 5?
28:35If so, could it help identify just who occupied the structures there more than a century before the discovery of the Money Pit?
28:45What country would this artifact be associated with?
28:50It's most likely UK and origin.
28:56You had, I remember, a book here of stylistically how shears changed over the years.
29:02Do you still have that?
29:03I do.
29:04Do you want to take a look?
29:11That would be your closest.
29:13It looks pretty identical to that.
29:15Yeah.
29:16Mid-17th century.
29:18Yeah.
29:18Yeah.
29:19Yeah.
29:19Yeah.
29:19That explains the sheer excitement we felt when we found this.
29:25Stylistically, they represent the period of the 1600s.
29:29It certainly then raises the interest in the item.
29:34Does it prove directly some connection to the Money Pit and the original work?
29:40No.
29:40But neither does it say it can't be.
29:44Look, let's be honest.
29:45Look, let's be honest.
29:46There's two lots on this island that are incredibly difficult to understand, right?
29:51The Money Pit lot.
29:53Mm-hmm.
29:54And Lot 5.
29:55Mm-hmm.
29:55Given the enormity of finds, layers are becoming clearer or more difficult to establish what
30:03happened on 5.
30:03Every little find like that brings us closer.
30:08Every artifact we find tells a story.
30:12And with finds like these, even though they're quite puzzling in the moment, the next find
30:17might help explain it.
30:18Exactly.
30:19We haven't finished in that area, yeah.
30:21That's true.
30:22Needs metal detecting.
30:24And I say we go right now.
30:26Yeah.
30:26Yeah.
30:27Okay.
30:28Great research.
30:31Later that morning.
30:35Come on.
30:36Let's have a signal.
30:38Rick and Gary return to Lot 5.
30:41We're about due here, Gary.
30:43Yeah.
30:44Well, that's metal detecting.
30:45You've got to do the leg work, and then all of a sudden, finding something good.
30:50Like yesterday.
30:51Yeah, exactly.
30:54Some big old boulders around here.
30:57It's a place where people can sit and lose artifacts.
31:06There's potential in the air.
31:08Oh, yeah.
31:12Looks like I've been here before.
31:16There's a flag in here.
31:18What the heck is this, Rick?
31:21That circular feature there.
31:24Maybe.
31:26You can see in there.
31:30Definitely circular stones.
31:38Is it hollow in there?
31:39No, but it's definitely full of stone.
31:43Seems odd, doesn't it?
31:45Circular pattern of rocks.
31:47Nothing there, huh?
31:48No.
31:49No metal.
31:50But it's interesting as hell, isn't it?
31:52I wonder what this was for.
31:55I see in front of us a rock that's standing on edge.
32:00And it appears to be a circle of rock around it.
32:02It does look as though they were placed with intent.
32:06Maybe we've found another feature.
32:08We may have another stone structure on lot five.
32:12That is worth investigating.
32:15You could peel the layers of rocks away and see if this is a real structure.
32:20I think it's worth having Laird come know and see if there's anything there.
32:23Yeah.
32:24Definitely worth checking out.
32:26This might be the find of the date.
32:29Yep.
32:33What do we have?
32:35I wish I could say I know what we were looking at, but I do know that Gary and I put eyes on this.
32:41Yeah, it's certainly an interesting feature.
32:42Following the discovery of a possible man-made stone feature near the center of lot five,
32:49Rick calls in Laird Niven to get his assessment.
32:52Gary did metal ticketing here.
32:54I just poked my shovel in here, and I think it just seemed weird because there's not a lot of dirt, right?
33:03Yeah.
33:03The rocks are piled up, and then everything accumulates on top.
33:08It's the shape that hits me first, right?
33:10It seems to be circular, lined with large rocks.
33:14That upright flat rock in the middle, it's like you're putting it there to signify something, which is pretty cool.
33:21So it's done with purpose.
33:23This was a stone that was deliberately placed upright, and my immediate thought was that that was done to mark a location.
33:33This location isn't marking the boundaries of land.
33:38Well, what's interesting is on this lot, there are stone circular formations, right?
33:46Yeah.
33:47And now we have another one here.
33:49I mean, we have the Roman coins.
33:50We don't understand how they got here.
33:51This may help explain some of that mystery.
33:53Could this stone formation have been built by the same people who constructed the large, rounded feature near the shoreline?
34:01If so, could it somehow be connected to the Roman coins that have been found in this area?
34:08If this is a marker or a monument, this might be a very significant find.
34:15We have found a multitude of items that are unexplainable.
34:19The list of it goes on and on and on.
34:21So might there be something quite unique and interesting about this location?
34:28Yes, certainly.
34:29Well, you know, I'd certainly clear it off, bring the team in, and then consider bisecting it.
34:35I think that's certainly worth doing.
34:37I'm excited over this.
34:38I mean, this could very well be our next big feature.
34:41We won't know what it is until you actually do the work exactly.
34:44And any day that we can dig something up on Oak Island is a good day.
34:47Good day.
34:48Best day ever.
34:49Okey-doke.
34:50While Laird prepares to investigate the new stone feature on Lot 5.
34:57Later that afternoon.
35:01I'm going to say something that my brother would never say.
35:04Beautiful day in the swamp.
35:06Yep, it's good to be out.
35:07You bet.
35:10You're going here, right?
35:12Yeah.
35:13Rick, Gary, and Billy return to the swamp.
35:16If you look over here, that's where we found the stakes and some cobble, roughly, between those two tall trees.
35:25Right.
35:26The hope here is that they carry through to this area.
35:30While they await a new permit to continue investigating the stone feature in the western region,
35:36they have moved to an area 40 feet to the north, where they are currently free to search.
35:42We're roughly on that line right now.
35:44What we need is an artifact.
35:50More artifacts.
35:52Let's see what we find.
35:53Yep.
35:54We are now digging in the southwest corner in the second permitted area.
35:59The idea was to follow the cobble area, we'll call it.
36:04One of the most unexplored areas is the western side of the swamp.
36:10So hopefully there are answers here within the bog.
36:13That's not charcoal, is it?
36:18Is it charcoal, Rick?
36:21I mean, it should do that if it's charcoal, right?
36:24Yeah.
36:26It was right there.
36:28Yeah.
36:29See that little piece?
36:30Grab that.
36:31Yeah, that looks like charcoal.
36:34And I remember the archaeologists found charcoal on the stone road.
36:39That was the one consistent thing we found.
36:41We found that even all the way down the path.
36:44Yeah.
36:44The team has previously discovered charcoal in the southeast corner on the stone road, which
36:52may be Portuguese in origin and more than 500 years old.
36:57You have a bag?
36:59Yeah, I've got a bag.
37:00Finding more potential charcoal here is intriguing and suggests a possible connection between the
37:07two features.
37:07I'm sure Emma can tell us right away whether it is or not.
37:10We'll find out from Emma.
37:12If it can be dated to a much earlier time, that's interesting in and of itself.
37:19I've got it in the bag.
37:20No tilt.
37:21I think this sample in particular should be sent to the lab to see if it aligns with
37:27the charcoal that was found on the stone road and the stone path.
37:31Because then, possibly, there's a connection.
37:33We've got some iron here by the sound of it.
37:43Let me pinpoint it, Rick.
37:48We've got a net here.
37:49And look how it's right at the side of that boulder.
37:53I think it's out, Rick.
38:05Oh, that's an on-dinger of a signal.
38:08We'll have a bit of a look.
38:10Look at that.
38:15Look at that.
38:17Yep.
38:18Look at the way it tapers down.
38:21In the western region of the Oak Island Swamp,
38:25the Oak Island team has just made another potentially interesting discovery.
38:31Does it have a notch on top?
38:33You know what?
38:34It does.
38:35Yeah.
38:36Why would it have a notch?
38:38Unless this is broken off, there's a hole in it.
38:42Heavy?
38:43Oh, yeah, it's really heavy.
38:45This is antforged, raw iron.
38:47Yeah, this is an old piece of iron.
38:49This is something different.
38:52What the heck is this?
38:53If it is hollow, and yet you're saying it's heavy, that's even more interesting.
38:57Yeah.
38:58But that is unusual.
39:00One end appeared to be hollow.
39:02The other end appeared to have a raised diagonal.
39:05That seems strange.
39:08I just don't know what it is.
39:10It's a unique find.
39:12It's not a piece of rebar, and it needs to go to the lab.
39:15The way it tapers down, it could be like a petronal, a really old gun from the 1500s, 1600s.
39:25They were very early weapons.
39:28Just one single shot.
39:30A CT scan is really going to be enlightening, but why else would it be hollow?
39:36Yeah.
39:38Petronals date back to as early as the 14th century.
39:41They were a short, single shot firearm, commonly used by European militaries, before the invention of long-barreled muskets in the mid-1600s.
39:53Thanks to their compact size, Petronals were often used by soldiers who were riding on horseback.
40:00Is it possible that Gary has found new evidence of a military presence on Oak Island back in the 1600s or earlier?
40:10If so, just whose military was it?
40:14Definitely interesting.
40:16Yeah.
40:16Yeah.
40:16And what's it doing here?
40:18That's a special find.
40:19This could be a smoking gun, literally.
40:22You 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.
40:40We need to do more work in the area to try to understand that story in its totality.
40:46We are going to go back to that lab with a really fantastic artifact.
40:50It's pretty peculiar, and to unravel this story, we better get on the ball.
40:56Anyway, tomorrow, another day.
40:58Good job.
40:59Good digging, Billy.
41:01We've still got a lot of ground to cover.
41:04As another exciting week ends on Oak Island, new finds offer Rick, Marty, and their team more validation that something extraordinary took place here centuries ago.
41:18And while their search for the answers is far from over, they are determined to reveal the truth.
41:28Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys.
41:38I mean, this is Treasure Central.
41:40There's mounting evidence of something happening here long ago.
41:45Hopefully, there's some old gold and silver.
41:50We've got a stone structure here.
41:52Somebody piled those stones.
41:53So somebody put this here.
41:55Somebody went into some trouble.
41:57It could be a 1500s hand cannon.
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