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00:01Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Everything that we dug up led us to this area being the money pit.
00:07We just need to find the right spot to death.
00:08If it's there, we should find it.
00:11Fiona, it was shining in the sun.
00:13Hallelujah!
00:14What was that?
00:15Oh!
00:18There we go.
00:18Yeah.
00:19Fits in with the time period of 1600s.
00:22It's probably the coolest thing that I've looked at.
00:24Really?
00:25Valuation, sky's the limit.
00:27Oh my gosh.
00:28Yeah.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic.
00:34Where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:24We came in with a purpose this year, and the purpose was to put every borehole in the bottom of
01:28the solution channel.
01:28Yeah, absolutely.
01:30As a new day begins on Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are energized by the
01:38belief that they could finally be on track to solve a 230-year-old treasure mystery.
01:46Everything that we dug up led us to this area being the money pit.
01:49We just need to find the right spot of depth beneath 150 feet.
01:53Yeah.
01:55Whatever was put in the money pit fell to where it could fall no more.
01:59I need a solution check.
02:01So, if it's there, we should find it.
02:04Yeah.
02:04Time's gonna tell.
02:07The team is currently drilling a borehole in the fabled money pit area known as J-9.
02:13A borehole located where they believe the original treasure shaft, first discovered in 1795, has collapsed after more than two
02:25centuries of repeated excavations and fallen into a massive natural cavity in the bedrock known as the solution channel between
02:34150 and 220 feet underground.
02:39We're looking for what, hopefully, Pit Glado found in 1849.
02:44After the collapse, I think it's all down there.
02:47The whole thing is down.
02:48Exactly.
02:50This was a coin that was given to me that, from my own research, I believe is from about 1367.
02:57Wow.
02:58One week ago, the team was presented with a 14th century silver Portuguese coin, believed to be related to the
03:06Portuguese sects of the Knights Templar.
03:08Known as the Knights of Christ.
03:10According to the coin's current owner, Steve Solomon, it was recovered during a drilling operation in 1849 from nearly 100
03:20feet deep in the money pit by James Pit Glado, a drilling foreman who kept the discovery a secret.
03:28You got a core, gentlemen.
03:31Looks like, yeah.
03:33You got another bag.
03:34Now, having already detected high trace evidence of precious metals in water deep underground, they are hoping to prove that
03:43the coin is genuine by finding many more in the solution channel.
03:48158.
03:48158?
03:49Yeah.
03:50See what we got.
03:52None of the previous work got to the bottom of the solution channel, where a treasure fallen to those depths
03:57could hide.
03:58And what do we got here?
03:59There could be a lot more coins hiding in there.
04:02I think there are ample opportunities here to find out.
04:06These are chunks of limestone.
04:09Nothing yet, Charles.
04:10Nothing yet.
04:12What's your suspected depth of the bottom of the solution channel here?
04:16In this area, it's in between 210 and 250.
04:20So, the key would be to find any evidence of treasure.
04:24That's your target.
04:26Turn immediately to recovery, and that would probably mean a big day.
04:30Let's find it.
04:31We're still a ways away, so call me if you find anything.
04:34Oh, absolutely. You're my first call.
04:36We're going to keep our eyes peeled.
04:37As the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area, nearly half a mile away on Lot 5.
04:46All right, guys.
04:48We're going to go from the ferns down to the beach.
04:51Marty Lagina, his nephew Peter Fernetti, and metal detection expert Katya Drayton,
04:57search for clues between a mysterious rectangular feature and a rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.
05:06Proceed.
05:07After the surprising discovery of these two buried features back in 2022,
05:14the team has made astonishing finds that suggest both may have been used as campsites by different groups
05:21over a number of centuries prior to the discovery of the Money Pit.
05:27These finds include a lead barter token that, just like the 14th century lead cross discovered at Smith's Cove,
05:35may be related to the Knights Templar.
05:39Another curious clue is a mortar-like material that has been found in both features,
05:45which has been scientifically matched to soil samples collected from more than 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
06:00Oh, there we go.
06:01It's a two-way signal.
06:03Sounds good.
06:04Pete?
06:05This occupation we know occurred potentially through several time periods.
06:10Amongst other things, we have direct connection between Lot 5 and the Money Pit already.
06:16Lot 5 could give us clues as to when and by who the treasure itself might have been deposited,
06:21so that could be very meaningful.
06:24That's a rock.
06:25That's a rock.
06:26That's a rock.
06:26How big is it?
06:29Ah, that's a big rock.
06:32Oh, that's a big falder.
06:34You know what?
06:35There is a pry bar left from an earlier job right over here.
06:43Let's see if we can move this bad boy.
06:45What do you think?
06:45This guy?
06:46Which one?
06:47Put it long ways right there.
06:49This is vaguely reminiscent of being 10 years old again.
06:52Here we are with the lowest of low-tech possible.
06:56We've got a great big boulder.
06:57We have no hydraulic equipment.
07:00We have a pry bar.
07:01We're going to try and move this boulder out of the way.
07:03It needs to get out of the way.
07:04We need to know what's under it.
07:05I'm going to fall on my face is what I'm going to do.
07:09Wish me luck.
07:11Come on, you big bugger.
07:15This rock here refuses to be moved.
07:18There have been a lot of great finds around Lot 5.
07:21And so it's very important to get it.
07:23I mean, it could be a gold coin.
07:25It could be a coin with a date on it.
07:28We can't just let that go.
07:30I don't think we have the right equipment.
07:31I think the skid steer will fit in here.
07:34Pete?
07:34Yes?
07:35Yeah.
07:35Okay, well, I will go get the machine and we'll roll it out of there.
07:38Awesome.
07:39Okay.
07:39Let's move on.
07:40While Marty retrieves a small excavator to move the boulder on Lot 5.
07:47You know, whenever I see iron on the table, I'm excited, obviously.
07:51This could be an important find.
07:53Rick Lagina and other members of the team meet with Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab.
08:00It came out of H.5-8.5, which is 174 to 178 feet deep.
08:06It looked very much like somebody's drill casing, something from before us.
08:11They are about to hear a scientific report on pieces of a believed drill rod that was recovered over one
08:18week ago, just feet away from where they are currently exploring in the Money Pit area.
08:25If it was somebody's old drill steel that tells us that somebody else was interested in this area for reasons
08:31we don't know.
08:32Yeah.
08:32And Emma, that's where you come in.
08:34Yeah.
08:36Earlier this morning, Emma scanned the metal pieces using the X-ray Fluorescent Spectrometer, or XRF, a device that can
08:45identify the elements in an object's composition to help determine when it was created.
08:52So, the two metals are exactly the same thing, which you kind of see just from the look of it,
08:58that they belong to the same piece.
09:00Yeah.
09:01Based on the list of impurities, it's Manganese content.
09:05I would put this around mid-1800s to late-1800s.
09:11The dates that Emma is relating to us indicate searcher.
09:15Mm-hmm.
09:15The Truro Company, in 1849, when they were doing their drilling and they brought up the coin, that pit blade
09:22up in his pocket.
09:24In 1849, members of the Truro Company excavated the original money pit down to a depth of nearly 90 feet.
09:34After building a wooden platform at a depth of 30 feet in the pit, they began a drilling operation.
09:42At approximately 100 feet, they reportedly struck two stacked chests, which they failed to recover due to catastrophic flooding.
09:51However, the company's foreman, named James Pitt Blato, is believed to have recovered the 14th century silver Portuguese coin from
10:00the end of the drill bit.
10:02They were drilling when they knew where the money pit was.
10:05So my hope is we're going to find more of those Portuguese coins in this area.
10:10That'd be pretty cool.
10:12Yeah.
10:12And we know the Truro Company didn't get below any more than 117 feet with their drilling.
10:18So the Great Collapse could have carried this metal down deeper than any known work at the time.
10:23And that area of the solution channel could prove really interesting.
10:27If this steel correlates to the efforts by the Truro Company to try to find treasure, that's important.
10:34Because it would mean that we are in the same area that they were in when they were looking for
10:40the vault.
10:41And we have a coin that we suspect might be associated with that, and it is in this area.
10:50Bottom line, we have an area that we've designated an area of significant interest in this support staff.
10:56Yeah.
10:57Given the evidence on the table, we should redouble our efforts.
11:01Let's go do it.
11:02Okay.
11:07This could turn into loose, watery material within a foot or two, right?
11:12Yeah.
11:13While the drilling operation proceeds in the money pit...
11:18I'm just gonna try and get right in there and pluck it out.
11:21And then we're done with that rock.
11:23Mm-hmm.
11:24Yeah.
11:25Marty Lagina arrives back on Lot 5 with a small excavator known as a skid steer...
11:33...to move the boulder that is covering what may be an important clue.
11:38The plan to move the rock initially was to try and move it with levers.
11:43It didn't work.
11:44So then it's time to bring in the power of the skid steer.
11:49No!
11:51Nothing I like better.
11:53It's kinda hard to move a rock that's in a hole.
11:56There we go.
11:57But we want to get this out because it could be super significant.
12:01And it could be very, very old.
12:05Okay.
12:06Great.
12:07The rock has moved.
12:08It is.
12:09Finally.
12:10Accomplished.
12:11Well, is there anything in there?
12:13No.
12:15Please be something in there.
12:24It's so low of a signal and it's reading very low content.
12:29I believe there was something here.
12:31Mm-hmm.
12:31But not anymore.
12:32It disintegrated.
12:33Yeah.
12:35It seems that it's a bit of a ghost we were chasing.
12:40Probably there was something in there that corroded a long time ago.
12:43So it's still a bit of a mystery.
12:45We had to do this.
12:46There was a clue potentially under that rock.
12:48And it would have driven all of us crazy if we didn't find out.
12:51But we're not going to let the island beat us.
12:53So let's get on to the next test.
12:54Yes.
12:54Do it.
12:55Lot five has been a better place to look than just anywhere.
12:59I'm still hoping to find something interesting.
13:01Something valuable.
13:02A clue.
13:03Actually, Katja, you know where I brought the skid steer in?
13:06I've disturbed all the soil here?
13:08Yeah.
13:08Why don't you scan this?
13:09What the heck?
13:09I'd love to do it.
13:10That'd be great.
13:19There's definitely someone over here, too.
13:21Yeah, that's a good signal.
13:23That's a great signal.
13:29That's pretty neat.
13:30See?
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:32That's out.
13:35Pin point.
13:38Ooh.
13:40There we go.
13:41What do you got?
13:42Oh.
13:44Can I clean it up a little bit?
13:46That's not just a shard of metal because it's got something going on right there.
13:50There is some sort of attachment here.
13:52Yeah.
13:53It looks like it has a fastener on it.
13:55I'll tell you what it is.
13:56It's lab-worthy.
13:57That's right.
13:58So that's good.
14:00Okay.
14:01All right.
14:01So all this rigmarole to get that rock might have been worth it if this means something.
14:05Mm-hmm.
14:05I mean, look at the proximity to the rectangular feature.
14:08Mm-hmm.
14:09Just an inch or two outside of where they were digging.
14:13And so if this could be a clue to figure out what the heck was going on here and how
14:18it associates to the money pit, yeah, I think there's something here.
14:22There's certainly a possibility.
14:24This thing might mean something.
14:26It might tell us who was there and when, and that would be a big deal.
14:30It could very well be significant.
14:32So bag it, please, and we'll analyze it.
14:35Sounds great.
14:36Let's go on to something else.
14:37Perfect.
14:38Way to go, you guys.
14:40As Marty and the team finish their investigation on Lot 5 in the research center.
14:48So, Sandy, I'd like you to introduce you to Steve Solomon.
14:51At the request of Rick Lagina, Steve Solomon has agreed to have coin expert Sandy Campbell examine the 14th century
15:00Portuguese coin
15:01that was reportedly extracted from the original money pit back in 1849.
15:08So this is it.
15:10There you go.
15:14Interesting.
15:15With his extensive experience, it is the team's hope that Sandy will be able to confirm the origin of the
15:22coin as well as its potential value.
15:27It's quite cool.
15:30Probably the coolest thing that I've looked at.
15:32Really?
15:32In my time on the island, so, you know, we've had some cool things, but this goes to a different
15:41level.
15:42It's a torne de scoto, which means a decorative shield.
15:48It's Portuguese 14th century.
15:52There's clearly a connection to the Templars because of the design of this coin.
15:57You have the cross.
15:59Here it is, here.
16:00And that's basically the religious Templar connotation on the back and the celebration of the king on the upper side.
16:08This would be after the Knights Templar were technically disband, but there was still a lot of involvement with the
16:16monarch and the Templar.
16:18You know, secretly, obviously.
16:20And this was an ode to the Templar.
16:22It's a fairly unique item because it was only minted from 1367 to probably 83.
16:31That's very curious.
16:33Interesting.
16:34Although the Order of the Knights Templar were disbanded in 1307, their rumored treasures were never found.
16:42And many fled to nations that offered them safe harbor, including Portugal.
16:49Is it possible that this coin suggests that their missing valuables were hidden on Oak Island?
16:56This is exceptional because this coin, whenever it was buried, was brand spanking new.
17:03This was not circulated at all.
17:05You say when it was buried, it was buried for a long time.
17:08Oh, this was definitely buried.
17:10Why do you say that?
17:11If this wasn't buried, it couldn't look like this.
17:14It would get very dark.
17:17If this was sitting in a chest and protected down there, it's going to be very slow at 100 feet
17:23deep for the deterioration.
17:25Mm-hmm.
17:26So this coin here will have silver, zinc, copper, and a touch of nickel when it was made.
17:32We have seen those elements in the water testing, though, that's been done, right?
17:36That's true.
17:37Silver, nickel, zinc.
17:39Yeah.
17:39Yeah.
17:40Okay.
17:40I got to go back and do my due diligence here for my dad.
17:43What do you think it would fetch?
17:44Oh, this?
17:47There's a Marty Lagina question.
17:48There you go.
17:49Right there.
17:51Valuation, you would be shocked.
17:53This would be $25,000, $30,000.
17:56If you find some that aren't deteriorated like this, you know, sky's the limit.
18:03That's amazing.
18:06Let's give my dad a call.
18:10Hey.
18:11Hey, Alex.
18:12What's up?
18:13So just a quick question for you.
18:14I need your help with some math here.
18:16Okay.
18:17In the Oak Island Research Center, members of the team called Marty Lagina to inform him
18:23that the 14th century Portuguese coin, reportedly found in the original money pit back in 1849,
18:30may be worth more than $20,000 in today's value.
18:36So, um, if we have a coin on the table that's worth, say, $20,000, perhaps more.
18:43All right.
18:44What would be the approximate value of an entire chest full of those?
18:48Oh, man, Alex.
18:50Seriously?
18:50Uh, yeah.
18:52According to Sandy that it could fetch quite a bit.
18:54Yeah.
18:55That's amazing.
18:56Let's just call it $20,000 for one.
18:59That's $2 million for $100.
19:02That's $20 million for $1,000.
19:04Yeah.
19:05And that's $200 million or $0.2 billion for $10,000.
19:10A chest of coins such as that could easily be a billion dollars.
19:14Yeah.
19:14That's amazing.
19:16Boy, all it does is speak to the value of what might lie below.
19:20Yeah.
19:21All right.
19:22Really, if Mr. Pit Blado found that coin, then where are the rest of them?
19:26Yeah.
19:26There should be more of them.
19:28Look, we found all kinds of really interesting things and intriguing clues
19:32and things that make you wonder what in the heck happened on this island.
19:36It looks quite likely to me that this coin is a piece of treasure that was extracted from deep in
19:43the money pit.
19:43And that means that there's a lot more down deep in the solution channel.
19:48Now you can stop asking me if there's a treasure in the money pit.
19:53Show me where to dig.
19:55I'll find them.
19:57I'm on board with that.
19:59All right.
19:59Well, guys, thanks for the call.
20:01Good job, all.
20:02Keep me posted.
20:04Yeah, we'll keep you posted.
20:05Thanks, Marty.
20:05Yeah.
20:06Thank you very much.
20:07Take care.
20:09The focus here for me is, you know, why was it put there?
20:14You don't cross the oceans with money and put it in a 100-foot shaft, protected by a flooding system.
20:20Too much work.
20:20It just, it just, it's something else.
20:22Some intent, some purpose.
20:25Truthfully, if the numbers reached a billion dollars or even more, I'm not surprised by that.
20:32But I think there's something far more valuable.
20:36There's a real treasure here, a monetary treasure and something else.
20:40Secret information, secret knowledge has allowed this treasure mystery to endure for 230 years.
20:47And I've always believed it since I was a little boy.
20:50I believe it yet today as I sit here.
20:52We just have to find it.
20:54Sandy, Steve, thank you both very much.
20:57The raising of the level of excitement wouldn't have happened without the both of you.
21:01The Oak Island story is alive and well.
21:03And at this point, all that remains to be said is, we need to find it.
21:08Let's go.
21:08Let's do it.
21:09Alrighty.
21:10As Rick and other members of the team conclude their meeting in the Oak Island Research Center.
21:17We'll take that corner down too.
21:19Yep.
21:20And I'll probably work with you over here.
21:22Yes, please.
21:22Over on Lot 5, archaeologist Fiona Steele and other members of the team continue to search for clues in the
21:31rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.
21:39Fiona?
21:40Yeah.
21:41I think this is red with glaze on it.
21:48Okay, you know what?
21:49I think that looks like black Anglo-American ware.
21:52Yeah.
21:53The Anglo-American ware is, of course, earthenware.
21:55It could be anywhere from 1600s to 1800s.
21:59There's a body of evidence from the Lot 5 feature that literally spans centuries.
22:04How do you explain that?
22:05Good eyes.
22:07The archaeologists are intrigued by the feature,
22:10and more and more information continues to come out of the ground.
22:15So, you have to go where the information takes you.
22:25I found a button.
22:27Well, hallelujah.
22:29My first button.
22:30Wow.
22:31That's good eyes, because they're hard to see when you're with the rocks.
22:33Yeah, you totally found a button.
22:3550 round.
22:36Well, and you can see the shank there.
22:37It's kind of flattened down.
22:39Buttons are falling off all the time, and we have found so many here on Lot 5.
22:43Some of the buttons have even had military science on them.
22:47We have found the starburst button.
22:48That one is really, really old.
22:50That could even possibly go back to medieval times.
22:54Another mysterious button?
22:56And found close to where the team unearthed the so-called starburst button,
23:00which may be related to the Knights of Malta?
23:04Could the team have possibly found another piece of evidence that may help identify one of the groups who use
23:11this feature prior to the discovery of the money pit?
23:15And if so, what their purpose there was?
23:19Every button that we find adds to our picture of what we think might be happening here.
23:24I do think that this structure is connected to the money pit and the story of Oak Island itself.
23:29There's so much evidence in relation to the artifacts that give us the timelines.
23:34And these timelines really all predate the money pit discovery.
23:37So that's why we never let anything go unexplored.
23:41Yay!
23:43Best find of the day so far.
23:45Well done.
23:48That's exciting.
23:49While the investigation on lot five continues.
23:53Back in business, Rick.
23:56Several hundred yards to the east at Smith's Cove.
24:00Oh.
24:01Not bad.
24:02I have a pesky nail.
24:04Rick, Gary, and Billy are continuing to search through the spoils
24:08that were extracted during the large-scale digs in the money pit area one year ago.
24:16Oh, this doesn't sound bad.
24:18I'll pinpoint, mate.
24:20Let's see if there's anything in there.
24:23After finding a tunneling tool one week ago that may date back to the 1600s
24:29and possibly connect it to a deposit of treasure,
24:32now they are hoping to recover a piece of those potential valuables.
24:38Oh.
24:40Nice.
24:42Chain?
24:43No, I don't believe so.
24:45No, it's not.
24:46Some kind of oak.
24:47Yeah.
24:48My thought is the curve looks like it's not damaged,
24:52so you could hang something off it.
24:54That went into the wall with a sharpened end.
24:57You hang something right in there.
24:59Yeah.
25:00I mean, it makes sense.
25:01Yeah.
25:01It looks like kind of a refashioned, uh, square-shanked fastener.
25:08The oldest type, square-shanked fastener.
25:11Dang stuff.
25:12Yeah, I think this is old, mate.
25:14I think this could go back to the same period all the rest of those iron fasteners and tools that
25:21were finding in these money pit spoils,
25:23which would be 1600s or older.
25:25That would be fantastic.
25:27All right, mate.
25:28I'll put this in the pouch.
25:29Yep.
25:30I don't think any of us would want to quit on this attempt to find whatever we can in the
25:35spoils.
25:35But I think there's more to be found.
25:37It's exciting.
25:38The money pit's oil piles are huge because they accumulate.
25:43There could be anything in them.
25:45The hope is that we will find some serious clues associated with the treasure in the money pit area.
25:55There we go.
25:57Just in there.
26:04Oh, is that it?
26:09This is beautiful.
26:16That's really nice.
26:17Oh, beautiful square nail.
26:20While searching through last year's money pit spoils, Rick, Gary and Billy have just made an exciting discovery.
26:28And that looks suspiciously like our old friend.
26:32Rose head.
26:33Yep.
26:34You got that right, mate.
26:35That's a rosy.
26:36There's a whole lot of rosy going on here.
26:39Yeah.
26:39It's cool.
26:40It's definitely an old fastener.
26:42There's no mistaking when you see that beveled edge going around there.
26:46They made the shaft and then did the head separate.
26:50And when this was hammered into wood, that's when all these facets were made.
26:56They resemble those rose head petals.
26:59Is it broken off?
27:00Oh, yeah.
27:02Yeah, that would have been twice as long.
27:05And if you look at the size of it, it wouldn't have been a lot bigger.
27:08We're on a treasure, mate.
27:09That could have been out of a treasure chest.
27:12Really could.
27:13Could have.
27:13You got a big chest.
27:15You've seen the silver coins.
27:18I mean, they would have been heavy.
27:19They would have needed a big chest.
27:21To your point, it's not like they're only for creating shafts.
27:26No.
27:27You can look at old doors and chests and you see rose head spikes all the time.
27:32Will it connect in some way to the efforts done long ago in the money pit in Smith's Cove?
27:39That's the hope.
27:41Okay, mate.
27:42That's a really great find, mate.
27:43Do you want to do the honors and put it in the bag of goodies?
27:46Sure.
27:46It's got to go to Emma, obviously.
27:48It's a cool find.
27:49Yeah.
27:50Stock up with coffee because you're going to be busy, Emma.
27:54As the search for evidence of treasure continues at Smith's Cove.
27:59Hey, Steve.
28:00How you doing?
28:01Got to the bottom of J9.
28:02Yep.
28:03In the money pit area, Terry Matheson, Charles Barkhouse, and Steve Guptill are about to examine the final two core
28:11samples that were recovered in borehole J9 that reached the bottom of the solution channel at a depth of 216
28:20feet.
28:22Hit the bottom of the solution channel at 216.
28:25Now that's 26 feet of recovery.
28:27That's pretty good.
28:28Got some loose material here.
28:30It looks kind of intriguing and interesting.
28:31That's potentially the kind of stuff we're looking for.
28:34Something that might indicate there was a treasure chest in the immediate vicinity.
28:38There's some treasure broke up in the area.
28:41Yeah, I haven't run my pinpointer over it yet, so I'll do that.
28:46Every single one of these cores needs to be metal detected because this is the heart of the solution channel
28:50and this is the depth where we're looking for treasure.
28:53Any time we see that loose material in the solution channel, that means that treasure can fall to the bottom
28:57when we see that.
29:07Clean, gentlemen.
29:09It's not going to be in this.
29:11You know what, though?
29:12We got good information.
29:13This is one of the deepest hits we've ever had in the solution channel, so we know it's a deep
29:17canal or channel in here at least.
29:19Yeah.
29:20I think Emma should look for precious metals in this.
29:22I think you're right.
29:23I would say this area between 208 and 211 is the loosest and potentially there could be something in there.
29:28Something that might indicate there's some treasure in the area.
29:32Yeah.
29:33Back in 2024, the team conducted new water tests here that confirmed high traces of gold and silver more than
29:42100 feet underground.
29:45Two weeks later.
29:47Stop.
29:48He's caving.
29:49He's caving all the way back.
29:51The ground in this area collapsed as the team conducted a major excavation, which led them to believe that the
29:59possible treasure now lies more than 200 feet deep in the solution channel.
30:06Now, the team is collecting soil samples to have them tested for more trace evidence of precious metals.
30:14Look how loose that is.
30:15Yeah.
30:16Here we go.
30:17That does it.
30:18Yep.
30:18If those tests yield positive results, it will help the team plan their most ambitious excavation yet in the hopes
30:26of finally recovering the long lost treasure.
30:29The next hole, we're not going to go far from this hole.
30:32All right.
30:32I'm going to go drop the gyro.
30:33We'll get that information and we'll move on.
30:36Yep.
30:36Absolutely.
30:37Absolutely.
30:41As a new day dawns, and while members of the team begin drilling a new borehole in the Money Pit
30:48area.
30:51On Lot 5, there's a mystery there wrapped in an enigma.
30:55Rick Lagina and members of the team have joined Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the Oak Island Laboratory.
31:03I mean, it really is confusing, but in its confusion, artifacts come up to the surface, right?
31:10Yeah.
31:10We have one here.
31:11Katja and Peter and Marty found it.
31:14Laird and Emma have just completed their preliminary scientific analysis on the metal artifact that was unearthed one day ago
31:22on Lot 5.
31:24What I think is really cool about where we found this is it was really near the rectangular feature,
31:29and then Katja came through and was metal detecting on the tracks, and this is where we found that.
31:36So it was kind of the skid steer turning up a little bit of the material that brought this to
31:42life.
31:44Emma, what can you tell us about that?
31:46So it is a cast iron pot.
31:48There is a slight phosphorus content, but this would not affect the quality of the iron whatsoever because it is
31:55cookware.
31:56And you're certain that that's what that is based on the curvature?
32:00That's what we think.
32:01Yeah.
32:02The high phosphorus content that's present throughout an iron creates an iron that is brittle during colder climates,
32:09and it's prone to breaking, which suggests that being pre-1800s.
32:14I find that industrial revolution is when they really started to stray away from cast iron pots.
32:21So it fits in with the time period of 1700s.
32:25It could go into the 1600s.
32:28Wow.
32:29Quite stunning.
32:32Oh my gosh.
32:46In the Oak Island Laboratory, Emma Culligan has just informed Rick Lagina and other members of the team
32:54that the remains of a cooking pot found by Marty, Katya, and Peter one day ago on Lot 5 could
33:02date as far back as the 17th century.
33:05So this was probably used by someone who was associated with the features?
33:10Mm-hmm.
33:11Yeah.
33:11I think that's a reasonable assumption.
33:13And the neat thing about cast iron pots is I don't believe in the 1700s they had the ability to
33:18cast anything in Nova Scotia.
33:20No, they didn't.
33:21So it was made in Europe and then brought here whole.
33:25Could Laird be correct that this piece of a possible 17th century cooking pot
33:30was likely brought to Oak Island by someone of European origin?
33:35If so, who was it?
33:37And what were they doing on Lot 5?
33:41We've all broken things, right?
33:43If you don't pick it up, the whole thing's there.
33:46Yeah.
33:47Is this island just strange with all of these one-offs?
33:51So between the round feature and the rectangular feature, we have hundreds of pieces, but nothing whole.
33:59We certainly haven't found a whole pot.
34:01No.
34:02No.
34:02And that's what's troubling to me is, is this an attempt by whomever to police the site,
34:09to hide something?
34:10So I don't know if they just picked up the larger pieces and threw them in the ocean,
34:15or took them with them.
34:17The foundation itself, before it was discovered, was under several feet of soil, was it not?
34:22Oh, yeah.
34:22Yeah.
34:23And rocks.
34:23So everything's well covered.
34:24And it's a possibility that they were hiding something there.
34:27Yeah.
34:28Everything that comes from Lot 5 hopefully can help solve that mystery.
34:33Correct.
34:34Because if you can put this back into the 1600s, then the who becomes maybe attainable, right?
34:40Yeah.
34:41I agree.
34:41Right around that area, we had found trade weights, buttons that connect with the Knights
34:47of Malta, some other very old artifacts, but we get something different here.
34:53Yeah.
34:54That could be important.
34:55That cast iron may give us a clue to who else was active in that area.
35:00Could Rick and Doug be correct that this fragment of a cooking pot offers more evidence
35:06that someone deliberately covered up the two foundations, as well as all traces of their
35:12activity on Lot 5 back in the 1600s?
35:16If so, could other potentially 17th century artifacts that have been uncovered nearby help identify
35:23just who it was?
35:26Truthfully, I wish I could say Lot 5 was done by this group of people.
35:31Could it be the Knights of Malta or something associated with the Templars?
35:35Sure, it could.
35:37But some of the artifacts go back into medieval times, you know, 1400, 1500, 1600.
35:45But for right now, I think we're done.
35:47We need to get back to work.
35:49All right.
35:49See you later.
35:50See y'all.
35:51As Rick, Peter, and Doug conclude their meeting in the lab.
35:57Okay, Katya, we're on.
35:59We're on Lot 5.
36:01And this thing has given up a lot, but today it's going to give up more, right?
36:05I'm hoping.
36:06On Lot 5, Marty and Katya are expanding their search south of the rounded feature to look for
36:13new clues.
36:15Sir.
36:25Ah, that sounds pretty good.
36:28It does.
36:29It's registering pretty good.
36:30And it looks non-farious.
36:33Let's have a go.
36:34Right under that rock.
36:35Come on.
36:43Be something good.
36:43Come on.
36:48All right.
36:49Maybe that might loosen things up.
36:53Ooh, that sounds a lot better out.
36:57Let's see.
36:58Okay.
37:00There you go.
37:01There we are.
37:06Ooh, a button?
37:13What is that, a coin?
37:14I don't think that's a button.
37:17Wowzer.
37:20Does it look like a coin?
37:21I think that's a coin.
37:23I think that's a really old coin.
37:25All right.
37:26Way to go.
37:27Gotcha.
37:29That looks like a very old coin to me.
37:31Oh, my gosh.
37:32It does.
37:34It almost looks like there's a cross on it.
37:36Really?
37:38Oh, yeah.
37:39Right there and right there.
37:41I think it might be copper because it's...
37:43Yeah, I think it's copper.
37:44It's tinted green and only copper does that.
37:48The coin is really exciting.
37:50Katja and I look at each other and, you know, I know what's...
37:53I know what she's thinking and I know what I'm thinking.
37:56This is the Roman coin area.
37:58And that is, you know, hugely exciting.
38:00Hey, you nailed it.
38:01You said it was non-ferrous right off the bat.
38:03Good on you.
38:05I'm impressed.
38:06I'm so excited about this.
38:07This is amazing.
38:08I feel pretty good about this.
38:09Okay, Katja, let me call Big Brother.
38:13Honestly, he'll want to see this.
38:19Okay, all the smiles.
38:22Proud dad coming in.
38:24Yeah, dad coming in.
38:25On Lot 5, Rick, Gary and Billy arrive after hearing that Marty and Katja have found a potentially important clue.
38:35Come on over here.
38:37We think this is good.
38:40When Marty calls, it got to be good.
38:42Gary, come here.
38:43Yeah.
38:44I'm coming in.
38:45Telling me this, your daughter was pretty excited.
38:48Ready?
38:52Oh, that is...
38:54Oh, that's nice.
38:56Mm-hmm.
38:58Oh, that's old.
38:59Is it?
39:00Yeah.
39:01It might be identifiable, because there is writing around the edge that's partly corroded away.
39:06Yeah, definitely not a button.
39:07That's a coin.
39:08Mm-hmm.
39:08Mm-hmm.
39:09This...
39:09This is pre-1600s.
39:13Yeah, this is an old one.
39:15Wow.
39:16Did be proud, Katja.
39:19Could Gary be correct that this copper coin may be more than 400 years old?
39:25If so, might it be related to the Portuguese silver coin and help identify just who was behind the Oak
39:33Island mystery?
39:36The more you look at it, the more stuff you can see on it.
39:39So the lab's going to see stuff.
39:40Mm-hmm.
39:40Yeah, there's...
39:41Yeah, the CT scanner will...
39:42Mm-hmm.
39:43Yeah, it's an irregular shape.
39:46Mm-hmm.
39:46It's nice and thick.
39:48Yeah.
39:49But it's also not...
39:50It's not deteriorated.
39:52Like, you know, I think it just was that...
39:54Mm-hmm.
39:54Sort of like a crude shape.
39:56Older metals also have pure compositions.
39:59You know, the metals are just...
40:00Mm-hmm.
40:00They're better.
40:01They don't rot like, you know, the nails I've been finding.
40:04Mm-hmm.
40:04This would be a hammer coin?
40:06Yeah, it would have been an hammered coin.
40:11Oh, my God, that is absolutely gorgeous.
40:16I just hope it tells a tale.
40:17I hold the coin, and I can see things on the face.
40:22So at that point, it's really become quite exciting.
40:26I mean, we've already found five coins, Roman-era coins,
40:30on, what, five that have been authenticated metallurgically.
40:35The coin will tell you what it is,
40:37and that provides immense hope amongst all of us.
40:43And that's the top pocket find.
40:44You ain't got any top pockets, Catch It!
40:47That's what Dad's for.
40:48Well done, Catch It!
40:49Yeah.
40:50That is brilliant.
40:51Thanks be proud.
40:52That's fantastic.
40:53That means the world to me.
40:54Yeah.
40:54Let's get back to work, Catch It!
40:56Great find.
40:57That's cool.
40:58The new discovery on Lot 5, and the revelation of a 14th century silver Portuguese coin,
41:05suggest that the legends of a sacred and incredibly valuable treasure may really lie buried on Oak Island.
41:13But as Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team dig deeper than ever in the money pit, will they find a
41:20cache of coins that could literally be worth billions?
41:25And might that be only a small portion of what lies hidden below?
41:35Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:38It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.
41:41Whoa!
41:42Whoa!
41:43We got here!
41:44Look what I'm getting here.
41:45Whoa!
41:47So I've done a CT scan.
41:48You can see it faintly right here.
41:50Whoa!
41:51We'll all be damned.
41:52Yeah.
41:53Yeah.
41:53That might tell a story.
41:55Whoa!
41:56Whoa!
41:57We're probably into the void.
41:58If there's the one thing, he could have it in that four barrel right now.
42:02Yeah.
42:03There you go.
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