NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
-What the hell have you got there? -A big chunk of steel.
MARTY: That could be the drill that found
the famous Chappell Vault.
Like a small jewelry chest or something.
ALEX: Which means it could've been
part of any treasure that was here.
LINDY: Look at that. A coin.
-What? -ALEX: Cool.
LINDY: Wow.
-There's a boulder. -GARY: It looks similar to
-the stone roadway. -BILLY: Yeah.
This could be very important.
NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it...
...man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
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-Hey, Roger. -Hey, how's it going, Alex?
-Good. Good to see you again. -Nice to see you.
So, what's the update? What's going on?
Well, we're finally moving ahead now.
Good.
NARRATOR: As a new week begins on Oak Island,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team
have good reason to believe
that they are on course to finally solve
a 229-year-old mystery.
We've pretty well dealt with all that water situation
-we were dealing with. -Mm-hmm.
It's all stabilized.
The geofoam is in and it went well?
Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing.
And now we've got
-full control of the water. -Good.
-RICK: All right, here we go. -MARTY: Let's do this.
NARRATOR: Five weeks ago, the Oak Island team's efforts
to deepen the early 18th-century Garden Shaft
down to a target depth of 95 feet
were halted when mysterious voids
outside of the structure
caused it to flood with salt water.
This is where our water starts, right here.
And then it comes in along the side.
NARRATOR: This made the team wonder if they had encountered
one of the legendary flood tunnels
which have thwarted searchers in this area
for more than two centuries.
Especially since a seven-foot-high tunnel
was recently discovered just below the Garden Shaft
which leads toward the Baby Blob,
an area where water testing has revealed
high trace evidence of gold and silver
between 80 and 120 feet underground.
Tell us what we're going to do.
Well, we're going to pump some foam in her
and try to get your voids filled up.
NARRATOR: But, thankfully, last week,
representatives from Minova Global began applying
an industrial compound known as geofoam
to fill the voids, stop the flow of water
and stabilize the shaft
so that Dumas Contracting Limited
can continue deepening the structure
over the course of the next several weeks
and finally reach the possible treasure tunnel below.
Now, if we can get into this tunnel,
and if the tunnel's original works,
then it probably leads to something good,
so we could be close.
We're going to geofoam everything nice and tight,
and then after that, we're going to excavate,
install a panel, excavate, install a second panel,
-excavate. -Okay, so it's basically
digging again?
-Digging again. -I see you've got the grab on.
Exactly. We just started digging,
so we'll be very close to that 89-foot depth.
At 89 feet, we're getting close
to that 95-foot tunnel.
But I'm really excited to get down to depth
and see what's down there.
Oh, absolutely. For sure. For sure.
The last two or three days have been, you know,
upbeat because the guys were finally moving ahead.
-Right. -Getting away from this water, so yeah.
Right. Perfect. Well, thank you, Roger.
-Sounds good, man. -I'll let you get back to it.
-Absolutely. -Thanks.
Talk to you later.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon,
as Dumas continues their work in the Garden Shaft,
nearly 73 feet to the southwest...
-STEVE: Hey, Marty. -MARTY: What's going on here?
So what we're doing here, Marty,
this hole is about five feet southwest of H-8.
NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina joins
Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,
geologist Terry Matheson,
and surveyor Steve Guptill
as they supervise the drilling
of borehole I.25-6.25.
A borehole that, incredibly,
may be on track to locate
a second potential treasure deposit
in the Money Pit area
more than 180 feet underground.
TERRY: The plug that fell out of the H-8 caisson,
that could've fallen in this direction.
Okay.
TERRY: Mike, what's up?
MIKE: I hit the void at 183.
All right, so let's see what we got.
NARRATOR: One week ago, while drilling
borehole K-6, just eight feet to the south,
the team penetrated a mysterious void
at a depth of 183 feet.
It is a potentially critical discovery
because the void is adjacent to borehole H-8,
which the Oak Island team excavated six years ago
with a 50-inch diameter caisson that they believe
may have come into contact with the fabled Chappell Vault
which was first reported by Frederick Blair
and his drill operator William Chappell in 1897.
During the team's excavation,
at a depth of nearly 180 feet,
they attempted to penetrate the possible vault,
and encountered a large void
which caused the spoils, or plug,
inside of the H-8 caisson to fall out,
resulting in the believed vault
being pushed deeper and somewhere off to the side.
-How deep are we? -Down 78 feet.
We got two more cores coming.
We're gonna take a look at those.
NARRATOR: Now it is the team's hope
that with this new borehole, they can further explore
the void they discovered last week and hopefully
locate the long-lost Chappell Vault.
TERRY: There's the top of the next run.
CHARLES: 88 feet.
TERRY: Okay, let's carve her up, guys.
-Excuse me, Steve-O. -STEVE: Sorry, Terry.
No problem. Okay.
There's the top.
-So at some point-- -We got some wood here.
TERRY: Charles, where do you think the wood came from?
CHARLES: It possibly could be the Chappell Shaft.
TERRY: That's interesting.
We could be skimming along the outside edge.
NARRATOR: The Chappell Shaft?
In 1931, Melbourne Chappell,
along with his father William
and Frederick Blair,
constructed a 12-foot by 14-foot shaft
down to a depth of 163 feet in order to locate the vault.
Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful.
But if the Oak Island team is correct that they have found
the outer edge of the Chappell Shaft...
could that offer an important clue
that they are in the general area
where the vault is located?
Okay.
Oh, whoa!
MARTY: What the hell have you got there?
Big chunk of steel.
-There you go. -Whoa, Mike! What the heck?
This came out of the top of this sample right here.
-CHARLES: Yeah, really? -MARTY: Really?
MIKE T.: Yeah.
MARTY: Could this be old-time drill pipe?
Because we know they drilled in these holes
and we know they used skinny pipe.
No question.
I think so, it's heavy enough.
That could be the drill that found
the famous Chappell Vault.
-Perhaps. -MARTY: That could be it, right?
They used a skinny little drill.
CHARLES: Back in the 1890s, they did.
MARTY: If we found something meaningful here
just below the Chappell Shaft,
we could put down another caisson.
If we see something worth getting...
we will get to it.
Well done, you guys.
Follow that pipe on down.
-Find the Chappell Vault. -MIKE T.: All right.
MARTY: Go get it.
NARRATOR: While the operations continue
in the Money Pit area...
GARY: We're back.
JACK: It's time to get to work.
NARRATOR: ...along the southern border
of the triangle-shaped swamp,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton,
Jack Begley
and Billy Gerhardt continue
looking for important clues
near a potentially 500-year-old stone road
or ship's wharf.
What is the battle plan, mate?
Are we going deeper there
or are you taking this section out?
We'll try to go along the edge of where that log was.
We are ready for some artifacts, mate.
BILLY: Okay, me too.
NARRATOR: In recent weeks,
the team has made a number of compelling new discoveries
in this area including new sections of the stone road,
an ancient chain and hook
that may have been used to lift heavy cargo,
and evidence of a wooden wall,
which the late Fred Nolan believed may have been used
to artificially create the swamp hundreds of years ago.
JACK: What's that?
-Look at that there. -GARY: It's a rock, isn't it?
-JACK: No. It's a notched piece of wood. -GARY: It's wood?
-JACK: Yeah. -GARY: Oh, it is.
I thought it was a rock by the look of it.
Look at the notch in that.
-Yeah. -That was pretty deep, Billy.
BILLY: Yeah. No. Well, I mean, you see,
we're below the bottom of the swamp, right?
You know, the bottom of the swamp
is up there where the road is, right?
JACK: Yeah.
So, is this a naturally filled beach?
Or was it filled by humans?
It kind of speaks towards it being filled in.
They were forming and cutting wood in this area.
Right.
GARY: Let's get Rick over here, check this out.
JACK: How's it going, Rick?
RICK: I don't see a treasure chest.
We're trying, mate. We're trying.
We have found some strange pieces of wood.
Let me go grab them.
NARRATOR: After being alerted
to a compelling discovery near the stone road
in the southeast corner of the Oak Island swamp...
JACK: So, this piece came up
when we were digging along the muck in the side.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina arrives to personally inspect it.
Yeah. Look. That's doweled.
If you hold it like that,
-see how the dowel has gone down? -Mm-hmm.
RICK: If I were to suggest
that this is anything
like what we found before,
I think that it's something like the U-shaped structure.
There's a big log.
NARRATOR: In 2018, Rick, Marty and the team
unearthed a mysterious 65-foot-long wooden construct
at Smith's Cove known as "the U-shaped structure."
You got a Roman numeral?
GARY: Yeah, if it is, it's a seven, VII.
NARRATOR: First discovered by Dan Blankenship in the 1970s,
and believed to be associated with a flood tunnel
that feeds seawater into the Money Pit area,
the "U-shaped structure" featured strange Roman numerals,
and hand-carved wooden dowels.
RICK: Similar sized dowel, like the U-shaped structure,
they went in at an angle
and thus, this part is meant to
-hold it in place. -JACK: Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the team has found evidence
beneath the stone road in the swamp
that suggests it may have been built
by the same people who created the "U-shaped structure"?
And perhaps the Money Pit itself?
RICK: The good thing is, if we decide this is an outer edge,
then that's where the best C-14 dates are.
Yeah, but clearly, shaped wood that was thrown
underneath this stone path.
And that's why we got to keep digging.
-Yeah. -Yep.
JACK: Let's find some more.
RICK: Let's find some more.
NARRATOR: As Rick, Jack, Gary and Billy
continue searching in the swamp,
on Lot 5,
located on the western side of the island...
Hello, archaeologists.
-Hey. -Hi.
How's it going out here?
-It's going. -Going good.
NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina joins
Jamie Kouba, Fiona Steele
and Lindy Martin
as they carefully investigate
a mysterious, circular stone feature
and a much larger, rectangular foundation
that was recently unearthed below it.
ALEX: So what's new? How's it coming?
So, what we're doing now, we've expanded the unit over.
-We're finding artifacts all the way through the fill. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Since acquiring Lot 5 just one year ago,
Rick, Marty, Craig Tester and the team
have made a number of discoveries in this feature
that suggest it may have been a staging ground
for whoever might have buried treasure in the Money Pit.
These finds include
a 500-year-old Venetian glass bead,
a 14th-century lead barter token
that may be connected to the lead cross
unearthed at Smith's Cove in 2017,
and several metal tools
that have been scientifically matched
to the homestead of Sir William Phips,
the 17th-century English privateer from Maine
who some believe buried a vast cache
of Spanish treasure on Oak Island back in 1687.
So, one of the things that we now realize
is that this sort of linear feature that we were looking at
isn't actually a wall that was there.
What we're seeing are rocks that are going past it.
-Okay. -JAMIE: So, this structure may be
quite a bit bigger than we ever gave it credit for.
Right, but whatever was happening here,
the bigger it gets, the bigger the operation, right?
-JAMIE: Yeah. -Yeah.
JAMIE: The overall size of the dimensions
speak to more people being involved
than just, say, a single family.
Right. So, we got kind of an operation
happening here that we know nothing about.
JAMIE: Yes. Exactly.
Uh, it could be exactly what we're looking for.
JAMIE: Hopefully, yeah. We got some more work to do.
-Okay. Well, I'll start sifting. -JAMIE: Perfect.
Thank you. (laughs)
-I'll grab buckets. -Perfect.
NARRATOR: While the archaeologists carefully remove
the soils from the foundation,
Alex will sift the collected materials
for any clues and, hopefully, valuables.
FIONA: Hey, this is kind of something different.
JAMIE: Oh, my goodness.
-FIONA: Look how flat it is. -JAMIE: Yeah.
-FIONA: Look, you can see almost three rivets on it. -JAMIE: Yeah.
-Maybe the top of a trunk? -Decorative, for sure.
-Metallic piece? -Yeah.
Just, we find a lot of iron, but we don't often find
a lot of the flatter pieces and that one looks,
-you know, kind of decorative. -Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah. I see that's the rivet right there, maybe? Yeah.
So that's just something a bit more decorative.
It hints to something else, you know?
-It looks like something you might find on a trunk. -ALEX: Yeah.
If it is off a chest, it would be rugged,
it would be a big one.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: A decorative iron artifact?
Potentially from a trunk or chest?
If so, what did it contain?
And could it be related
to the trace evidence of precious metals
that have been detected in the Money Pit area?
Well, whatever this is, we have the equipment
in the lab that we can take a scan of this
and basically see through all the crust on it
and hopefully get a better idea of what it is.
So, let's bag it up.
And then we'll await the results of that.
FIONA: That's great.
NARRATOR: As the investigation
proceeds on Lot 5...
RICK: Ooh. Look at that.
GARY: What have you found, Rick?
RICK: I found some wood chips.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, along with Jack Begley,
Billy Gerhardt and Gary Drayton,
continue making potentially important discoveries
in the southern region of the swamp.
JACK: Look at this.
Here's a big timber.
There's some other bigger pieces of wood over here.
Underneath the cobblestone road or this edge.
Excellent. Might be some fasteners in it.
-Correct. -JACK: Yep.
I think it's the edge of the road.
-Yep. -Yep.
I think what we have to do, Bill, is push these back
and then take this row of rock out of here
to get to the top of that wood,
-be able to have a good look. -Yep.
RICK: Stylistically, it might show some type
of construction technique.
All right.
RICK: If you have a construct there, built by humans,
if you can definitively say that that construct
was a manipulation of the swamp to some agenda,
boy, that'd be huge.
You know, it makes you think,
"What else might they have hidden in the bog?"
-Is that a chip of wood? -No, it's shaped.
I think what we have to do, Bill, is leave that.
Marty and Craig need to take a look at it.
BILLY: Yep. Okay.
-Hey, guys. -Welcome back, guys.
This is another fine mess you've made here, I see.
-We have made a heck of a mess. -Yeah. Yeah.
NARRATOR: At the southern border of the Oak Island swamp,
Marty Lagina and Craig Tester
join Rick Lagina and other members of the team
to inspect the wooden structure that was just unearthed
beneath the stone road.
-That's the edge. -Really?
-You believe it ended right there? -RICK: Yeah.
There was two logs underneath the edge of the road.
But it looked really like they were fitted together.
Like they took one log and, you know...
Like if you were building a cabin,
-like that kind of. Yeah. -Right.
RICK: There was brush,
just like under the construct itself.
And smaller logs as though to underpin the road.
-And then it stopped abruptly. -Really?
JACK: Yeah. Yeah.
Swamp muck mixed with bigger logs on the bottom
-that were running perpendicular to the road. -MARTY: Mm-hmm.
JACK: But it was also well enough into the structure
of the stones that you can say
it was put down during the construction of the road.
-I got it, yeah. -Okay.
MARTY: There's big timbers underneath the stone road,
which just underscores that that was a massive undertaking.
Somebody put that road in for a specific reason,
and I think they wanted it to not be found
after they were done.
It could be leading us back to where the treasure is.
GARY: And then, just before we got to the end of the road here,
I mean, we have pulled up some really, really nice artifacts.
Old-looking chains. Some really interesting chains.
I haven't seen this chain. I heard about this chain.
Very unusual.
This looks old.
NARRATOR: Two weeks ago,
while excavating the southern edge
of the potentially 500-year-old stone road,
the Oak Island team
uncovered a large hand-wrought chain and hook,
which blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
dated to the 16th century.
Is it possible that this artifact
was once used in the swamp area
to offload cargo from a ship onto Oak Island?
The chain was a three-point hitch.
-Hand-forged by the look of them. -Yeah.
-Might have even been a four-point hitch. -Yeah.
To me, you could stay there,
a nice stable surface,
hook a box or something very heavy,
-a three-point hitch... -And then unload out here.
RICK: Right, because if you're pulling
with a three-point hitch, you can pull it
across this heavy ground and then get it
to the bog and pull it right up that road.
If you're trying to fit the chain to the road,
-to me that's an explanation. -It really is.
-Mm-hmm. -CRAIG: Yep.
RICK: I think it's an important discovery.
We have clearly defined
the extent of the construct of the road
and where it transitions to the beach.
Does it align with the idea that a larger ship offshore,
a tender comes, brings the material
to a crafted slipway or wharf or dock?
Sure. It fits perfectly.
It's very interesting all this stuff you have found.
Hopefully, it can tell part of the story.
Hopefully, it ties together to give us a date.
And hopefully, we find something even better yet.
Yeah.
What's next here?
What are you gonna do next?
We're only beginning to get to that point.
You're gonna keep digging underneath where Billy is?
-Yeah. -Okay, well the best dig
has yet to come, for this. Let's get it done.
Thank you for the update. Pretty cool.
NARRATOR: As the dig for clues continues
in the triangle-shaped swamp...
COLTEN: That's 118.
-118. -Thank you, Colten.
NARRATOR: ...and while the core-drilling operation
in borehole I.25-6.25 proceeds
in the Money Pit area...
-CARMEN: Hey. How's she going? -ALEX: Carmen.
Welcome to the new and improved lab.
Oh, right. Yeah, it looks good.
NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina,
Charles Barkhouse,
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan meet
with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge,
in the newly constructed Oak Island Laboratory.
ALEX: So we have finds that were made on Lot 5 for you today.
-CARMEN: Oh, okay. -NARRATOR: They are eager
to hear Carmen's assessment
of the copper and iron artifacts that were recently discovered
within the large foundation
beneath the circular stone feature.
I think we should start with this copper.
I-I actually pulled this out of the sifting box.
I'd love to know what your opinion is.
Okay.
Uh, I see that the other pieces are very thin.
-ALEX: Right. -CARMEN: Except for this one here,
seems to be a little thicker.
Yeah.
That is thicker,
-it looks like it. -CARMEN: It is, yeah.
And it's rounded.
-Also tapered as well. -EMMA: Mm.
Uh, it does look like a bit of a pattern on the end there.
It has to be something decorative.
EMMA: Mm-hmm.
See the little indentations, parallels.
Mm.
I'm wondering if that could be some sort of, uh...
...jewelry thing.
Like a small jewelry chest or something?
Yeah, it is very possible.
-CHARLES: Wow. -ALEX: That's excellent.
CARMEN: I'm wondering if that could be a jewelry thing.
Like a small jewelry chest or something.
Yeah, it is very possible.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Laboratory,
blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
has just confirmed
that a number of copper pieces found one week ago on Lot 5
may have been used to decorate a small chest
designed for carrying valuables.
-What about these iron pieces? -All right. I'll have a look.
It's all very thin, like, uh, off of a strap.
Mm-hmm.
CARMEN: So it's not for a barrel or a small round container.
It is a strap to secure a box.
A heavily banded and heavily fortified box.
What would be the purpose of that?
Cash box, maybe?
Money box, yeah.
That would be very interesting.
I actually did a CT scan on that one.
CARMEN: Very good.
NARRATOR: Earlier this morning, Emma analyzed the iron artifact
using two scanning devices--
the first, known as the SkyScan 1273 CT scanner,
emits nondestructive X-ray radiation
that penetrates corrosion on artifacts,
producing high-definition,
three-dimensional images of them.
The second, known as an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer,
or XRF device, can identify the type of metal
an artifact is composed of.
So does it look like there's two pieces, joined?
EMMA: It does. There's two materials.
So I did do an XRF point scan on that material as well...
-ALEX: Mm-hmm. -EMMA: ...and it was lead.
-Oh! -EMMA: Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Um, and then the rest of the body is iron.
My puzzling thing is, why is the lead in the iron as well?
It is a common thing to find within old English iron,
is that some lead content, which fits 1600s, early 1700s.
Mm-hmm.
The dating on the artifact
could fit really well with the theory
surrounding Sir William Phips, who was a privateer.
And we have a theorist who has placed Phips
in this region,
potentially with a ship full of illicit silver,
in need of a place to hide it.
We know that Phips found silver on the Concepción.
NARRATOR: According to the theory
of 32-degree Freemason Scott Clarke,
in the fall of 1687,
the English privateer Sir William Phips conspired
with a high-ranking Freemason
from Nova Scotia named Andrew Belcher
to bury Spanish treasure they had salvaged
from the shipwreck known as the Concepción
on Oak Island.
ALEX: It's intriguing, especially given that the feature
on Lot 5 appears to have been covered over.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team
has found more evidence in the feature on Lot 5
proving that this theory could be true?
We could be looking
at a small but strongly constructed box.
Which means it could have been
part of any treasure that was here.
CARMEN: That's right.
ALEX: Thank you, Carmen.
CARMEN: Very good. See you later.
NARRATOR: As the team concludes their meeting
with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge,
and while the investigation
in the triangle-shaped swamp continues...
TERRY: All right, let's see what we get up here.
Mike's gonna give us some material right now.
NARRATOR: ...other members of the team anxiously supervise
the core-drilling operation
in borehole I.25-6.25...
Here comes the anaconda.
NARRATOR: ...as they have now reached the target depth
of some 180 feet,
where they hope to encounter a void
and evidence of the fabled Chappell Vault.
TERRY: What's the bottom?
Bottom's 190.
TERRY: 190, okay.
That's about right.
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We've got slush and loose material.
That'd be representative of the void,
-almost no recovery here. -STEVE: Yep.
This is the biggest stretch
where we have nothing other than slush.
There's our void.
Okay.
Look at this.
There's some wood fibers.
NARRATOR: Fragments of wood?
Found in the void more than 180 feet underground
in the Money Pit area?
Is it possible that they could be related
to the large object that was pushed aside
by the nearby H-8 caisson six years ago?
And we might see the plug, the H-8 plug.
We may hit a chunk of the plug.
The boys will push on.
NARRATOR: If the team has found
the missing plug from H-8,
and potentially, the vault in this borehole,
then the next core will hopefully reveal the proof.
Hey, guys.
Hey, Charles. Welcome back.
Yeah, well, where are we
and what did you find?
-TERRY: An apparent void. -CHARLES: Oh, really?
It's really quite exciting.
Here it comes.
Last core.
♪ ♪
And you finished up where, Mike?
-MIKE T.: 210. -TERRY: Very good.
STEVE: This is one of the most
important targets in the Money Pit,
'cause if we can find the lost plug from H-8,
it might help us find the treasure.
So we're really excited about this.
What do you got, Terry?
Unfortunately, it's not void.
We're well into bedrock. That's it.
Well, we don't like to see that. But there it is.
NARRATOR: After several moments of great anticipation,
it appears that the legendary Chappell Vault remains elusive.
However, is it possible that it still lies
within this void perhaps within just feet
of the team's current position?
Oak Island never ceases to surprise us.
TERRY: I think we should call it a day, Charles.
FIONA: We're gonna go through the buckets today.
ALEX: Yeah, we are.
NARRATOR: Meanwhile,
nearly half a mile to the west on Lot 5,
Alex Lagina assists the archaeology team
as they search for valuable clues
inside the stone foundation.
MOYA: Oh, my God.
Oh? I think it's a bead.
It looks similar to the one we had last time, I believe.
Really?
-Oh, that's gorgeous! -Right?
Oh, wow. Yeah, look at that.
JAMIE: That is exactly the same pattern
from the original bead that we found.
It's probably Venetian.
That's just incredible to find two beads
from the same piece of jewelry.
-MOYA: Yeah. -Amazing.
NARRATOR: Another possible
Venetian glass bead found in the buried stone foundation?
Given that this type of Italian jewelry,
which could date to as early as the 15th century,
was used not only for fine adornments
but also as a form of currency...
...is it possible that they may be related
to the fragments of the decorative container
that was also recently discovered in this feature?
ALEX: So we've got two of these now.
-Yeah. -NARRATOR: If so,
what else might the team find
as they continue to dig?
ALEX: Okay.
I will go find you some more.
-Perfect. Thank you. -Nice job, Moya.
Yes.
ALEX: The bead in combination
with the decorative iron piece
that we thought might have gone on a chest,
that is starting to say, maybe somebody left
a chest of valuables here.
To me, that's exciting.
-Oh! Look at that. -MOYA: What do you got?
JAMIE: What did you find?
Oh, wow!
-LINDY: Oh! Look at that! -MOYA: What do you got?
-LINDY: A coin, maybe? -JAMIE: What?!
-You found a coin? -You got a coin? -LINDY: Yeah.
What?!
-ALEX: Cool. -(laughing)
NARRATOR: While sifting through spoils
from the mysterious stone foundation
on Lot 5 of Oak Island...
ALEX: Yeah, I think that is a coin.
-FIONA: Really?! -LINDY: Yeah. -ALEX: Yep.
Oh, wow.
NARRATOR: ...archaeologist Lindy Martin
has just made a potentially valuable discovery.
JAMIE: That's copper for sure.
It like almost tapers on the edges,
instead of being flat like modern coins.
ALEX: Yeah. I don't see a milled edge.
JAMIE: It looks rounded.
Rounded, exactly. Um...
It's not perfectly regular,
which would say older, I think.
It could be very old.
NARRATOR: A copper coin?
And without a milled-- or ridged-- edge?
During the late 17th century in England,
the famed scholar Sir Isaac Newton,
who was also the Master of the Royal Mint,
implemented coin designs with "milled" edges
in order to combat the counterfeiting of currency.
You know, that really attests to the importance of screening too.
-Yeah. -You know?
ALEX: That's an amazing find. That's really cool.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that this coin,
bearing no milled edges,
could date back prior to the 17th century?
Or perhaps even earlier?
If so, could it help the team identify
who originally created this mysterious stone structure?
FIONA: Can you see anything on it?
Well, there is something down here at the bottom.
-FIONA: Great. -And I think the CT scan
will show at least some details on the front of it.
But I think there's going to be a little bit of a pattern
that maybe we can identify.
-Good find, Lindy. -LINDY: Thanks.
-Nice job, well done. -Thank you.
Both of the sifters today so far.
-Absolutely. -LINDY: We're doing our best.
Yeah, you guys are doing great.
The lucky sifters, I guess.
-ALEX: Nice job, everybody. -LINDY: All right.
-ALEX: Let's find some more. -LINDY: Let's do this.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
NARRATOR: ...as operations continue in the Garden Shaft...
NARRATOR: ...as well as on Lot 5...
Gary, let's find something.
Yeah, it's about time, mate.
NARRATOR: ...back in the southeastern region of the swamp,
Marty Lagina,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt
continue searching for another breakthrough discovery
near the potentially 500-year-old stone road.
No metal hits.
Nope.
I don't think there's any metals.
All right.
Let's get ready for the next load.
MARTY: All right, here we go.
GARY: High hopes for this one, mate.
MARTY: All right, Gary. Come on.
Yep. Let's go find some treasure.
Come on, where are you?
Wow, there is nothing in here. This is quiet.
What do we got here?
That looks like a bit of a barrel stave.
Maybe.
-Yeah, it does. -GARY: Similar to those barrel staves
we've found digging in the swamp there.
MARTY: Yep.
It looks like a barrel stave, Gary,
-because it's wider here than it is there. -GARY: Yeah.
I don't know what's going on here.
Probably where it ripped out. But yeah, I'd say
-that's a bit of a barrel. -GARY: Yeah.
Well, one thing for sure. We've got enough of those
barrel staves that were recovered not too far away,
-we can compare it. -MARTY: Yeah, that's right.
Well, we're trying to see whether the idea that this
is an off-loading area is correct or not.
-A barrel certainly would fit with that. -Yeah.
That's how they transported stuff.
NARRATOR: A barrel stave?
Found near the stone road, or ship's wharf?
Could Gary be correct that it might be related
to the pieces of wooden cargo barrels
that were unearthed in this area three years ago,
and which Carmen Legge believed
could be as much as 600 years old?
MARTY: Every time we dig in and around the swamp, we find something.
The stone road. The paved area. The ramp.
Lots of artifacts.
And so we're going to continue digging.
We'll do a little analysis on that,
but I'm wanting to find more stuff.
Oh, yes, some coins.
-Put it right over there. -All right, mate.
Something in there for sure.
Nope. What the hell's going on?
MARTY: Well...
It's catching on something.
I wonder if it's wood or rock.
There's that boulder.
I don't know if that means that's the end of the road?
I don't know if we want to do
a little shovel work to check that? It's up to you.
-Gary and I will go have a look. -Yep.
-Let's go have a look, Gary. -All right, let's go have a look.
Check it out.
-Where's the boulder? -BILLY: To your left.
-Oh, right here? -BILLY: Yeah.
And that's the first one, so what you're suggesting
is there could be a row here?
Well, just from my angle it could be in alignment
with the stone road.
Yeah. Well, what are you thinking here?
Uh, just take a few shovelfuls on one side
of the boulder and the other maybe.
-MARTY: Let's dig. -Yeah.
-It's a pretty big rock. -GARY: Yeah.
Ooh, look at that.
GARY: Ooh, look at that. It kind of looks similar
to the rocks on the stone roadway.
BILLY: Yeah. That easily could be the road extension.
NARRATOR: It is a moment of great excitement
for Marty Lagina, Gary Drayton and Billy Gerhardt...
-GARY: That's another big rock next to it. -MARTY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: ...as they may have just discovered another section
of the potentially 500-year-old stone road,
or ship's wharf, in the southeast corner
of the Oak Island swamp.
Another big rock next to that big rock.
What do you think?
BILLY: Those are the first two big rocks.
We'll have to dig a little farther.
So you're thinking these are
-like retaining rocks? -BILLY: Yeah.
It would only be the retaining edge
-I would say for sure. -MARTY: Yeah.
I don't think it's possible to-to stand
and look at that stone road
and not think that this had to have a special purpose.
(chuckling): It's a rather massive construction.
And it had to be done for a reason.
What was it for?
I'm prepared to just see what the data
suggests as we dig more.
That could lead us directly to what
we've been seeking for years.
Well, what I would say, Billy, just as you're going
-this way, look for others. -Mm.
Kind of scrape along. All right.
I'm going to go start that pump, Gary.
Yep. I'll check the spoils.
(engine rumbling)
GARY: One thing that's really exciting
about being in the swamp,
is that possibility that Billy sticks that bucket in
and next thing you know,
you come up with some really great old artifacts.
Oh. Three interesting pieces of wood.
Barrel staves?
We got two strips.
And then this looks like a handle.
-Yeah, that is-- -Rounded edges.
-It's a peculiar piece of wood. -Yeah.
Wonder if it was like, an old pickaxe handle.
-Or an axe? -Could be, Gary, it almost looks hand-shaped.
NARRATOR: A hand-shaped tool?
Could it have been used
in the original construction of the stone road?
If so, is it possible that scientific analysis
might help identify not only its age,
but also who brought it to Oak Island?
Okay, let's get back to work.
-GARY: Yep. -There's another rock there.
There's more bigger rocks coming this way.
-In a line? -BILLY: Yeah.
MARTY: Okay, Billy, we'll go have a look.
-Where was the original rock, here? -There. Yeah.
The one's buried and then there's another one there.
There's a pretty steady row, right--
And then there's a flat one lower behind you, Gary.
-See that? -There's one here.
One there. One there.
Yeah, but what's that mean?
Maybe some buried in between.
MARTY: I think there are clues in the swamp,
clearly there are,
I have been absolutely wrong
about the extent of the workings in the swamp.
I thought there was nothing there. And there's a lot there.
Some good stuff in there, I'm sure.
Now, Marty was never a big fan of the swamp,
but the more discoveries we have found
in the swamp over the years,
the more I see the twinkle in Marty's eye.
I think he's beginning to like the swamp.
You know, we may want to take that over a little bit,
I don't know if that means that's the end of the road?
You know, we thought it might have been the log
but the log was an edge.
You know, Rick's coming in a little bit.
Let's see what he wants to do.
BILLY: I think we should have the rest of the guys look at it.
-MARTY: This could be very important. -GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: And I'll kick it around with Rick and Craig
-and we'll decide what to do. -GARY: I'm telling you, mate,
we are on to something here.
NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty, Craig and the team,
the 229-year-old Oak Island mystery
becomes more complex by the day.
But as they keep digging, drilling,
and applying disciplined science
to the discoveries being made all across these 140 acres,
one thing appears to be certain.
Oak Island has kept an incredible secret
for hundreds of years.
And now, it is perhaps just a matter of time
until the Laginas and their team
unearth the truth behind it.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
-GARY: Ooh! Big chunks. Oh! -RICK: Check that out.
-This might tell us who built this stone road. -GARY: Ooh.
-Right there. -Oh, yeah.
It's Latin.
PHILIP DOUCETTE: These are very old.
They were a precious commodity.
The first hole.
MARTY: Finally, we're drilling
under the Garden Shaft.
-(loud pop) -Whoa.
-Talk to me, what do you got? -RICK: We found it.
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