Matty: A massive stone road found buried
In the triangle-shaped swamp.
-Wow. -It's quite impressive.
It looks like a piece of finished wood.
Matty: A piece of ship's railing dating
Back to as early as the seventh century.
-Top-pocket find. -(laughter)
Marty: It might lead us to treasure. Wow.
Matty: And for the first time in the history
Of the oak island treasure hunt...
Down in those holes, there is silver.
...Definitive proof of treasure found deep in the money pit.
Is it a handful of silver, or is it a gerhardt dump truck
Load of silver?
It's a gerhardt dump truck.
-Aw, baby! -Jack: Oh, no way!
Season eight of the curse of oak island showed
Unprecedented progress by rick, marty, craig and the team
In their quest to solve the oak island treasure mystery.
Gary: Wow.
That's bloody brilliant.
It might be actually gold.
Very interesting.
Oh, wow, look at that, mate.
This is an old lead cloth bag seal.
Matty: In fact, the fellowship of the dig
Unearthed 2,000 discoveries,
Making it impossible to include them all in the show.
So tonight, we're opening up the vault--
So to speak-- to give all you faithful acorns out there
An exclusive look at more of the key clues
And valuable objects that suggest the ultimate questions
Of who, what, where, when, why and how
Are closer than ever to finally being answered.
Get ready as we count down the top ten season eight finds
You never saw... Until now!
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Matty: Now, I know what you're thinking.
With so many discoveries made on oak island
During season eight,
How could we possibly feature ten tonight
That weren't on the show?
Well, to be honest, because there were so many
Compelling ones, it wasn't easy.
We started with some help from rick, marty,
Craig and the fellowship.
We then drilled down with our editors and producers,
Who scoured through nearly 7,000
Hours of footage to put together this incredible list.
Each one is an essential piece of the oak island puzzle
That proves something of extraordinary importance
Happened here centuries ago.
So... Let's get started.
Number ten: The iron survey pin.
Hey, craig!
Look at the road we found.
-Craig: It is amazing. -Jack: There's no mistaking,
This is a cobbled road.
There is no doubt.
I mean, this is obvious.
Matty: Season eight saw rick, marty
And the team unearth one of the biggest discoveries
Ever made on oak island:
A massive stone road believed
To have once been part of a ship's wharf.
I'd like to concentrate
On where the road does go,
Whether it comes upland.
Wherever it goes, that's where we need to concentrate on.
-I agree. -Yeah.
Matty: But, as with most finds
On oak island,
It lead to even more questions.
Marty: We clearly have to follow the stone pathway all the way
'cause it's enigmatic,
It's very old.
So what's it there for, you know?
How does it fit in with the treasure stories?
So we have to find it, we have to follow it to where it leads.
Matty: So rick sent his nephew
David fornetti and metal detection expert gary drayton
On a mission to see what else could be found in the area
To help explain who may have built it and how.
(metal detector beeping)
That's a much bigger signal.
Ooh.
Fortunately, sounds like iron,
-But could be-- -this right here?
Yep.
Let's hope it's an old piece of iron.
Double-check.
(beeping)
Ooh, wow.
(chuckles) that's like an old survey pin.
-We're kind of in the middle of nowhere. -Yeah.
And so, what-what is that doing out here?
Yeah, and if you see the head there, it's been mushroomed.
But it was hammered in a few times.
Yeah, someone was out here doing some
Surveying a heck of a long time ago.
I love it.
-Sign of good things to come. -All right.
So what would that have been used for?
Exactly, that's a great point, david.
Why would someone have this in this area?
What were they surveying?
Matty: It was a bit early in the season
For the guys to make an educated guess
On what the survey pin may have been used for...
Gary: Rick, check this out!
...But several weeks later, after unearthing
A cobblestone pathway in the swamp leading away
From the stone wharf, the team found
A mason's t-square...
A wooden surveyor's tool
That was dated to as early as 1632.
Not only was there a lot of surveying going on, but there
Was clearly a lot of manual labor to go along with it.
And that takes us back to that very same day
Where gary and david made the next top find
That you didn't get to see until now.
Number nine: The lot 15 hammer.
Got a hit there, mate!
Matty: Just moments after discovering the iron survey pin,
Gary and david found another potentially vital clue
That might help answer how the wharf and pathway were made.
Gary: Is that it?
-It is! -Whoa!
Gary: It's another tool, by the look of it.
Let's see what we got here.
That looks like a tool to me.
And I have no idea what kind of tool.
Let me just scrape a little piece of the gunk off it.
I don't want to scratch it up.
I don't know if that's dirt or not.
The way this is shaped,
That looks like that is the shaft.
So, it would have been in wood. Probably a wooden handle.
-Kind of crudish. -Right.
Feel how heavy it is for the size.
-Wow. -Which would lead
You to believe that this is an older tool.
Yeah, it's hard to put a date on something like this.
And it's in fairly good condition.
Whenever you pick up iron and it's small
And it's really, really heavy,
That means it's normally pre-1840s.
You know what, my first thought was hammer.
I wonder if it was used
Like some kind of hammer.
Matty: Further analysis by experts corroborated
Gary and david's theory that the object was the remains
Of a possibly ancient hammer.
Could it have been used to drive the iron ringbolts
Into the ground that were also found
During season eight along the stone pathway
In and around the swamp?
Ringbolts believed to have been utilized
For hauling cargo away from the swamp, and to somewhere
In the uplands of oak island?
Something was going on here.
A trail of some rather large
Activity moving things around.
And in particular,
Look at the location where this is occurring.
This is occurring from the paved area in the swamp, going up
Towards lot 15 and/or maybe, generally, the money pit.
You don't farm the swamp, you don't farm
The side of that steep hill.
So what's going on in the late 1600s,
Early 1700s?
Just goes to show, you know,
All of these artifacts were hidden for so long.
It gives us promise that underneath all of these piles
Behind us, there could be more artifacts.
-It's another great find. -It really is.
Matty: It was a great find.
And another potentially vital piece of the oak island puzzle.
In fact, just like the mason's t-square and the ringbolts,
The surveyor's pin and the hammer may all have been
Used together in order to design the stone pathway system
That might soon lead the team
To a vast cache of buried treasure.
Matty: During season eight,
Rick, marty, craig and the team conducted
More archaeological search operations across oak island
Than ever before in order to reveal more about the origins
Of the treasure mystery and the key historical figures
Who might have played a role in it.
That includes this property, once owned
By late 18th-century oak island resident samuel ball.
Now, the ball foundation has always been intriguing
To the brothers-- not just because it's one of the few
Stone structures still partially intact on the island today,
But also because it was owned by a man who came to oak island
As a humble former american slave
And cabbage farmer in 1785,
Only to become one of the wealthiest landowners
In nova scotia by the early 1800s.
Many have speculated that he may have found something
Of great value while living here,
Or was associated with someone
Who made a treasure deposit.
I feel something there.
Oh! Yeah, that's nice.
Matty: Key season eight finds on the former ball property
Included a patent plate
That may have come from an expensively decorated firearm...
Alex: Hey, look at this.
Laird: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matty: ...As well as an early 19th-century
British naval officer's button
That represented evidence that samuel ball
Was in league with some important people.
Rick: The front is spectacular.
Yeah, I mean, those anchors are amazing.
I think that is
-Gold or gilding, right there. -Laird: Yeah, I think so.
Matty: That find led the team to investigate
Two wharfs bordering the coastline
On lot 25 where samuel ball built his home.
One of those wharfs appeared to be the kind a cabbage farmer
Might use for shipping his goods to the mainland.
You think you did find the wharf?
Over.
Matty: But the site of the second wharf they discovered was massive,
Suggesting that an operation much larger than farming
Took place on the property long ago.
We were estimating it
To be 75 to 100 feet from shore.
-Mm-hmm. -So that's a huge, huge wharf.
-Yeah. -That's good.
How could he have built that?
-It fits the story of a big excavation. -Mm-hmm.
Because of the amount of back and forth you'd have to do.
-Marty: Yeah. -If that was their purpose,
It would have been to support
The hiding of the treasure.
Right.
Matty: Finding a massive, 100-foot-long,
16-foot-wide wharf on the property
Left the team scratching their heads wondering
If it was the smoking gun tying samuel ball
To the oak island treasure.
But it certainly gave some possible context
To another top find made on the property earlier in the year
That you never got to see...
Until right now.
Number eight: The barrel hoop.
Okay, mate. This is a good little clearing
-To start. -Yeah, okay.
Matty: Using his minelab gpx 5000 detector,
Which could scan as deep as six feet,
Made treasure hunting on samuel ball's
Property like shooting fish in a...
Well, you'll see.
Yeah, and we got a good target here.
When I say "good target,"
-I'm not sure what it is, but... -(laughs)
...There's a very strong signal response there, mate.
-Let's go for this one. -Okay.
Gary: Seems to be right there. It's gonna be tough digging.
Right there.
-Can I have that trowel, mate? -Sure.
Ooh.
(beeping, blipping)
Yeah, it looks like...
-Strapping of some kind. -Yeah, sort of, yeah.
Gary: The only metal straps I know are-are barrel loops.
-Okay. -But we did have that other target just there.
Yeah, this is more than likely just the same.
Yeah.
-Another piece. -Yeah.
-That's right. -Yeah, now we are leading towards strap.
-Strap barrel, yeah? -Yeah.
And barrel hoops by definition were pliable.
Would've been thin metal like this.
-Yeah. -And you would have-- yeah.
Michael j.: Yeah.
-There's more. -Oh, there's more of it.
-It's right there. -Gary: Yeah.
Look at that.
Wow!
-This is cool. -Yeah.
Could be a thin little barrel loop, put 'em around a barrel.
Matty: The barrel hoop or metal strap that would have been used
To help seal a large cargo keg was an incredible find
To make on the property of the mysterious mr. Ball.
Because it just may have been connected to an incredibly
Important find made in the swamp a couple weeks earlier.
Hey, guys.
Check that out. Top of a keg.
Ian: Wow.
So that's a keg. Lid to a keg?
-Yep. -How far down?
Right there.
Ian: Holy crow. That's very important.
Gary: Because it wasn't just gunpowder they put in kegs.
It was all treasure coins as well.
Matty: While investigating the massive stone wharf feature
In the swamp, rick lagina found
Pieces of a wooden cargo barrel
That was dated to as early as the 15th century.
Might it have been part of a barrel that once contained
A portion of the oak island treasure, as gary speculated?
If so, then perhaps he and michael john found
Another piece of a similar cargo barrel
On samuel ball's property, making it without a doubt
An important find.
Ah, if only we had another clue of what exactly
It might have contained.
Get where I'm going with this?
You guessed it-- the next
Top never before seen find on our list.
Number seven: Samuel ball's top pocket find.
-All right, next one up. -(beeping)
Oh, I love that tone.
Rock solid.
Matty: While metal detecting near the ball foundation,
Gary drayton and rick lagina made a discovery
That could be direct evidence of the mysterious wealth
Samuel ball accumulated while living on oak island.
That is going to be a coin, rick.
-This one? -Yep.
That is too good of a signal
Not to be a coin.
Good two-way repeatable, that nice, high tone.
Ooh.
High hopes for this one, mate.
Okay.
(beeping, blipping)
-Again, it's in that top clod. -It is.
(beeping, blipping)
Well, at least it's not in the top.
-It's a coin! -Oh!
Look at that! That's a coin.
That's a big one, as well.
-Rick: That is. -Oh, look at that patina, mate.
That's brilliant.
Well, I bet that's an oldie, 'cause that's a large coin.
It's not milled on the edge. Can you see milling?
Ah, I just don't want to mess with it too much.
Just can't tell.
Normally, you can feel that bumpity, bumpity, bump
As you go around, but what this is,
Is beautiful because it's a large size coin.
It's thick.
And it's in great condition, so this should clean up nicely
And I would imagine it would have a king
Or a queen on one side...
And the date on the other.
Rick: It's in very good condition.
Yeah, it really is, but look at that.
Look at that patina.
I mean, that is beautiful.
-And that wasn't very deep. -No.
-Told you it was a coin, mate. -(laughing)
-That is fantastic. -You did say it was a coin.
This is a good one, mate.
I know what it is.
It's a top-pocket find.
It really is a top-pocket find, mate.
Matty: I know what you must be thinking.
How did a coin discovery on the property
Of samuel ball not make it on the main show?
Well, you all saw how incredible season eight was.
When you have some 2,000 finds to choose from,
It's only during special occasions like this
That they can be given their due in the spotlight.
Matty: If season eight of the curse of oak island
Echoed anything,
It's that when it comes to finding the treasure
Buried here, all roads-- or should I say pathways--
Appear to lead to the money pit.
The team not only found all that evidence of silver
Buried down there-- which we have more to reveal about
As our countdown continues--but it's also where we saw them make
A trove of other major discoveries.
Alex: If you see something that doesn't belong underground,
We should set it aside and have somebody
-Take a look at it anyway. -Sure. Okay.
Matty: In fact, one of those key finds
Occurred while they were sifting
Through spoils that had been excavated
From borehole 8-b the previous year.
Oh! What do you think this is?
-Peter: You found it right there? -Yeah.
Yeah, what is that?
This is exactly the kind of thing that we're looking for.
Careful, there.
Yeah, I don't want to--
Looks like leather almost.
It for sure looks like leather.
-Dan h.: Looks like the heel from a shoe. -Yeah.
Matty: Indeed it was from the heel
Of a leather shoe, or boot,
As confirmed by leather expert joe landry.
But it was when the team had the heel tested
That they realized what a key clue it actually was.
Talk to us, craig. What do we got?
95% sure this is what it is.
1492 to 1662.
1492?
-Isn't that amazing? -Holy crap!
1492 to 1662.
This is overwhelming information.
Craig: So we determined that it came from europe,
Most likely France.
How about that? No, that is really cool.
So, could this boot heel
Actually help identify the nationality
Of the people behind the mystery and approximately
When they made their deposit?
Perhaps. And it also could be connected to the next
Top finds on our list that you didn't get to see.
Try to look through everything.
Number six: The leather garments.
Just to make sure the leather heel was no fluke,
The team kept searching the spoils
Of borehole 8-b, looking for more evidence.
What do you think that is?
Really got your hands on it, but
I think that's leather, right?
Yeah, that's a really nice piece of leather.
-Is that--? Oh, yeah, wow. -It's a really nice piece of leather.
-Yep. -Wow.
I'd say that's from like a glove or a shoe.
Looks like...
I mean, I might be wrong, but it looks like you can see
Where there was some sewing right along that edge.
Looks almost like a finger, possibly.
Yeah, looks like the finger of a glove.
Yeah, there' no disputing
-That that's leather. -Yeah, that's leather.
Matty: And when this, along with a second piece of leather
Found in the spoils of borehole rf-1,
Were taken to leather expert joe landry for analysis...
Hi, joe.
...The team was stunned at what they had on their hands.
We got something we're really interested in you having
-A look at for us. -Ah, I'd be delighted.
So these are two different samples,
From two different caissons that look surprisingly similar.
So, we're wondering if you think they're from the same object
-Or associated in some way? -Okay, sure.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, this is a much, much finer leather.
This would have been used for a much finer item, you know,
A gentleman's glove or even a lady's glove.
Wow.
-So, we're looking at a high-end item? -Higher, much finer, yeah.
Very white, probably close to the leather that were used
During the, uh, renaissance period.
What are the dates on the renaissance period?
Well, this is, this is, um, early 1600s.
Hmm.
And the other...
Wow, yes, yeah.
So, I mean, if you compare these two, it's like you're looking
At two pieces from the same garment.
And-and it appears to be perhaps a finger from a glove.
Perhaps a gentleman's glove rather than a, than a lady's.
You can see the stitching here on the side.
The fact that these are high-end items, that doesn't speak to,
Say, a searcher who's more of a common laborer...
-Yeah... -It speaks to a depositor.
Yeah, you wouldn't wear your finest clothes
-When you're working underground. -No, no.
Could the leather garments have belonged to the same french
Individual who buried a vast treasure of silver
And who knows what else on oak island as far back
As the 15th century?
The team will keep digging to find out in season nine.
But that leaves another important question.
How did they do it?
To help answer that, we're back here
At the aromatic, triangle-shaped swamp.
(inhales, groans)
Marty: Hey! Wait a second.
Look at that.
That's cut.
I'd say.
Aaron: Oh, yeah. That's definitely cut.
Yeah, right there, right there, right there.
Matty: While investigating the stone road
And pathway in the southeastern corner
Of the man-made swamp during season eight,
Marty, rick and the team discovered
A number of cut wooden stakes
That archaeologist dr. Aaron taylor believed
Were used as survey tools to build these structures.
Would they use that as like a survey stake, you think?
Stake out the road, like, if guys like us were working...
-Okay. Yep. -...Somebody would go through first.
Say, "between there and there," right?
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Matty: These stakes offered
More clues to help shape
The oak island puzzle.
Gary: Getting another signal in this area would be nice.
Matty: But what we didn't get to show you was the next find
On our list that may have been used to shape them.
Number five: The double headed axe.
Got one!
Here we go!
Just there, mate. It's a...
Strong signal.
Is this it?
Gary: That's it!
Rick: Looks like an axe.
It is an axe! That's a double bit axe.
That is an oldie.
That is fantastic!
-Rick: There's wood on it, too, right? -Yeah.
You can see the-the wood.
Yeah. The wood's still in there.
It's got the two bits.
Uh, this would have been like an old woodcutter's axe.
What an oldie.
That's impressive.
You feel that weight, rick?
It looks the same-- ooh, wow!
But again, what is an axe doing here in the swamp?
-'cause this wasn't swamp. -Gary: No.
Rick: And if billy's right and the road keeps going,
Then what you're finding
Is contemporaneous with the road.
I mean, this is fantastic, mate. Artifact in the swamp!
(laughter)
Matty: Not only was it a fantastic find,
But billy gerhardt was absolutely right.
The stone pathway kept going...
And going...
All the way out of the swamp
And in the direction of the money pit.
Matty: I'm still here in the triangle-shaped swamp
Because even though it's easy to pick up the scent
Of some nasty aromas, as marty lagina often laments,
It's also where the place where the team continues to pick up
The scent of a vast treasure
That people have been trying to find for over two centuries.
This particular artifact was found in the swamp.
Marty: What the hell is that?
Aaron: Wow, that is very badly burned.
Part of a ship?
-Wow! -Gary: Ooh, look at that!
I would say this looks military.
Matty: Now we already mentioned the ringbolts and pieces
Of cargo barrels that were found along
The stone pathway in the swamp.
Gary: Look at that.
Could be a low-grade gold. Feel the weight of it.
Matty: But the team also discovered a gold-colored knob,
Which really impressed artifact conservator sandy campbell
When he analyzed it.
Sandy: I mean, you can tell by the workmanship,
It's far from modern.
Could be some kind of a knob from a jewel chest.
It could have been just for a secret box.
-You-you... Who knows? -Really?
Matty: Discoveries like that really excited the team,
As they found more evidence that the pathway headed
Out of the swamp and toward the money pit.
And what made this next
Find that you never saw in season eight
Just as encouraging was that it was not only
Found along the stone pathway,
But it matched an identical one
Discovered two years ago in the money pit itself.
Number four: The rosehead spike.
That tells me there's something here, michael.
-Okay. -Just in there, just in that section there.
All right.
-Yeah, you got it out. -Yeah, I did.
Whatever it is, it's just here.
-Oh! Look at that. -Oh, very interesting, yeah.
-Now that's nice. -Yes.
Yeah, we both know what this is.
A nice, short spike.
Let me just have a little look at it.
Yeah, that's an oldie. Look.
It's an ugly rosehead, but it's definitely a rosehead.
-Yeah. -It was bashed down and...
It just kind of split, got that petal design
-Going round there. -Yeah.
That's an old, old nail, and I know it's old
Because of the weight of it.
Feel the weight of it, mate.
Michael j.: Yeah.
Gary: I always like searching the top
Of the spoils pile because they
Came from the deepest depth.
So, it is an artifact connected
To whatever that stone feature is there.
We've found some beauties all over the island.
Rosehead nails are pre-1780, 1790,
When the first factory,
Machine-made nails came out.
So, any rosehead nails
Found in the spoil piles
Is a good find, because it means
It's pre-1780, '90.
Ah, mate, very nice artifact indeed.
It's gonna be beautiful when it's cleaned up.
Let's try and find some more artifacts.
Michael j.: That's right.
Matty: It's these correlating discoveries
That, one by one, are bringing
The team closer and closer
To solving the oak island mystery.
Speaking of solving mysteries, unearthing the massive remains
Of a stone wharf in the southeastern corner
Of the swamp last year pretty much helped the team
Prove the late fred nolan's long-held theory
That the swamp was artificially made.
There's something on the bottom there and I'm not joking.
Is that a piece of cut wood there?
Matty: Further investigation of the area then led
To the discovery of the oldest artifact
Ever documented on oak island.
-Very cool. -Good eyes.
Top-pocket find.
(laughter)
Gary: Good one, billy.
Matty: A top-pocket find
That was determined to be a piece
Of wooden ship's railing
Dating back as far as 660 a.D.
Now, that may seem unbelievable,
But it's another key clue that might explain the massive
200-foot-long ship-shaped anomaly the team identified
Using seismic testing at the end of season six.
It also brings us to the next
Top season eight find on our list
That you didn't get to see.
Number three: The ship's pin.
Gary: All right, let's see what this last load is.
Matty: As the oak island team rushed to keep looking for clues
Near the stone wharf before the harsh nova scotia winter
Forced them to halt operations for the year, gary drayton,
Steve guptill and billy gerhardt made another
Telling discovery.
Gary: Oh, right on top, steve.
Steve g.: What's that?
That looks like a big old iron...
We'd call this a wharf pin.
-Okay. -It could be a ship's pin.
Right on the top as well.
We found a few of these along the edge of the swamp this year.
-We're in the deepest part of the cove here. -Yeah.
You can tell it's hand-forged.
It's really heavy.
Yeah, I mean, this is substantial piece of iron.
It's a good sign that we're finding
-These as well. -Yeah.
Gary: And actually, it was round
About this area where we found
Some other ones similar to this.
Did it come from deep down, billy, this last one?
I'd say about two feet deeper than the road.
-Yeah. -Steve g.: That's a good sign.
-Yeah, that really is. -Yeah. That shows its age.
Gary: Yeah, that's old iron.
This is the type of artifact
That we want to be recovering if we're looking for a ship.
Marty: I'm surprised 'cause I didn't think there was
Anything in there but swamp stuff.
There obviously is a lot of stuff in the swamp.
We haven't found the answer we seek yet,
But it clearly played a role in what happened on oak island.
So, right behind us, we found the ship's railing.
Gary: Yeah, that looked like a ship's railing.
-Maybe this is other pieces of... -Yeah.
If that was a ship, other pieces of the ship.
Yeah. Well, maybe there's some more parts
Of whatever this structure is around here.
This is a good sign.
Yeah, I know. We'll keep our eyes peeled.
Gary: Okay, mate.
Matty: Now, we already mentioned
The two amazing discoveries
Of the two different massive ship's wharfs
That the fellowship documented in season eight.
One in the southeastern area of the swamp
And the other bordering samuel ball's property.
This is a good place to start, mate.
Matty: But incredibly, those were not
The only signs of hidden docking stations
That the team found last season on the island.
Possible evidence of a third one was found on lot 32,
Which leads us to the next
Top find you never saw during season eight.
(whirring, beeping)
Somewhere in there, we have got a target.
David f.: I guess I'll let you take a look.
Matty: Number two: The lot 32 wharf pin.
Gary: It's here. Look at that.
-David f.: Oh, yeah. -That looks nice!
Doesn't it, mate? We have got a good find here,
I hope.
I'll broggle it out with my little trowel.
That is nice. I like the look of that.
Look at that.
It reveals itself. Look at that beauty.
Look at that, david.
Now-- oh, it's broken.
But this is heavy,
So it's older iron and it's just so corroded
Because the salt water has just wrecked it,
Unfortunately, but the fact that it's still here and there's
So much of it, tells me that
This is an old piece of iron.
It's got a mushroom head on it.
I would classify this as a wharf pin.
So, I mean, you said you think it might be old.
What does that mean? How old?
They would have used them back in the day
On ships and wharfs.
-Right. -This is signs of a wharf, mate.
-Right here. Bingo, mate! -Yeah.
We hit the jackpot with this.
It's perfect.
Matty: Finding the possible remains of another ship's wharf
Was definitely a major score for the team,
But then the question becomes just who might have built it?
Well, as we all did get to see during season eight
Of the curse of oak island, on that same day,
And in the same area,
Gary and david made another discovery
That just may help answer that question.
It's in my hand.
Very interesting.
Oh, wow, look at that, mate.
This is really, really special.
This is old.
This is an old lead
Cloth bag seal.
A lead bag seal was used
When an old sack...
-Yeah. -...Was sealed, they tied
The sack and they put a seal on it.
This is a very important find, mate.
Matty: The use of bag seals dates
Back to the 1300s in europe,
Where they functioned as fasteners on sacks
For commercial goods or major operations
To transport cargo.
In other words, finding the seal next to the possible
Remains of a wharf means that both could be evidence
Of another major operation to bring massive amounts
Of something to oak island long ago.
David f.: Does that go in the top pocket?
Gary: Without doubt, mate.
This is a true top-pocket find.
We've just struck gold with this piece of lead, mate.
We'll revisit the topic of gold
In our next and final
Top find you never saw during season eight
In just a few moments.
But getting back to the possible significance
Of the lot 32 wharf pin...
When rick lagina and members of the team
Analyzed the lead bag seal in the research center
With laird niven, they were astonished
By what they found.
If I pull it down...
It's really faint.
But... What you can't see is that that's
Actually the shape of a four.
Gary; oh, yeah. Okay...
Laird: Apparently, that's an old symbol,
Used for a long time.
And it's not actually a four.
They think it represents, like, the sign of the cross.
Rick: Oh, wow.
What is the significance, the sign of the cross?
You wouldn't think to find that
-On a commercial enterprise, right? -Mm-hmm.
Laird: I don't think it derives from family crests because
That, that symbol is used by multiple families.
So, this would have been something
Carried down through generations.
It's just most curious to have that
Religious symbol on a commercial item.
I-I find that to be very strange.
And the only people who would do that
In my limited knowledge base would be templars.
Going back, though, to the origination of it.
And you think back, right, the templars
Were heavy into commerce.
I mean, they, they literally were
The bankers and the financiers
And the commercial operatives of the day.
You know, those were the people you dealt with.
Yeah. I just find it really evocative.
I find it really cool.
Matty: If rick lagina is correct that
The bag seal, along with evidence of another wharf,
Found on lot 32 near the swamp,
Were connected to the medieval order of the knights templar,
Then do those finds also explain other significant ones
Made by the team?
Like the early 13th-century paved area
That was uncovered within the swamp two years ago?
Or that 700-year-old lead cross
Found at smith's cove during season five?
Matty: The most memorable moment of season eight--
And quite possibly in the history
Of the oak island treasure hunt--
Came when the results of water sampling tests done
Right here in borehole c-1
Were presented to the team in the war room.
Marty: Welcome! One of my favorite times.
We get to look at some, I believe,
Will be very interesting data.
Matty: It all started with a very direct question
From geoscientist dr. Ian spooner.
Do you think there is treasure in the money pit?
Ooh, I like that lead in.
(laughter)
No, you know, I'm serious.
-Do I? -Yeah.
Small chance.
I-I do. I absolutely do.
I believe that what they drilled into
In 1897 is real.
-I think it's still there. -Right.
Right.
So, doug, can you bring, uh,
-Bring up the presentation? -I can.
Ian: Great.
There is every reason to believe
Down in those holes that there is
Something close by
That contains a very large
Amount of silver.
Doug: I guess I'm still trying to get a mental picture of how
Much silver it would take to get to these levels.
Like, is it a handful of silver or is it a gerhardt
Dump truck load of silver?
-It's a gerhardt dump truck. -Marty: Oh, baby.
-Jack: Oh, no way! -(laughter)
And it was in... That hole...
That the shiny gold thing was found that we're
Still looking for to this day.
If that was a golden alloy of such...
-Mm-hmm. -...You know, maybe that was one piece
Of what we're looking for.
-Yep. -Ian: Yeah, there's something down there.
Doug: Wow.
Matty: But that was only one major revelation
Of scientific evidence that precious metals
Lie buried deep on oak island.
The other?
Ian: We'll get the sample.
Matty: In an effort to leave no stone
That might be covering treasure unturned,
Rick, marty and craig had dr. Spooner and dr. Lukeman
Also test multiple boreholes around oak island,
Including three on the western drumlin that they had drilled
Years earlier with their late partner, dan blankenship.
Once again, their intuition paid off and it led
To the top season eight find that you didn't get to see
Until right this moment.
Number one: The gold rush.
So, we've looked at the money pit
And, uh, we've already established
That there's treasure there.
The first one that's kind of fun
Is down in the west drumlin here.
There are three wells-- 29, 30, 31,
I think they were-- all together.
And I was really surprised.
Like, look at, look at the zinc levels.
Uh, very, very high.
No copper, no silver.
And so that very high zinc and some of the other
Metals we saw really has the strong, strong hint
Of sphalerite and it's commonly associated
With veining
Uh, that has gold.
Did we check for lead?
Yes, and the lead isn't particularly high.
But, lead, it doesn't particularly
Corrode all that well, either.
Most of the wells by far don't
Show anything anomalous.
That's the huge part of this, isn't it?
That is, exactly.
So, with a little bit of a smile and a twinkle
In my eye, I'd say if things don't work out over here,
I would certainly start taking a look over there.
(laughter)
For the first time ever that we have experienced,
There's actual science-based evidence
That precious metals still reside beneath oak island.
Let's get to the bottom of oak island.
Well, now, we mean it literally.
There's reasons to be excited about the future.
There's reasons to...
Continue.
Could it really be possible that after 226 years
Of people searching for treasure on oak island
That it's home to a literal gold mine, as well?
If so, then with all the other discoveries the team
Has made and all the momentum they're carrying
Into season nine, just four short weeks away,
That it promises to be the greatest one yet.
And it just might be the one where we see the oak island
Mystery solved once and for all.
I know I can't wait.
Until then, stay faithful. We'll see you next time.
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