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Tonight, on the curse of Oak Island.

It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.

Oh! Oh! Here we go! Yeah!

Look what I'm getting here.

Oh!

So I've done a CT scan. You can see it faintly right here.

Oh!

We'll all be damned. Yeah. That might tell a story.

Whoa! Whoa!

We're probably into the void.

If there's the one thing, he could have it in that four barrel right now.

Yeah. There you go.

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

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.

Okay, team. This is the part of this whole venture I like honestly the most.

Another bright morning has dawned on Oak Island, and in the laboratory, Rick and

Marty Lagina and members of their team are gathered to learn more about a

discovery.

Catchy and I found something that we thought was really, really cool.

It's a coin for sure, and we're about to find out what exactly this is.

Ooh.

Wowzer. One week ago.

Marty and Katya Drake discovered a coin with a curious design on Lot 5.

And in the same area where the team previously found five Roman coins that

be as much as 2 ,000 years old.

But yes, I've done an XRF. So compositionally, it's copper -based.

iron. There is calcium. But you see there's a silver content also, and

good sign. That usually indicates.

An older alloy.

That's amazing.

Emma says the composition of the coin has silver, and so I think it could be

very valuable. Everything about this, once again, makes you feel like, geez,

not wasting my time and money here.

This is for real.

I popped it into the PT scan to get a better look at it.

Whoa.

That's ancient. Oh, my God.

the figure standing left.

And we do have the lettering, office in A, which is N for novum, so

ninth. It's the ninth workshop.

Can't tell which region because the mid mark is gone, but that would be like in

the Roman vicinity.

And if you take a look at the other side, so you have the head bus facing

And you can see it faintly right here. It looks like a crown.

And a really distinctive pointed, like, I don't know, it's a really sharp nose,

sharp chin.

And these features, you only see them with Claudius II.

So you have the workshop, you have the composition, and

then you have Claudius II, and that puts it more towards, like, 250, 270

AD. So this is a Roman coin.

Yeah.

Without a doubt.

Without a doubt.

Marcus Aurelius Claudius, also known as Claudius II, reigned as the emperor of

Rome from 268 to 270 AD.

The team has never found evidence of habitation on Oak Island dating back to

that era.

So how did the six Roman coins get here?

We'll all be damned. Yeah.

We have very few certainties on this island. Well, there's one. That is a

coin. I mean, we used to say it with a little bit of hesitation, like, you

we're having a hard time believing in ourselves, but we can't discard it

anymore. It does have a high surrounding silicon layer.

Does that imply it's been there a long time?

Yeah. How about that?

What were the other metals that Dr.

Spooner was finding in the water in the money pit?

Lead, tin, copper, and zinc.

So those are all elements that are found in the coin.

The silver Pit Blado coin is 1367 to 1383 and has similar elements

too.

The fact that the composition of the so -called Portuguese Pit Blado coin and

the Roman coins match the traces of precious metals that were detected deep

the Money Pit area raises an important question. Could they all be related?

I have always believed.

that what happened here in Oak Island happened long ago.

And so it's not out of the bounds to suggest that this might be part of the

treasure, right? Yeah.

The interesting thing now is when was it deposited?

Yeah, exactly. That is what would be interesting to know.

I think Sandy Campbell can certainly tell us something about that coin. We

should have him look into this further.

Well, as you often tell me, Marty, that's a great find, but you guys need

back out to Lot 5 and find some more. Exactly.

Let's do it. Let's go.

See you later. Thank you. Good job.

Later that morning, as the team prepares their next drill location in the Money

Pit area.

So, as we know, it's a very aggressive search agenda this year. We have a lot

things going on. I know you...

Done your homework, you have the permit.

Rick meets with Steve Guptill, Scott Barlow, and Billy Gerhart in the Oak

Research Center to plan another major investigation, a large -scale dig in the

triangle -shaped swamp.

The swamp has been incredibly generous to us in terms of finding things.

Think about the timelines that have been associated with the swamp.

1200s, 1300s, 1400s.

We've always thought that the bog held secrets, and those secrets might have

something to do with the money pit, right? Yeah.

During the past decade, Rick, Marty, and the team have uncovered numerous stone

structures in the swamp.

These include a massive paved area near the center of the bog, which has been

scientifically dated to the 13th century, a stone road in the southeast

which may be more than 500 years old and is believed to be of Portuguese origin,

and a cobblestone pathway in the northern region, which led the team to

vault -like feature that has been dated to as early as the 17th century.

We found some incredibly unique things in the swamp, things we haven't been

to explain as of yet, but it suggests numerous groups may have deposited

here on the island.

Once you understand the totality of the work in the bog, then you can apply

maybe a possible connection to the money pit.

And who was behind this mystery?

So, Steve, what are your areas of interest?

So I have an area I'd like to start us at.

It's just west of the paved area. You can see it here.

It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.

That end of the swamp is kind of like the area around the vault, right? You

know, we traveled across it a hundred times, didn't know the vault was there.

You know, I think that the same types of finds can exist in that corner.

Hopefully there's another one, and hopefully it's not empty.

Yep.

We drain the swamp, and I think all that really remains is, you know, get the

excavators in place and start digging.

Yep.

It's good to work.

Later that day.

All right, guys, west inside of the swamp, brand -new area for us.

Rick meets with members of the team to begin their new investigation in the

western region of the swamp.

We're only 180 feet off the paved area. That's just straight east of us.

Yeah, and I love those dates from the paved area. It's 1200s, and we've

seen a certain coin this year, a Portuguese coin from the 1300s. We might

for a bit of pork and cheese.

Every year, the swamp surprises us.

The bar every year keeps raising, right?

Yeah.

Let's get digging with it, Billy.

I'm really excited to be back in the swamp.

It's been good to us in the past. We've found a lot of really nice artifacts in

the area.

And hopefully we are going to find some artifacts today.

Oh, it's clean at the moment.

What have we got here?

Steak. Did you see that, Billy? You just moved the steak. Yep.

While digging near the western edge of the Oak Island Swamp, Rick Lagina and

members of the team have just discovered an interesting clue.

Is that one of the sharpened old wooden steak posts, Rick?

Yeah, it looks like it.

What do you think?

It does look like one of those older style ones, the way it's cut like that.

That ain't saw.

No, that's a... That's cut.

Yep. A hand -cut wooden stake?

Curiously, the team discovered a number of similar stakes one year ago in the

center of the swamp, lining the cobble path.

These stakes were carbon -dated to as early as the 17th century.

and led them to the vault -like feature.

So that would be your first connection that this potentially at one point in

time was about.

So that could be a really old wood stake.

Is it possible that the team has uncovered evidence of another pathway?

If so, just what might it lead to?

What have we got here?

Look at that.

That's definitely a stake there.

Yeah, there's one right there.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Good eye, Rick.

Oh, that's a little mini work about, isn't it? Like the ones we've seen in

north side of the swamp.

And the dating on those came back from 1630s all the way to mid -1700s. The

question is, what do all these stakes mean?

This stake is strikingly similar to the stakes that we found in the north end.

The stakes might be referencing some work that is yet undiscovered in the

It is incredibly exciting.

It's odd to have so many stakes in one area, right?

Yep. We need to date these to really understand their importance here in a

tight area.

Yeah. But you still need to find artifacts.

Oh, yeah. The metals will tell the story, I suppose.

You know, I'm open for coins.

Cross their fingers.

As Rick and the team proceed with their excavation in the swamp, several hundred

yards to the west on Lot 5.

It almost feels like this is that top layer of soil because it stops, but I

notice it's more gravelly when you get over there, but that could be from that

little pile. It's from that pile, I think.

Archaeologist Fiona Steele and other members of the team continue their

investigation of a mysterious rounded feature near the shoreline.

Okay, your turn for the coolest find ever. Okay, ever.

In recent years, the team has uncovered evidence suggesting that several

different groups conducted secret activities here at different times,

possibly hiding valuables on the island.

These include a number of buttons and Venetian trade beads that may be

to the Knights of Malta, a religious military order that descended from the

Knights Templar.

Lot 5 is an example of the extraordinary complexity of this island and what

happened here.

The multi -generational theory fits with a lot of the dates we found.

I want to keep going because I want to figure this out.

Oh, my God. Look at this.

Might be a pipe stem.

Hey, pipe stem.

Oh, that's great. That's got a really small borehole, like really small.

You can actually get an idea of the date range from the size of the borehole.

So if you get a smaller borehole, it's more likely a more recent pipe stem. But

if you get a really big borehole, it can age it quite a bit. I always have stuff

with me that we can use for this.

This is what we use to check the boreholes with.

All right, so this one is the 464th, which is what I'm expecting.

Let's see. And look at that. That fits perfectly.

So that's saying that this pipe stem was made sometime between 1753 and 1800,

which actually fits in exactly with the mean date range of all the artifacts

that we're finding here.

Nice. I think that's pretty cool.

The artifacts we have in general from Lot 5, these artifacts still predate.

So they predate the discovery of the money pit. To me, that's what makes our

work on Lot 5 so significant.

Wow, I'm glad we found that. That's great.

Tansy, look what I'm getting here.

Check this out.

Pottery. Oh, wow.

The big boy.

So we're going to take it out in two pieces.

There's one.

So shiny. Isn't that great?

Magic. Oh!

That's gorgeous. That's really pretty.

Wow. Hold that one. Let's get the other piece up.

There we go.

So pretty.

Wow. Those would go together.

Look how big that bowl would have been.

It had to have been a big utilitarian type of bowl. It was probably used for

food purposes, preparation of some sort, whether it was breads or preserved

fruits. I find with these coarse earthenwares, it could be anywhere from

1800, but this little design on it will help date it.

Good job.

Fragments of an ornate earthenware bowl that may have been used to contain food?

There are no records that any settlers ever lived on Lot 5.

So if Fiona is correct that this pottery may date back to the 17th century, it's

a potential clue that could help identify who was here.

The things that we've been finding on Lot 5 have been giving us more of an

indication of multi -occupational use of the lot itself.

That's pretty blatant and evident.

So it's getting more and more curious as we're going.

Every piece adds to the puzzle and tells us more and more.

That's great.

Beautiful find.

The next day.

The find is quite remarkable.

Larry, I would think you would have to agree.

Finding that is incredibly impressive. Oh, absolutely.

Rick and members of the team meet once again in the lab regarding another find

made two weeks ago on Lot 5.

Tansy, we thank you for that.

It's stunningly beautiful. It is.

An ornate glass bead that Tansy Rudnicki uncovered in the rounded feature.

Laird, Emma, tell us what this is and what it may mean.

So I do have an XRF result.

So the composition, we have a whole bunch of elements in it.

The color is due to the copper content that you see right here.

So that's what makes it a lovely, lovely blue.

But here's the compositional averages and the comparisons with other artifacts

found on Oak Island.

Our bead is the one in blue.

The composition of the glass itself, the closest match that it lines up with

are the Venetian beads that we've collected over the years.

It would be interesting to know if any of these are associated with the

that was going on with the Knights of Malta.

It would be interesting to know if any of these are associated with the

that was going on with the Knights of Malta.

So you'd just be curious to see if maybe they brought some beads with them. They

would have 100 % brought beads with them to trade with the indigenous people in

that area.

In the Oak Island lab, Emma Culligan and Laird have just informed the team that

it's possible that the glass venetian bead found on Lot 5 could be connected

the Knights of Malta.

So it's what we call a seed bead for obvious reasons. It's the size of a

seed.

They were introduced in the second half of the 1600s.

It would be interesting to know if any of these have ever been found at Fort

Point because, as we all know, Isaac Durazly came over and made his capital

the Le Havre River.

In 1632, a French naval captain and prominent member of the Knights of

named Isaac de Rosalie, helped establish the French colony of Acadia, which is

now known today as Nova Scotia.

Curiously, de Rosalie established his headquarters at Fort Point on the Le

River, just 15 miles south of Oak Island.

If Venetian beads have been discovered at Fort Point, could that offer more

evidence of a connection between the Knights of Malta and the Oak Island

mystery?

We can check with the archaeologists at Four Points to see what they may have

for beads that were recovered from their archaeology.

That'd be great.

Strange as it sounds, that little simple bead might tell a story.

So thank you, Emma. Thank you, Laird. Having said that, we'd better get out

to it.

Thank you. See you later.

Later that day, as the investigation in both the swamp

And on lot 5, continue.

J .5, 8 .5, guys.

All right. We're still about 12 feet above what we conventionally think of

top of the solution channel.

Over at the money pit area, the core drilling operation reaches a depth of

nearly 140 feet in a new borehole known as J .5, 8 .5.

Here. The team hopes to penetrate the natural cavity known as the solution

channel and recover evidence of treasure.

Previous holes have shown us how convoluted it is. We've run into actual

within it and soft spot below 190.

Hopefully this one will get into an even looser area and some kind of a chest.

Yep. One full of silver coins.

We live in hope.

Did a treasure fall down to the depths of the Solution Channel? We don't know.

You don't want to be driven by possibilities.

You want to be driven by facts.

And the fact is, right now, we are nowhere near done exploring the

of this void.

And we need to continue to be very disciplined in our approach.

But we mustn't relent.

We mustn't give up.

We're not there yet.

I want the one thing.

That was interesting. What happened?

He just lost his rods.

That means we're probably into the void.

I'll ask him how far they seem to have dropped.

Adam. Hey.

How far did they drop?

About eight feet.

Okay. That's into a loose area?

I'm assuming.

Yeah, that's what we're looking for.

Go get it.

Thanks.

Here.

Hey, Terry. What do you say? That was interesting.

So we're into a loose area, 148 to 158 or so. The rods just dropped right in.

Now we go deeper to see what they find.

I mean, I've got my fingers crossed here, gentlemen. We are in a really

interesting point.

Let's hope.

This is exactly what we're looking for. We're dropping down into an open space

in the solution channel below 150 feet. We trace this to the bottom. We can find

a lot of amazing things before bedrock.

Whoa.

That is an extraordinary washed -out void of material.

It's 168.

Wow. The rods were 15 feet down.

15 feet? 15 feet. So is that a solution channel, you think?

Huh. Exactly so. That's the kind of void and open space where you could lose a

whole lot of treasure.

So out of the 20 feet, that's all you got.

Wow. Yeah.

So that bodes well, gentlemen.

This is getting very interesting.

It's not over yet.

I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.

So when we pull a 20 -foot run and we only have a few feet of material in it,

that says we've passed into a relative void where only a small amount of the

solid material has been encountered. And if we hit that kind of a situation, we

know we're into the void in the solution channel.

Clear. That tells us we could encounter an artifact anywhere between there and

the bedrock.

Adam, how are we doing?

I'm at 188. Wow. And I haven't hit anything hard.

All we got is a loose void. That's it.

Thanks.

What do you got?

So he has dropped another 20 feet. He went from 168 to 188, and he's still got

nothing solid. So he's going to push forward from 188.

to 198 to see if we can hit something solid?

Yeah. Given what we know, there's a 30 -foot void, give or take.

That's exciting.

I think objective number one is to find the bottom of the solution channel.

Absolutely.

We're excited because what is below us right here has not been searched by

anyone ever, and we're going to be the first people to look at that.

Hopefully, we'll find something at the bottom because...

Treasure is very dense and will drop through the material in the solution

channel and settle at the bottom.

We have a core, gentlemen.

The sample that we have in that core barrel is very important. We've just

down through a huge amount of loose area. If there's a debris field, if

a broken up treasure chest, if there's the one thing, he could have it in that

core barrel right now.

Let's go.

168 to 198 right in front of us, gentlemen.

We're looking for aspects of the debris field that have fallen treasure, yeah?

Exactly. There he is. Hey, Rick. Hey, Rick. How you doing? Hello.

Very loose area here, Rick.

168 to 198 and J .5, 8 .5.

Okay. Let's see it. All right.

In the Money Pit area, Rick has joined the team to inspect fresh drilling cores

recovered from the Solution Channel.

This material is relatively watery, void -like material.

And from 198, we should go to about 218 or 215 before we hit bedrock, right?

So it should be another swath of interesting material at the bottom of

solution chamber.

Unfortunately, no hits with the pinpointer.

Well, let's see what the next one looks like. I think this next run is the most

important. That would be the hope.

This hole in particular, it's soft enough or something very heavy to have

migrated downward to the point where it would fall to the lowest possible point,

i .e. the bottom of the solution channel.

We just have to find it.

It's getting ridiculous.

Like I'm 228 right now.

That's so weird, man.

Adam, how we doing?

228.

228? 228.

Wow, that's one for the record books.

And loose all the way down? Yeah.

Nothing? Well, it's loose, but I can feel it. Do you think you're going to be

able to retrieve that? It's going in the rods right now. Okay, thank you. Yep.

Well, you don't see that every day.

228, no bedrock.

What? What are they going through, just water?

Well, it's loose material as well. It looks like he's going to be able to get

sample, so it looks like we're going to have 30 feet more of torque coming up.

I agree. It's highly unusual, in fact, that you're not in bedrock at 228.

Incredibly interesting.

Yeah.

Previously drilled boreholes that have reached the bottom of the solution

channel have suggested that the mysterious natural cavity has a maximum

some 220 feet.

However, has the team now discovered evidence that it could be deeper in some

areas, presenting a whole new challenge to finding the believed treasure?

The solution channel is wide, it's expansive, it's deep.

I think it's a little bit larger and certainly deeper than we had thought.

Generally, the bottom is 218, 214.

Well, we're 14 feet past that.

I think what it tells us is we have a lot more work to do to truly understand

the solution channel. It certainly presents some unique challenges.

Will there be issues that arise that we haven't anticipated?

Sure, there will be problems, but we're not going to give up. It's that simple.

Jump in and I'll guide you in.

If there were something of some significance.

it would easily fall through what we just had on the table.

Exactly. Yes.

Here we go.

Let's hope it's a good one.

You can be very hopeful. Look, Peter thinks it's hopeful.

I'm on board. I'm cautiously optimistic.

There you go. That was the word. There you go.

The drill bar has basically fallen almost 100 feet with no hindrance.

Your immediate thought is, well, here absolutely is the collapse zone.

What other explanation is there?

And if there's a clap zone, then we may be close to something.

So 198 all the way down to 228 and no bedrock yet, but a

lot of loose material. So you've got a lot of work to do here with your

pinpointer, I think, Charles. Hell yeah. Okay, so for 30 feet of drilling, we

got about 12 feet of loose material clear.

Unfortunately, in this section, we didn't hit it. Let's see where he hits

bottom, and we'll see what he brings back up.

And he's pounding that bedrock.

There's a nice white powder.

That's bedrock.

Let's see what we got up above the bedrock.

Here we go.

What do we got?

228, 233.

The rock was at 229.

So, yeah, it looks like you got about a foot of loose material.

It's a good four feet of bedrock.

That's clear.

J .5, 8 .5.

Things have come to an end here at 233 below grade.

We hit bedrock at 229 below grade.

It gave us information.

Exactly.

What do you think about this, Adam?

It's been the most interesting one to me to date. Bottom line is I'm an

Eisenboots guy. When the driller of record says this is something different,

can put your nickel on that.

It's different.

Absolutely.

Based on what we're seeing, the theory that the treasure would fall deep down

the solution channel still is alive and well. One of the reasons for doing the

sonic drill program was, okay, where's an area where we might put a case on it?

Incremental information is incredibly important to help us determine that.

We need to make a decision where we go next.

As the team plots their next borehole location in the Money Pit area.

So, Sandy, thank you for coming down once again.

Appreciate it, Rick.

Rick and Doug meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell in the research center to

his analysis of the Roman coin that was recently found on Lot 5.

You know, as soon as I pick the coin up, it's quite obvious what it is.

This is clearly Roman Empire period.

It's in remarkable condition for a coin that's been buried for quite a while.

I think we'll need a CT to get a more definitive portrait.

Laird and Emma have actually provided us with a couple of images from the CT

scanner. Let's have a look.

Yeah, the CT is pretty clear.

You know, the reverse is quite spectacular.

Very definitive legend.

You know, somebody's standing holding an oak leaf.

The obverse here is probably Claudius, which makes it 3rd

century AD.

That's what Laird and Emma said?

Yeah. No question in your mind. It's a Roman coin.

No, no question.

It's a pretty obvious design and period of Roman Empire.

But of all the Roman, this is perhaps the most remarkable piece that's been

found to date.

What do you make of Roman coins being found on this island? How many Roman

have been found elsewhere in Nova Scotia?

I would say nothing that I'm aware of.

I'm puzzled how so many Roman coins could land on this island.

The question that would be in my mind is, who brought it?

Roman coins traded as currency into the 1500s quite regularly.

They were monetarily used.

And that's what possibly brought them to this island, in my opinion.

Who brought them is a different story.

Here's a scenario that starts to paint itself in my mind, though.

The people that were carrying out the work to create the money pit may have

carrying this as currency in their pocket.

I think that is a distinct possibility.

Incredible.

If you have people on the island building...

for the works, perhaps in the money pit, and they're losing their personal

possessions along the way.

These coins might have been actually the pocket change of the workers working to

deposit a treasure in the money pit. So this to me may not be the actual

treasure they were depositing, but it's evident. Yeah, it could be.

In the Oak Island Research Center, Sandy Campbell has just validated the

possibility.

that the Roman coins found on Lot 5 may have been dropped by those who buried a

treasure in the money pit.

I wouldn't discount it.

You know, 1300, 1400, this stuff was in use all through Europe.

If you walked into any merchant anywhere in the world, you know, whether it's

the New World or the Old World, that had monetary value.

It's mind -numbing that this stuff...

continues to get unearthed.

One of the interesting things about Roman coins is they've often been found

places we've investigated the activities of the Templars, right?

Another twist.

Here we have the coins.

The Roman coins have been found in Iceland.

During their numerous trips to European sites, where the Templar order was

believed to have operated between the 12th and 14th centuries, the team has

shown Roman coins from the same eras that they have found on Oak Island.

This is 4th century.

4th century. Yeah. We were told ours were from 5th century AD.

Those coins were in active use right up through the 1200s.

then they could be associated with activity of the Templars.

This, sitting here on this table, might be representative of that cultural

context. Perhaps with Nolan's cross and then the so -called Pibleto coin.

Right.

Is it possible that the ancient Roman coins could actually represent another

Templar connection to the Oak Island mystery?

And could they be related?

to other possible Templar structures, such as Nolan's Cross, as well as

discoveries, like the silver Portuguese coin.

The wealth associated with a possible treasure in the money pit might have

gathered from all over the world.

And Templars, as we have learned, assimilated power, influenced

wealth, and specifically knowledge.

So it may be that this coin is Roman.

But you have to take the clues and the data as presented to you, but you have

analyze that data with a very open mind because it could all be connected.

We need to rededicate ourselves to continue to look intensively at Lot 5

adjacent lots and the money pit for irrefutable proof.

So,

Sandy, thank you for coming down. Really appreciate it, as always.

I appreciate the invite.

Again, it's always interesting to see something new and different.

It just deepens the mystery, in my opinion.

It does do that. Yeah.

It's incredibly interesting.

Roman coins were flown on Oak Island.

It's just more bizarre.

Later that day.

It's a good place to start, Charles.

Yep. Back on the trail of artifacts, mate, on lock four. I love it.

Charles joins Gary on Lot 4, encouraged by the new discoveries of the glass bead

and the Roman coin.

You ready to get stuck in, mate? Let's do it. Okay, let's start here. You find

them, I'll dig them.

Rick has instructed them to search an area on nearby Lot 4, where excavated

spoils from the round feature on Lot 5 have been deposited.

It's a bit of a jumpy signal, Charles.

It's more than likely going to be a piece of elongated iron.

You never know.

Let's get stuck back in. You've diggled some dirt around.

I think it's out.

Yeah, I believe so.

Yeah, just a little nail up.

Damn it.

Keep going.

Yep.

Ooh, we've got a nice banging signal here, Charles.

Ooh, I like the sound of that, Charles. Nice one?

Yeah, a real good one. This could be a coin or a button.

Let's hope.

This has got potential, mate.

Just there, please. Right there? Okay.

It's a lot of roots.

Yep.

X marks the spot.

Yep.

Take a look -see.

All right.

Let's see what we got.

Let's see it.

It's in the end, mate.

And I can feel it.

This is the fun part, mate.

Seeing what we've got.

Oh! Oh!

Oh!

What have we found, Charles?

Look at that, mate.

Some kind of lead strip.

That's interesting.

While searching for clues on Lot 4, Charles and Gary have just made a

discovery. Look at the beveled edges. I see that.

You know what this reminds me of? What's that?

It reminds me of an arm of a lead cross.

Really? It looks like there's an hole at the top. Yeah. If you were making a

cross, a lead, and you want to tack it onto something, it would need holes.

So we could be in Templar country.

Yeah.

A lead artifact with similar features to the 14th century lead cross.

that was found at Smith's Cove in 2017, members of the Oak Island team have seen

this exact cross design at 12th and 14th century Templar -related sites in Dome,

France, in Camerano, Italy, and near Reykjavik, Iceland.

And perhaps even more incredible is the fact that in 2022,

While investigating the mysterious round feature just a few yards away on Lot 5,

Gary and Jack Begley unearthed a lead barter token that was scientifically

matched to the lead crown.

You see that?

This looks really old.

Yeah.

Is it possible that Gary and Charles have found another key clue that could

prove a Templar connection to the Oak Island mystery?

Let's put this in the bag.

where it belongs.

Even a little piece of lead like this could tell a really big story. It's one

those metals you can have tested and you never know.

Imagine if this piece of lead is a match to a certain medieval artifact we

recovered in Smiths Co.

Medieval lead cross, baby!

I'm sure there's more artifacts waiting for us, but...

We need to get to the lab. I can't wait to see what this is. Let's go, man. All

right, mate. Go dig it.

Excellent. Absolutely brilliant.

Generations of treasure hunters have believed that something of immense value

lies buried in the money pit.

Now Rick, Marty, and their team may have not only touched a piece of those

fabled riches, but have found incredible new clues.

that could help identify just who was behind this mystery.

So despite the murky questions that remain in the Solution Channel, this

will keep searching for the truth, no matter how deep they have to dig.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Hold it! Whoa, whoa!

Another feature in the slug. What in the world is happening? This feature could

help us unwrap the whole mystery.

Something this small has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel. Here it

is right there. Could be a chunk of a coin. It's got some sort of design on

If it's a silver coin, that's treasure.

It's what we're looking for.

Be prepared to be gobstruck.

This is going to be special. This is quite pure. Yes, absolutely.