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Marty: Wow. Look at that.

Aaron: It's showing that this whole thing

is being staked off.

Marty: It may lead us to treasure.

Terry d.: Wow. This is 16th century

-and before. -That's remarkable.

Charles: Terry, we got wood.

Terry: That's interesting.

Probably at the edge of a tunnel.

: Oh.

Could have even come off samuel ball's walking cane.

It's pretty incredible.

This does seem to match

what we have in our collection.

-We found the smoking gun. -I knew it!

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of 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.

-terry d.: This is new. -Craig: Yeah, this is it.

Obviously a road, but what can you tell us about it?

Yeah. That is very impressive.

Wow.

Those are some big stones in there.

It looks definitely like it was built

for the purpose of being a road.

Narrator: In their quest to solve the 225-year-old

oak island treasure mystery, brothers rick and marty lagina,

their partner craig tester,

and the members of their team continue to unearth

incredible man-made workings

that suggest whatever may have been buried here long ago

was valuable enough to require

massive engineering efforts to keep it hidden.

What I tend to find, is that, um, when roads

have been engineered with so much stone like this,

they were designed to carry heavy loads.

Narrator: Today, they have invited terry deveau,

the former president of the new England antiquities

research association,

to inspect the massive stone road uncovered this year

in the southeastern corner of the artificially-made swamp.

It is their hope that he can offer an informed opinion

on its design and potential cultural origin.

This stone is two or three courses thick.

Exactly. There probably was a dock,

a little bit more to the sea.

-Yeah. -And then this stone road

would have likely have been put down in order to carry the loads

from that dock to wherever they needed to take them.

Marty: Why was this thing buried?

Who builds roads in swamps?

And then lets the swamp, you know, swallow it up?

And we're not to the end of it.

Could I have predicted that? Never.

They've just gotten started.

They're gonna cut this entire part out.

-Oh, okay. -But that is just a, uh,

-a swamp mat at the bottom in there. -Yeah.

Terry d.: You definitely can see that.

These, uh, cobblestones, you know,

are a clearly defined feature, and the width of it,

to me, that looks like about six feet.

-Yeah. -For hundreds and hundreds of years,

there was a standard, uh, cart track width

of basically five feet.

And so you needed your road to be

just a little bit bigger than that.

The fact that it's at least that wide is supportive

evidence that carts were being used to transport material.

Rick: That's an interesting observation

because the cobbled area is so well-defined.

And we've spoken of it before, that a ship comes in,

treasure's offloaded, or something is offloaded,

to wagons pulled by oxen--

because we have the ox shoes-- pulled up to the money pit,

and there's your treasure story, there's your mystery.

But it's way too premature yet.

I want the archeologists to do their work,

and hopefully at the end of this investigation,

they will recreate what happened there.

Yeah, it definitely looks like the edge of, uh, another

piece of the road, right?

That's what it looks like to me.

Rick: But the key question is,

if you had to put a date on that--

forced to-- how old is it?

Well, I mean, that's what makes that so interesting

and special is,

like you said, the many courses of-of stone that were used.

It doesn't fit, in my eye, either with the roadbuilding

that we're used to seeing from the french or the british

during the colonial period in nova scotia.

The type of technology that's in evidence over there

is not the way things have been done

in this part of the world for the last 400 years.

-It's very unusual. -Wow.

So to me, it would speak to a technology

of roadbuilding that people

were used to using and were familiar with prior to that.

-Mm-hmm. -Right? The 1500s or earlier.

People that came here from europe

were used to building roads that way, with stone.

Narrator: The stone-paved road in the swamp,

possibly constructed by europeans

more than 500 years ago?

Terry d.: So now you can see the carving quite clearly here.

It's-it's very beautiful.

Narrator: In 2015,

terry showed rick, marty, craig and dave blankenship

a mysterious rock carving located in overton, nova scotia,

some 140 miles east of oak island...

Isn't that a templar cross?

...That he believes could date back

to the same time period as this stone road.

If terry is correct about the stone road,

could that mean it may be connected to other medieval

european discoveries that the team has made on oak island?

Such as the 700-year-old lead cross

discovered three years ago at smith's cove,

and which is believed to possibly be linked

to the knights templar?

So, on several levels, that is quite unique to you.

Because it predates any british or french activity.

In my mind it does.

-So, that's remarkable. -It is. It is.

We didn't anticipate your observation

putting us that far back in time.

-So we thank you for that. -Mm-hmm.

Terry d.: My pleasure. Anytime.

Narrator: Later that morning,

as rick and other members of the team continue

to excavate the stone pathway...

-Hey, craig. -Hey, marty.

...His brother marty meets with craig tester

in the war room to discuss the status

of the drilling operation currently underway

at the money pit.

Okay, um, you know, we're trying to follow this tunnel,

-look for the money pit. -Mm-hmm.

We just got done drilling c-4.5.

-It did hit tunnel. -Marty: Okay.

But so far, we have, you know, three wells

that have hit that tunnel.

Okay.

Uh, the good news is we did get, uh, c-14 data.

-Yeah, from that piece of wood? -From the piece of wood, yep.

And it dated to 1648 to 1694.

That's great.

Terry: For right now, I'm convinced this is a tunnel.

Narrator: Two weeks ago,

the team began a new core-drilling program

in the western region of the money pit area

in the hopes of finally locating the original shaft

that was first discovered in 1795.

Now that they have found a possible tunnel

some 90 feet deep dating as much as 150 years earlier,

it is their hope, if they can continue tracking it,

it will soon lead them to the location

of the fabled treasure vault.

So, where do you want to go next?

Uh, we're picking this location just to the northwest.

It's bc-4,

and hopefully it gives us more information

on this tunnel leading in this direction.

Right.

Crazy stuff.

You know, there shouldn't have been anything

up around c-1, uh,

based on what we knew prior to this year.

And we clearly have to follow this tunnel

because we're always looking for that breakthrough.

And there'd be nobody happier than me to find out that

we've been looking in the wrong place for the money pit.

So I'm not discounting that the money pit could be up there.

I mean, this is way away from anything we thought.

Craig: Maybe the money pit's in this area.

-Well, that's c-1, right? -Yep.

Maybe this is where we should have been looking all the time.

I mean, it was an interesting hole.

-Yep. So... -All right.

Sounds good to me. Let's keep going.

-Drill. -Craig: Okay. We'll do that.

Narrator: As marty and craig conclude their meeting in the war room...

Today's gonna be a good day, rick.

I can feel it in my wand.

...Rick lagina joins metal detection expert gary drayton

on lot 25, located on the western end of the island,

to continue their investigation of the site

where late 18th-century landowner samuel ball

built a thriving homestead.

The only safety gear we need on for this, mate, is sunglasses.

Because when we see the shine on that gold and silver, mate...

-Ah, that-that... -...It will damage your eyes.

That you've got to prove, gary.

I believe you, I trust you, I'll dig,

I'll dig as far as you need me to dig,

-but you got to find it. -Okay, mate.

Narrator: Because the ball foundation is a protected site,

gary is only permitted to dig up targets

he previously marked with flags while under the supervision

of provincial archaeologist laird niven.

Gary: There's a group of pink flags here.

This is the closest, I believe, to the ball foundation.

I'm not sure if they're iron or not,

but we have got one good pink flag over there.

-Okay. -Let's check these ones out.

-Okay.

narrator: Although samuel ball, a former american slave,

was known to be a simple cabbage farmer,

he would mysteriously become one of the wealthiest men

in the province of nova scotia.

This has led researchers and historians to speculate

that perhaps he found something of great value on oak island.

Yeah, my guess is just there, mate.

It's to this side of that little stump.

Looks like you've moved it.

We're on it. Come on, baby.

It's in my hand.

What have we got here?

gary: What have we got here?

-Oh. It is! It is! It is!

-it is! It is, it is!

it's a coin or a button.

Narrator: On lot 25, rick lagina

and metal detection expert gary drayton

have just made what could be a significant discovery

on the former property of samuel ball.

Oh, it's an old greenie.

That means it's a copper coin.

-Rick: Mm-hmm. -And there's a good chance it's an oldie.

You're talking 1730s, 1740s.

This isn't one of the smaller coins

we've recovered in the area.

This is one of the larger coppers.

Uh, which is a good sign.

Whenever you find large copper coins on oak island,

you've got a good chance that one of them

is gonna be a british penny,

because of those really old pennies we've found.

Everything that's found on lot 25

could be attributed to samuel ball.

It's hard not to get excited. It's hard not to get enthused.

It's hard not to say, "well, let's keep going."

and you know, we'll see what the coin says.

Sandy should be able to clean that up really, really well.

-Oh, man, I'm so pleased we flagged this.

and we've got a coin to put in the bag.

Ah, I like this.

-Coin. -: You know, you smile, you grin, you...

I can't wait for you to find a gold or silver--

I mean, y-you're gonna be...

-Jumping six feet in the air.

all right, next flag.

-Ooh. Good, clear signal. -Another one.

-Yep. Yep. -Yeah, it's right on the edge of that rock.

Fingers crossed it's a good target.

-It's in situ. -I don't want to damage it.

Gary: Yeah.

Oh, what is that?

Oh-ho-ho! This is beautiful.

-Rick: What is it? -What a gorgeous artifact.

This is a cane topper.

It could be a riding crop topper

or it could be a military swagger stick topper.

What's that? What's on top?

Some kind of design. Look at that.

That-- even that design looks old.

Could have even come off samuel ball's walking cane.

You have a look, mate. What do you see--

what do you see on that design?

Rick: I-I see a crown.

That's what it looks like. Yeah.

I see a crown,

-and some kind of leaf or floral design. -Yeah.

Rick: Yep. Mm-hmm.

Being a crown on there, a-and I'm thinking,

samuel ball, because he was in the military,

uh, this, with a crown on it, you would think military.

Narrator: As a young man,

samuel ball earned his freedom

by joining the british military during the american revolution.

However, he was not known to have risen

to the rank of an officer.

Could gary be correct that this cane topper

was part of his property?

Or could it mean that someone of high ranking

in the british military came to visit him on oak island?

And if so, what brought them here?

And could it be connected to the mysterious wealth

samuel ball came to possess?

I've seen so many of these type of designs on artifacts

from the 1700s all over England.

This is really, really nice. And this is a sign of wealth.

And with samuel ball being a black loyalist, I-I wonder

if this is something regimental, this crest...

That-that emblem may... May tell someone,

"hey, this is from a century before samuel ball."

-yeah. -So that may be outside of samuel's life.

That's a very good point, rick.

-We don't know where this comes from. -We don't.

-That-that could be french, could be portuguese. -Mm-hmm.

-Could be english. -Mm-hmm.

Anytime you find an artifact that may establish a date,

timeline, ownership, it's important.

And hopefully, further investigation

and further research will give us

some clue as to who might have owned it

and any cultural influences associated with it.

It's a very unique piece.

There's enough on this, between the design,

the shape, to-to get this id'd.

I'm sure that doug crowell can do his research

and find something similar to this.

Who knows where this find will lead us, mate?

gary: And who knows what else is here, mate?

-We've got more flags to go. -Rick: Yep.

Narrator: The following morning,

as the investigation of the cobblestone road

along the eastern edge of the swamp continues,

at the money pit...

Terry: Just blue-gray till here, charles.

Just as mother nature left it.

...Oak island historian charles barkhouse

and geologist terry matheson

are overseeing the drilling of borehole bc-4,

where they hope to find more evidence of a tunnel

that could be connected to the fabled treasure vault.

Terry: We're still above the 87-foot tunnel depth,

that is now a new benchmark for us, that we've seen

a lot of tunneling at about that level.

And when you find a tunnel, tunnel's coming from somewhere

and it's going somewhere.

So we'll have to see what that is.

We have come to believe that there is this tunnel horizon

at around 87 feet.

Will it yield a benefit?

I don't know, but you have to follow the clues,

and we have two significant clues.

Seventy-eight.

Terry, we got wood.

At 78?

That's some pretty significant beam going on there.

-This is... -It's an odd depth.

This is really perplexing to me.

And, at that point right there, we are in

some very dense maroon till.

Narrator: Part of a wood beam discovered at a depth of 78 feet?

If this has any connection to the tunnel

they have been tracking, because it is at a shallower depth,

could that mean they have found a correlating shaft?

And if so, could it be the original money pit?

I think what's gonna be telling is that next core we pull up.

-Terry: So... -If the timbers extend, then it's a tunnel.

But I just find it rather odd.

Fairly sharp edge there.

There's a, there's a cut edge, right there.

Hand-hewn.

I can't see any saw cut across it.

See the cut away? There's a ridge.

See where the hack, this way and that.

That says relatively old.

A-again, back to the more interesting, uh,

possibility that it is hand-hewn.

-Okay. -Terry: Let's wash it up a bit.

Tedford: Yo!

87 to 94 is right here!

Okay. So here's the one we're really interested in.

-yep.

Narrator: Having now reached the target depth of 87 feet,

terry matheson and charles barkhouse

are hoping to find any evidence of a wooden tunnel or shaft

that could be the smoking gun they need

to prove they're moving closer to the money pit treasure.

All right, let's open this up a little.

Okay, there's, uh...

No, looked like wood but it is not.

But if this the collapsed tunnel, it should be softer

-through here, right? -Well, uh-- yeah.

Well, I'll tell you what, we got, we got fiber,

but I don't see any beams here.

No significant workings or beam or tunnel here.

We got a few flecks of wood which almost

certainly came from above.

We got wood here.

-What? -That's wood there.

That's interesting. That is wood, no question.

-And it was embedded, too. -Yeah, it was right in here.

Terry: Yeah.

And there's another chunk there.

We're probably at the edge of a tunnel.

And this loose material is what collapsed

and squashed out to the sides.

And we're now clipping the sides of this tunnel.

Narrator: A possible tunnel,

at a depth of some 87 feet in borehole bc-4?

Could it be confirmation that they have indeed

once again intersected a tunnel dating back as much

as 150 years prior to the discovery of the money pit?

If so, they might not have pinpointed

the location of the fabled treasure vault yet,

but they may be one major step closer to it.

It's almost impossible to deny that this is a tunnel.

It is consistent, in terms of depth.

It's possible we're very close to the money pit.

Beams didn't just kind of sneak their way in there.

-Yeah. -People put them there, so there must have been

a people-sized opening.

It's got to do with a tunnel that went in very close to this.

-Yep. -So hopefully we're close.

Ultimately, we will be victorious.

Narrator: While the drilling operation at the money pit continues,

in the uplands along the eastern edge

of the triangle shaped-swamp...

-Good afternoon. -How are you? -Hey.

...Rick lagina joins geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

and archeologists miriam amirault

and dr. Aaron taylor

as they continue to unearth more evidence

of the massive stone pathway extending into the uplands.

The questions that remain are who built it,

what was it used for

and where does it ultimately lead?

-Is it still here? -Yep.

-That way? -Miriam: At this point,

we don't know where this is going,

but I'm not too worried about it.

We just take it one day at a time and go from there.

See what it tells us.

Ian: What's important to us is that,

it's this brown material here.

-Rick: Right. -And every time we get

to the bottom of it, we hit rocks.

They're all together.

-We're into people-placed rocks. -Right.

Ian: We're pretty sure that

they were still defining a road here.

Right.

The stone road is a lot of work.

Where did all these stones come from?

It's not like a pile of stone was dumped on the beach.

These stones had to be acquired.

When you look at them, they're not from the beach.

These are brought from the uplands.

So we need to know where this road goes.

I mean, I think we have to take a little bit

more of a look at that bank.

One thing we did notice,

-did you see the red staining on it? -Yeah.

That's an old firepit.

-Rick: Wow. -And there's charcoals in it.

Somebody was building a fire

'cause they were building a road.

And so again, it's just another indication

that people were building this.

Narrator: A firepit?

Possibly used in the construction

of the massive stone-paved road?

If so, what other clues might be found nearby

that were also left behind that could potentially help

identify just who made this?

Well, put me to work.

What can I do? Wh-- how can I help?

Ian: Well, do we want to get to the edge of this, this way?

-Aaron: Yeah. -Rick: Yeah. I'll start up here

so I'm not in anybody's way.

Ian: I'd just dearly love to, uh...

Again, if we can come up with a stake or an artifact.

Rick: Okay, well, keep digging, see what happens.

Narrator: As rick lagina continues to oversee

the investigation in the swamp...

-Marty: Hey, doug. -Doug: Gentlemen.

Marty lagina and metal detection expert gary drayton

arrive at the research renter,

to meet with oak island historian doug crowell,

who has cleaned and also been researching

the possible cane topper found one day ago on lot 25.

I've been meaning to look at this.

I've been trying to match up the symbol to a maker's mark.

That's what I'm treating it as right now.

Marty: That is really pretty.

Gary: That is fantastic.

But that is interesting there is a rose and crown,

because samuel ball was a black loyalist.

-Yes. -And he was working

with the english military back in the day,

and there's an english symbol on that.

Marty: Oh, yeah.

Narrator: The crown and rose is a symbol of the english monarchy

which dates back to 1485

when henry vii defeated richard iii

in series of civil wars known as the war of the roses.

Could it be possible that this cane

or potential swagger stick topper

is connected in some way to british royalty?

If so, how did it end up on property

once belonging to samuel ball?

Marty: There's no doubt there's a rose and a crown on this.

And you think it's what?

I think that is... Could be one of three things.

To me, it looks like a cane topper,

a riding crop topper,

-or it could be a swagger stick topper. -Mm.

And a swagger stick is...?

Remember the old regimental days

-with the swagger in the stick? -Oh, yes, oh, yes.

-Yeah. -Sort of badge of authority.

-Yeah. -Yeah. And it goes all the way back

to roman days, and then it became really popular

in the english military from the 1600s on.

Doug: It just seems to me

we should be able to find this exact design.

-You would think. -There's so many variations of it.

Marty: This was gilded, I think, gary.

Wow.

Narrator: Gilding,

which dates back thousands of years

to ancient egypt, is a decorative process

by which thin layers of gold, also known as gold leaf,

are applied to the surfaces of precious objects.

Has the team found something that samuel ball had made

after he became a wealthy man?

Or could it have possibly been an actual piece

of the oak island treasure?

Once again, it shows samuel ball was no ordinary farmer.

-It's a luxury item. -Gary: Yeah.

Doug: I mean, it seems to be a man that

took pride in his possessions.

Yeah.

Gary: That is a bobby-dazzler of a find.

Yes, it is. And it may tell us something about the search.

I mean, you know, we could be jumping to conclusions.

Maybe it's not samuel ball.

Maybe it's somebody before him, right?

-Yeah. -I mean, we could be jumping to conclusions.

Marty: Yeah, and we don't know the story on that yet.

That-that has to be run to ground,

and you are just the man to do it.

Yeah, I'm gonna try.

Marty: So, gary,

great find.

Yep. Find some more.

-marty: Let's go do it. -Gary: Okay, mate. -Doug: See you, guys.

-Gary: See you later. -Marty: See you, doug.

- Gary: Hi, chaps! - Aaron: Hey, gary.

Me and michael's here to hopefully help you guys

recover what you're searching for.

Narrator: One day after the oak island team

discovered the remains of an ancient firepit

in the middle of the stone pathway

running along the eastern border of the swamp,

gary drayton, along with michael john,

join dr. Ian spooner and archeologists

miriam amirault and dr. Aaron taylor,

as they continue to carefully excavate the site,

as well as expose more of the pathway

to determine just where it is leading.

I guess rick wanted you to go over the spoils.

Okay. Wow, there's plenty of spoils.

Aaron: We got lots of spoils.

So, we're gonna work here, and give us a scream

if you, if you get anything.

All right, mate. We'll get stuck into the spoils.

Narrator: It is the team's hope that gary and michael

can find more clues and artifacts

that will help precisely date the firepit

and the stone pathway,

as well as identify who made them.

Gary: Good place to start, just here.

that didn't take long. Did it, eh?

Just in there, mate.

Okay, mate. I'll have a recheck.

What is this?

What have we got here?

-I mean, it's quite heavy. -Yeah.

It feels old. It's irregular.

But it doesn't look modern.

-No, it doesn't at all. -It doesn't look factory,

-machine-made. -I know what you mean. Exactly.

So it's pre-industrial revolution.

Maybe even older.

Now it could be some kind of, I don't know,

maybe a wheel bearing.

Handmade.

Maybe it was off a cart? An axle of a cart?

So maybe this was connected to those ox shoes,

which were along this trail.

Narrator: Could gary be correct

that he and michael have found a wheel bearing

that came from an old cart?

If so, could it be connected to the large iron ringbolt

and the parts of keg barrels the team has recently discovered

along this stone pathway?

Discoveries which not only date back as much as 400 years,

or older, but also serve as evidence

that the pathway may have been used to transport

heavy cargo off of a ship and onto oak island?

Aaron.

Can you come and check this out, please, mate?

-Sure. -Gary: We found this

irregular piece of iron.

It just... It's got a heavy feel to it.

Looks kind of old-ish.

Well, that's a pretty cool find.

Gary: I was thinking maybe it was off

a cart axle?

Aaron: I have no idea.

Well, it's not modern. Potentially, yeah.

How about I bag it up and I'll take it to the lab?

-Okay, mate. -All right.

-Aaron: Well, that's great. -Gary: All right, mate.

On to the next.

Narrator: As gary, michael

and members of the team continue searching for clues

along the stone pathway in the swamp...

-Doug: Hey, guys. -Rick: Hey.

-Hey, everybody. -Hello.

-Hey, guys. -Hi.

Narrator: ...Rick and marty lagina,

along with members of the team,

have gathered for a highly anticipated video conference

with sarah macinnes,

a historian from the fortress of louisbourg

national historic site,

some 300 miles northeast of oak island,

to get her expert opinion on some of their recent finds,

including the ox shoes, discovered near the swamp,

as well as the possible cane topper

unearthed at the ball foundation.

So, gentlemen, today we have the-the distinct pleasure

of welcoming sarah macinnes,

the historian for fort louisbourg.

Doug and I had the pleasure of-of meeting her

when we visited there.

Narrator: Completed in 1740 by the french

as they battled for control of nova scotia

with great britain,

the fortress at louisbourg was considered

a monument to 18th-century military engineering.

It features over two miles of stone walls,

some as much as 30 feet high and eight feet thick.

But the reason why it remains a curiosity

to the laginas and their team

is the fact that not only does the fort have a vast network

of secret tunnels that were constructed beneath it,

but also because a large cache of treasure

once kept there by the french is believed to have gone missing

sometime in the mid-1700s.

Rick: Pretty impressive.

Narrator: One year ago,

rick lagina and doug crowell

visited the fortress of louisbourg...

Oh, rick, come look at this one.

...And were also stunned by stone-paved features

on the grounds that eerily resembled

the massive stone-paved area unearthed last year

in the middle of the swamp,

which geoscientist dr. Ian spooner dated

to as early as 1200 ad.

We sent her off some photographs

of, uh, some of the artifacts that have been found.

We very much look forward to what sarah has to tell us.

Thank you so much for having me.

We're really fortunate here with parks canada

at the fortress of louisbourg national historic site

to have one of the largest archeological collections--

if not the largest-- in all of canada.

The photographs that you sent to me,

I took them and I did a comparison of objects

that we actually have within the collection.

The object that you guys have identified

as a possible cane topper...

So there are a number of cane toppers

within the collection here, and none of them

really are of the same style of the one that you have.

So, the 18th-century canes,

or walking sticks, that were used were really...

Ornamental, and were really kind of a fashion piece.

The piece that you found

is definitely very interesting

because it does feature some

ornamental elements that may provide some help

in actually dating the piece.

What have you gleaned from that?

Sarah: So, I was unable to identify that design.

It's not something that we've seen.

But there may be someone who recognizes it

and is able to date it from that design.

Did you excavate it, laird?

It's from a site I'm working on.

It's smaller, I think, than a cane topper.

I think it's a lipstick cover.

Ah.

-hmm.

I wasn't able to tell

from the photos, is there gilding on it?

It's almost like a-a gild wash.

There's always that option that it may be something

that we're just not thinking of.

Makes sense.

Alex: Did we send you anything

that you found, you know you have a comparable object

in your collection?

It is interesting that you have

found some ox shoes on the island.

This does seem to match

what we have in our collection.

Narrator: In the war room,

historian sarah macinnes has just revealed

that the ox shoes the team has found this year

near the swamp match those found at the fortress of louisbourg,

300 miles northeast of oak island,

a mid-18th-century french military compound

where a large treasure is believed to have gone missing

in the 1740s.

Sarah: I think you've got a lot of objects that show

occupation during the colonial period,

which I-I know wouldn't necessarily be unexpected,

but it's definitely interesting to see.

Narrator: Could it be possible

that the similarities in features

found in the oak island swamp,

such as the massive paved area discovered last year

and the ox shoes found nearby,

are evidence that the missing louisbourg treasure

may be connected to the oak island mystery?

That's pretty interesting stuff,

regarding the fortress connection to oak island.

Rick: Do we have two stories, three stories,

or is this connected over centuries of activity

by various groups or entities?

The story of oak island is the real treasure,

and beginning to be exemplified by the finds we're making.

Thank you for your time today.

Uh, we certainly have a plethora of items here that we'd love

to put in your hands and compare within your collection.

Again, we-we say thank you.

Thanks for including us and giving us

-the opportunity to share. -Marty: Great.

Well, as rick said, thank you for your time.

Bye.

Rick: Well, that was interesting.

And we, you know, we certainly owe her a debt of gratitude.

Anyways, it's time to get back to work.

Narrator: As rick and the team complete their meeting in the war room...

there's something here, michael. Just in there.

Narrator: ...Back in the swamp,

gary drayton and michael john

continue searching for clues in a spoils pile

that were recently removed from a buried firepit

found along the mysterious stone pathway.

-Gary: Yeah, you've got it out. -Yeah.

Gary: Whatever it is, it's just here.

-Oh, very interesting. Yeah. -Oh wow, look at that.

Gary: A nice, short spike.

-That's an oldie. Look. -Michael j.: Yeah. Is it a rose head?

Oh, yeah. See there, mate, michael?

-That's your classic rose head spike. -Michael j.: Yes.

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. -Narrator: A hand-forged rose head spike,

found in a firepit along the stone pathway?

Hey, jack. Check this out.

Whoa.

It looks like it-it might be pounded into an old rose head.

Narrator: Earlier this year,

while searching through the spoils

excavated from borehole oc-1

in the money pit area, where the team also

discovered evidence of a wooden tunnel that dated to 1706,

michael found a nearly identical rose head spike.

Well, you're in the 1700s with that.

Narrator: Could this rose head spike, found in the swamp,

be evidence connecting the stone pathway

with the man-made workings in the money pit area?

And could it also be an important clue

that the stone pathway might date to the same period?

No doubt it came from out of there.

So, it is an artifact connected

to whatever that stone feature is there.

All right, 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.

Narrator: Later that afternoon,

after hearing about the team's recent discoveries

along the stone pathway,

marty lagina joins archeologist dr. Aaron taylor

along with gerhardt property improvement representatives

josh ballard and john winters,

to continue looking for clues

that will hopefully help identify

when this feature was made

and just who was behind its construction.

What's going on? Give me a summary if you can, aaron.

So, uh, we've been following the cobblestones.

-Marty: Right. -So, what we're looking for

is cobblestone in the dark organic layer,

which I'm coming to on now.

Everything in this light brown, the clay, it has to go.

So, you want me to dig right there?

-Right there would be perfect. -I can do that.

-I'm just gonna keep working here. -Okay.

Josh: Hope you ate your wheaties this morning.

Marty: No, I didn't, actually.

yes.

How far back am I coming here?

I'd love to find the swamp boundary.

-So, keep coming? -Yeah.

Marty: All righty.

Marty: Hey, wait a second. Look at that.

Marty: Look at that.

That's cut.

I'd say.

Aaron: Oh, yeah, that's definitely cut.

Yeah, right there, right there, right there.

Aaron: So that's staking it.

Great find.

Josh: Would they use that as, like, a survey stake, you think?

Stake out the road.

Like, if guys like us were working...

-Okay. Yeah. -Somebody would go through first,

say, "between there and there, "right?

Yeah. That's beautiful.

Narrator: A wooden stake,

lining the stone pathway?

Is it possible that this wooden stake was used

to help engineer and construct the massive stone road?

And if so, could it prove to be a critical clue

to help date when the feature was made?

Marty: We will carbon-date that, right?

Especially with the way carbon dates have been coming in

-so crazy. -Yeah.

We'll definitely get a date on it.

It's showing that this whole thing is being staked off

-and we're still in it. -Yeah.

-And we're following the line. -Yeah.

That means we haven't run out of it, then.

That means we haven't run out of it.

-Yeah. That's good. -That's great, marty.

Great. Not quite as nice as the steak I had for dinner

last night, but... But in archaeological circles

-I guess it counts. -Oh, I don't have a beef with this.

-marty: Excellent.

Rick: I think right now, everybody's

sky-high on the possibilities of what the swamp might tell us.

Marty: As with many of the things

we're getting out of the swamp, it's another amazing moment

because I think this is something.

Somebody laid that road out

for the guys who came along and built it.

Maybe this will be it.

Maybe this will be the thing that breaks it wide open.

Aarson: I'll bag it

and, uh, we'll get it to the lab.

-Great. -Yeah, I found something!

-aaron: Victory. -Marty: Victory.

Narrator: For 225 years,

generations of searchers have been mystified by evidence

that a fabled treasure vault lies hidden

deep in the money pit.

But now, with the mounting clues

and potentially valuable objects

that rick, marty, craig and their team

continue to find all over oak island,

it appears that it may be home to many more secrets

and perhaps more buried valuables than anyone ever knew.

One thing is certain.

The fellowship of the dig

is closer than anyone before them

to revealing the ultimate truth.

Next time on the curse of oak island...

-Oh! -Whoa!

-Charles: We got wood. -Bingo!

We've got six hits. It's a tunnel.

-Gary: Oh, look at that, we got another one. -Michael j.: Oh, wow.

What the heck are these?

Carmen: There had to be some destructive force.

Something caused this to break.

-It could've blown apart? -Yes.

It had to be an explosion.

-Aaron: Oh, oh. -Marty: What have we got there?

-Sharpened survey stakes. -Oh, baby.

Craig: That sample came out to be

two different time periods.

Wow. That's well before the money pit.

Wow.

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