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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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