Original subtitles

Gates: So all the people that have been looking

for this treasure

have not only been looking in the wrong place,

but they've been looking for the wrong thing?

And that's precisely why I think

the treasure has not been found.

♪

oh, my god.

Look at this!

Josh, you need to come down here!

What'd you find? A coin.

♪

hold on to something, boys.

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, oh, oh, something here.

Is that a weapon?

Watch out!

Rock, loose rock, watch out!

Whoa!

♪

♪

tales of treasure inspire writers,

dreamers, and adventurers,

but the greatest treasures shape the fate of nations.

The lost gold of scotland is one such fortune...

♪

...6 chests containing an estimated 35,000 gold coins.

Today's value? Tens of millions of dollars.

The gold was meant to fund the jacobite uprising of 1745,

led by prince charles edward stuart,

a scottish rebellion against England...

♪

...But the treasure arrives too late.

The war is lost.

♪

the fleeing rebels bury the gold somewhere

in the scottish highlands.

More than 250 years later, it's still missing.

♪

now a world-class historian has a groundbreaking lead --

unexplored ruins matching accounts

of where the gold was hidden,

and a famous explorer has discovered a map,

pinpointing a lost hideout that may conceal a treasure.

So is the fabled fortune real or just the stuff of legend?

I'm heading to the highlands

to dig up the truth behind scotland's rebel gold.

♪

my name is josh gates.

Look! [ laughs ]

...Explorer, adventurer...

That is it!

...And a guy who ends up in some very strange situations.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

With a degree in archaeology and a passion for the unexplained,

I travel to the ends of the earth

investigating the greatest legends in history.

Okay, let's punch it.

This is "expedition unknown."

-- captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com

captions paid for by discovery communications

♪

my hunt for the lost of scotland begins just outside inverness.

Welcome to a beautiful summer day here in the highlands,

a romantic realm of clans and castles,

of misty moors and bottomless lochs.

This has long been considered the spiritual heart of scotland,

and the proud traditions of the people who live here

are on full display just over those hills

at a competition unlike any other.

♪

[ bagpipes playing ]

the highland games,

a contest that dates back more than 1,000 years

and carries on to this day to honor the spirit of scotland.

According to local lore,

the first games were held by clan chiefs

to choose their mightiest warriors.

Today, they also showcase scotland's finest dancers

and the not-so-finest.

♪

[ cheers and applause ]

whoo-hoo!

♪

decked out like an extra from "outlander,"

I take in the carnival atmosphere of the games.

Well, I got my nice waistcoat here.

I got my high sock.

This is called a sgian-dubh down here,

and, of course, I've got my sporran.

"sporran" is an old scottish word.

It means "iphone holder."

[ keyboard clicking ]

for centuries, scotland was ruled by clans,

with each clan chief in charge of his own mini kingdom

represented by a coat of arms and tartan plaid.

So in this tent, they're having a clan rally,

which is very different

than what we think of in the united states.

All the big scottish clans are here.

You've got, you know, the macdougalls

and the clan macdonald,

famous, of course, for the 99-cent value menu.

Clan maclean here, famous for their victory at nakatomi tower.

It's a "die hard" joke.

I don't really know much about these clans.

I'm going to read up a little bit.

♪

back on the field, it doesn't take long to realize

that every event in the highland games...

[ grunts ]

[ cheers and applause ]

gates: ...Basically involves throwing something really heavy --

the scottish hammer...

[ grunts ]

gates: ...The weight over bar...

Yeah!

...And the infamous caber toss, where competitors attempt

to flip a telephone-pole-sized beam end-over-end.

It's as difficult as it sounds...

[ crowd groans ]

...But that hasn't stopped me before.

Okay.

♪

[ slow applause ]

okay, here we go.

♪

[ grunts ]

[ cheers and applause ]

does anybody have a bottle of vicodin?

My back no longer works.

♪

having learned a bit about deeply rooted

scottish traditions, I pop a few aspirin and travel

100 miles to a remote stretch of beach in the western highlands.

I'm here to meet gregor ewing,

a leading expert on the lost rebel gold

and the prince at the center of the legend.

Okay, so lets talk kind of basics here.

Who is this guy? Who is bonnie prince charlie?

Right.

He was a good-looking guy.

So who is he in their family?

Okay, so this uprising is like a real-life

"game of thrones," but with way more characters

and fewer dragons, so buckle up.

It's 1603, and scotland and England unite under this guy,

james stuart, king of scots.

The throne passes to his son, charles I,

but being king kind of goes to his head,

which promptly gets lopped off.

[ crowd gasps ]

and things only go downhill from there.

His son, charles ii, is a king in name only,

and this dude, oliver cromwell, a.K.A. Tyrion lannister

from "game of thrones," holds the real power.

Charles ii dies suddenly.

Some say he's poisoned, which is, like,

the number-one way to kill kings, for some reason,

and his brother, james ii, takes the throne.

James here may have a heavy-metal wig,

but he's also a catholic,

which means the church of England isn't exactly a fan.

So in 1688, they give him the boot,

and he's shipped off to France.

See you later. Have fun. Enjoy the croissants.

Supporters of the exiled king calling themselves jacobites

launch a series of failed rebellions.

Fast-forward to 1745,

and here is where our guy comes in, bonnie prince charlie.

Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!

He's the grandson of the exiled king,

and he sails from France back to scotland

to mount a final effort to reclaim his family throne.

Whew, oh, and don't worry.

There won't be a quiz later.

So he comes over here, and what is he packing?

Does he have an army with him?

Either he's crazy or he's a man with a plan.

Many of these clan chiefs feel

that the english are stripping away scottish rights,

so they rally behind bonnie prince charlie,

who they're convinced will be a better king for scotland.

They take edinburgh, wow. Okay, so he's doing great.

So he's on the doorstep of the throne, really.

Prince charlie promises the clan chiefs

that they'll have financial and military support

from the french,

an arrangement he made while still in exile.

But the crucial aid has yet to arrive,

so instead of pressing forward, charlie is forced to retreat.

The rebels withdraw all the way to inverness

with the british in pursuit.

They face off at the brutal battle of culloden.

♪

[ indistinct shouting ]

♪

decimated by a bigger, better-equipped army,

1,500 highlanders fall in less than an hour.

The uprising is crushed.

Prince charlie and his troops flee for their lives.

Hunted by the british,

charlie spent six months on the run,

crisscrossing the western islands

and somehow managing to elude capture

in a game of cat and mouse

through the remote frontiers of the scottish highlands.

You followed his entire route?

And how far did you walk?

But would you walk 500 more? Well...

It's a proclaimers joke.

It's an oldie, but it's a -- forget it.

They're a scottish band.

It felt -- sorry, low-hanging fruit.

Two weeks after the battle of culloden,

while the prince and his rebels are scattered

and running for their lives,

the gold promised by the french finally arrives,

too late to save the rebellion.

Literally at our feet? Yeah.

Right here? Yep.

Okay. I'd like that.

Yeah. So where do we go?

Really? Yeah.

♪

♪

gates: I'm in the highlands with historian gregor ewing

looking for the lost gold of scotland.

In 1745, scottish rebels calling themselves jacobites

attempt to seize the throne of great britain

for prince charles edward stuart,

but the uprising is crushed and the prince goes on the run,

so his supporters hide his war chest.

250 years later, it's still missing.

Okay. I'd like that.

So where do we go?

A train? I like trains.

♪

our search for the lost gold continues aboard the jacobite,

a classic steam train traveling to fort william.

There's just something magical about traveling by rail.

This train is gorgeous.

It does look familiar to me.

Really? I did not know that.

I was not prepared for that.

I was a little prepared.

Oh, that's easy. Ready?

Espresso patronum.

There we go.

♪

back in the muggle world,

the train chugs past a stretch of the highlands

that was sympathetic to the rebels

where charlie and the gold could hide.

All right. Where are we headed?

Loch arkaig? Yes.

Why do we think the gold went there?

Yeah, so it's a safe plot of land

that was being watched over by the prince's money man.

How do we know that?

Okay, so it says, "buried near to the head of loch arkaig,"

where we're going,

"opposite to callich," and callich is a place?

Okay, "louis d'or," these are the coins in question,

15,000 of them.

♪

this is like half the treasure...

Yeah. ...In one place.

I mean, you never get something like this.

Like, in all these buried-treasure stories,

there's never an account of exactly where it went.

No, no. I love this.

All right. More tea and biscuits.

We're getting rich.

♪

the last stop on the jacobite is fort william,

so we switched to a four-by-four and followed the trail

of prince charlie and the gold to the edge of loch arkaig,

where gregor has arranged for a boat

to take us to the location in the ledger.

He's also recruited some help.

Hey, guys. Sharon: Hi.

How you doing? Yeah, doing good.

♪

you guys don't waste any time.

No, no, no. There's treasure to be found.

[ chuckles ] okay, let's go find it. Come on.

♪

derek and sharon discovered the galloway viking hoard --

16 pounds of gold and silver,

the largest viking treasure ever unearthed in the u.K.

Now, when you find something like that,

do you get to keep it?

Unfortunately not. Derek: No.

It will go on display in a museum,

and then they do give us a reward,

which is based on the market value of the treasure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you get?

[ laughs ] about $3 million.

Shut the [bleep] up! [ laughs ]

really?! Yeah, yeah.

Come on!

Nice work. Unbelievable!

Where are we going to find this kind of money?

Come on.

Okay, we're where right now?

So the book that we read

said that 15,000 louis d'or coins

were buried across from callich.

So where is callich?

Right there it is, boom, on the map.

Okay.

So we're headed, I assume, across.

So it's kind of a natural place to dock in, okay.

All right. Are we ready to find some treasure?

Okay, let's punch it. Come on.

♪

we reach the remote western edge of the loch,

directly across from callich.

♪

according to the ledger,

prince charles' trusted treasurer,

a man named murray of broughton, landed on this very beach

with nearly half the gold, 15,000 louis d'or coins.

A few months later, charlie spent

a few nights on the lam in this area before moving on.

They wrote down in the book that it was here.

We know charlie came through here.

Yep.

Right.

♪

oh, my god.

It's a proper ruin!

Look at this!

This building could be a hideout, right?

This ruin, all that remains of a stone cottage from the 1700s,

may have hidden bonnie prince charlie

as he fled from the british,

and it may also have been a safe house

where charlie's supporters guarded the gold.

We literally could be standing

in prince charlie's footsteps.

♪

it's incredible. It's brilliant.

Well, you know what that means. Get searching.

Get digging. That means you two are up.

Yeah. Let's see what you got.

Let's go. Let's do it. Come on.

♪

we divide and conquer, casting a wide net

to cover everything within sight of the possible rebel hideout.

♪

[ metal detector beeping ]

there's a target.

You got one? Yeah.

Already? It's very solid, solid numbers.

♪

okay.

♪

what is that?

You see that?

It does look like that.

It's got a crazy shape to it.

♪

wow.

You can see here, this was clearly meant

to slot on the top of a wooden pole, right?

It could be a weapon

or maybe some sort of farm implement of some kind.

Even if it's a farm implement, it's still of the period.

It's still good history.

Unbelievable.

Look at that, within the first minute!

These guys are good.

Look at that, out of the gate!

I mean, I'm sort of, like, gobsmacked.

It's never this easy.

Wow! That's the first piece.

Let's get some more.

All right. Let's keep looking. Come on.

♪

as we continue to metal detect the alleged rebel hideout,

we find more evidence of habitation.

There's something here. Hold on.

[ laughs ] we got pottery.

We can carefully take it out piece by piece

and see what we've got and see what the metal is under it.

I think there's more of the pattern, yeah.

♪

[ metal detector beeping ]

oh, oh, oh, something here.

♪

heavy, it feels like lead.

And you can see, this looks like it's broken here.

Wow. Yeah.

Like a handle or a tab.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh! Look at this!

It's the rest of it.

Look at that.

It's a spoon.

Unbelievable. [ laughs ]

I mean, this is the sort of thing

you would find in a museum.

Yeah, definitely.

Oh, that is so cool.

Kind of a picture is being painted now.

After the uprising,

the british tightened their grip on scotland.

Soldiers roamed the countryside,

arresting rebels laying low in cottages just like this one.

Laws are passed banning the wearing of tartan plaid

and the playing of bagpipes.

These harsh measures nearly destroy highland culture

and lead to a mass immigration of scots

to the rest of europe and to the new world.

It's really wild.

Let's see if there's anything else in here.

♪

[ metal detector whining ]

♪

josh! You got something?

You need to come down here!

All right. I'm coming down.

What'd you find? A coin.

[ laughs ] look at this!

♪

gates: I'm near loch arkaig

searching for the lost gold of scotland,

a multimillion-dollar treasure trove

meant to fund the jacobite uprising of 1745,

an attempt to place prince charles edward stuart

on the english throne.

♪

after their defeat, the rebels bury the treasure

near a hideout in the highlands,

and we may have just rediscovered their safe house.

Sharon: Josh!

You need to come down here!

All right. I'm coming down.

What'd you find?

A coin.

[ laughs ] come on! A pretty coin.

Look at this!

Amazing!

Is that a cartwheel penny?

I was going to say, "it's a cartwheel penny."

what's a cartwheel penny?

A cartwheel penny was minted in 1797,

the only year it was minted.

That is definitely one, so about 50 years after

the jacobite rebellion ended.

This is a coin from 1797.

That's treasure right there.

It might not be golden treasure,

but it's treasure all the same.

You could keep it.

Oh, don't -- I mean, you know, okay, sure.

[ laughter ]

we continue searching for hours,

turning up artifact after artifact...

We have a peat spade!

...All of which help shape our view

of life during charlie's rebellion.

Derek, sharon, and gregor will be back to continue their work,

but as for the gold,

there may be a good reason we're not finding it.

There are some who claim that it was moved from loch arkaig

to another safe house, and I'm meeting an explorer

who believes he just cracked the code

as to where the treasure went next.

So I drive 160 miles south to the city of edinburgh.

Today, the streets of edinburgh

look much as they did in September of 1745,

when prince charlie and the rebels seized the city

without firing a shot.

I head across town for a wee dram

at the oldest pub in scotland, the sheep heid inn.

Locals bellied up to this bar more than 100 years before

columbus set sail for the new world,

and I'm here to meet explorer, archaeologist, and expert

in all things jacobite ashley cowie.

Good to see you. Grab a seat.

Yeah. Nice, wow.

♪

[ laughs ]

whoo! Wow!

Incredible. Awesome.

Gates: While the band takes five, ashley fills me in

on how this very pub played a role

in the story of the lost gold of scotland.

The sheep's heid, where we're sitting right now,

allegedly, bonnie prince charlie stayed the night here.

Look at this. This is him!

So charlie was here.

Possibly where we're sitting right now.

So I've followed this story up

in loch arkaig in the highlands.

Now, many people believe the gold was there.

Do you think it was there? I believe it was there.

It was passed into the hands of cluny macpherson.

So who's cluny macpherson?

Cluny macpherson is the right-hand man,

the most trusted military general

of the jacobite uprising.

So he is one of charlie's big supporters.

Charlie's best friend.

What does macpherson do with the gold?

He's on the run.

Just like many other highlanders under british rule,

cluny macpherson is stripped of his land,

his castle, and his heritage.

Cluny and prince charlie end up hiding out together.

Charlie eventually escapes to France,

leaving the gold with cluny for safekeeping.

The treasure is never seen again.

He's hiding out in the central highlands,

where he hid with the treasure for nine years.

It eventually became known as charlie's cave.

So where's charlie's cave?

The big question. Yeah.

People have looked for it for 250 years.

I'm telling you now, josh,

I've made a discovery that could write

the next chapter in this entire story.

Okay.

Rather than tell you, I'm going to show you.

♪

to find the lost gold, we visit another treasure,

the national library of scotland,

where ashley's research has turned up a stunning new lead.

♪

hey, chris.

Good to see you. This is josh.

This is chris fleet... Hi, nice to meet you.

...The map curator of the national library of scotland.

Very nice to meet you, sir, and a map.

This is a modern-day map of part of the highlands.

It shows loch ericht.

And so this is the area where cluny macpherson

had the gold where charlie hid out.

Is that the idea? Absolutely, josh.

This is the area where many historians believe

that prince charlie visited cluny macpherson,

somewhere in this area here.

Have a look around here.

Is there anything you notice?

I notice, a-ha, prince charlie's cave.

So this is the spot where charlie is meant

to have hid out or where the gold went?

That's the spot, josh.

And so if we were to go here to prince charlie's cave,

would we find a big cave and a big hoard of gold?

You're going to find disappointment.

You see prince charlie's cave on the map,

but on the landscape, there's nothing.

Okay, no cave there?

This map is wrong, josh. This map?

This map is wrong. There's another map?

In my research, I found a map that predates this.

Okay.

And it shows something truly extraordinary.

Okay. Chris, do you have it?

Chris: I do, indeed.

♪

gates: Chris carefully unveils a rare gem

from the museum's collection --

an interlocking map of the central highlands from 1783.

This is one of the coolest maps I have ever seen.

This is absolutely beautiful.

So this is the east coast of scotland,

and we're moving west. Right.

So the area we want to look at is up here

in this corner of the map, josh.

Right.

But I want you to have a look at the same area.

Do you see anything missing on this map?

Yes, the cave.

There's no mention of it.

It's not on here. It's not there, right?

The whole western side of the loch is just blank.

So then I want you to have a look

on the opposite bank of the loch.

On the eastern side? Yep.

You can see trees down here, right?

But look at the tiny letters between the trees.

Read that out.

"place where c.S. Hid himself, 1746."

think about c.S. What might that mean?

Charles stuart?

On the button.

It's literally on the opposite side of the loch,

and the year is right, 1746.

Absolutely.

That's charlie.

You're looking at a treasure map, josh.

♪

♪

gates: I'm at the national library of scotland

hunting for clues that could lead to a treasure trove

of gold belonging to prince charles stuart.

In 1746, charles is on the run from the british

and conceals himself

with the help of his trusted general cluny macpherson.

Modern maps refer to this spot as charlie's cave

and place it on the western side of loch ericht.

You see prince charlie's cave on the map,

but on the landscape, there's nothing.

However, explorer ashley cowie has uncovered a rare antique map

that shows something remarkable on the opposite shore.

"place where c.S. Hid himself."

think about c.S. What might that mean?

Charles stuart? Absolutely.

You're looking at a treasure map, josh.

♪

and ashley has also uncovered an account

of what the safe house may have looked like in a book

written by the jacobites in 1747.

This volume here was composed by donald macpherson,

who's cluny macpherson's brother.

So this book describes

not only where charlie hid out

but where cluny held the treasure.

Okay, and so what does it say?

"the trees were in so woven with ropes.

This whole fabric hung, as it were,

by a large tree

which gave it the name of the cage."

♪

so this is describing some sort of a lean-to,

some sort of a structure,

but it's referred to as a cage.

The original version is describing a cage,

and the modern maps show a cave.

Wouldn't it be just a bit too much,

I mean, beyond coincidence, for "cage" and "cave"

not to refer to the same structure?

Right.

So you think that over time, like a game of telephone,

it was mistranscribed on the maps.

Yeah. All that takes is one slip once,

and then everything that comes after

changes the description from a cage to a cave.

So all the people that have been looking for this treasure

in charlie's cave

have not only been looking in the wrong place,

but they've been looking for the wrong thing.

Absolutely, josh, and that's precisely why I think

the treasure has not been found.

♪

armed with new intel that's eluded historians for centuries,

ashley and I head north,

150 miles from edinburgh to loch ericht,

where we meet with emil tanasie,

a geophysicist with the tools to help us find cluny's cage

and the treasure that may be hidden there.

♪

hi, there. How are you?

Hey, how are you? This is josh.

Josh, josh, emil. Emil, josh.

Nice to meet you. Emil, nice to meet you.

So he's going to give us our eyes below the ground today.

He's an imaging expert. Awesome.

I love that, and this, if I'm not mistaken, is a tank.

It's going to get us over just about anything,

but the question is can you drive it?

I can certainly try. Come on.

Let's do it.

♪

gates: There are no roads on this remote side of the loch.

Luckily, our argo all-terrain vehicle

doesn't need them.

Hold on to something, boys.

♪

whoo-hoo!

With eight-wheel drive and tank treads,

we muscle our way over mud, river, and rocks.

All right. I think I got the hang of this.

♪

according to the map, the place where c.S. Hid himself

is on the east side of loch ericht,

several miles north of our jumping-off point.

It's clear why prince charlie and cluny macpherson

may have hid the gold out here.

It's nearly impossible to reach.

♪

and there's the loch.

There she is, loch ericht.

Cowie: This is as far as the argo is going to go.

All right. We're on foot from here, boys.

Let's go.

♪

gates: We grab our gear and hoof it the final few feet

to the cliff's edge running above the loch.

With each step, the rock face becomes steeper and steeper

until we're directly above the location marked on the map

as the place where c.S. Hid himself.

♪

okay. I don't see a way down here, josh.

Gates: No.

The ridge just keeps going all the way down the loch.

My fear is that we're going to actually pass the point

on the map where this is meant to be.

We have to find a way down here.

If we go down closer to the loch,

we're going to hit the spot that was marked on that map.

Okay, [chuckles] the hard way?

Is there any other way?

No.

Here we go.

To reach the loch below

and the area where charlie, cluny, and the gold all hid,

we have to rappel down this sheer cliff.

Okay, you ready? It's all set, josh.

Let me know what's over the edge.

We'll see you down there.

Okay. Good luck, man, nice and slow.

Great.

♪

what's over the lip there?

We got a vertical drop here.

It looks between, I don't know,

between 50 and 80 feet.

All right. Take it nice and slow.

♪

♪

hey, josh. I'm off the rappel.

Okay, emil, I'm going to head down.

Then we'll get the heavy equipment down

and have you come in behind us.

Good stuff. Sounds good.

Here we go.

♪

watch out!

Rock!

♪

ashley, you okay?

Really?

Sorry, mate.

I owe you a pint. A pint?

A bottle of whisky, mate.

♪

it is right over the edge.

Okay, I'm working my way down to you.

Watch these rocks, josh.

Yep.

♪

♪

okay, I'm down.

Rope is free.

♪

your cable is down.

Let's do it. Okay, straight to the loch.

Yeah. I'll pack this stuff up and go.

♪

gates: We've reached the area marked on the map

as the location of cluny macpherson's hideout,

an inhospitable land that's been abandoned for centuries.

Cowie: As far as we can see right now

is cluny macpherson's land.

If this was all his land...

He didn't have a big, fancy castle somewhere here?

Soon as the jacobites were repressed,

that castle was flattened.

He didn't have a home. He was homeless.

The clan was homeless. He lost absolutely everything.

We're looking for somewhere

that cluny could have lived for nine years.

So cluny's cage?

♪

gates: We scour the area for the place where c.S. Hid

and cluny watched over the gold -- the cage.

♪

looks like a stream of some sort down here.

Yeah, you're right. It's called a burn.

We've got the water supply there.

Right.

We've got an amazing vantage point,

so I actually think this is worth having to explore.

♪

look at these boulders here.

It's like they've all been moved.

There's almost a line of them.

Totally.

Oh, look at this!

[ laughs ]

this is not natural!

Nature doesn't make rectangles.

♪

♪

the lost gold of scotland may be one of the highlands'

richest mysteries, but it's not the most famous.

That honor belongs to a creature

lurking in the depths of loch ness.

The loch ness monster,

a legend so iconic, my director of photography

and I have to make a pit stop to investigate.

It says here there is a million-dollar reward, brian,

if you capture evidence of nessie,

so pretty much, the episode took a hard turn.

We're just going to be staying here now.

Wait, don't we have -- we're staying here, brian!

It's a million dollars!

You keep looking through that camera.

Earn yourself a sweet 10 grand.

10 grand? 15 grand, maybe.

We can talk about it, brian.

The point is keep your eye on that lens.

Here, nessie, nessie, nessie, nessie.

You can't stay underwater forever.

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gates: I'm in the scottish highlands seeking treasure,

more than $10 million in gold coins

buried by prince charles stuart

and his rebel general cluny macpherson

on the shores of loch ericht,

and we may have just found the ruins of their hideout.

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oh! Look at this!

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this is not natural.

Nature doesn't make rectangles.

That's a foundation.

We might be the first people out here since it was built.

We followed a series of clues

to where it was marked on the map that prince charlie hid,

and right here, we've found the foundations

of an unmapped macpherson cottage.

That's incredible.

It's quite remarkable.

Gates: If this is the foundation of cluny's cage,

we just solved a 250-year-old mystery...

And there may be much more to find.

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to sniff out any traces of the treasure

cluny was protecting, emil sets up a series of probes

that will send electrical pulses into the ground,

enabling us to see whatever lies below.

Okay.

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okay, emil, you have 300 feet of extension cord

tied to 20 metal stakes and a car battery.

Indeed. It doesn't look safe.

That's why you shouldn't touch it while it's working.

Good advice.

We push this button here.

By measuring the time it takes the current

to travel between each probe,

he can build a virtual image of soil disturbances

and reveal any anomalies buried beneath our feet.

All right.

Emil, you've electrocuted the ground.

What did it tell us?

It tells us that we have

a very thin layer of soil.

Okay, so how much soil before you hit bedrock?

Probably about two feet.

So if somebody dug a put here and buried something,

it's probably fairly shallow. Very shallow.

Any interesting potential targets?

I would say in front of the house

where the soil looks a bit more turned over,

just about eight feet from the wall,

and I think that's where we should take the metal detector

and start detecting.

Okay.

Gates: We've narrowed our search zone to an area

directly in front of the ruins,

where the soil shows signs of being disturbed.

Got a hit.

The gold could be buried right beneath our feet.

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oh.

We got something.

We got something. That is metal for sure.

Definitely.

Whoa, look at that.

What are you?

It's exactly how they used to form the handle of swords

where you'd have the hilt here...

Right. ...And this would be wrapped

with maybe antler and then leather.

That's awesome.

Well, that's a 250-year-old relic.

I mean, that is a jacobite relic.

The last person that touched that might have been cluny himself.

That's right.

We know we're in a promising spot,

so we dig deeper to see what else is buried here.

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ooh, I hit something.

[ metal detector beeping ]

a piece of iron? No idea what it is.

But again, it's a shaped piece of iron.

It's either a weapon or a tool...

Yeah. ...Either or.

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we've found evidence of weapons and tools,

sure signs of habitation at this cottage.

Now we just need a treasure chest.

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ah!

Oh, my goodness.

What? It's a coin!

It's not a coin. Look at it.

That is a coin. It's not.

Look, it's a button. Oh.

I'm telling you. That's a button.

You're right. That's a button.

Do you see that little stripe of green?

Yeah. It's copper.

Yeah.

That's what they made their buttons with.

That is a copper jacobite button.

That is a significant find.

Maybe somebody was walking around,

they were wearing this hundreds of years ago.

This is incredible.

What you've discovered already is probably

going to inspire a field study of this cottage, for sure.

It's not a gold coin,

but that's a little piece of history right there.

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ashley will continue to investigate what very well

may have been cluny and prince charlie's hideout.

We leave confident that we've unearthed

part of a secret rebel network,

shining a light on a dark period of scottish history.

By arriving too late to save the rebellion,

the gold altered the fate of scotland forever,

unleashing years of hardship.

Forced to abandon their ancestral land

for brighter prospects in the new world,

today, more people of scottish heritage

live in the united states than in scotland.

Prince charlie died in exile in France,

but his name and his rebellion are far from forgotten.

Despite the destruction they sowed,

the prince and his army are seen as patriots.

Today, across scotland,

the spirit of their uprising lives on,

grit and determination in the face of adversity,

an attitude that I've come to learn

is the true essence of the highlands.

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