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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

These items came from a tunnel associated with the Money Pit. We might

be closing in. Human beings were down there.

This is the kind of thing you're hoping for.

Oh, really? I would put it in the early 1700s.

Man, look at that. Fits like a glove.

Know what this reminds me of? What? The hole in the cross.

The lead isotope data here is identical to the cross.

Excellent. Wow.

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.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, Let's get Craig on TV and talk about this.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are in the war room to conduct an important

meeting via video conference with their partner, Craig Tester.

Hello, Craig.

Hey, Craig. Hi, guys.

We're here to discuss Smith's Coal. Sounds good.

For me, as close as we're getting to the end of the year here, we really got to

do this excavation. And dig underneath the crane pad?

Yep. We did get an extension on the cofferdam and our permits.

Oh, no kidding.

But we need to make a decision because time and weather is closing in.

You know, Marty's well aware that, and you are too, of the red dye results

coming out in Smith's Cove.

Three weeks ago... Let's do this. The Oak Island team conducted a large-scale

test at the Money Pit site.

by pumping thousands of gallons of water mixed with non-toxic red dye down the

exploratory borehole C1.

The dye has been cast.

Copy that.

They were attempting to locate where a number of believed flood tunnels

originate off the island's shores.

Flood tunnels, which were designed as a means of booby-trapping the centuries

-old treasure shaft.

Just hours after beginning their operation, treasure hunter Gary Drayton

was astonished to discover red-colored water seeping out from the ground at

Smith's Cove.

Water, which then tested positive for traces of the red dye.

That's a good positive indication.

Meaning that the team may have finally located a flood tunnel connected

directly to the location of the fabled Oak Island treasure vault.

Yeah, it's even higher.

I have to say, the dye only coming out in Smith's Cove, do you find that

persuasive like I kind of do?

Yeah, I do. I mean, especially, you know, where historically we think the

flood system is, but there's still water seeping around the edges. So, you know,

I think we have to follow it for sure.

Yeah, I do too. I mean, if we actually unearthed a flood tunnel, it would

change a lot. I think we all agree that it should be followed up on. It's just

how?

You know, with fall storms coming in, I think the sooner the better that Billy

gets out there.

I'd call them and start tomorrow.

Say, okay, start taking the crane pad apart and follow it back.

Yep. Yeah.

Having just obtained government permission to leave the 525-foot-long

steel cofferdam surrounding Smith's Cove in place, the Laginas and their partners

will now dismantle the 6,000-square-foot wooden construction pad so that they can

dig beneath the area and hopefully uncover what could be the convergence

point for the flood tunnels.

What's becoming clear is to do a complete job in Smith's Cove, we're

going to have to move the crane pad.

And we are absolutely running out of time. The weather's closing in. We're

tired. He's tired.

Everybody is. I agree, but we still have a window of time, and I'm hoping that

we'll get some answers yet. And I think that's exactly what we're going to do.

Yeah. Okay. Well, then we do it.

And, you know, at the end of the year, we'll have no regrets.

Sounds good. All right, Craig. Thanks for the time. See you. See you soon.

following his meeting in the war room.

Hey, Rick. Good morning.

Rick Lagina joins other members of the Oak Island team at the Money Pit site,

where they are continuing efforts to excavate the exploratory borehole known

as S6.

So we stuck another can on this morning, and our casing teeth is at 164 total

length now.

Anything come up?

Not yet.

Kind of pulling up some mud and some what we're going to call harder rock,

but we'd have to, you know, turn to Terry on what exactly that rock is.

We're getting mostly carbonaceous sediments, bedded sediments, and a

little bit of wood.

So we're still in the influence, I would say, of the debris field.

While drilling at this same site just three days ago... There's a lot of wood,

Gary. That's a nice shot. Look at the flat surface there.

The Oak Island team... penetrated a hard wooden object at a depth of 101 feet,

which they believed to be the so-called shaft six tunnel.

A searcher tunnel constructed in 1861, which connects directly to the original

Money Pit shaft.

That's some big timbers. But as they continued to drill deeper, Rick and the

team made what could be one of their most significant discoveries so far.

That's oak.

a hand-cut oak timber, the same kind reportedly used to construct the

original Money Pit centuries ago.

It is the team's belief that the discovery of this timber, as well as

possible leather bookbinding and iron chain, are evidence of the massive

collapse that occurred in the Money Pit in 1861, and which left a debris field

of potential artifacts and treasure scattered across the Shaft 6 tunnel.

I think at this point, we should take the material to the wash plant, and what

we'll do is we'll wash it, and then we'll take the intermediary back to

this, that wash table. That's where I set the last one, down to the wash

plant. Okay. I just continue to do that unless something comes up of some

significance, and then we'll go back to the wash table.

In order to thoroughly examine the spoils being excavated from the S6

shaft, the team has decided to use the large-scale wash plant.

located near Smith's Cove.

As each load of earth and material is fed into the machine, they will

automatically be cleaned and sorted according to size, allowing them to be

carefully searched by hand for any important artifacts and hopefully

treasure.

Hey Bill.

Hey Rick.

So, what's up?

Well, this is what we found.

So far off the wash plant line. S6?

Yep.

What do you make of it?

Well, it's a few cool little things. Not a pottery expert, but some of it looks

pretty... What is that?

Pipe stem?

And it looks like a pipe stem.

This is the chewing end?

Yeah, or a taper stand.

That fits in the pipe.

That's interesting.

Yep.

This is cool stuff. Question about that.

To me, this speaks to two things. Human beings were down there. So it's either

these items came from the shaft or someone was in a tunnel associated with

the money. To me, that's huge.

Yeah, exactly.

We have a container literally filled to the brim with objects that have been

found on the wash plant.

There's certainly pieces of pottery.

little bits of glass, but you don't know what it means other than people were

down at those depths doing something.

60? Yeah, yeah, there it is there. Hey, Rick. This came up from the wash plant.

Billy was kind enough to get his guys on it. Right.

So that, to me, that's fairly old glass.

That looks very old, yeah.

And then we have pieces of pottery, which Laird will have to render an

opinion about.

Laird will be interested in that.

That's people on there.

Like they're going over a bridge.

Interesting. We saw some of that last year out of H8.

Pottery? Similar to pieces the team has found in borehole H8, located just 10

feet away?

it was also in a one year ago that rick and marty encountered an object they

believed to be a seven foot high wooden vault first reported by treasure hunters

frederick blair and william chapel in eighteen ninety seven could the pottery

the team has just found in the s six spoils be further evidence that they

have located the tunnel connected directly to the original money pit this

looks old to me Oh, look at that.

That looks like a really old pot.

This looks old to me.

Oh, look at that.

That looks like a really old pot.

In the Money Pit area, Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team have just

made a potentially significant discovery while examining the spoils excavated

from borehole

Look at the glaze on that. That's pretty crude. Like an earthenware. Yep.

Does that indicate age? I don't know.

But some of these things are surely quite unique. We've never seen them

before.

That's a bubble in the glaze.

A flaw.

Careless work or age, I'm not sure.

Which?

Laird will be interested in that.

We did find some pottery of the kind that we have not.

found as of yet. So we need to bring those items to Laird. And we've got an

enormous amount of wash plant materials to go through.

So there's still hope that the one thing is in those materials.

Good job, guys. Let's keep digging.

The next day, Rick Lagina and Craig Taster, along with island historians

Doug Kroll and Paul Troutman, meet with archaeologist Laird Niven in the war

room. Again, Laird, welcome back.

Thank you.

After finding pieces of what could be ancient pottery in borehole S6, Rick is

eager for Laird to examine them and confirm whether or not they might date

to before the Money Pit's discovery in 1795.

I've been on and on and on, almost ad nauseum. Everybody knows.

I always thought the way to unravel the Money Pit.

mystery was to find the tunnel, the tunnel between shaft six and the money

pit. We did make some finds and I'd like you to weigh in on them and

have a look for yourself.

This is kind of an interesting case. Yes, you have a pattern, the

identifiable blue willow pattern.

That was used for a number of years.

This is a transfer print that had been used over and over again. So we're going

to say 1810s to 1840s.

Okay.

This is a really cool piece right there.

So that's a pipe bit.

See, this is so obviously not a clay pipe.

Yeah.

This wouldn't be out of place in the 1870s, 1880s.

I would say it's probably post-1850.

Might be a little piece of history.

Big piece of stoneware.

Red-bodied stoneware.

It's got a pretty highly fired red body.

I've seen a lot of pottery from Oak Island.

But see this?

See the striations on the outside?

I haven't seen that before.

Oh.

It's almost made with like a comb or tool of some sort.

And what does that tell you?

Well, this would be the one thing that could be earlier.

Oh? How early?

We'd put it in the early, possibly in the earlier part of the 1700s.

So this is the kind of thing you're hoping for.

Really? Yeah.

Stoneware pottery dating back to the early 1700s?

Could this piece of pottery... be definitive proof of human activity deep

underground in the Money Pit area prior to the treasure shaft's discovery in

1795?

And if so, could it validate the team's belief that they intercepted part of the

so-called debris field in borehole S6?

Having you be surprised is important.

I mean, obviously, you know, you've looked at...

Myriad number of things. And this is really for you. It's the first real aha.

It is, definitely.

So given that, this may be evidence that, you know, there's much earlier

activity on the island than we had supposed.

Yeah.

I agree.

That's great.

Definitely. Yep.

So. Thank you, Larry. Yep.

Later that day.

Hey, guys. Hey. Hey, Rick.

Rick Lagina arrives in the Money Pit area after receiving an important call

from representatives of Irving Equipment Limited concerning borehole S6.

I'm sure you've got some information here, but before you do that, let me get

Craig up on the line.

Okay.

Although Craig Taster is currently off the island, Rick is eager for his

partner, who is also an engineer, to weigh in on any new decisions.

Craig, you there?

Hello? Yep, sure am. Yeah, Craig, I'll let Danny give you the digging details,

and then Terry will render an opinion about the geology we're encountering,

and then each of us will weigh in as to where we sit.

Okay. Here's Danny.

Hello, Craig.

Hey, Danny. I got some numbers for you.

Okay.

We have a total of 216 beta casein.

190 of it is in the ground.

We have a hole depth of 175.

We have a plug of 15 foot.

That's what we got.

It's digging kind of slow.

Here's Terry's understanding of the geology.

So we're definitely below the level of the bedrock plateau.

Most of the material is ground up limestone rich sediment.

And just fairly classic fairly straightforward material that we've

encountered in a number of places when we've gone into the solution channel

News that the 60 inch wide drilling caisson has encountered limestone

bedrock at a depth of 190 feet is a disappointing development It

indicates that the s6 shaft has now dug well below the believed debris field and

the possible location of any more valuable clues or objects.

Rick, I'll just let you take it from there.

Yeah, so I'm of the position that we're not going to encounter anything further

that will direct us where to go next.

I guess what it comes down to, I would strongly advocate that we end the hole

and do everything we need to do to set up on the next location.

I'm disappointed. I was hoping for the one thing.

And unfortunately, we took a swing, and we certainly didn't hit a home run. But

did we find the one thing?

No, we didn't. You know, maybe we were real close.

And I guess that's what I'm going to cling to.

Okay, my vote is with your guys.

Go ahead, terminate it here.

Okay, that's what we'll do.

Okay. All right.

Thanks, Greg.

Good night.

okay that's what we'll do then we're done okay see you later

as

a new day dawns on oak island rick lagina joins heavy equipment operator

Billy Gerhardt at Smith's Cove. Okay, we have the extension.

That's great news.

Having received the necessary permits to expand their excavation into the beach

area, Rick is eager to start removing the 6,000-square-foot crane pad so that

the team can dig in search of the convergence point leading to a man-made

flood tunnel, a tunnel which the team hopes can be traced back to the

legendary Money Pit treasure vault.

What do you think deconstructing? What's the timeline?

You can do it in a hurry if you're not fussy where it goes.

Being not fussy means ultimately more work. Yeah, that's what I think too,

right? So it's about putting the material here that we have room for, and

the rest you have to put in the truck and truck up the hill.

In order to build the massive cofferdam, the team from Irving Equipment Limited

had to first move some 2,500 tons of earth and gravel.

to construct a foundation strong enough to support a 300-ton crane.

It looks like a really sturdy pad.

This material, along with the several hundred tons of spoils displaced during

the excavation of Smith's Cove, must now be relocated in order for the team to

dig beneath the crane pad.

Well, bottom line is, let's start.

We'll be ready.

All righty.

As work to remove the crane pad begins at Smith's Cove.

Rick Lagina heads to the research center to meet with historians Doug Kroll and

Paul Troutman regarding the team's plans moving forward in the Money Pit area.

Hey, Rick. Good morning.

Okay, today, you know, we've got not a difficult choice, but certainly an

important choice ahead of us.

You know, I had high hopes for S6.

Unfortunately, we only got more clues, which be at more questions. Paul, your

opinion?

You know, we could be close to the money pit. That's what I feel we're in.

Because of those new timbers, it could be from any number of shafts. But the

fact that there's solid oak, some of these, that says to me that it might be

original money pit.

We have but one can today that we have to put a pin in.

What's your choice?

I would actually go to this location.

Two weeks ago.

The Laginas and their partners hired professional surveyor Steve Guptill to

compile the records of previous searchers from the past two centuries.

Here's just a quick overview of everything that has been drilled up

there. By combining this data, along with the more recent efforts of the Oak

Island team, Steve was able to create a virtual master map, one that Rick hopes

will help them locate the original Money Pit treasure shaft.

So... From about 103 to 120, we did come into conglomerations of wood, and we

found all those pieces of wood, which were really interesting.

So we possibly did hit into a shaft or a tunnel like we're finding. The problem

is we found so much wood of different size, shape, and construction.

But I feel like we're close in this area. Whether it goes west or north,

we're definitely somewhere around in here.

Presently, we're right here, so I would go further north, and this is a good

location to go to. I think the debris field will possibly go up, and this

could be the money pit area, but we're going to have to explore it and find

out.

Doug? I agree with Paul. I think the preponderance of evidence that we have

so far, it's circumstantial, but the pottery turned out to be really

interesting. So is that a sign that we're really close to the money pit?

We're starting to get the real interesting pieces.

We're creating quite a mosaic, but... Clues or questions, not answers. Yes,

exactly. Well said.

But I think for right now, today, the location that we need to put an X on is

that one right there, FG 5.5.

Based on their discoveries in the S6 shaft, it is the team's belief that they

may have intercepted the shaft 6 tunnel and that their new site...

known as FG 5.5, which is located some five feet north and on the same line,

could be on target to hit the original money pit itself.

That whole area is of interest.

H8 is close by. The head and shaft is close by. Chapel shaft is close by.

We're still on the track of the supposed tunnel associated with the original

money pit, but there's a lot of interesting information there. But where

is the vault?

Okay, Paul, put a lucky X on that spot.

X marks the spot.

X marks the spot.

As Rick, Doug, and Paul conclude their meeting in the Oak Island Research

Center... Lot 21, Jack.

Jack Begley and metal detection expert Gary Drayton head to Lot 21.

There's a lot of history in this area.

Yeah. And it's opposite the McGuinness Foundation. Mm-hmm. So with this little

coil... Hopefully we can get in between the iron and find something good.

Mm-hmm.

I'll zigzag down the hill.

I'm going to go really slow and try and winkle out some good signals.

In light of their significant new finds at the Money Pit site, the team is eager

to look for more clues by continuing their investigation into one of the men

who first uncovered the treasure shaft in 1795, Daniel McGinnis.

Not long after McGinnis and two friends made their life-changing discovery, he

purchased Lot 21 on the western end of the island and built a home, where he

spent the remainder of his life raising a family, farming, and searching for

treasure.

Although the house has long since weathered away, the stone foundation

remains a protected historical site on Oak Island.

However, it is the team's hope that by searching nearby on the property

McGinnis once owned, they might find important clues or precious objects he

may have recovered from the money pit centuries ago, such as the gold-plated

brooch discovered on the same lot earlier this year, which was determined

by experts to be as much as 700 years old.

I'm hearing a bit of iron.

Oh, it's blanking? Yeah.

That's definitely modern.

I can tell it's an higher pitch.

Hey, that's not higher. Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad, actually.

Yeah, let's get this one, Jack. That doesn't sound too bad.

Oh, I think I've got one over here as well, just behind that.

Go on, mate. Give it some whaling.

Might be out, Jack.

Oh, all right.

Yeah, that's what it is.

I think you're right.

You never know.

Come on.

Something good.

Yeah, that's what it is.

While exploring Lot 21 on the western end of Oak Island.

Come on, something good.

Yeah,

that is good, actually.

Yeah, it's lead.

Jack Begley and metal detection expert Gary Drayton have just made a

potentially important discovery.

This actually, with it being this shape on both ends, this had a purpose.

I don't know what. Oh, you think it broke off from something? Yeah.

Well, I think I see decoration on this.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, it is. Because the more I'm looking at it, you can see

little leaf designs where it was pulled in the mold or bark of a tree.

Where? Do you see that?

It looks like little flowers.

Oh, yeah.

Along it, decorated.

Great near the edge.

It's going to be interesting to see what this is when it's cleaned up.

All right, mate, we'll have a little look and see if we can find anything

else. Double check the hole.

It's a different tone. That's all right.

Oh, there's more. Something in the spoil pile.

Come on, baby, be something good.

Maybe it's more of this lead.

Oh, it is more. Yeah, it is more of it.

Oh, man, this is interesting. Look at that.

Let's get that other piece out.

You think it fits together?

Yeah, look at that. Fits like a glove.

Yeah. It's a square hole.

Man, look at that.

You know what this reminds me of?

What? The hole in the cross.

Lead pieces found on the property of Daniel McGuinness with features similar

to the lead cross discovered one year ago at Smith's Cove.

Earlier this year, the Oak Island team sought the expertise of Tobias

Skowronek, a geochemist at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, Germany, who

conducted a lead isotope analysis on the cross.

Using data collected from

laser ablation testing, he was able to determine that the lead was mined over

600 years ago in a region of southern France near a one-time stronghold of the

Knights Templar.

This might be Holy Shmoly part two.

No way.

Sweet. Yeah, that is. This is fantastic.

Couple of good things to show Rick.

I'll be really excited to see this stuff.

Following his exciting discovery on lot 21, Gary Drayton heads to the Oak Island

Research Center to share his latest find with Rick, Marty, and other members of

the team.

Found a really nice decorative piece of lead on lot 21.

Oh, really?

And I believe it's really, really old.

When this first came out the ground, there was soil stuck to it, and both

Jack and I saw like a floral decorative pattern on it.

That's the side where we see it.

this is the top side i see a little design there it seemed to like

a rope thing right here do you think it looks like a leaf or a vine that's on

the pattern here that would be interesting because the vines are

supposed to be a symbology a sacred symbology for uh the children of israel

and the holy lands over there yeah it could be

I wonder if it has any bearing to the Tree of Life. It's another possibility

with symbology on it.

The Tree of Life?

The ancient Hebraic symbol the team found carved on the wall of a 14th

century Templar prison in Dome, France?

One year ago, Rick Lagina and his nephews Alex and Peter visited Dome,

France, where they were shown carvings made by members of the Knights Templar,

including one that depicted the Tree of Life.

This Kabbalistic symbol features ten points, known as Sephiroth, representing

the divine principles of the human soul and the spiritual path to God.

Even more astonishing was a large cross in the wall next to it, which incredibly

is nearly an exact match to the lead cross discovered one year ago at Smith's

Cove.

Could the vine-like pattern found on the newly discovered lead artifact really

symbolized the tree of life?

And if so, could it also be related to the medieval cross?

Jack and I, we found one long strip of lead, and then at the side of it, we

found another little piece, and when we put them together, we noticed there was

a square hole, similar in size to the one in the cross. In the cross?

Yeah. Can I see that? Yeah, we actually have the small piece right here.

Wow. And you found those right next to each other. Yeah.

So they definitely belong to each other. Right. Once you put those two pieces

together, and I saw so much similarities between this and the cross that

came out of Smith's Cove, and especially the square hole as well.

Yeah, I see that, Gary. Definitely a square hole.

It looks like it's got a square.

hole on the other end it looked like it was tacked nailed onto something and i

would imagine if it was part of a larger cross it would have been nailed onto

wood with square nails little square nails well obviously this cries out

to where did the lead come from exactly yeah no we have to test the lead gary

would go from what is it too dramatic if this was

Mind at Renly Chateau. Yep.

Laser ablation. Yeah. I mean, this has got a really, really old feel about it.

I think you guys are going to be surprised once we get this tested.

Of all the tests we've conducted, all the analytics applied to all kinds of

science, laser ablation really has been probably the most definitive.

So why wouldn't we get it tested?

It takes a lot to float my boat when it comes to lead, but...

This has.

It's hard to disbelieve you because you've said that more than a few times

and you've been correct every single time. All right. Well, keep finding,

Gary. Keep looking.

And you guys keep analyzing.

And we'll keep at it, Marty. We've got a million things to do. Let's go. Well

done, Gary.

If there's a piece of metal, you'll find it. That's what I'm here for. Yep.

Three days after the discovery of a lead artifact on lot 21.

Good morning.

Hello. I should say good afternoon.

Rick, Doug, and Paul joined surveyor Steve Goptill in the Money Pit area,

where the team from Irving Equipment Limited has begun to remove the 60-inch

wide steel caisson from the Essex shaft.

Having abandoned their excavation there, the team has decided...

to repurpose the massive steel sections to dig their new exploratory borehole in

search of the original money pit okay so what we'd like to do i mean i don't want

to stop you but i think you'd like to know a general area of where we're going

to go next yeah so we're hoping just to show you i mean we'll pinpoint it

exactly but we'll have to come back after everything's removed and actually

put a stake in the ground so we'll set steve loose we have all the points

programmed Get him over there and let you know.

Okay, yeah, that'd be great, because then we'll know where to put equipment.

Exactly. Okay, we'll let Steve go to work, and then we'll all get a really

good idea of where we need to go.

Perfect.

It's just over here.

Using GPS coordinates provided to him by the team, Steve Guptill will now mark

the location of the next dig site, designated earlier as FG 5.5, located

some six feet northwest of borehole S6.

The trail of information from S6 to this location, we believe we're rounding to

something. And we may, because of this hole, we may find the Oak Island

Treasure Company vault, i.e. the chapel vault. We may find the money pit. We're

very close to a number of things, possibly.

So it's pretty close to the last drill. Okay. From center point, it's only two

meters off. Okay.

So right about here. Right about there. Okay, so the corner of this.

So we're coming right up here for, what's this one going to be called? You

name it.

Me name it?

What's your daughter's name?

Gracie.

Let's do GG1, because we call her Gigi, and my daughter's named Gracie. So how

about GG1?

It's a lucky name.

It is, it is a lucky name.

Fair enough. All right, we'll get set up. All right.

As the team from Irving Equipment Limited breaks ground on borehole GG1 at

the Money Pit site,

brothers Marty and Rick Lagina, their partner Craig Tester, and metal

detection expert Gary Drayton gather in the war room.

They are eager to hear the results of scientific analysis conducted on the

lead artifact found three days ago on Lot 21.

As you guys know, Rick sent the laser ablation data onto Tobias, the guy who

determined where the cross was mined and when. Yeah. So he's going to have some

data for us.

Hopefully we get some good news.

We're going to have an information session from Tobias. He's the German

scientist that has the extensive lead mine data and analyzed the cross.

Gary, can you get Tobias on the screen, please? Yeah, sure. I'll get him up.

Hello, Tobias. Hello again, everyone.

So, Tobias, we sent on the isotope value, so we're very keenly interested

in what your determination has been.

Okay, so I had a look at the data of the Lot 21 artifact, right?

Correct. Okay,

the Lot 21 artifact, well, it could be a little bit different from your

expectations. So, can I tell you what I think?

Yes, please.

Okay. I believe that this object could have been once an art object.

What makes you think that? In the Middle Ages, there was invented a technique

called cloisonné.

And this is a technique where the artist would first do some net-like structure

on the object.

Yeah. And then put in a binding medium of calcite, enamel, and some pigments to

achieve some colors.

And this is exactly the assemblage of elements that we have here.

Wow, excellent.

Dating as far back as 1300 BC, cloisonné is an ancient method for decorating

metal and ceramic objects.

Used in everything from fine art and jewelry to ornate weaponry.

This technique involves soldering metal wire or strips often made of gold or

silver, to make compartments on the surface of an item.

These compartments, or cloisons, would be filled with a mixture of powdered

glass and minerals, and then fired in a kiln, creating a smooth, polished

finish.

Okay, so this piece is particularly interesting because the lead isotope

data here is identical to those of the cross.

Really? Wow.

The lead isotope data here is identical to those of the cross.

Really? Wow, that's great.

And that means that probably both pieces come from the same ore deposit.

So it's pre-15th century.

Wow, this is fantastic.

has just shared an astonishing report with members of the Oak Island team.

He has determined that the decorative lead piece found on Lot 21 matches the

lead used to make the medieval cross discovered last year at Smith's Cove.

Lead which was mined more than 600 years ago in a region of southern France with

deep ties to the Knights Templar.

This is absolutely from the same source as the cross is.

Wow.

That's huge.

Yeah. That is amazing, because that reminded me of the cross.

You know, it makes sense.

If people were here, they would probably have put an impact all over the island.

So it seems incredible and stretches belief, but

the lead from the cross and the lead from this other piece were from the same

ancient mine in France.

Fantastic job. Appreciate the data.

Very much appreciate the time. Thank you. I'm sure you'll hear from us again.

Thank you, guys. It was a tremendous opportunity for me, so I hope that the

story continues.

The story will continue.

For Rick, Marty, and the team, the confirmation that two discoveries made

on opposite ends of Oak Island both date to a time and place connected to the

Knights Templar offers what could be the greatest breakthrough yet.

in the 223 year old oak island mystery could they be proof that members of

the medieval order really did visit oak island as early as the 14th century or

might they have been left here by their heirs during an effort to protect their

most sacred treasures and secrets for all of eternity as the team continues

their quest to locate the legendary money pit treasure vault

One thing now seems more certain than ever.

Whatever lies buried on Oak Island could very well change the history of North

America.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

A Spanish galleon loaded with plunder got caught in a storm and was purposely

beached on Oak Island.

Oh, sweet.

A really old piece of glass.

They call them pirate bottles.

See, pirates weren't here.

Yeah!

That's what we're looking for. We're on something. That is massive.

Oh, look at that. What?

That's a lock.

Oh, it is.

That looks like it's off a treasure chest.