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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

Wow.

We're intersecting what has to be tunnels.

What the heck is this?

We just found another bobby-dazzler on Oak Island.

- See that blue there? - Yeah.

Sapphire?

They were signed by

La Rochefoucauld Duc d'Anville

in Nova Scotia, near Oak Island.

Welcome to a Templar

- initiation chamber. - Whoa!

That image there is what I believe

is portrayed on the lead cross.

- Wow. - Yeah.

There is an island in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking for

an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it...

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

Here we go.

Thanks, Colten.

- This is to 88. - Holy cow!

This till is just as Mother Nature put it in the ground.

Still got a little bit of ways to go to get

to that same horizon we were in at the last hole.

Right, this is it.

An exceptionally hopeful day

has begun on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team as they forge ahead in a quest to solve

a 227-year-old treasure mystery.

We'll see what happens when we get down to depth here.

We're intersecting what has to be tunnels because

there's in situ material above and below.

At the storied site known as the Money Pit,

they are continuing their core drilling operation at a target

known as Borehole DN-12.5.

It is here, on their strategic drilling grid,

that they hope to once again penetrate

a five-foot-high wooden tunnel at a depth of 103 feet,

which they explored with a camera just one week ago.

That's really cool.

This is a previously unknown,

perhaps depositor, tunnel.

That is really exciting.

- Hey, Rick. - Hey, Paul.

Where are we right now?

DN-12.5.

To see if we can further delineate this tunnel.

Wood samples from the tunnel

have been carbon-dated to as early as 1640,

and during a sonar operation also conducted last week,

the team determined that it is heading north

toward the so-called Garden Shaft...

A mysterious, dilapidated structure

that may date to the early 1700s,

and where recent water testing has revealed

high concentrations of gold nearly 100 feet underground.

The sonic drill program

is right now oriented around the Garden Shaft

because of the gold signatures in the water.

And there's tunnel close by it

at an elevation previously unknown to us.

Uh, we want to exploit that.

We want to understand,

as best we can, what's happening

in that area.

All right, this is gonna be 98.

More competent material there.

Looks like it's firming up, eh?

- Hold on. We got wood. - Wow.

That's in... Wow. That's incredible.

We had firm in place material above that point.

Now we have a structure.

Wood? Unearthed from a depth of 98 feet?

But if so, is it part of the tunnel that the team recently

discovered near this area just five feet deeper?

Whoa, what's that? There's a little more wood.

Check that out.

Or could it be related

to some other kind of structure or object?

What is most curious is where we're at,

in front of the Garden Shaft.

An area that has been,

at least by our measure, completely unexplored.

So, what is a wooden feature doing at that depth

in an area previously ignored?

I think we need to define it a little further east and west.

This is obviously a post or beam from something.

- Yeah. - It's another clue

and it's a step in figuring it out.

Yep.

It's an interesting area.

There's no question about it.

So I think the next step is, Craig,

you want to get that water sample?

Paul, you'll work with them?

Yes, absolutely. Yep.

To help verify

if this discovery might be connected to the nearby tunnel

or the Garden Shaft,

the team will collect a water sample

in order to test for the presence of precious metals.

I think that's the very first thing to do.

- Thank you, sir. - Yep.

While Rick and members of the team

continue their work on Oak Island...

There's Gretchen.

- Hi. - Hello, Gretchen.

Nice to see you in person.

Approximately 2,900 miles away

in the town of Royston, England...

Welcome to Royston,

the home of the Royston Cave.

Marty Lagina, along with his son Alex

and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,

are meeting with author and researcher Gretchen Cornwall.

We've got a Roman road

going north-south, right out of London.

Gretchen has invited them to visit Royston Cave,

which some researchers believe

once served as a sacred meeting place for members

of the Knights Templar... The medieval Christian order

who are speculated to have buried

priceless religious treasures on Oak Island

between the 12th and 14th centuries.

As you know, I've been studying the Templars for many years.

- Yes. - And I think

this location is critical to their memory

and to the connection to Oak Island,

and I would like to show you the symbology in Royston Cave.

- Let's go have a look at it. -Let's take a look. - Yes. Absolutely.

Founded in 1184,

the town of Royston

is located in an area

that was not only once part of the Roman Empire...

- So it's just through here. - Oh.

But is also in a region that later served

as a stronghold for the Knights Templar

between the 12th and 14th centuries.

Mind your head.

I would not have suspected this, would you?

Careful.

Wow.

Although the date

of Royston Cave's original construction

is unknown, most agree it dates to medieval times.

- Wow. This is really cool. - It really is.

Its existence was first documented in 1742,

when a secret entrance

was discovered during construction

in the town's marketplace,

and today it serves as a major tourist attraction

due to its believed connection to the Templar Order.

- This entrance is very cool. - Yeah.

Whoa!

Welcome to a Templar initiation chamber.

Wow.

First impression when we get in the cave

is that there's more to this than I thought.

You look around in this cave, and there's carvings everywhere.

It's really quite, quite amazing.

The size of it is incredible for something that,

I assume, was dug by hand, right?

Yes. Absolutely. Dug by hand.

Like Oak Island.

Good point.

Gretchen, this place is obviously

- super cool and interesting. - Yep.

Why don't you just give us some background?

Well...

there are some people who believe this

is a secret Templar initiation chamber.

My theory is, is that there was a little

structure above here

and that it was disguised as a market stall

to hide the activity here.

So what you would have done is, you would have come down here,

then you would have come down a small ladder.

And, of course, this would have been very dark.

So you would have been taken through with a candle.

Just curious, what's the dimension across here?

It's approximately 16 feet.

But as we get into the center,

the center circle, it's more like 13 feet

- in through there. - There you go.

- 13 feet. There it is again. - Mm-hmm.

Number just keeps popping up.

That was the original diameter of the Money Pit.

It does bear a strong resemblance, you know,

to what we saw in Portugal.

Yes. Very similar to Sintra in concept.

Wow.

What is this dimension, the diameter?

13 feet.

- Which is... - That sounds awful familiar.

One year ago,

Alex and his Uncle Rick visited the town of Sintra, Portugal,

where they were shown

a mysterious Masonic well that was 13 feet

in diameter and 90 feet deep on grounds that once served

as a Templar stronghold more than eight centuries ago.

The initiation well has nine platforms.

Branch of an oak tree over the well.

That's exactly what the Money Pit story is about.

So, if we think about Templars

as "brothers without borders," you would have had

potentially French Templars here, English, Portuguese.

We know they were here in the area

going back to easily the early 1100s.

I mean, I could be easily convinced

this was a Templar something.

- In fact, I think I am already. - Yep.

Are there connections to Oak Island?

I believe there are.

That image there

is what I believe is portrayed

on the lead cross that Gary found.

Yeah.

At Royston Cave in the town of Royston, England,

Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Charles Barkhouse,

have just been shown a carving

depicting the crucifixion of Christ.

A carving that author and researcher Gretchen Cornwall

believes was made more than six centuries ago

by members of the Knights Templar

and which may potentially be connected

to the Oak Island mystery.

Dimensionally, that is basically the same thing.

The head is off to the side.

Even one arm of the cross is shorter than the other, too.

I think you're right. Actually, it is.

- It-it is, Marty, yeah. - I don't know,

I don't know if you can see that,

but there's the...

Oh, that's the prison at Domme.

- Yeah. - Yes.

That is very, very similar.

And you can see they passed their time

by making carvings in the walls

to sustain them spiritually.

In 2017, Rick Lagina,

along with his nephews Alex and Peter,

visited a 14th century prison in Domme, France

where Templar Knights

were held captive after the order

was disbanded by King Philip IV in 1307.

There, they were shown a number of Templar carvings,

including a very distinct cross.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

What?

Just weeks later,

Rick and metal detection expert

Gary Drayton found a lead cross on Oak Island

with a nearly identical design.

Holy schmoly! All right.

A cross that, when scientifically tested,

was determined to have originated in Southern France

during the 14th century.

Is it possible that Marty, Alex, and Charles

have now found a third example in Royston Cave that could serve

as more evidence connecting the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery?

- It's three places now. - Yeah.

I mean, it's the lead cross itself...

- Yeah. - And then Domme and here.

Yes.

The way that they're designed,

even with the identical tilt of the head.

- This is a Templar design. - Yeah.

You know, any of the shared symbology is really interesting.

I think you'll find even more interesting iconography.

Right here. Do you see the bricks right there?

- Yes. - Up there,

on one of the bricks

- is literally carved 1347. - Oh, yeah.

I see it now.

- And that is literally on Zena's map. - Incredible.

When I found the map, which is dated 1347,

I began to put pieces together.

In 2016,

the late author and researcher Zena Halpern

presented the Oak Island team with two maps

and a mysterious cypher suggesting

that the Knights Templar had repeatedly visited Oak Island

between the 12th and 14th centuries.

Incredibly, one of the maps

depicted many well-known landmarks on the island,

such as the swamp, the stone triangle,

and what came to be known as the Money Pit.

It also featured the date of 1347.

Zena's map, if it's real,

is a super direct connection to Oak Island.

- I mean, it is Oak Island. - Oh, it is Oak Island.

Yep. Here's the map.

And the date is actually written out here.

- "Un mille trois cent quarante sept." - Oh, okay.

You know, you do have that exact date on Zena's map.

But I think it refers to a voyage

in 1347.

Right. The conjecture would be

that's a commemorative stone.

Says, "All right, guys, we're leaving this place now.

It's become too dangerous."

They inscribe it because people do that.

And, actually, it is kind of like a cornerstone,

which is where you'd put such things.

And then they pack up and go.

According to you,

to Oak Island, right?

Although many Templar Knights

were executed after their persecution in France in 1307,

many others escaped to areas across Europe,

including Portugal, Scotland, and England,

and their sacred treasures were never found.

Is it possible that Royston Cave

was one of the locations that the Templars secretly used

for the safekeeping of valuables

before transporting them to Oak Island in 1347?

Anything else here

that you think is a connection

- somehow to Zena's map? - Yes.

And she is right behind you, Charles.

- Right there? - Yeah.

Do you see a head, a crown, shoulders, a body at the bottom,

and then I believe that is a tail.

And that, I think, could be

Melusine from the sixth century,

who the Rochefoucaulds claim as their ancestress.

In ancient European folklore, the half-fish,

half-human goddess known as Melusine

was so revered in medieval Europe

that many families believed that they were her descendants.

According to Gretchen's research,

one of these families, whose name also appeared

on Zena Halpern's map, was the Rochefoucaulds.

You believe that is the symbol of the Rochefoucauld family?

Yes.

She is their family crest.

I was in Rochefoucauld,

and I took this photo at the château itself

while I was there.

And she's at the top here

holding up the marble platform for a bust.

The Rochefoucaulds were a family of French nobles

dating back to the tenth century

and are believed to have been connected

to the Knights Templar.

I found eight pages of a ship... What looks like a ship's log.

In 2017,

Oak Island historian Doug Crowell

discovered a partial ship's log

describing a secret French naval mission

to hide treasure on a wooded island

in Nova Scotia back in September of 1746.

"September 8th. It has been agreed

"that a deep pit be dug and treasure securely buried.

"The pit to have a secret entrance

by a tunnel from the shore."

The admiral in charge of that mission was named

Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédérick de la Rochefoucauld,

also known as the Duc d'Anville.

That's an interesting find.

Yeah.

If this represents the Rochefoucauld family,

then that's another connection to the map.

Yeah, two. At least two, right in here.

It's almost too much to be a coincidence.

- Yes. - Yeah, I need to be thinking about that.

Is it possible that Gretchen Cornwall

has found evidence in Royston Cave

that the Knights Templar

and, later, members of the Rochefoucauld family

both visited Oak Island in order to hide valuables?

If so, could that also explain the high trace evidence of gold

that the team has detected

near the Garden Shaft in the Money Pit?

Royston Cave delivered.

It was as interesting as Gretchen said.

There are symbols carved in the wall

that are similar to Domme.

It actually makes me believe

that that cave is older, that maybe that is very ancient

and could be significant to Oak Island.

So I'm just gonna get

- some video for Uncle Rick. - Rick will want to see it.

- Absolutely. - Especially this.

So now we'll be able to do

double duty on this trip because

I can also go speak to one of our expert archivists

working in London.

This is a really cool place.

Yeah, there's more here than I ever would have thought.

- Thank you for showing us around. - Absolutely.

Thank you so much for being here.

- Lead on. - Thank you, sir.

Trust me, you're really gonna want to see

- where it goes at 150. - Oh, yeah.

As Rick Lagina and members of the team

continue drilling for evidence of a potential

18th-century tunnel in the Money Pit...

All right.

This is an interesting area.

Yeah.

We've got like six or seven flags here.

Metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

are also looking for important clues on Lot 7,

located on the western side of the island.

I think it's a great opportunity

to see if maybe there's some

- really interesting finds. - Yep.

It's telling more of the story.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

This could be something special, mate.

One week ago,

while searching this area,

Gary and Jack discovered what Gary believes to be

some type of ancient coin.

While the team awaits expert analysis

to be conducted on the object,

they have confirmed that it contains arsenical bronze...

A compound that was used to produce currency, tools

and weaponry in Europe prior to the 16th century.

Flag, mate.

See if we can get a...

an artifact in one, not a hole in one.

In accordance with provincial regulations,

Gary has already scanned the area

and marked a number of targets with flags,

which team archaeologist Laird Niven

has now given him permission to dig up.

A bit chirpy.

It's round about here, mate.

That's, uh, most of the signal there.

Yep.

Is it out?

What the heck is this?

An ornament? No.

An earring?

I have not got a clue, mate.

- It's very interesting. - Look, it might be...

might be some jewelry.

Look at that, I mean, the way that comes over.

You can see where the pin comes out and across.

- Uh, but it's heavily corroded. - Yeah.

Could be, like, a-a large pin.

- Like a cloak pin. - Or a pin.

Yeah.

This would have looked magnificent back in the day.

That would've been all nice and shiny.

That's a really big gemstone, then.

Yeah, it's-it's a jewel or a gem.

Yes.

That is brilliant, mate.

This could be treasure.

A possible jewel?

Found on Lot 7?

We just found another bobby-dazzler on Oak Island.

And lightning strikes again in this area.

Remember the garnet brooch that we found?

- Yeah. - And that was really, really old.

The garnet brooch was a part of Scott Clarke's theory.

And it had something to do with Masonic rituals.

And maybe if this is a gemstone, it somehow relates.

In 2017, Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton

found a semiprecious garnet gemstone

on the adjacent Lot 8.

This garnet was actually

the perfect color, size and general shape

as one of the stones

from a Masonic Royal Arch High Priest breastplate.

According to 32nd-degree Freemason

Scott Clarke,

it may be related to a sacred Masonic ritual

believed to be connected to the Knights Templar.

The breastplate was used in a specific ritual

meant to mimic the retrieval of the Ark of the Covenant

from a secret vault underground.

Wow.

I am looking forward to seeing what it is,

where it came from and how old it is, mate.

- Great job, Gary. Yeah! - Fantastic, mate.

- Jewel, baby! - Yeah.

The following day...

108.

- And that's the mid? - Yeah.

- That's the bottom here. the top's there. - Yep.

While Rick Lagina and members of the team

continue searching for answers on Oak Island...

It's a little different, but there's more silt than sand.

Approximately 2,900 miles to the east,

in the London suburb of Kew...

- We're here. - There it is.

- What do you think, Charles? - Pretty impressive.

Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Charles Barkhouse,

arrive at the United Kingdom's National Archives

to meet with historian Paul Stewart.

There's Paul.

- Hello, sir. -Hi. - Hello.

- Nice to meet you. - I'm Marty.

- Nice to meet you. Great to meet you. - Pleasure, Paul.

- I'm Charles. - Great. Welcome to Kew.

Welcome to the UK National Archives.

- Thank you. - Yeah, well, we're excited to be here.

Paul is one of the European-based researchers

the Laginas have hired

to search through historic archives

in the hopes of finding clues

that could help solve the Oak Island mystery.

I looked at all sorts of stuff.

- Uh, but then I found a collection with Duc d'Anville. - Yeah.

From the La Rochefoucauld family.

And there seems to be

a lot of connections with the Mahone Bay area.

- Wow. - No kidding?

- And maybe Oak Island. - Oh, that sounds fabulous.

That's excellent, because that's what we were looking for.

Yeah, I think you're gonna find it interesting, yeah.

That's fantastic.

So let's go on in and have a look, yeah.

We're on Rick's particular mission

to exhaust all possible resources in terms of

researching what might have happened on Oak Island.

Because we're here to try and figure out

the riddle of Oak Island.

So this is where...

- some of the documents I've found here. - Wow.

So we're gonna see what Paul has found.

All right. What have you run across?

I've come across, uh, some capture documents.

Would you like to see some of these capture documents

- that I've found? - Absolutely.

During the 18th century,

England and France were embroiled in a series of battles

for control of Nova Scotia.

According to international law,

when they commandeered one another's ships

on the high seas, they were legally required to document

such events with so-called capture documents.

This is Katherine from the National Archives.

She's going to handle them for us.

Okay.

Now, this is... the Lively was a British merchant ship.

They were privateering in early 1746, perhaps even 1745.

It was captured by one of Duc d'Anville's squadron

over by Nova Scotia.

And what is interesting about these is that

when, um, the ships were taken,

they were signed by La Rochefoucauld, Duc d'Anville.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah. Oh.

Those are, in effect, orders from d'Anville, right?

He was the commander of this fleet.

Now, he wouldn't have done that from France or anywhere else.

He must have been there at that time.

This is 1746?

PAUL S. Yeah, January 1746, which I find quite early on.

I see.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's the significance.

That puts him there earlier.

That seems really early to me, yeah.

Which means he could have made

- many trips to the area. - I think so, yeah.

Yet another mystery on Oak Island.

At the National Archives in London, England,

researcher Paul Stewart

has just presented official documents

that state the French admiral known as the Duc d'Anville,

who reportedly led a mission to bury treasure

in Nova Scotia back in September of 1746,

visited the area near Oak Island nine months earlier.

That's amazing. I mean, I think that's really...

Quite apart from our little hunt here,

that document was on board that ship.

Yeah.

The biggest thing to me is the fact that we investigated

the Rochefoucaulds as a potential connection

to Oak Island,

and this document is reinforcing

that the Duc d'Anville was active in the area.

It's not just a tangential connection.

He was more familiar with the area than maybe we imagined.

And he made more trips to the area than maybe we imagined.

So there's more I want to tell you about the next papers.

These are, uh, Admiral Anson's capture documents.

Hmm.

Admiral Anson seemed to have an interest in collecting,

uh, intelligence about the Duc d'Anville fleet,

so he went for some of these ships.

- 'Cause they had information. - Yeah, they had information

about what-what their fleet had been up to.

I see. Okay.

Lord George Anson was a highly revered member

of the British Navy, serving in

and also leading many successful battles

for England during the mid-18th century.

Following the French mission that the Duc d'Anville

led to Nova Scotia in September of 1746,

Admiral Anson began targeting the ships

known to have been part of that French armada.

So this is the Diamant.

This was a famous ship in the d'Anville fleet.

There, "The Diamant seized by His Majesty's ships of war

under the command of Admiral Anson."

There's a guy mentioned in here called Hocquart,

who was captain of the Diamant in the original d'Anville fleet.

Hocquart is captured by Admiral Anson.

Anson put him in prison and gave him a hard time in prison.

Anson obviously wanted to try and find out something about

what was on the ship.

Right, so Anson comes in looking for answers and maybe saying

what was the mission before it was captured.

Then he imprisons him and extracts that information.

Yeah, he wanted to find out what they had been up to

when they were along the coast of-of Mahone Bay.

- And that's the bit that fits into our search. - Yeah.

Was Admiral Anson targeting ships

in the Duc d'Anville's armada simply as an act of war?

Or was it because he was looking for the treasure

described in d'Anville's ship's log dated to September of 1746

that Doug Crowell found in the Nova Scotia archives?

Admiral Anson,

he had targeted some of these French ships.

He wanted to know what happened.

He wanted to get ahold of these people as prisoners

and interrogate them.

Well, there's some significance there.

So, what was he after? What did they know?

Anson ended up getting letters from all sorts

of top people in-in France to try and get Hocquart out.

One of the letters that was sent from France

looks pretty certainly to be from the Rochefoucauld family.

And Anson wouldn't let him out for a long time.

I mean, they were kept for a reason.

They were interrogated for a reason.

It has to do with Nova Scotia.

It might have to do with Mahone Bay.

It might have to do with Oak Island.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think the fact that Anson was looking for this, you know,

knowledge as to what was going on,

that's potentially connected to the Duc d'Anville's fleet

- and Oak Island. - Yeah.

And maybe the information

got out as the barter for their freedom.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then the British came

- looking for it. - Yeah.

I could buy that.

It would really explain

the different artifacts we're finding on Oak Island.

I mean, if the French and the British are both involved,

we're finding British coins

and we're finding French artifacts.

Yeah.

And one explanation is that both groups

- knew about something on Oak Island. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Over the years,

the Oak Island team has found numerous artifacts,

such as musket balls,

cap badges, coins and uniform buttons,

which suggest that both the French and British military

set up encampments on Oak Island during the 18th century.

We haven't been able to make sense of it

because it's almost like...

it-it only fits,

- you know, the French or the British, not both. - Yeah.

- But this explains it. This makes sense. - Yeah.

Is it possible that the British came to Oak Island

searching for a large treasure that was hidden there

by the Duc d'Anville's French fleet?

- This is excellent stuff. - Brilliant.

Incredibly historical, too. I mean...

- Well, it's just amazing the records are there. - Yeah.

Well, Paul, excellent work.

Keep the data coming.

- I will. Oh, thank you. - Thank you very much, Paul.

- Yeah, cheers. Take care. - Thanks, Paul. -Carry on.

- Show that to the boys back home. - Yep.

Hey, Rick.

- Hey. - How are you?

Uh-oh. Smiles on the both of 'em.

- Oh-ho, yeah. - Smiles, mate.

- What you got? - Boom, baby!

We've just recovered another jewel

on Oak Island.

- Really? - Yep.

Let's see it.

Look at that, mate.

Oh, wow.

In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre,

metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

are meeting with Rick Lagina and archaeologist Laird Niven

to share the mysterious jewelry

they recently discovered on Lot 7.

My first thoughts was maybe, uh,

an hat pin or a cloak pin... not really sure.

It's got a jewel on it, though, or glass or...

- Yeah, I see that. - Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, it's definitely jewelry. Right?

- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.

Definitely decorative.

Yeah, you wouldn't wear something like that

- if you're working on the fields. - Wouldn't think so.

And it's in the... it's in the middle of the lot.

Hmm. Yeah, let's put it under there.

To examine the believed cloak pin in detail,

Laird Niven will be using a Fisherbrand 425 series

zoom stereoscopic microscope,

which can enhance an object up to 50 times its actual size.

- See that blue there? - Yeah.

Ooh, that's a right bobby-dazzler.

- That is beautiful. - Yeah.

That is a beauty, all right.

Sapphire?

I don't know if that...

If it is blue, it's dark, isn't it?

Yeah.

- It's pretty cool. - That is pretty cool.

The thing you see most, of course, is the blueness.

A jewel, a sapphire.

Whatever it is, it's shiny,

it's bright and it's beautiful.

But you can't just focus on the jewel.

You have to ask the question, what is this?

Why is it found here?

Who might it have belonged to?

And why were they on the island?

Can you imagine how long that took to build up

all that patina on there?

All that encrustation?

How long, do you think?

Couple hundred years?

Very long time.

Yeah.

That's a right little

bobby-dazzler, isn't it?

- Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to analyze this. - Yeah.

No...

Not even a guess as to age?

It's not from the 1900s... we know that.

No.

It is unusual.

I look forward to a date,

whether stylistically

- or metal composition. - Yeah.

Well, I think the-the CT scanner will give us a better idea

- of construction. - Mm.

We'll be able to look inside it.

And then I think we can do a little cleaning.

And then we can XRF it.

And that'll tell us certainly what the base metal is

and perhaps what the jewel is.

Little bit of cleaning, little bit of scanning

and a little bit of celebrating.

I imagine you-you guys did that already.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.

It's very cool.

So, great job. Good find.

Let's get back stuck in, mate, and find

- some more treasure. - Yeah. Let's go find some more. -All right.

- Great find. - See you. Thank you.

Well, it's a gem of a find.

Yeah.

Later that afternoon...

Might be a little spray!

As the core drilling operation continues

in the Money Pit area...

- Hey, guys. - Hey, guys.

I suppose we should say, "Cheerio."

Cheerio.

Rick Lagina and members of the team

gather in the war room for a video conference

with his brother Marty,

nephew Alex and Charles Barkhouse

for a report on what they have learned in England.

- Craig, welcome. - Also joining remotely

is Rick and Marty's business partner Craig Tester.

So, we're waiting to hear from you what you've learned.

Sure.

We started at Royston Cave. Um...

it's-it's not a cave.

It's actually hand-dug

into the-the rock underneath Royston.

And it's got

just an overwhelming number of carvings in it.

It's larger-scale than I expected.

You know, there's potential Templar symbolism there.

And there's some symbols that are, you know, familiar to us

from other trips that we've taken,

like in Domme and at Rochefoucauld Castle,

and potential connections between both

the Rochefoucaulds, the Duc d'Anville

and Oak Island.

What kinds of symbols

were you seeing that drew connections?

Well, there's one in particular that I have a photo of

that was, like... I mean, it was obvious.

So why don't I show you the photo.

We'll see what you think.

These are the carvings in the cave.

You know, this is just to give you an impression

of what we're looking at when we go down there.

Oh.

This is the one

that just jumped right out at us.

Oh...

Hmm.

That's remarkable.

Wow. That's stunning.

If you look at that, you know,

there's the cross, only in more detail.

Mm.

Yeah, looks like a match to me.

That's what I would say.

In the war room, Marty

and Alex Lagina, along with Charles Barkhouse,

have just shown Rick Lagina and members of the team

an image of a carved cross located in Royston Cave,

a medieval site near London, England,

that many believe to have once been

a sacred meeting place for the Knights Templar.

It's more likely than not the Templars were in this cave

for part of its history.

Which makes that carving

Templar-ish.

And you couple that with Domme,

and I think that lead cross

has Templar origins.

Royston Cave

seemed to indicate that there was

some sort of Templar connection to the mystery.

They showed a carving

that replicated the cross Gary found in Smith's Cove.

Of course, that conjures up the time

Peter and I and Alex went to Domme.

Are they similar? Yes.

This could be quite huge.

Now, does that mean they were on Oak Island? No.

But it brings me a lot further along than, say, I had been

- before I came here. - Yeah.

Yeah.

There's also a date

that's potentially connected to Zena's map.

This is one of the remaining bricks over that entrance.

Oh.

"1347."

That apparently is the exact date on Zena's map.

It might be a commemorative thing

to denote, uh,

when they might have left the region.

The date of 1347,

that was closest to making a connection

between the Royston Cave,

the Templars' association with it

and Zena's map.

So, here's the other thing.

In the center of this image

is what kind of resembles a mermaid.

See it?

Interesting.

Until Gretchen brought it up...

I-I did not remember this...

But when we were at Rochefoucauld Castle,

if you look at their coat of arms,

behind it is a mermaid.

That was their main symbol.

Yes.

But it was Gretchen who said

and showed us the picture she took,

and it is in the seal of the, uh,

- Rochefoucaulds. - Yeah.

What it somewhat reminds me of

is that it kind of looks like the fish

at the bottom of the map.

Could Rick Lagina be correct

that the image of a possible mermaid carved in Royston Cave

is also depicted on the believed 14th-century map

that Zena Halpern gave the team in 2016?

If so, could it offer another key piece of evidence

that the Knights Templar really were connected

to the Oak Island mystery?

Uh, we'd like to tell you a little bit

about what happened at Kew.

It-it appears that the...

Duc d'Anville was up to all kinds of things

that are yet to be discovered.

We're seeing the Duc d'Anville made

multiple journeys to the region,

some earlier than we thought.

There are records of the interrogation

of prisoners that the British took,

apparently trying to extract data from them

after the Duc d'Anville expedition.

- Oh. Great. - Wow.

Very cool.

This story is layered, and thus,

the uncovering it or the unraveling of the story

is-is complicated as well.

But I think we've got the people,

- the science, the commitment... - Yeah.

To do that very thing... unravel it.

And we couldn't do it without everybody diving in,

and you dove in.

So, appreciate it. Certainly.

Thank you.

I have always said,

the past 227 years of digging and drilling

has yet to solve the Money Pit mystery.

I think the information hunt and research

is an important part of the ongoing search

for answers on Oak Island.

We have been busy here on the island, too.

Gary has been out and about.

Yeah. Been grinding and finding.

Check that out, mate.

We found another bobby-dazzler.

It's a piece of jewelry.

- Oh. - I believe it's, uh,

either a pin or a brooch.

And you know me, Marty...

I don't get excited when I find a bit of jewelry.

- No, no. - And we shouldn't really speculate,

but it's treasure, baby!

That's my man, Gary.

Save a couple for me to dig up, okay?

-Uh, will do, mate. -All right.

Well, on that note, we're gonna go fight London traffic.

Thank you, guys.

- Great meeting. - All right. See ya.

Take care.

As another week comes to a close

for Rick, Marty and the team,

their efforts to reveal the truth

of what happened long ago on Oak Island

have once again been rewarded.

Even though there is much work ahead

to find the undeniable proof of who

and what lie at the center of this 227-year-old mystery,

one thing is certain:

in order to reach the ultimate answers,

they will not only dig on Oak Island...

They will scour the entire globe.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

There's something going on in the Garden Shaft.

Oh, yeah, there we go. We got something right there.

Oh, wow, look.

- What do you make of that? - That's very odd.

Ooh, this is what I'd class as treasure.

The roughness here, it's 500 years old, at least.

- Whew. - Wow.

There's a Canadian mining company.

They could come in and open up the Garden Shaft.

Are we gonna be able to actually go underground in that shaft?

- Yeah. - That's fantastic.

Brilliant.

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