Clues Unearthed Beneath the Shore (S13) | The Curse of Oak Island | History

On lot five.
Hi guys.
We’re going to go from the ferns down to the beach.
Mhm.

Marty Lagina, his nephew Peter Fornetti, and metal detection expert Katia Drayden search for clues between a mysterious rectangular feature and a rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.

Lot five has been a better place to look than just anywhere.
I’m still hoping to find something interesting, something valuable, a clue.
It’s actually >>

Hey Katia, you know where I brought the skid steer in?
I’ve disturbed all the soil here.
Why don’t you scan this?

What the heck?
I’d love to do it.

that’d be great.

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There’s something similar here, too.
Yeah, that’s a good signal.
That’s a great signal.

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That’s pretty deep.
Excuse me?
Oh, yeah, that’s out.

I think it’s a button.
Ooh.
Here we go.

What do you got?
Wow.
Let me clean it up a little bit.

It’s not just a shard of metal because it’s got something going on right there.
There is some sort of attachment here.

Yeah, it looks like it has a fastener on it.
Tell you what it is.
It’s lab-worthy.

That’s right.
So, that’s good.
Okay.

All right, so all this rigmarole to get that rock might have been worth it.

If this means something.
Mhm.

I mean, look at the proximity to the rectangular feature.

Mhm.

Just an inch or two outside of where they were digging.
And so, if this could be a clue to figure out what the heck was going on here and how it associates to the money pit, yeah, I think there’s something here.

There’s certainly a possibility.
This thing might mean something.
It might tell us who was there and when, and that would be a big deal.
It could very well be significant.

So, bag it, please, and we’ll analyze it.
Sounds great.
Let’s go on to something else.
Perfect.
Way to go, you guys.

On lot five, there’s a mystery there wrapped in an enigma.

Rick Lagina and members of the team have joined Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the Oak Island laboratory.

I mean, it really is confusing, but in its confusion, artifacts come up to the surface, right?
We have one here.
Katia and Peter and and Marty found it.

Laird and Emma have just completed their preliminary scientific analysis on the metal artifact that was unearthed one day ago on lot five.

What I think is really cool about where we found this is it was really near the rectangular feature, and then Katia came through and was metal detecting on the tracks, and this is where we found that.

So, it was kind of the skid steer turning up a little bit of the material that brought this to life.

Emma, what can you tell us about that?

So, it is a cast iron pot.
There is a slight phosphorus content, but this would not affect the quality of the iron whatsoever because it is cookware.

And you’re certain that that’s what that is based on the curvature?
That’s what we think.
Yeah.

The high phosphorus content that’s present throughout an iron creates an iron that is brittle during colder climates and it’s prone to breaking, which suggests that being pre-1800s.

I find that industrial revolution is when they really started to stray away from cast iron pots.
So, fits in with the time period of 1700s.
It could go into the 1600s.

Wow, quite stunning.
Oh my gosh.

Okay, Katia, we’re on.
We’re on lot five, and this thing has given up a lot, but today it’s going to give up more, right?
I’m hoping.

On lot five, Marty and Katia are expanding their search south of the rounded feature to look for new clues.

Sir.

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Ah.
That sounds pretty good.
It does.

Registering pretty good.
And it looks non-ferrous.
So.

Let’s have a go.
Right under that rock.
Come on, be something good.
Come on.

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All right, maybe that might have loosened things up.
Ooh, that sounds a lot better out.

Let’s see.
There you go.
There we are.

Ooh, button.
Or is it a coin?

I don’t think that’s a button.
Wowzer.

Does it look like a coin?

I think that’s a coin.
I think that’s a really old coin.

All right, way to go, Katia.
That looks like a very old coin to me.

Oh my gosh, it does.
It almost looks like there’s a cross on it.
Really?

Oh, yeah.
Right there and right there.

I think it might be copper cuz it’s
Yeah, I think it’s copper.

It’s tinted green and only copper does that.

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Coin is really exciting.
Katia and I look at each other and you know, I know what’s
I know what she’s thinking and I know what I’m thinking.

This is the Roman coin area, and that is, you know, hugely exciting.

Hey, you nailed it.
You said it was non-ferrous right off the bat.
Good on you.

Thank you.

I’m impressed.
I was so excited about this.
This is amazing.

feel pretty good about this.

Okay, Katia, let’s
Let me call big brother.
Honestly, he’ll want to see this.

Come on over here.
We think this is good.

When Marty calls, it’s got to be good.

Gary, come here.
Yeah.
I’m coming.

Telling you that your daughter was pretty excited.
Ready?

Oh, that is
Oh, that’s nice.
Mhm.
Oh, that’s old.

Is it?
Yeah.

It might be identifiable cuz there is writing around the edge that’s partly corroded away.

Yeah, it’s definitely not a button.
That’s a coin.
Mhm.

This
This is pre-1600s.
Yeah, this is an old one.

Wow.
Did me proud, Katia.
Thank you.

Could Gary be correct that this copper coin may be more than 400 years old?
If so, might it be related to the Portuguese silver coin and help identify just who was behind the Oak Island mystery?

The more you look at it, the more stuff you can see on it.

So, the lab’s going to see stuff that
Yeah, this
Yeah, CT scanner will

Yeah, it’s irregular shape.
It’s nice and thick.
Yeah.

But it’s also not
it’s not deteriorated.
I like that, you know.

I think it just was that sort of like a crude shape.

Older metals also have purer compositions, you know, the metals are just they’re better.
They don’t rot like, you know, the nails I’ve been finding.

This would be a hammered coin?
Yeah, it would have been an hammered coin.

Oh my god, that is absolutely gorgeous.
I just hope it tells a tale.

When I hold the coin in, I can see things on the face.
So, at that point, it’s really become quite exciting.

I mean, we’ve already found five coins, Roman era coins, on lot five that have been authenticated metallurgically.

The coin will tell you what it is, and that it provides immense hope amongst all of us.
And that’s the top bucket find.

You can’t have any top buckets, Katia.

know.
That’s what dad’s for.

Well done, Katia.
Yeah.
Thank you.

is brilliant.
Makes me proud.

That’s fantastic.

That means the world to me.
Yeah.

Let’s get back to work, Katia.
Great find.
That’s cool.

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