The Curse of Oak Island Season 13 Episode 9 So Close, Yet Sonar (Dec 30, 2025) Full Episode HD

So, somebody dug a pit there and it wasn’t me.
>> Yeah.
>> Maybe that steak led why they dug there.
>> You know who and why, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden steak? If so, could the stake be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
>> Rick told us to keep an eye out for these and we’ll definitely have to get Steve out here to pin this. I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it with Steve pins it that Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on. But that steak has to go back a long time. Hopefully there’s more there. But uh that is a great start.
>> Maybe we could find an answer instead of a question.
>> Yeah. So it’ be nice to find some answers. We’ll keep going.
>> All right. As the dig in the swamp continues.
Gary had done a complete scan of the block 5 spoil piles and lo and behold this item was found.
>> Rick and other members of the team join Lar Deon and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report on a folded copper coin or token found one week ago in spoils that were removed from the round feature on lot 5. You were quite excited about that.
>> Yeah. when it came out. I’m thinking, “Oh, it’s some kind of like folded coin.” I’m hoping these are unusual. I have found >> these type of finds in England that will detect him. And they’re normally like talisman or >> Yeah.
>> good luck tokens. They’re put out there sometimes to ward off even bad luck. But it was good luck for us because we found it.
>> Yeah. doesn’t cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting of it, maybe more >> Catholicism for sure. I would think it’s interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is like 1290. You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle. And that’s how this all started.
>> Yeah.
The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the 14th century lead barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar. They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta, an order with no ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might be.
>> Okay.
>> So, for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not there’s any relief or signs that it is a coin. It is.
>> And I’m immediately I’m going to say there’s nothing that I can really see so far.
I mean, we can’t definitively say it’s a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded, it needs to have some value to give literal like weight to the talisman.
So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point. And then the triple folding is quite unusual.
>> Yeah.
>> You thought it would be fairly straightforward.
>> Yeah, we [clears throat] did.
>> Yeah. What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
>> So based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with the zinc content. Zinc being an alloying element, it’s definitively postmed in pre mid 1800s. There’s the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at least around the time of like industrial revolution of mid 1700s, potentially earlier. And then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s coming up.
>> Yeah, K. There’s a funny piece in that last bucket.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Oh, guys.
>> Oh my gosh.
>> That’s something there. Yeah.
>> 1600s. Late 1600s.
The fact that someone took all that time to fold it over three times.
>> I mean, it is significant. It is a meaningful artifact.
>> In the lab, Emma and Leair have just revealed that the folded copper artifact found in the Live spoils may hold religious symbolism and date back to more than a century before the discovery of the money pit.
And sometimes if it was diseased, they’ put a bent over coin or token uh to ward off the disease.
>> Yeah.
>> Somebody went to some pains to do it.
>> Yeah. To me, it looks quite well done.
>> Yeah.
>> We’re on an island, but it’s a big province. Have you ever found anything like this on digs or know of any otherological digs where they found these type of offerings? Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia from an archaeological context >> of course on an island sailors came to the island they were all superstitious especially in 17600s.
>> True.
>> Oh there are a lot of possibilities.
Obviously the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing right.
>> Exactly.
>> Yeah.
>> My suspicion is that’s intentional. It’s folded perfectly.
>> Yeah.
>> And maybe maybe three folds means something different than two folds.
>> Yeah. Our research hasn’t gone that far yet.
>> Given the enormity of finds that date to the 1600s, there were buttons. Then you have the trade beach, right? The dates you’re implying are highly suggested of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
>> Their attempt to either create a colony here or to do something else.
Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons and ornate trade beads that have been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind on the island. Well, it’s just a puzzle piece. How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
He’s starting to build a body of evidence, but I think in order to fully understand what happens on lot five, there’s a lot more work to be done, but at some point with enough puzzle pieces, then you can tell the complete story.
Just love to know what’s on the inside.
And I’d like to see the puzzle completed.
>> It’s one of those little innocuous looking things that has a great story behind it.
>> It was good luck that we found it. I [clears throat] think there’s a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And don’t forget Sandy Gamble. That’s a good thought.
>> Yeah.
>> With Sandy, he’s not just a numismatist.
He’s a story.
>> Yep.
>> And he might know the history of these coins.
>> Exactly.
>> I look forward to what we uncover or what we unfold. [laughter] >> Pun intended.
See you. Byebye. Keep your eyes peeled here.
>> Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the stone formation.
>> Yeah, Kata, there’s a funny piece in that last bucket.
>> Oh yeah. Oh my gosh, >> that’s a something there. Yeah, >> piece of planking.
>> That’s a strange.
The top looks maybe cut, but it’s it’s wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
>> No, it does.
>> Yeah, it’s tapered. So, you know, somebody’s spent some time to to make it for a very special purpose. I would say >> it’s got a great groove right there.
A bunch of little dents in it. I’m thinking it might be more a paddle just because of the shape.
>> Yeah, they’re so close to the ship’s rail and it and maybe we get a taste that it’s some part of the same ship. If we find more pieces of the same one, that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in here.
>> Yeah.
>> A possible piece of an ore. Could Billy be correct that it may be related to the piece of a ship’s railing found just a few yards to the east back [music] in 2020, which was carbonated to as early as the 7th century? [music] If so, might all of the artifacts that the team is finding in this area be connected to the nearby stone future?
>> I think somebody will be able to look at that and look at the tape or whether it is an ore or wedge or whatever it is, doesn’t matter.
>> Connect some dots.
>> Yeah, we’ll put this to the side and >> definitely an interesting piece.
>> Yeah, >> it’s what Marty says all the time. You know, facts are separate things like the ship’s really going back into the 600 ADs. It’s very confusing and we have data across the the board from literally from the 1200s up right up through 1750 and the bog with the types of constructions that have been following.
That looks like another snake.
>> Billy, got another snake right under you.
>> My hope is that as the work continues in the bug, the gaps in that information will be filled in.
That is one of those big round ones.
>> This is probably one of the biggest steaks I’ve ever seen. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight sides. That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
>> Definitely something going on here.
The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp that have featured different numbers of cuts at their points. But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault in the northern region one year ago, it was after following a trail of eight-sided cut stakes that lined a cobblestone path.
Is it possible that this eight-sided stake could be connected to that fault-like feature?
And could it be another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
>> It looked like it was about 4 feet down in that sand there.
>> Yeah, the eight side ones are almost all that same with that really big circumference. The more sides that it has based on the testing that we did the island, the older that they tend to be.
>> Yeah.
>> Every bucket full now we’re finding something. There was a ton of activity right here. I’m certain we’ll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab for everybody to look at. Well, that’s another good find.
>> I’ll put it over there and then we’ll keep going.
>> Oh, good eye, Derek.
>> That’s cool. [clears throat] >> Coming out.
>> We have pretty loose material.
>> This is possibly a void. It’s exactly what I was looking for.
>> Yeah, this is a coin and it released from the Knights Templar.
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Monitor the core drilling operation in Borehole BN 13.5 as it sinks deeper into the Peacock area.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We’ve never had this much fall out. No.
It’s too hard to tell if it’s a void or if it’s just water gravel.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core. Gone out the end of the core bar. Okay.
>> Here’s Adam now.
>> Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
>> Yeah.
>> And no recovery.
>> No recovery. No.
>> Oh, man.
>> We pushed from 148 to 158. And the rods are sinking. When I run the casing, they’re they’re sinking.
>> We’re in pretty loose material.
Obviously, >> it’s loose. We’re right in the heart of the pickup. So, you just going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
>> Yeah.
>> Excellent.
>> Great stuff. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.
>> Interesting to see what we come up with in this one.
>> We’re excited about this because we’re in the area where we got gold and silver in the water. And you know, as we’re drilling down, the mud and the muck is very loose and and sloppy.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Is it loose because of high activity by humans? That looks promising.
Yep.
>> Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made? If it is, it’s something we didn’t know existed.
>> Whatever was there, we got it.
>> Really?
>> But it got hard at the bottom.
>> Very sloppy at the top.
>> Okay, let’s grab this up. Okay, this is the firm bottom of this area of the peacock right here.
>> And the bottom here is limestone rich material. It’s really only 10 ft of recovery for a whole 20 ft drilled all the way from 148 to 168.
>> Definitely. We’ve got a effective water filled void from about 148 to 158.
>> Well, agreed.
>> Yeah, a possible 10-ft void above the solution channel.
>> If so, is it simply a natural feature or could it be a mangled chamber?
>> I got to go. Okay. What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity in that area, this is shaping up to be a really interesting.
>> Hey D, how you doing?
>> How’s it going?
>> Uh, we’re loose from between 148 and 158. Relatively loose, washed out material like what you’d expect down inside a snooze jam. Okay. Relatively high. But this is possibly a void. Now, is that natural or is that an open man-made chamber? We don’t know.
>> Yeah.
>> And also we’re getting elevated results for precious metals associated copper lead zinc type of things that are associated with the treasure in the peacock.
>> So yeah, for me I’ve always been a believer that there’s an offset chamber in the money pit. And if there is an offset chamber, it makes sense going to be in this area.
>> Exactly.
The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit may have not only buried treasure at the bottom of the shaft, but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber. Is it possible that this theory could explain the potential 10- ft point that the team has just encountered 148 ft deep?
>> It would be.
So, what we found was an area with possibly a water filled void. That’s a candidate for a sonar, don’t you think?
>> I think so.
>> Adam, >> quick question.
>> What’s up?
>> We had a bit of an open area, which I think of as a void.
>> Yep. Is it a void?
>> Only a sonar can tell you that. Really?
Yeah. Right.
>> All right. Well, that’s what we’ll do.
>> Yep.
>> All right. So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being the case on location. Yeah.
We’re not done with the peacock.
>> Yep. Absolutely.
>> As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN3.5.
>> I want to thank you for coming, Don.
This when Gary found it, it was coinike.
>> In the research center, Rick and other members of the team meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
>> It’s very peculiar. Again, a one-off.
>> Yeah. to have him examine the folded copper artifact that was found on lot 5.
>> Never found another one of these on on the island. So, I don’t know. I’m hoping you can help us here.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
And it is a coin.
Fold it three times.
You know, when they first started folding coins was early medieval times, it represents a ritual that’s thousands of years old.
>> Yeah. It was thought that when you folded a coin, you could trap, you know, the evil inside the coin and and at some point when that evil has passed, if you pass the coin on or if you buried it, there was no more risk to you from that evil.
And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades, you know, even the Knights Templar.
However, because of the size of this coin, it’s not likely medieval. This is probably 16, 1700s.
>> Really? But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
>> Fascinating.
coming up.
>> Oh, that’s a hood.
>> There you go.
>> Oh, look at that.
>> What is this?
>> Meaning, >> it’s an interesting piece. Yeah. In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on lot 5 is indeed a coin and maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
>> Trapping evil. It seems like a strange ritual, right? It’s a bizarre ritual, but you know, copper was really a show of wealth and it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
So, the only folded coins you will see from that period, you’re not going to see folded silver or gold. They’re always going to be copper.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. Folding of coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
>> The Knights Templar, they they worship both St. George and St. Ireland.
>> Yeah.
>> And there was a ritual with folded coins where you would fold the coin, trap the evil, toss it away as a an homage to those saints. So it’s bizarre that you have this piece on the island. I guess that ritual continued into the 1600s. Really?
>> Yeah.
So you feel that this is probably 1600s at the earliest.
>> So my mind always goes to night of Malta. Interesting.
>> Which is one of our suspects on the island that falls right in that time period.
>> Mhm.
Is it possible that this golden copper coin might offer another key clue that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar [music] and the religious order of the Knights of Malta may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
>> Sandy Campell’s statement that the trifold goes back to medieval times during the time of the Templars. It’s very curious. We have proven in fact that the Knights of Malta had interactions and even through families of great importance with the Templars and there was a connection between the two. So there is a possible tie there.
There’s more research to be done. It’s strange because there are some I believe Lord correct me if I’m wrong but that feature that you’ve uncovered it’s basically east west is it not orientation >> we know from the churches we visited and the historical places when we went to Europe all templar associated buildings and constructions were east west orientation it >> it’s interesting different and adds to the mystery >> there’s no way to unfold will quite physically unfold it.
>> My initial response is you you folded it to to capture evil. Yeah. So if you back it up, you you you’re you’re on your own now. [laughter] >> I don’t know what’s in there.
>> No, it’s unfortunate that we can’t learn more about it. You know, the hope is as the work continues on lot five cuz we’re not done. and we find others and and hopefully they’ll be able to tell us something a little bit more than what’s currently in front of us.
>> Exactly. So, we thank you very much for coming down.
>> I appreciate it.
>> After the meeting in the research center, >> I’m really expecting to find some good things in here. Then this really should be a potential for a hightra area.
>> While members of the team search for more clues in the round feature on lot 5.
>> We’ll see what today brings.
>> Yeah, let’s see. Rick and Kaja arrive on lot 8 located on the western side of the island five before we start two weeks ago.
>> Perfect.
>> All right, Gary, here’s our first location. Okay, >> while the team searched for clues on a straight line that led away from a potential 12th century marker stone on lot 5, Gary and Peter found part of a possible barrel on lot 8.
Now Rick wants to see if that find might be related to something more valuable buried nearby.
>> That’s a It’s looking to be iron.
Let’s see.
There you go.
>> Oh, look at that.
>> What is this?
>> I don’t know. Looks like two holes in it right there. Yeah.
>> Not heavy enough to be a tool. Is it?
>> I think this might be a knife handle cuz there’s another hole down here. Oh, >> yeah.
>> Yeah. You possibly have like another side knives >> and then you have the blade starting up there.
>> You can really see how both of the holes are square on each side. [music] >> Your father has always said that square holes apply.
>> Yeah. Right. Well, I know one thing. I’d like to see that on a CT scan, right?
>> All right. I would definitely agree with it.
>> Well, we’ll bag this. Tag it.
>> Right.
>> There are all kinds of questions about lot 8 in this particular location. There is no data or no record that people were in this area doing something following the discovery of the money pit.
>> All right.
>> Thank you. It’s a good start. So, anything you find, uh, almost literally anything is an important clue in terms of who might have been there and when.
>> That’s good.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, yeah.
Right here.
>> Two way.
>> Yep.
That’s a beautiful bug.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Even I know that’s a good one. [music] >> That is an interesting piece.
>> What is that?
>> Coming up. We’re into the hole. We’re going to see if we can dim it down there. Let’s get down. 80 ft 100.
>> Oh, that could be a beam.
>> Oh, wow.
>> This is an opening here.
>> Really?
>> Before this is a lead back.
>> This is great.
>> On blood of Oak Island, Rick and Katya have made what could be an important discovery.
>> This could possibly be a tail coming out of it. Yeah. Yeah.
>> That would have been probably from a bag or whatever it was being attached to.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Your dad has found other bags. One on 32.
>> Mhm.
>> One on fire down by the ocean. And yet here we are in the middle of nowhere.
>> You find a bag still.
>> First developed in Europe in the 13th century. Bag seals were fasteners used to secure large quantities of goods inside cloth packaging.
The Oak Island team previously found one of these items on lot 5 that was British and could date back to the 16th century.
However, they uncovered another one near the shore on lot 32 that was a scientific match to the 14th century lead cross which may be connected to the Knight’s Templar.
Is it possible that Rick and Gotcha have just found a similar artifact?
>> To the best of my knowledge, >> I don’t think there was a homestead here. I just, for the life of me, I can’t understand why it’s here.
>> Just doesn’t make sense to me. I cannot explain why this bag seal has been found almost in the middle of the lot, not in proximity to the open ocean. Everything prior to the causeway construction in 1965, things would have had to have come by the sea, by way of the sea. So why it was lost in the middle of the lot, I cannot explain it.
>> Look, it’s a great find. I’m more curious about this one than I am about seals found there and there. Because if they had something to do with the work area, then whatever was inside would have been needed here. H >> I’m really hoping that Emma and Leard can find a maker mark or monogram on it and we can really trace this back to where it came from.
>> Yeah, let’s get it in life. See if there is a maker’s mark or something.
>> I agree.
>> Yeah, good find.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, congratulations. Something I always wanted to find. Well done.
>> It’s cool, >> right?
>> Let’s keep looking.
>> Yeah, let’s do it.
the following morning.
>> Let’s find something.
>> Yeah. Well, hey guys. How you doing?
>> Craig, you about ready?
>> Yeah, just about. While they wait for analysis on the new find from lot 8, Brit, Craig, and other members of the team meet with underwater imaging expert Ken Dbor in the money pit area to investigate the possible 10-ft void nearly 150 ft deep in borehole BN3.5.
We’re going to try the camera first so we can see if we can get an image down there. Sure, we’ll put the sonar down.
>> Can you explain it, Terry?
>> Can I explain it geologically? Not really. No, I mean I’m looking for beams and posts here. That’s what I’m going to look for in that pictures. That’s what I’m going to look for in the sonar imaging as well. And perhaps a little chest over in the corner. [laughter] >> Cross your fingers, >> Ken. It’s up to you.
>> No pressure.
>> No pressure.
>> No pressure at all.
>> No pressure.
>> All right. It’s very interesting. I mean, we’re in the area of high metal values. In my opinion, this would be an offset chain >> potentially.
>> So, it’s quite interesting. So, I I didn’t even go. Let’s have a look. Set the camera down there.
>> Okay, let’s get at it.
>> Before running a sonar device down the borehole, the team will insert Ken’s highdeinition camera capable of operating in low light conditions with a lens that he can rotate 360°.
>> We’ll take it to 150 ft. So, we’re into the hole. Okay.
Down.
here. Touch down water.
>> Water.
>> We’d love nothing better than to see a man-made cave cavern vault.
Anything man-made really at that depth in that location. I don’t know what to expect, but I’m very eager to find out what’s down there.
>> How deep are we, Charles?
>> You’re 32 ft right now.
>> 80 ft.
90 ft. It’s close to the top of the chamber. 100.
>> Okay, there’s a silk cob coming up from around a looks like a boulder or something. Oh, that could be a bean.
>> Wow.
>> Oh, wow.
>> There’s something there, isn’t there?
Steve, come up like about an inch or two.
>> Okay.
[music] Oh. Oh, that’s good.
>> You can make out almost a wall or something out there. When you move away from it, we go kind of go into more of an opening here.
>> Really?
>> Oh, that’s interesting.
There’s more history hidden beneath our feet.
>> A local businessman is scuba diving. He sees something out of place. He finds temples, plazas in some kind of underwater city.
>> Some 150 ft underground.
>> Steve, do you want to just take us up slowly kind of inch by inch?
>> Yeah, I sure will.
>> You tell me when to stop.
Did >> you see that?
Turn that way.
>> Hold it there for a second.
>> Okay, I’m going to steady it.
That looks like something.
>> I mean, you see the potential of having boulders on top of one another, but I mean, just off to the left or right could be the original man-made structure holding those boulders out.
>> Yeah.
If it was a collapse off a chamber down there or in a tunnel, I mean, we’re going to see bare earth, >> but it’s looks like it has depth. That’s interesting.
>> Yeah, but we do see some potential boulder on boulder again. We’re we’re towards kind of the the rock facing wall, if you will, side of the bore hole.
>> Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure? If so, could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area?
>> If we rotate around this way, you see we start opening up here back into that cavity area right here.
>> That’s just very surprising.
>> Is that what you’re seeing, Ken?
>> Yes.
>> I put the cylinder down and try to define the cavity.
>> That’s a great idea. Yeah.
We can actually see some things, but it’s difficult to understand scale. It’s difficult to get a real interpretation of what you’re looking at. So, the next step here is to introduce the sonar and see how open and how big, how wide, how long this area is.
So, we have here is a scanning 360° sonar.
>> Mhm. the cables marked so we’ll know where that 150 ft is. We’ll get out.
>> Keep your fingers crossed.
>> The Blue Robotics Ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects bottled objects and barriers.
>> We’re in water. We’re in the water.
>> This will produce full scale images of the underground void or possible cavern.
>> Show me the money. Yeah.
So, we’re in the cavity as of right now.
>> Oh, there’s the opening.
>> Yeah, you’re in. You’re in. Okay. Okay.
Right there.
>> Here we go.
>> This darker red line is the opening. You can see how rough it is. And the yellow is lower density returns and box scatter caused by particles in the water.
>> Right.
>> Go down just a little more.
>> Yep.
>> Oh, that popped out [music] further. Is that an opening now?
Looks like around the hard return. We’ve got an opening.
>> Oh, two directions here.
>> Looks like it’s open.
>> Wow. To me, this looks very linear like with an opening here. Interesting.
>> So, it’s 2 ft from side to side right now.
>> This is not natural. It could have been a larger cavity that has collapsed around it. So, >> true.
>> I mean, just out to the left or right, we might encounter what we’re hoping for. Yeah, >> this hole shouldn’t be open. There’s no reason for that. Geologically, there’s no reason for that.
>> We found gold in the water in the area, >> right? It’s open down there. There’s no reason for it to be open unless man was down there doing something.
>> We have precious metals and high silver in the peacock and greater depth in the solution channel.
We’ve always speculated that there was more than call it an offset chamber or multiple vaults. Maybe we just saw one of them. This is a priority target. Now that we have video, let’s contact Brohawk, a company that enhances video to uh have it analyzed. We will incrementally pursue this because we’re trying to find the treasure. Right.
>> Yeah.
There’s every indication here that that could be in this specific area.
>> Yeah, we have a few more holes to drill in this area.
>> Good deal.
>> Okay, let’s make it so.
>> The more Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team dig, the deeper this 230y old mystery becomes.
After making intriguing new discoveries on lot 8 and in the swamp, has the team finally located a treasure vault 150 ft underground in the money pit area?
But if so, is that the only place where Oak Island is hiding its most precious secrets?
Next time on the curse of Oak Island. I signal.
Oh, we got here.
>> It recognized this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
>> That large boulder looks interesting.
>> We’ve been covered in big void right there.
>> What is underneath that boulder?
>> What came in 13.5? What we found suggests human origin?
>> It really seems like it’s a depositor.
Wow.
So, somebody dug a pit there and it wasn’t me.
>> Yeah.
>> Maybe that steak led why they got there.
>> You know who and why, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden stake? If so, could this steak be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
They’ve told us to keep an eye out for these and we’ll definitely have to get Steve out here to pin this.
>> I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it when Steve pins it that Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on, but that steak has to go back a long time. Hopefully there’s more there. But uh that is a great start.
>> Maybe we could find an answer instead of a question.
>> Yeah. So we have to find some answers.
>> We’ll keep going. All right. As the dig in the swamp continues, >> Gary had done a complete scan of the block 5 spoil piles and lo and behold, this item was found.
>> Rick and other members of the team join Lair Deon and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report on a folded copper coin or token found one week ago in spoils that were removed from the round feature on lot five.
>> You were quite excited about that.
>> Yeah. When it came out, I’m thinking, “Oh, it’s some kind of like folded coin.” I’m hoping these are unusual. I have found >> these type of finds in England that’ll detect him.
>> And they’re normally like talisman or >> Yeah.
>> good luck tokens put out there sometimes to ward off even bad luck. But it was good luck for us because we found it.
>> Yeah.
doesn’t cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting of it. Maybe more Catholicism for sure. I would think it’s interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is like 1290. You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle. And that’s how this all started.
>> Yeah.
The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the [music] 14th century lead barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar. They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta, an order with no ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might be.
>> Okay.
>> So, for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not there’s any reliefs or signs that it is a coin. It is.
>> And I’m immediately I’m going to say there’s nothing that I can really see so far.
I mean, we can’t definitively say it’s a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded, it needs to have some value to give literal like weight to the talisman.
So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point. And then the triple folding is quite unusual.
>> Yeah.
>> You thought it would be fairly straightforward.
>> Yeah, we did.
>> Yeah. What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
>> So based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with the zinc content. Zinc being an alloying element is definitively postmed in pre mid 1800s. There’s the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at least around the time of like industrial revolution of mid700s potentially earlier. And then arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
>> Coming out.
>> Yeah, dude. There’s a funny piece in that last pocket.
>> Oh yeah. Oh. Oh my god.