The Curse of Oak Island: Astounding Find Reveals New Theory (Season 7) | History

I know these swages were
rock drills, and I would
go back as far as mid-1400s.
Wow.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island War Room,
blacksmithing expert Carmen
Legge has just shared
an astonishing assessment.
He believes that
the iron objects
found two days ago on lot 21 are
drilling tools known as swages
and could date back as
early as the 15th century.
So as old as 1400.
When would they not
be being made anymore?
Really?
Wow.

And from a blacksmith’s
point of view,
are these crude or
well-made tools?
Which means it’s older?
Medieval, baby.
Yeah, we’re going back, baby.

Even more curious than that,
in the sense that the tunneling
that I think Carmen’s
talking about
would not have been
the kind of tunneling
done over by the Money Pit.
They were just digging
through glacial clay there.
They wouldn’t need this.
So that makes me wonder about
this side of the island.
‘Cause on this side–
Yeah, that’s on this
side of the island.
And we’ve not looked for
tunnels that much over here.
Right.

NARRATOR:
Surveyor-turned-treasure hunter
Fred Nolan long
believed that Oak Island
was once two separate islands.
This was largely due to the
fact that each half, known
as the Eastern and
Western Drumlins,
are comprised of two very
different kinds of geology.

The Eastern Drumlin, where
the Money Pit and Smith’s Cove
are located, is made of
anhydrate limestone–
a sedimentary bedrock created
when a large volume of seawater
evaporates over time.

The Western Drumlin,
which includes
lot 21 and areas of
the swamp, is made
of highly-compacted slate–
a metamorphic rock formed
when clay or volcanic sediment
is exposed to extreme
heat and pressure deep
beneath the earth’s surface.

Fred was convinced
that these two separate
and distinct landmasses
could not have been conjoined
naturally and were
most likely the result
of ancient engineering.

Because a tool like
the drilling swage
would not have been necessary on
the eastern side of Oak Island,
is it possible that drilling
and tunneling were also being
done on the western side–
a side that has until now
remained virtually unexplored?

You know, from recent
history, Fred and Dan,
as they conducted their search
agendas, each independent
of the other, they both came
to believe that the activities
that had been conducted long
ago by what they both called
“original depositors”–
they believe that the activities
were not solely conducted
in the Money Pit area,
that they extended
it into the Western Drumlin.

So now we have tooling
which indicates
those activities might have
been conducted for that purpose.

All right.
Well, again, I thank
you tremendously
on behalf of the group.
Very interesting.
I find all this fascinating.
So I thank you.
I appreciate it very much.
And we will be in contact.

Gentlemen, let’s
get out of here.
Thank you very much.