The Curse of Oak Island: BINGO! Gary Strikes Gold with Two Amazing Finds (Season 8) | History

Near the southwest corner of the swamp,
ready for a great day at the beach,
yeah, we got perfect weather, don’t we?
Metal detection expert Gary Drayton,
along with Rick and Marty’s nephew David Fernetti,
arrive at the shoreline of Lot 32.

A good place to start, mate. Anything we
find in this area
is gonna be interesting if it connects
to a wharf. Great, well I’ll let you do
your thing.

Okay mate, look at that, what do you got?
It looks like a piece of finished wood.
Two weeks ago,
the team unearthed a possible piece of
wooden railing from a large
sailing vessel and encountered a massive
obstruction
while excavating near the southern
border of the swamp.
However, because the weather has now made
it too difficult to dig anymore this
year within the muddy bog,
it is Rick, Marty, and Craig’s hope that
Gary can locate more
valuable clues along the man-made beach
that could help solve the Oak Island
mystery.

[Music]
Very quiet, isn’t it? Yeah,
I mean, I don’t want to go too far away
from this area,
so the next line up, let’s take this line,
we’ll
bypass these two rows of seaweed and
we’ll take these rocks along here.
Sounds good.

Signal here, David just said, “Mike.”
Yeah, you got it out. Nice one, David.
Is that it?
Let’s see what we’ve got here… oh my gosh.
And it is brilliant. Can you see what
this is, mate?
That is a trigger guard off either an
old musket
or a pistol, and that would date from
probably 1650 to 1750.
I mean, this is fantastic, and this is
only our like
second line across here. I’m going to put
this in my pouch,
recheck the old, and let’s find some more
artifacts. Sounds good.

It’s undeniable now that there was
substantial activity here
in the late 1600s, early 1700s.
What was that? Some military expedition
that we’re unaware of,
or was it the original depositors?
Another good sounding signal here, David.

[Music]
See my aunt, very
interested. Oh, wow, look at that, mate!
This is really, really special.
This is old. This is an old
lead cloth bag seal.

A lead bag seal was used
when an old sack, yeah, was sealed.
They tied the sack, and they put a seal
on it. This is a very important
find, mate. We’ve just struck gold with
this piece of lead, mate,
dating back as much as 800 years.

Lead bag seals were generally rounded
metal clamps
used to secure goods inside textile
packaging.
What makes this seal a potentially
important discovery on Oak Island
is that they are uniquely designed to
identify qualities,
such as the manufacturer and also
country of origin.

Could this seal be connected to other
ancient discoveries
made in and near the swamp this year,
such as the pieces of 15th-century keg
barrels,
or the massive stone road believed to
have been part
of a ship’s wharf? This is an awesome
leather effect. This is a really old
piece,
but just a type of artifact you want to
be recovering
in an area where you believe is an old
wharf.

Bingo! We have it. Gold on this one.
We won’t know until this is cleaned up,
but this is
very, very important. This is the first
lead cloth bag seal
that we found on the island. Does that go
in the top pocket?
You without doubt, mate.
This is a true top pocket fine.

I think this is so special we should
take it to the research.
We’ll come back here. I mean, this is
fantastic.
They show the guys what we’ve found.