The Curse of Oak Island: Stunning Hand-Painted Artifacts Found (Season 8) | History

Hey, Aaron?
Do you want to come
check this out?

NARRATOR: In the uplands
near the Northeastern border
of the Oak Island swamp,
archaeologists Miriam Amirault
and Dr. Aaron Taylor, continue
to search for more evidence
that might tell them which
direction the mysterious stone
pathway is heading.

AARON TAYLOR: Oh,
what do you got?
Look what I just found.

AARON TAYLOR: Oh, nice!
Hand-painted.

MIRIAM AMIRAULT: I haven’t
seen colors like that.

AARON TAYLOR: Yeah.
Blue, pink, and green.

AARON TAYLOR: Wow!

NARRATOR: Hand-painted pottery?
Discovered near the
pathway in the uplands?
Was it left behind by
someone after the discovery
of the Money Pit in 1795?
Or is it evidence
of much earlier
human activity on Oak Island?

It’s almost like a–
a base of maybe a teacup
or something or a bowl.
Do you see that face?
Yeah.

RICK LAGINA: Hey, good morning.
AARON TAYLOR: Hey, Rick.
MIRIAM AMIRAULT: Hi!
Miriam just had a–
Look what I just found.
–interesting find.
Oh!
In the black or–
Yeah.
Here you go.

RICK LAGINA: What
do you make of it?
AARON TAYLOR: Hand-painted.
MIRIAM AMIRAULT: Hand-painted.
Isn’t that pretty?
RICK LAGINA: It’s very pretty.

The thing about doing
the archaeological work
with Aaron and Miriam is that
you learn to pay attention.
You learn that the
most insignificant
fine might be highly revealing.
This is what archaeology is
about– finding artifacts,
studying them, dating
them, and then weaving
them into an understanding,
a story, if you will,
of what happened.
This is certainly quite unique.

AARON TAYLOR: What
the ceramics do
tell us is that this
was exposed when
those ceramics came down on it.
RICK LAGINA: Right.
But right now, the question is
does this connect to the road?
I mean, is it
believable to think
that this is all man-made?

Well, we know parts of
it are definitely man-made.
In here is definitely man-made.
RICK LAGINA: Right.
AARON TAYLOR: I think
it’s stronger that it
moves up land at some point.
And the road connects to there.
It’s coming along here,
stops, and turns up here.
And that’s why I want
to see if Billy’s
available to take
another bucket width back
to see if this is something.

RICK LAGINA: So
for right now, I’ll
talk to Billy about digging
this and digging that.

• Great.
• OK.
  Thanks, Rick.
  Thank you.
  Good find, Miriam.
  Yeah!
  It’s exciting.

Aaron and Miriam have decided
that they’re going to take
basically a leap of faith.
This road has to go somewhere.
And there are
significant clues that
have led them to believe that
the road has turned upland.
And thus, they’ve chosen
to open up some test
pits around this stone path.
The hope is that we can follow
it in some way, shape, or form.

Billy, if you would be
able to pull back this area,
then maybe we can see if
the road’s coming up there.

BILLY: OK.
That’s the perfect
depth, Billy.
That’s great, Billy.
That’s perfect.
I think this is good for now.
Thank you.

OK.
AARON TAYLOR: So
we can get in here
with our shovels and trowels.

MIRIAM AMIRAULT: If
maybe just we can get
that little blob out of there?
I’ll get that out
with the shovel.
Yeah.

What’s that?
Did you see this?
There’s stone here.
AARON TAYLOR: Wow.
MIRIAM AMIRAULT: I’d say that’s
exactly what we’re looking for.
Yeah.

NARRATOR: Evidence
of more cobblestones?
Could Dr. Aaron
Taylor’s intuition
have paid off with the
discovery of another section
of the stone pathway leading
further into the uplands
away from the swamp?
If so, just where is it leading?
And what will the team find
when they reach its end?

And the stones are here.
So then they stop.
AARON TAYLOR: I’m
thinking that’s telling
me the road’s probably stopping
here and coming up this way.
The path appears
to have turned
to the upland at this point.
And all the treasure associated
thoughts around Oak Island
are, of course, based
in the money pit.
Well, we’re certainly
headed in that direction.
And so I have every
reason to hope that we’re
following the right path.