The Curse of Oak Island: MONUMENTAL EVIDENCE on Stone Pathway (Season 8) | History

Hi chaps, hey Gary, Michael’s here to hopefully
help you guys recover what you’re searching for.

One day after the Oak Island team discovered the
remains of an ancient fire pit in the middle of
the stone pathway running along the eastern border
of the swamp, Gary Drayton, along with Michael John,
joined Dr. Ian Spooner and archaeologist Miriam
Emerald and Dr. Aaron Taylor as they continue to
carefully excavate the site as well as expose
more of the pathway to determine just where
it is leading.

I guess Rick wanted you to go over the spoils.
Okay, wow, there’s plenty of spoils.
We got lots of spoils, so we’re gonna work here
and give us a scream if you get anything.
All right, we’ll get stuck into the spoils.

It is the team’s hope that Gary and Michael
can find more clues and artifacts that will help
precisely date the fire pit and the stone pathway,
as well as identify who made them.

Good place to start, just here.

That didn’t take long, did it? Oh, just in there, mate.
Okay, mate, I’ll have a recheck. Is this what
we got here? I mean, it’s quite heavy. It feels
old, it’s irregular, it doesn’t look modern.

No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t look factory machine
made, so it’s pre-industrial revolution, but
maybe even older. Now, it could be some kind of
I don’t know, maybe a wheelbarrow handmade, maybe it
was off a car, an axle of a cup. So maybe this was
connected to those ox shoes, which were along this
trail.

Could Gary be correct that he and Michael
have found a wheel bearing that came from an old
cart? If so, could it be connected to the large iron
ring bolt and the parts of keg barrels the team
has recently discovered along this stone pathway?
Discoveries which not only date back as much as
400 years or older, but also serve as evidence
that the pathway may have been used to transport
heavy cargo off of a ship and onto Oak Island.

Aaron, can you come and check this out, please, mate?
Sure. We found this irregular piece of
iron. It just, it’s got a heavy feel to it.
Looks kind of oldish.

Well, that’s a pretty cool find. I was thinking maybe it was off a car axle.
I have no idea. Oh, it’s not modern.

Potentially, yeah. How about I bag it
up and I’ll take it to the lab?

Okay, Meg. All right, that’s great. All right, on to the next.