The Curse of Oak Island: CRUCIAL CLUE Reveals Human Activity at the Swamp (Season 8) | History

This is pretty neat. It’s amazing. Jack Begley,
Gary Drayton, Laird Niven, and Billy Gerhart
continue efforts to uncover
the mysterious stone pathway
in the southeast corner of the swamp. We’ve
got a good plan in place. Billy is going to
be scraping the surface mud off the feature,
and he’s going to be dumping the spoils.
This should be the mother load of coins and
artifacts that we’ve been waiting for in the swamp.
Got a good sounding target here, Billy. Good.
I can find a bugger. Oh, hey, it’s an old coin. What?
While investigating the spoils just removed from
atop the stone road in the southeast corner
of the swamp, it looks like an old copper coin.
Metal detection expert Gary Drayton has just found
what could be a telling clue.
“You sound excited.”
“You got that right, mate. Just pulled
out a coin, old, I would say late 1600s,
early 1700s, and it came out of that fill here,
Bill.”
“Yeah, yeah, just right here in front of me.”
“It’s kind of weird because the
1652 Mervy came out of a mound.”
“Oh [ __ ]! What is it?”

Over the past decade, during Rick, Marty, and Craig’s search operations,
they and their team have found a number
of 17th-century coins in and near the swamp,
including a Spanish eight-copper mayor of a D that
dated to 1652, as well as two English coins dating
back to as early as 1673.

“I can’t believe it. Honestly, that’s pretty cool.”
And just last year,
the team found a circular man-made formation
of boulders at the so-called eye of the swamp,
which geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner dated to
approximately 1680.

Is it possible that they have
now found more evidence of human activity in the
Oak Island swamp dating back to the 17th century?
If so, could it also help identify who may
have constructed this mysterious stone pathway?
And was it built by someone looking for treasure,
or by someone who made a deposit?

A coin expert
should be able to get this cleaned up enough to
get some features off it. To me, that looks like
an old colonial copper. Well, the hope would
be that it was contemporaneous with this.
“Yeah, no, it’s a pretty cool find.”
“Yeah, that’s a top pocket find, Gary.”
“I believe it’s a top pocket.”
“You know what? And there might be more in
there.”
“Yep. Okay, okay. You make more finds, we’ll try.”