The Curse of Oak Island: MUSKET BALL FIND at Lot 27 Points to French Military (Season 7) | History

And here’s slot 27. Yep, Jack Begley, Peter Fornetti, and metal detection expert Gary Drayton continue to search for clues on Oak Island’s lot 27.

Laura Bank: “We’ve got the magic one, let’s make some magic.”

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Look at that! Walk aside for that.

That’s chunky!

Yeah, an FD chisel. It was on this same lot, seven weeks ago, that Garry, Jack, and Peter discovered what was later identified as an ancient chisel. A chisel that Garry believes could be connected to the 14th-century tumbling tools known as zwei jizz that were found on lot 21.

Because the recent hurricane battered and stirred up the island’s surface, Gary is eager to search the area once again in the hopes of finding any newly exposed clues or valuable artifacts.

“It’s a good place to start.”

“Okay, we really find some good stuff.”

“I’m not feeling it here.”

“You don’t want to go for it?”

“Not feeling any love at the moment.”

“Got something!”

“Yeah, this is a nice repeatable signal. Dig that.”

Might, however, it itself…

In me and what we got here?

That is nice… a bit of cooked lead. Hmm, it’s good when you find cooked lead on old sites.

“Whatever, gander. What’s that little knob for?”

“Yeah, that little knob reminds me of a sprue. When they make musket balls, they would pull them in a mold, and then they would snip all the musket balls off on the line, and this would have just got thrown away.”

It’s old. It’s 17th, early 1800s.

A musket ball dating as far back as the 1700s. Is it possible that the team has just found another piece of physical evidence supporting Chip Reed’s theory about the French military burying treasure on Oak Island in the early 1740s?

“Maybe there was some sort of military force on Oak Island. We know that there were French here, so maybe we’ll find more evidence in the area to be able to pin down exactly who it was.”