Oak Island Latest OFFICIAL Excavation Resulted In An AMAZING Find!

Lot 5 has been a better place to look than just anywhere.
I’m still hoping to find something interesting, something valuable, a clue.
The soil on Lot 5 is hiding a secret that changes the entire timeline of Oak Island.
For two centuries, searchers have focused on the money pit, believing the treasure lies deep underground.
But the latest official excavation just shifted the spotlight to the surface.
If this could be a clue to figure out what the heck was going on here and how it associates to the money pit.
Yeah, I think there’s something here.
There’s certainly a possibility.

Marty Lena and his team uncovered evidence that proves people were living and working here long before the 1700s.
It is not just about gold anymore.
We are talking about a specific type of metal that should not exist in this dirt.
What they pulled from the ground defies the history books.
The phosphorus fingerprint.

Here is the deal.
When you think of Oak Island, you usually picture massive drilling rigs and deep shafts.
But some of the most game-changing discoveries are happening right under the ferns on the surface.
We are on lot five, a specific plot of land that has quickly become the most interesting place on the entire island.
Marty Legina, his nephew Peter Fornetti, and detectorrist Katcha Drayton are battling the brush to find answers.
They are working near two very strange features.
One is a rectangular footprint in the earth and the other is a rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.

Action Ka, you know where I brought the skid steer in disturbed all the soil here.
Yeah.
Why don’t you scan this?
What the heck?
I’d love to do it.
That’d be great.

These shapes in the dirt are not natural.
Someone built them.
And if someone built them, they likely dropped things while they were working.
Marty brought in heavy machinery earlier to clear the area which churned up the soil.
That disturbance was exactly what the team needed.

Katchcha swings her detector over the fresh dirt.
Immediately, she gets a hit.
It is a strong signal, but it is deep.
They start digging, pulling away the roots in the rock.

What they pull out looks like a jagged, rusty piece of junk.
To most people, it looks like a piece of a tractor or an old tool.
But Marty notices something weird.
There is a fastener attached to it.
It has a curve.
It is not just a scrap of industrial waste.
It looks like something people used every day.

They bag it and rush it to the lab.
This is where things get wild.

Lar Nan and Emma Culligan, the science experts, put this rusty shard under the microscope.
The analysis reveals it is cast iron, but it is not modern iron.
The machine detects high levels of phosphorus.

Now, you might be thinking, who cares about chemistry?
But here is the catch.
High phosphorus makes iron very brittle, especially in the cold.

Emma explains that this type of low-quality iron was common in cookware before the 1800s.
The high phosphorus content that’s present throughout an iron creates an iron that is brittle during colder climates and it’s prone to breaking which suggests it being pre-1800s.

Once the industrial revolution hit in the mid 19th century, technology got better and they stopped making pots like this because they would crack too easily.

This means the artifact is likely from the 1700s or maybe even the 1600s.
This is a massive deal.

It proves that whoever was on lot 5 was there a long time ago and they were doing more than just digging.
They were cooking.
They were living.
This shard puts humans on this specific spot of land well before the money pit was discovered in 1795.

It connects the rectangular feature to a time when the island was supposed to be uninhabited.

But if you think an old pot is exciting, wait until you see what was hiding under a rock just a few yards away.
The iron was just the warm-up for a discovery that stunned the entire team.

Digging deeper on lot five

The team is buzzing from the iron find, but they know they have to keep moving.
Lot five is dense, messy, and full of potential.

Marty and Kaya decide to expand their search.
They move south away from the rounded feature, heading into thicker brush.
The ground here is uneven, filled with rocks and roots that make metal detecting a nightmare.
But they keep going.

Katchcha gets another signal.
This one sounds different.
It is crisp.
It is high-pitched.

In the world of metal detecting, a high tone usually means non-ferris metal.
That means it is not iron.
It could be silver, gold, copper, or brass.

It sounds pretty good.
It does.
It’s registering pretty good.
And it looks nonferris.
So, let’s have a go right under that rock.

Marty gets excited.
He knows that the best finds usually sound exactly like this.
They pinpoint the spot right under a large rock.
It takes some effort to pry the rock loose.
The soil underneath has been compressed for centuries.

Katchcha digs in with her tel.
She sifts through the dirt, breaking up the clumps.
Then she sees it, a small round object.

It is caked in dirt, but the color is unmistakable.
It is green.

Now, getting excited about a green circle might seem strange, but in archaeology, green is gold.
Well, actually, green is copper.
When copper sits in the ground for hundreds of years, it oxidizes and turns a distinct shade of green.

Marty picks it up.
His first thought is that it might be a button.
Buttons are common on the island.
Soldiers and farmers lost them all the time.

But Katchcha shakes her head.
She looks closer.
It is too flat.
It is too thin in some places and thick in others.
There is no shank on the back where a thread would go.

She says the magic word
coin.

The energy shifts instantly.
A button is cool, but a coin is a time stamp.
A coin has a face, a date, and a country of origin.
It is a direct link to the economy of the past.

Marty looks at it and agrees.
It looks ancient.

Does it look like a coin?
I think that’s a coin.
I think that’s a really old coin.
All right, way to go. Gotcha.

He notices faint markings that look like a cross.
This is not a modern quarter dropped by a tourist.
This object has been sitting under that rock for a very long time.

Marty immediately thinks of the other coins found in this area.
Lot 5 has previously yielded Roman coins.
Could this be another piece of that puzzle?
Or is it something else entirely?

The team knows they need the expert eyes of Gary Drayton to tell them what they are really holding.

The cross on the coin

Marty gets on the radio.
He calls in the big guns.
Gary Drayton, the metal detecting expert, and Rick Legina rush over to the site.
When Marty calls, they know it is serious.

They gather around Katchcha, who is holding the small green disc.
The suspense is high.

Gary takes the object and brings it close to his face.
His reaction is immediate.

Ooh, that is old.

Gary has dug up thousands of objects and he knows the feel of ancient metal.
He confirms what Katchcha suspected.
It is definitely not a button.
It is a coin, but it is not just any coin.

Gary points out that the shape is irregular.
It is not a perfect circle like the coins in your pocket today.
This is a crucial detail.

Oh, that’s old.
Is it?
Yeah.
It might be identifiable cuz there is writing around the edge that’s partly corroded away.
Yeah.
Definitely not a button.
That’s a coin.
Mhm.
This—this is pre-600.

Modern coins are milled by machines that cut perfect circles.
But centuries ago, coins were hammered.
A person would take a piece of metal and physically strike it with a hammer between two dyes to create the image.
This process left the edges uneven and the thickness variable.

Gary says this is a hammered coin.
That identification alone pushes the date back significantly.

We are talking pre-600s.
That is before the money pit.
That is before the farming era.
That is potentially before widespread European colonization of the area.

Gary looks closer and sees writing around the edges, though it is partly corroded away.
The fact that it is made of copper and is hammered is a huge clue.

Marty and Katchcha are ecstatic.
Katchcha mentions that the metal feels pure.
Older metals often have different compositions than modern alloys.
They don’t rot away like cheap iron nails.

This thing has survived in the damp, salty soil of Oak Island for over 400 years.

Rick is mesmerized.
He holds the coin and says he can see details on the face.

The team starts throwing around theories.
Is it Portuguese?
They have found Portuguese stone markers and theories connecting them to the island.

Is it Roman?
The team has found ancient Roman coins on this same lot before.
If this is another Roman coin, it strengthens the theory that ancient mariners were visiting this island almost 2,000 years ago.

The discovery of a single coin might seem small, but it validates all the hard work on lot 5.
It connects the physical structures, the stone foundation, and the rectangular feature to a timeline that history books ignore.

This was not just a random drop.
It was lost by someone who was doing something important on this land.

The markings on the coin might reveal a connection to a secret order linking the artifacts.

So, here is the crazy part

We have a piece of a cast iron pot and a hammered copper coin found just feet apart.
Separately, they are interesting.
Together, they paint a picture of a camp.
A settlement.

People were here cooking food and spending money long before the history books say they should have been.

The team takes the coin to the lab for further analysis.

The more you look at it, the more stuff you can see on it.
So, the lab’s going to see stuff there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
CT scanner will—yeah.
It’s irregular shaped.
It’s nice and thick.

They plan to use a CT scanner to see beneath the corrosion.
But even with the naked eye, the cross on the coin is a major clue.

In the history of coinage, crosses were very common.
The Portuguese, the Spanish, and the British all used crosses on their copper coins in the 15 and 1600s.

However, the Roman coin area comment by Marty is interesting.
Previous seasons have shown that lot 5 is a hot spot for things that are impossibly old.
If this coin turns out to be Roman, it implies that the rectangular feature might be ancient.

But if it is Portuguese, it lines up with another major theory, the Templar connection.
Many researchers believe the Knights Templar fled Europe and came to North America, possibly hiding their treasure on Oak Island.
The Portuguese Order of Christ was the successor to the Templars.

Finding a Portuguese coin from the 15 or 1600s would be the smoking gun that links the Templars to this specific spot on the map.

And let’s look at the iron pot again.
Emma said it was brittle due to phosphorus.
This technology was phased out.

So, we have two objects that both scream old world.

It basically proves that lot 5 was a hub of activity.
It was not just a place where someone dug a hole and left.
They stayed here.
They built stone foundations.
They cooked meals.

The density of artifacts on Lot 5 is higher than almost anywhere else on the island.

But I hold the coin and I can see things on the face.
So at that point, it’s really become quite exciting.

I mean, we’ve already found five coins, Roman era coins on lot five.

It raises the question—was this the staging ground?

If you were going to bury a massive treasure in the money pit, you would need a place for your workers to sleep and eat.
You would need a command center.

The rectangular feature in the stone foundation look exactly like the footprint of a military or industrial encampment.

The coin is the currency of the people who ran the operation.
The pot is the evidence of the workers who did the digging.

It all fits together.

The team is starting to realize that lot 5 might be the key to understanding the entire mystery.
It is not just about the gold in the hole.
It is about the people on the surface.

The final lab results could identify the exact king who minted this coin.

The puzzle pieces fit.
Rick Laena sums it up perfectly when he calls lot 5 a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

Every time they dig, they find something that contradicts the official story of Nova Scotia.

The official story says this island was farmland, but farmers don’t leave behind hammered copper coins from the 1500s.
Farmers don’t build complex stone foundations near the beach.

The emotional side of this discovery is huge.
You can see it in Katchcha’s face.
She is proud.

Finding a top pocket find, Gary’s term for a treasure you put in your shirt pocket so you don’t lose it, is the holy grail for a detectorrist.

It validates the hours of digging in the mud and the bugs.

But beyond the emotion, there is the data, the science.
The phosphorus content in the iron is a chemical fact.

So, it is a cast iron pot.
There is a slight phosphorus content, but this would not affect the quality of the iron whatsoever because it is cookware.
And you’re certain that that’s what that is based on the curvature?
That’s what we think.
Yeah.

The lack of milled edges on the coin is a physical fact.
These are not wild guesses.
These are hard data points that push the timeline back.

So what does this mean for the viewer?

It means that the Oak Island mystery is real.
It is not just a legend about a hole in the ground.

Real people with significant resources and old-world connections were here.
They left their mark in the soil.

As the team packs up the artifacts, the mood is electric.
They know they have just scratched the surface of lot 5.

If a quick scan with a metal detector revealed these two game-changing items, what lies deeper?
What is hidden under the rest of the stone foundation?

The coin is going into the CT scanner.
The pot chart is being cataloged.

Each piece is a pixel in a larger image that is slowly coming into focus.

The image is not of pirates.
It is of a disciplined, organized group of people who came here with a purpose.
And they brought their money and their cookware with them.

The excavation is far from over.
In fact, with these finds, it feels like it is just getting started.

The history of this island and perhaps the history of the world is waiting to be uncovered, one shovel of dirt at a time.

These discoveries on lot 5 are absolute game changers.

Do you think the coin is Portuguese, Roman, or something else entirely?
And does the iron pot prove a military encampment existed here?

Let me know your theories in the comments below.

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