Chiseling Away at the Mystery of Lot 19 Exclusive (Season 12) | The Curse of Oak Island

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While looking for the legendary
flood tunnel at Smith’s Cove,
we found a possible chisel.
That is exciting
because it might have been used
to carve symbols on anything
from the 90 Foot Stone
to the U-shaped structure.

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GARY:
It’d just be nice
to see some flood tunnels.
-Anything.
-It’s what we’re here for.
See… basically rocks.

RICK:
We are in Smith’s Cove
looking for
the original flood tunnels
that flooded the original
Money Pit.
And the Restalls believed
that they had tracked
the flood tunnels
to a point where they converge
towards the Money Pit.

-Just even a piece
of cement comes up.
-GARY: Yeah.
So that’s what we
are hoping to find.

(beeping)
I got a signal, Rick.
Little bit of an awkward place.
I’ll try pinpointing it first,
see if we can narrow it down.
-(steady tone)
-It’s just here.

-Is that it?
-That’s it.
That’s it.
What we got here, mate?
It’s the same thing as before.
Ooh, no, more interesting.
Look at that.
-This is different.
-RICK: Yeah.
GARY: Look, you see
how that comes down, it’s a…
-It’s chiseled down to a point.
-RICK: Yep.
Could be a tool.
Or it could be a fastener, mate.
Either way, it’s cool
and it came out
of that last load.
Yeah, and that’s fairly deep.
This is gonna be a great scan.
And we’ll let the detectives
back in the lab
figure this one out.
-Mm-hmm.
-But what I like about
where this comes from
is the old slipway,
the U-shaped structure…
Could– This could’ve
come off anything.
And that is an oldie.
I’m holding it in me hand,
and I think I’ll cancel
my gym membership.
-That is bloody heavy.
-Heavy.
-Yeah.
-Show it to Billy.
-Do you feel how heavy it is?
-Yeah.
Well, it got to be a chisel
more than a fastener, I’d say.
-It’s cool.
-Yeah, that, that makes sense
to me.
The U-shaped structure had all
those Roman numerals, wasn’t it?
-BILLY: Well…
-They must’ve been
chiseled off something.
Yeah, that would be cool,
though, if it’s a chisel.
If we are in the area of the
convergence of flood tunnel,
we could find anything.
-Tool that was used
to make the tunnel.
-Right.
Could find tools
from the Restalls
that they used
to put the forms in,
we might find
a little bit of concrete.
We might find anything.
Bloody good find.
-RICK: Very good.
-Yeah.
Okay, let’s hope there’s
something else in there.
All right, we’ll put
this to the side.

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So, these are, uh,
three artifacts
that Rick and Gary
found metal-detecting
the spoils in Smith’s Cove.

ALEX:
What we’re looking
for in Smith’s Cove
when we’re doing this dig is,
we’re here because
the Restalls believed
they’d found
the flood tunnel there.
-Right.
-They pumped concrete down
to 30 or 40 feet into what
they believed was a flood tunnel
because it slowed water down
in the Money Pit.
We don’t know where the Restall
work was when that happened,
and we don’t know
where the flood tunnel is
or if it even exists.
So, with these three items,
are any of them old enough
to be possibly part
of either the installation
of a flood tunnel
or the structure
of a flood tunnel?
Do they confirm that it exists?
Do they confirm
we’re in the right location?
Those are the– those are
the questions that I have.

Yeah, so that’s kind of where
the metallurgy comes in.
Mm-hmm. So, what do you
think they are
and how old
do you think they are?

So, the compositions of the
iron rod, fastener and chisel
are all quite similar in the
fact that they’re all modern,
so post-18– mid-1800s.
-This might be the most modern.
-ALEX: Mm-hmm.
-LAIRD: Really? Hmm.
-EMMA: Yeah.
‘Cause it’s got a very
consistent manganese content
that doesn’t stray away
too much.
-So that one could
possibly be early 1900s.
-ALEX: Mm-hmm.
-Oh.
-Yeah, yeah.
Probably not
the Restall work, then.
Mm.
Well, that’s solidly searcher,
I guess.
Solidly searcher.
I have no idea what to do
with that information, though,
because why didn’t we find–
If it’s searcher-related,
why are we only finding those?
Where’s the rest of it?
We know they did a lot of work.
We-we are certain
they did a lot of work.
I mean,
that’s historical record.
It’s fact.

Well, remember the work
that Dan Blankenship did
down in Smith’s Cove.
He did a lot of bulldozing.
So he might have
moved stuff around
and might have
pushed other artifacts
just completely out
of the area we’re searching.
That is a very good point.
That is a very good point.
But also, before the causeway,
the major place
to load and unload
was Smith’s Cove.
-Smith’s Cove, yeah.
-So these tools might have been
destined for the Money Pit
but just lost on the beach.
Which would explain why
there’s not very much there.
If-if not a lot of work
had been done
-in Smith’s Cove at the time…
-LAIRD: Mm-hmm.
…that would explain why we’re
not finding a ton of stuff
that matches with these.
But again, we do know
that a lot was done later,
so, you know,
wherever Dan Blankenship
pushed all that stuff,
there’s…
-Either he found it or-or
there’s more to be found.
-Yeah. Yeah.