The Curse of Oak Island: ANCIENT PICKAXE Tied to Money Pit Origins (Season 8) | History

How about we start here? Yep, good place. Jack Begley and metal detection expert Gary Drayton.

I like the look of this, Jack. Arrive at Isaac’s Point on the far eastern end of Oak Island. This is an area where spoils removed from various excavations in the Money Pit have, over the years, been used as landfill.

They are hoping that after years of soil erosion due to a number of harsh winter storms, any valuable objects or artifacts are now closer to the surface and thus easier to detect and retrieve.

Anything that’s been flushed in and out of the winter storms, they’re now spread out around the end of Isaac’s Point. It’s a great opportunity. Let’s grab the gear and get stuck in.

I like it. The best way of searching the area is to zigzag along from the tree line down to the big boulders. It could be anything, anywhere.

I got the large coil on. I know this can get small targets. Anything that seems like it could be older iron or, you know, a good size.

I say we dig because I’d like to recover it.

All right, mate, let’s go recover a bit of history. Gonna go all the way to the end here, just in case.

Well, I define there, Gary. That is definitely not iron. It’s just right there. Yep, I would bet your last dollar that this is not iron. Let’s see if you can get it out.

What the heck is that? That a puta spoon bowl? That’s what that looks like. It’s got that right shape, and it would have been an elongated spoon bowl like that. It would have gone toward like a rounded front. If it’s pooter, that’s your typical mid-1700s, mate.

So, that could have been a depositor maybe, or even a searcher in the Money Pit. Yeah, that was eating using that spoon.

Yeah, if it is a poota spoon bowl, mate, that was the poor man silver of the day. Nice little find. Not exactly a super bowl, but it is nice.

All right, let’s recheck the area. I’ll see if there’s any more parts to it. Maybe we broke a piece off, possibly.

Go. We got more. Solid signal as well. Let’s see if— I think it’s still there. Oh, yeah.

I’ve gone down to it. It’s right in the side. All right, I’m gonna…

Yeah, you deserve a bottle of water after this.

I’m sure. What the…? It’s a pickaxe! That is really cool. This is what I was hoping for, an old tool.

Yeah, broken a long time ago. No, no recent break. Look at the shape, mate. It’s broken here. This ain’t no heavy dewy pickaxe. This is a tunneling pick.

Yes, it is. Look at how short it is. A tunneling pick found among spoils from the Money Pit.

Check this out, it’s an old pickaxe. A broken pickaxe. Last year, while inspecting spoils from the RF1 caisson, this could have been made that way many, many, many years ago, all the way back to the Middle Ages.

The same caisson that recovered wooden beams believed to date back to the construction of the original Money Pit shaft. The team found a pick that blacksmith Carmen Lake suggested could predate the Money Pit by over two centuries.

Is it possible this pickaxe head could have been used for the construction of the Money Pit well over 200 years ago?

All those years ago, it was lost at the Money Pit, and then ends up being dumped here, and then we retrieve it. It’s a fantastic artifact from Oak Island.

Doesn’t get any better than that, mate. It’s what we’re searching for, and that’s what we find in Maine. Come out, let’s keep following this line. We’re doing good so far.