The Curse Of Oak Island AXIS OF MEDIEVAL 13×19 NO CAP RECAP #moneypit #lot 8 #lot 5 #history

Hello everybody. Video here for you today. This is the no cap recap of The Curse of Oak Island season 13 episode 19 called Axis of Medieval originally aired March 24th, 2026. If you missed any of my recaps of previous episodes, there’s a link to my Oak Island playlist in the upper right. Let’s get into it.
do previously on the curse of Oak Island. People have been looking for an incredible treasure for at least 231 years.
The episode opens on lot 8 at the cradle for the boulder that was lifted three episodes prior.
Alex is able to remove one of the rocks.
Fiona gets new samples. The next episode is called the sands of time. So that’s likely when we will get the lab analysis.
In the money pit area, the TPF1 queson is progressing through the bedrock ledge above the solution channel.
Laser ablazion expert and Oak Island video conferencing veteran Dr. Chris McFarland from the University of New Brunswick is back on the screen in the war room. He has used ablazion for the analysis of the lead artifact found in the lot five spoils earlier this season.
The good doctor says that the incrustation is sodiumrich which means it has been in the soil for a long time.
The artifact itself has silver content which Chris says indicates pre-industrial fabrication. He says the source is central European specifically UK, France or Germany.
It matches what he calls the scalloped artifact found in the lot five big feature in 2022, previously referred to on the show as a barter token, which was also an isotopic match for the lead cross found years ago in Smith’s Cove.
Lexus Carmen leg returns to the lab to give his expert analysis of the two pieces of chain found in the karma one spoils in the previous episode. He says, “A lot of times chains like this were used to create a basket used for lifting and lowering items.” Doug says he pictures a treasured chest wrapped in chains.
Carmen also says that they were made by two different blacksmiths and one knew his stuff a lot better than the other.
Based on the metallergy, the emma dating is mid to late 1700s and the point of origin is Europe.
Doug reminds us of the 1746 doomed attempt by French fleet leader Duke Dunvi to take back Nova Scotia from the British. A ship’s log from one of those ships indicates that they had treasure board and buried it on an island of oaks to keep it safe from the British.
We returned to lot five, abandoned for a while, at least on TV, to focus on the lot 8 archaeology instead.
There are likely several more years of work to be done in the lead artifact discussed earlier would seem to mean that more artifacts are still waiting to be uncovered. on lot five.
Tanzy finds this piece of metal that Lar suspects is part of a button.
He says it reminds him of the button in the upper right here found in the lot 5 feature. It was a reforged item made from medieval period arsenic bronze.
The lead and scalloped artifacts are shown as well for additional context.
Blair later reminds us that there were at least two occupations of this feature, one in the 1700s and an earlier one. He says that this is the main quote unquote yard of the feature, which is an active area that would be ripe for people losing things, and the prospect of finding those artifacts makes him want to keep expanding the hand excavation.
Lar takes the piece of metal to the lab for analysis.
In the money pit area, the TPF1 queson is through the bedrock ledge and into the solution channel. The augur is removed and now the hammer grab and collection bucket will be used for recovery efforts.
Gary and Rip go to search the dumped spoils. Nothing is said about the item on the table. It’s perhaps a drill rod.
Pieces of 1800’s drill rods have been found previously and are thought to be from the Truro Company’s 1849 search activity, which allegedly resulted in the find of the PLO coin presented to the team in the season 13 premiere.
Gary Forge is in the muck for this piece of wood that Rick saw during the dumping.
Arty says it’s not part of a tree that just fell in. It’s been cut.
Alex says it could be part of the head and shaft from 1931 built in an attempt to recover the 7 foot tall vault drilled into by previous searchers.
The image is an artist’s rendering of the shaft missing the vault by just a bit.
Craig does the Dan blanket chip water bucket test on the piece of wood which sinks to the bottom immediately.
Floating indicates more modern wood that would be from searcher activity. Sinking indicates older wood.
Marty suggests that since they are looking for the remnants of the long ago collapsed original money pit shaft and contents that this wood could be part of that collapse.
The next day, the TPF excavation continues.
The collection bucket is dumped into the spoil search area and Gary gets a signal from his metal detector that results in finding what he thinks is a chunk of iron. He points out how black it is and that the level of incrustation means it’s been there a very long time.
Craig gets that collection bucket depth so they know how deep the find was. 193 ft below any searcher efforts except damn blanking chips bore hole 10x that went to 210 ft.
Rejoice trolls, there’s yet more wood.
Craig’s right thumb is touching a side of it that he says is more dry and sandy unlike the normal muck they’ve been bringing up.
Terry explains that it indicates a solid material right next to loose slushy material which could mean a void. Marty says it’s the deepest piece of substantial wood they have ever found.
The sand mentioned could be another reason the next episode is called the sands of time.
A metal detector hit in the set of spoils is caused by a button head that was attached to a smaller queson. Not from any of the currently used equipment, but from a former queson shown here in an artist’s rendering.
The dig is on the bottom of the solution channel now at 215 ft. They’re continuing to find wood, which you’d expect if your original money pit shaft and a searcher shaft or three all collapsed and fell down into the channel.
There are no metal detector hits in this last bit of spoils, but they will next go through the wash plant. It’s time to pick the next bore hole location via video conferencing. Archoastronomy expert, Professor Adrianiano Gaspani, and in his interpreter, Marzia Sebastiani returned to the war room to share his findings on the alignments of the three France churches presented to the team during the previous episode by researcher Charlotte Wheatley.
And of course, the secret lies with Charlotte after her work studying the Zena Halpern map. They are near the west coast of France and their orientations all point to Oak Island.
Professor Gaspani first confirms Charlotte’s findings. He then shares that the lot five structure aligns with the risings of denb in Sirius and the setting of homal and pleades and adds that those stars are important in templar astronomy.
The slide says that the celestial targets identified at lot five and in the Cherola, which I think means the cradle on lot 8.
It was not explained what that refers to, match those of the church of Santi Redande in the city of Tam.
That suggests the two Oak Island structures were built in the same time period, in this case the 1200s.
Professor Gustani narrows it down using this stone from the lot five structure, presumably the closest one, and gives the year 1236. Nolan’s cross had previously been dated to the 1200s. The similar dating makes it even more likely that the Templars constructed all three sites. Milaniano adds that the churches in France were built very late 1100s into the very early 1200s.
The ending narration by Robert Clotworthy mentions that lot five and 8 are places that no one else has searched for clues to the mystery.
Next time on an allnew The Curse of Oak Island episode called The Sands of Time airing March 31st, 2026.
After finding evidence of ancient man-made workings in the swamp, the team makes a shocking revelation on lot 8.
And the episode after that, April 7th, it’s called a sacred symbol. There is no synopsis for that one yet.
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