The Curse of Oak Island: CANNONBALL FOUND Near Money Pit (Season 9)

I was looking forward to coming back in this area.
Rick Laguna and Gary Drayton arrive on lot 16 to continue searching for clues along the possible pathway between the swamp and the money pit.
We gotta find something good. Let’s find something good.
I have my favorite shovel, if that helps.
Your favorite shovel and my lucky digger. What can go wrong?
Probably in the top. I expect some junk here because we’re not too far off the lane, sure.
Let’s see if I can pinpoint it.

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There you go, yeah, we’re on it.
Hey, square dale by the look of it.
Big chunky one. Yeah, it’s tough to say how old it is, but I mean it’s heavy.
You know it’s an oldie if that’s maybe the head of the nail, I don’t know.
Yeah, because that tells the story to nail the head.
Oh mate, great start! I’ll tag and bag it.

Okay.

The hope is that you can connect these artifacts with other artifacts that have been found, because there’s always someone who knows something about the most esoteric subject.
Maybe there’s someone who can look at all the spikes and say, “You know what guys, there’s a cultural influence here,” or “Maybe there’s a specific forging technique.”
They are not just static finds; they should be able to tell us something.

One thing I’ve noticed when we flagged this area, Peter and I, is that most of the targets seem to be along the top here and along the bottom.
So the next group of targets are down near the water.

Okay.
Hold it.

Well, look, look, look mate, you see what I see?
Oh yeah, look at the shape of that.
Whoa, look at that.
It’s a round shot. Wow.
Dang, that is a nice find.
A piece of round shot.

Although dating as far back as the 12th century in China, round shot is a spherical projectile designed to be launched from both cannons and handheld firearms.
While the early form of round shot was made of stone, it was eventually replaced by iron throughout Europe in the 17th century.

Steve, yes, look at this.
Oh wow.

Last year, while sifting through the spoils excavated from the money pit area, treasure hunter Michael John discovered a very similar small round stone.
Have you seen this, Gary? This is a dress stone or a gun stone. This is really, really old.
Before the days of cannonballs, iron cannonballs, could this piece of stone shot found between the swamp and the money pit and the one found last year in the money pit area itself be connected?

This being stone shot, I wonder where this came from.
You’d have to say it came from a war, which is not too far away and about the right distance if he was firing a small cannon.

How big a cannon is that, Commander?
It would more than likely have been like a small rail gun that would have been attached to the side of the boat, and this would have been an anti-personnel ammo.
It would have been like scattershot.

It would be interesting just to bring like a rototiller up here and see if there’s more of them.
We really should.
Thought it was a bird’s egg when I first saw it, but that just goes to show, mate, using your twin optical scanners.

Oh yeah, it’s amazing.
Surface find—rarely do we find those.
Oh, without them.