The Curse of Oak Island: HIDDEN ROAD Reveals Path to Treasure (Season 8) | History

We’re getting down to that layer that the road
was built on. Every scoop, we’re going back another
hundred years in time. Yeah, you’re in the peat now.
Yeah, now we’re into the same stuff they built the
road on. What are you hoping to find in terms of
trying to figure out what has gone on here?
I mean, really, what we’re looking for is
an artifact. Yeah, and finding coal is a big
deal. It gives us an indication of time and
purpose. Yeah, that’s what I’m looking for. Oh,
what I would do is instead of digging it, I’d have
Gary detect this layer and see if he sees anything
down that peat layer. It’s
contemporaneous with the road,
so if there’s anything, it’s right in
here. To me, what’s up, Gary? Over. Yep, Gary.
Yep. Maybe we should detect this whole
surface. I agree with that. I’m coming over.
The underwater road has age on it, and it also
has about 20 inches of sediment on top of it.
So that speaks to it being a little older. It’s
really exciting. And as usual, you go in there
thinking you’ve kind of got it figured out, and you
find something that is completely new to everybody.
Very squidgy down here, no hardly
any metal. I’ll try over here.
Yeah, look at that right here. Check that out—top of
a keg. Wow! So that’s a keg lid to a keg? Yep. How far
down? Right there. Holy crow, that’s very important.
The lower one is the important because it’s going
to frost heave and everything. That’s right,
at the cultural level, right? Like, right at the
pretty much. You’ve got, like, look at
the amount of mud we have over this.
Is what? Just gunpowder to put in kegs?
It was all treasure coins as well.
Could this piece of a keg barrel be more
evidence that the stone pathway was once
used to haul heavy cargo, or, as Gary Drayton is
suggesting, treasure onto Oak Island? And if so,
could it be connected to the piece of the keg
barrel recovered from the money pit in 1861?
Here’s no. There’s no. Yeah, another place is this.
Does this go together? This looks too rounded.
Yeah, they’re different. Different radiuses.
This is very important because this
is down at the bottom of this mud layer.
I think as we move more towards that road,
we’re going to find more and more stuff. I’m
hoping we come up with some more coal. Yeah,
we should get some answers from these two pieces.
I think there’s some information to be gleaned
from them. Might they indicate a certain type of
tool, i.e., a certain type of cultural influence?
I think the thing to do at this point is not to
speculate about the why they’re there or how
they came to be there. I very much look forward
to whatever chemical analysis could be done.
It’s all about the application of science. We
should get some answers from these two pieces.
Should we bag this? Because what if there is
a chemical trace here? Yeah, because it’s not.
Look at how it’s distinctly different, right?
Yeah. Why don’t we do that? I’ll get a bag.
I mean, this little piece could tell us
some things. Hopefully, it tells the story.
Hopefully, there’s more in there
that’ll tell a better story and quicker.