The Curse of Oak Island: Hidden Trail Points to Golden Treasure (Season 8) | History

This whole place is covered with fire crack rock
while archaeologists David McGinnis, Aaron Taylor,
and Liz Michaels continue to excavate the
mysterious structure on Lot 15. Let’s go
mate, you keep me straight. Metal detection
expert Gary Drayton, along with Jack Begley,
searched nearby in hopes of finding more
evidence related to the recent discovery
of an ancient Chinese coin. As we get further
away from the guys, we’re actually getting closer
towards the swamp, an area which would
have been traversed back in the day
by anyone working in between
the money pit and the swamp.
We gotta dig this, this is no blasting cap.
There’s a big piece of iron here to sit my
it’s about eight inches, yeah, I
see iron residue, you’re on it.
Another one? Yeah, that’s a smaller one but look how
wide it is. I kind of figured that was going to be
an oxy, and why would you have kind of lined them up?
Though, you’re coming from the harbor in the swamp,
and it’s headed back towards where they’re
excavating right now, the Lot 15 feature.
You’ve got the peninsula down there, you’ve got
the paved area, and now you’ve got ox shoes in
an area where we know there hasn’t been a lot of
furmin, so if we start finding these in one area,
and if they line up, it could be an old track.
Yeah, and it lines right back towards the Tarkill,
a pathway or a track leading from the
swamp to the stone structure on Lot 15.
Is it possible that Gary and Jack are finding
evidence of an operation to move cargo
away from the swamp? If so, could that explain the
massive stone-paved feature the team unearthed
in the swamp one year ago, and also perhaps the
mysterious anomaly detected by seismic scanning,
buried some 50 feet deep in the middle of a
brackish man-made bog? Okay, let’s get back on track,
which is kind of ironic because I believe
this could be a track. I think so too, Gary.
Jack, I got more iron here, mate,
but see, it disappeared completely.
There’s definitely iron here, right there.
Yep, and I can see rust, that’s a good sign.
Yeah, it is. Hopefully, it’s something cool.
Wow, hauling something? Yeah, yeah, I don’t think
it’s a pin. I’ve seen similar things on
horse and ox harnesses where we have these
knobs on the end. I think you might be right.
Yeah, that’s what this reminds me of. Were they
like, put the reins around? Yeah, but this is heavy.
That’s what I like about it. It’s nice.
I think it’s really old then, pre-1800s.
This is amazing. Ox shoes were never really
anything to get too excited about until
you find them in the proper context, so we’re
definitely onto some sort of an oxen trail. Yeah,
that leads between the paved area inside
the swamp over to the money pit. I mean,
we’re looking for tools and signs of
activity between the swamp and where
the guys are working up there. This is what
we want to be finding because some kind of
all-in took place along here. We were under
calling before they had any sorts of roads
or trails. Yep, obviously, they were pushed to
have to quickly make some sort of a trail
and force their oxen through it. Sweet, we’re on
the right track, Gary. Everything is lining up now.