You Won’t Believe This New Discovery on The Curse Of Oak Island
You Won't Believe This New Discovery on The Curse Of Oak Island
You won’t believe this new discovery on the curse of Oak Island.
In the hunt for gold or treasure, human beings have been known to go to the extreme, and some of their efforts have panned out. From finding remnants of ancient ruins to coins used 2,000 years ago, you won’t believe this new discovery on the curse of Oak Island.
The team continues to look for places that could give them the answers they need. And this is when they stumble upon something truly horrifying.
The team ventures into Lot 5 located on the west side of the island. This is the place where the team previously found five ancient coins. They had dubbed the area the treasure zone due to the magnificent finds they collected. The coins had been sent in for carbon dating and the results intrigued the team and continued to validate their work.
Three of the coins that were sent to the lab were found to be ancient Roman coins. This means that the coins were over 2,000 years old. This mind-blowing discovery raised the team’s spirits, and now the team has decided to go back to the area and see what they can possibly find.
Rick Lagginina and Gary Drayton arrive at the treasure zone, ready to get working and see what other mysteries they uncover. The area has been dotted with flags that show places where metal activity was high, and the two speculate that one of those areas might contain the secret to unveiling the truth about the island.
Rick and Gary start mapping the area with the flags and they detect something in the first place they check. Rick digs up the area to remove some rocks. He then scoops some dirt in which he finds something that confirms everything the team has been working toward. He finds another small metal coin in the soil and he is excited about what this means.
The team thought that the treasure zone was a path used by the mysterious pirates to stow away their goods. Rick and Gary investigate the object they have found further, and the truth continues to baffle them. Rick says this new object continues to support their theory that the treasure zone might have been the path used to hide the treasure.
The team takes the object back to the lab for further analysis, and they wait with bated breath to see what lies ahead. Could the treasure zone be the answer to solving the 228-year-old mystery?
The following morning, the two go to the interpretive center where they meet archometallurgist Emma Culligan and archaeologist Lar Nan. The two have examined the object found on the ground and have determined what it is. It turns out that the object is a lead bag seal, another one that they will add to their collection.
A lead bag seal is a type of fastener used all across Europe dating back to as early as the 13th century to package large quantities of both military and industrial goods. While this is different from what the team hoped to find, its discovery is continued evidence of what they have been working toward proving with the treasure zone.
Three years ago, the team found another lead fastener west of the swamp on Lot 32. This discovery proved monumental to the island since lead isotope testing suggested something that the team couldn’t believe in their wildest dreams. The object matched not only the red banner token discovered a year earlier on Lot 5, but also the 14th-century lead cross that had been unearthed at Smith’s Cove in 2017.
Rick asks Leard what made him conclude that the object they had unearthed was a lead seal fastener. Leard explains that the pin has two small circles which symbolize how a lead fastener is made. It involved two lead circles brought together and then sealed.
Emma also has her findings after passing the object through the new X-ray fluorescent spectrometer. This is a device that emits non-destructive radiation in order to study the object’s composition. Emma shows the team a graph with the readings from the spectrometer. It shows that the object has little iron and copper impurities.
She has also found out that the bag seal that the team had found a while earlier does not match this recent discovery. However, she has found something else that is very interesting and could be the game changer to understanding the mystery of Oak Island.
The team’s curiosity is heightened when they find strange letters engraved on the surface of the lead fastener. The letters are C, K, E, and R in that order, and they have puzzled the team as they try to understand what they mean or were meant to mean.
Going through the letters and trying to see if they match anything else ever recorded in the system bears fruit as Leard believes he has found the origin of the letters. There is a partial but almost complete seal with the words “Illo Packers London.” This is a cloth packing company from the 1700s. They would pack the clothes in bales of about a ton and then seal them to be shipped.
This new information brings up the question regarding who would use such large amounts of cloth. The team speculates that the military would make such large orders to clothe their soldiers. Leard reports that ironically the company had been listed as Army Packers, so there is a direct connection to the military.
Leard explains that it has been impossible to find the exact date when the Packers company came into existence and that the last entry made in 1888 gives the company’s location in London. However, he suspects that the company is much older and he gives reasons to support his argument.
Leard thinks that the company’s use of the letter I to mean J tells a lot about the fastener. He explains that J’s started being used in the 1500s. So, the company could be older than that. This means that the lead fastener arrived on the island somewhere between the 15th and 18th centuries.
The team takes a minute to think about what they have just learned. The object that they found on Lot 5 is a lead bag seal engraved with words that give insight into its original production area. The fastener was used to seal packages, possibly the cloth that was delivered to the British army to clothe the soldiers.
This means that the team has uncovered an artifact that can be used to tell the story of what happened on the island. However, the team has a question that is still lingering in their minds: How did this fastener get onto the island?
It is quite possible that the fastener had fallen off something that had been hidden away on the island. Wild theories fly around that the pirates had hijacked a ship and stolen the loot, hiding it away on the island. There is also speculation that maybe the fastener had been left behind by someone who came to look for the fabled treasure.
All these findings are so interesting and they prove to the team that there are mysteries to be solved and secrets to be unearthed on the island. The team plans the next course of action and they plan to go to the next adventure well equipped.
The team hopes to find more clues from the Aladdin’s cave and the dense area spotted in the money pit area. They will use high-definition cameras and sonar gadgets to probe the land and see what mysteries they can find over the course of the season.
Armed with the knowledge that something is to be found on Lot 5, Rick and Gary continue their investigation. Gary has once again mapped the area and placed flags on the spots with the most activity. Gary uses his metal scanner to detect something in the soil while Rick digs it out.
The two are amazed to find high activity in a small area. Gary scoops up some dirt and uses his small scanner to detect metallic activity, eventually coming across a small ball. Further examination of the ball proves that it is a small caliber lead shot.
This is an interesting find as it confirms something the team at Oak Island has been suspecting for so long. If the lead shot is consistent with everything else that has been found on Lot 5, then it could date back to the 1700s. This means that the find could be related to the Duke d’Anville ship log. The ship log gave detailed information about a French naval mission to hide treasure on an island in this area back in 1746.
The two men decide to check out another spot to see if they can find something to support their speculation. What they discover next exceeds their level of expectation and takes this mysterious island on a whole new level.
The two decide to continue exploring and the second spot they dig gives them something more shocking. The two find an unusual object which Rick thinks is a shell casing. However, Gary feels that it is not a shell casing and he calls over one of the archaeologists for her input. The archaeologist looks at the object and deduces that the object is gun-related.
The two have found two items that are believed to have some military context. The next course of action is to take this back to Leard and Emma and see what the experts have to say. If these objects are indeed related to the French military, it is quite possible that the team is inching closer toward their goal of finding the hidden treasure on the island.
A day later, the Oak Island team is summoned in the interpretive room to get news about the recent find. Leard explains that the second object is indeed related to old guns as it is a ramrod guide for a musket.
A ramrod guide was invented in Europe near the beginning of the 16th century. It had a ramrod guide designed to help the operator of the weapon into loading lead or stone projectiles into the muzzle of the musket. This new discovery means that the musket is quite old.
However, what is intriguing to the team is the small circular hole at the top of the ramrod guide. Typically, muskets didn’t have them, so this suggests that the ramrod guide could belong to either the British or French Navy. The team has a lot of work to do in ensuring that they get this part right.
Emma then calls the team to attention as she has found something unusual with the artifact. Earlier that morning, Emma had placed the ramrod guide into the Skyscan 1273 CT scanner. This emits non-destructive radiation, which helps recreate a heavily corroded object into a clear 3D image.
This scanner has been effective in helping get the necessary information out of artifacts which would otherwise be lost. It is the one that has helped the team identify various coins and artifacts, helping them find any symbols or markings engraved on them.
The scan reveals something much different from what the team was expecting. First, the small hole on the ramrod guide gets bigger, and this will make it easier for the team to find out where the ramrod guide is from. This will help them determine which military unit was on the island and what they were doing.
The team’s attention is quickly drawn to the top right of the ramrod guide, where they see something truly horrifying and game-changing. There appears to be some Roman numerals carved on the ramrod guide. The team can make out the number nine.
This raises the question why someone would mark their weapons like that, as a ramrod guide is an odd thing to mark. This takes the team back to Smith’s Cove. In the early 1970s, Dan Blankenship had made a strange discovery.
Blankenship was the previous owner of the island and had been following the treasure hunt alongside the team until his recent death at 95 years old. Like the rest of the team, he was determined to find the treasure on Oak Island.
His main point of interest was building an earthen cofferdam that surrounded Smith’s Cove on the eastern part of Oak Island. The dam was supposed to drain the area and help Blankenship and his team find the legendary flood tunnel system.
The flood tunnel system was said to work as a booby trap for the original money pit. Finding the flooded tunnel system would have meant that the team was close to the money pit.
After working for a while, Blankenship stumbled upon something nerve-wracking and mysterious that added to the intrigue of the island’s enigma. He uncovered a 65-ft long U-shaped wooden structure. The structure featured Roman numerals and Blankenship believed the wooden structure was built as a surrounding barrier for the flood system.
Now, the team wonders whether it is possible that the U-shaped structure and the objects found on Lot 5 could be connected to the 1746 ship log detailing how treasure was hidden on the island by the French Navy. If so, the team might be closer to finding the treasure they desire sooner than they think.
The team admits that seeing the Roman numerals is a nostalgic moment as they have found so many markings and symbols over the years, but this is the first time they are finding the Roman numerals since Blankenship’s work all those years ago.
This gives the team hope that there is so much more to be uncovered on Lot 5. The team won’t give up on the lot, but will instead pour all their efforts toward uncovering the treasure they have been looking for.
The curse of Oak Island and the treasures that lie deep within prove to all those involved that the fabled tales of hidden treasure might be true. If so, the Lagginina brothers are determined to be the first to uncover the treasure and artifacts said to be worth over $3 billion.
Investigating further will help put to rest most of the questions that the team has been asked or has come up with. The team is dedicated to ensuring that whatever they do, they do with professionalism and dedication so that they can achieve the success they so dearly hope for.
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This new discovery on Oak Island proves that so much more is waiting to be discovered. It also shows that the theory of the pirates hiding the treasure on the island might be true, and this could help give the team a clue as to who the island’s mysterious inhabitants were.
As the team continues to dive deeper into this investigation, we wish them all the best and hope that the new discoveries lead them to the elusive treasure.
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