it is great to be back on oak island rick and marty laguna convened this year's first official
meeting in the war room there are a couple guys standing by in the research center can you okay
i'm up by hey guys nice hey guys all right hey guys i'm over here too but i'm keeping my distance
over to the side good perfect gary you teased us big time the other day and now we're here to see
the unveiling yeah jack has to be held accountable too yeah jack's involved in this that's craig
last week while metal detected near the mysterious structure on lot 15.
gary drayton and jack begley made two potentially significant discoveries
that's an axe an axe head believed to be used for ship maintenance
oh oh no way and what appeared to be an ancient coin of unknown origin that is an old coin
wow let's see it and it was this intriguing find that gary promised to share only when rick and
marty returned in person to oak island this is worth waiting for guys when you get a quarantine
this will lift your spirits mate you're really not gonna show this to us um no
so what was in your top pocket welcome last month i'll keep teasing a little bit longer
jack and i found a nice chunky piece of iron which i believe is an axe you can see
where the socket was broken there and just the shape of that the way it comes down like this
which would put it to the early 1700s 1720 1740 era it's definitely a ship's rigging axe
feel that rick feel air wherever that is you know that's an old piece of iron mate
yeah i mean that's really substantial piece of iron no that's a good find gary that's a
real good find and the laird you about early 1700s it fits in place there okay
good fine no i know this wasn't in your top pocket no you you weren't tilting to one side
i tried to put it in there did it oh yeah that's not the only thing we've got to show
yeah now i know you said that's the biggest fine but you know size doesn't always matter liv
here you go mike pass that around
is that a coin gary yeah it's a coin
it's a coin with a square hole in it well the thing about this is it's got some f to it it's
got that thickness to it and if you look at it closely you can see some kind of symbols on it
you can see embossing almost yeah up along here you have an idea of what it's made out of gary
you had copper yeah to me when you find a coin with a square hole in it like that it's an old
colonial era coin the the locals decided to deface it well i think this was in someone's pocket
think about the coins that were found in that area who's to say this isn't from 16 early 1700s
or even older i think we're getting down to an early date that there was activity up yeah
that's good if there's any remnants of a design on there that will be very helpful
let's do it let's find out what the thing wants to tell us it is a great find gary that's a great
find mm-hmm this is all pre-money pit original story yeah we have all kinds of dates in the early
1700s now late 1600s and of course some going back even farther the real question that perennially
pops up to me is was that when treasure was placed here or something entirely different
artifacts tell a story it's remarkable this place i mean we've got a french connection
we've got british military you know that aligns with a significant amount of fines
but we need more experts or technologies to weigh in there's plenty of evidence
that something super significant happened here yeah all right well this island has teased us
long enough let's this year find it shall we yep all right let's get you back out there
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