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 line 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