hey carmen oh look at here
alex leguiner and jack begley arrive at
blacksmithing expert carmen lake shop
in centerville nova scotia they are
eager to have him examine the recent
finds
made by jack and metal detection expert
gary drayton
on lot 15. all right let's start with
this one
so all right let's have a look you're
gonna know exactly what this is
immediately
because we've come and shown you these
before and we have a couple different
oxygen oh it's a knock shoe yes yes
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it's a winter shoe it's for the uh
outside claw to left front foot a winter
shoe it's a winter shoe
what do you mean by winter shoes they're
fairly sharp here for the ice
hard packs now if it was for a summer
shoe it would be much thicker and
wider and more more robust for the rocks
and the ground
and for a small animal probably 1300
pounds something like that very typical
of the
earlier time periods small british made
shoe
is there a difference between the shoes
that would be used by a british
farmer or you know something like that
versus what would be used by the british
military or would you no
this could be british military yes yes
so that's not the same as the old shoes
that we brought you in years past
no some of them were german and there
was also a few french shoes in there
but this is a british style of shoe that
would be anywhere around 1650 to
1750. early 1700s
yeah yeah this shoe was very typical for
the 1700s
the later shoes are the straighter wider
on the heel would have used
machine made nails not handmade nails
cool
could that mean that the animal these
belong to
was in some way connected to the
mysterious stone structure found
on lot 15 a structure that might also
have been involved in the construction
of the money pit
prior to 1795.
it's an unusual style it's a british
style
was it made here by the british i don't
know we do have a few more from the same
region
right jack yeah we got a couple
different opportunities
my team is much bigger
it's a winter shoe so that's the same
time period as the other one but
it's a little bigger shoe more likely
made by the same maker
just for a bigger animal two different
animals at least
yeah yes
this one here is the same as the other
one um not for the front foot this is
for the hind foot
this one however i can tell is not a
winter shoe it's a summer shoe
one other interesting thing about the ox
shoes is that we found both kinds
on oak island in the vicinity of this
lot 15 structure
which indicates that not only was there
large-scale industrial or military
activity happening
it was happening in two different
seasons for at least a decent length of
time
all these axe shoes were found in a line
that it seemed like someone was hauling
something between
the swamp and the money pit and these
were all found
along the same trail along the same
trail so in order to find
these many shoes along that route means
that there was a major
activity transportation of something
going back and forth there
it's very unusual sounds like industry
going on there
wasn't a couple days it was several
months over a winter and summer
period a massive
excavation possibly yeah
well do you think this piece is related
as well
uh it's very corroded i wish i knew what
was underneath that
it does seem to be a bit of a seam going
down through the middle there
and again you can see the seam down too
there so that means it was molded
and it was along the trail it fell off
the
ox equipment or off of the conveyance
the only thing that could possibly be is
sort of like a finial on top of an ox
cart just a decorative talk
not civilian if it was an off card it
would be military because that's the
only ones that would use
any scroll work or knob work on their ox
cart or wagon finials
what you identified all the other
objects really makes me think there was
an old british military operation of
sorts
between the swamp and the money pit or
that's what it
appears to be we haven't finished
detecting the area so
we'll have to go back and see what else
we can find we'll go back out there and
look for some more stuff
thank you very much all right very good
very good thanks for all the thank you
man
we'll see you soon carmen take care okay
see you later
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