rick laguna along with metal detection
expert gary drayton
look at all these like see ya flags mate
have arrived at lot 25 in the hopes that
critical new clues
and evidence of valuables can be found
on the property
that once belonged to former 18th
century american slave
turned wealthy oak island landowner
samuel ball
lot 25 mate lyrd was good enough to let
us come in here
to melt the check around this samuel
bull foundation
although he was known as a simple
cabbage farmer from 1786
when he bought his first lot on oak
island until his death in 1846
samuel ball would mysteriously become
one of the richest men
in the entire province ultimately owning
nine lots on oak island
as well as several more on the mainland
this has led many to speculate that
perhaps he found at least a portion
of the legendary treasure
until recently this area was completely
off limits to rick
marty craig and the team however
with the help of archaeologist laird
niven they are now legally permitted
to conduct supervised surface
investigations while laird and his team
carefully excavate the foundation and
surrounding area
but as you can see there's a sea of
flags here in the grid
yeah the grid work and what i've been
doing
is flagging all the non-fairest targets
i can get right um well we'll see what
see am i
okay let's go see what we can find
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i have high hopes for the day yeah so do
i know
there's no mistaking my pink flags i
think there's eight and nine in this
area
there is some interest in it here for
sure
all of these are good two-way
repeatables
and it's just ceremony
what do you think um all i know is more
than likely it's not iron
and it should be something good
because i mean samuel ball was here a
long time ago
and no one's ever lived here since the
early 1800s
okay see if you've moved here
still a good two-way repeatable
oh it's in my hat
look at that oh it's a bit of lead
always a great sign i think that is not
too
far off the size of a musket ball
so this could possibly be it's either a
lead splash
or a musket ball
when i say a lead splash that is
the remains of musket ball moulding
and i'm sure samuel ball made his own
musket balls
but that's a great sign whenever you
find old lead
on an old site good news is that it's a
good start right yeah
one flag one fine yep exactly you're
gonna have to
mark what we found okay every find
on lot 25 certainly can be partially
attributed to
samuel ball in his life that he created
for himself on lot 25.
all right next one's over here
the man is an enigma he's a mystery and
slowly but surely we're pulling back the
veil on his
life and what he accomplished and what
he did and maybe
what he learned about the oak island
mystery
that sounds very very good if i was
guessing what this was i'd say that is
your typical
coin or button signal
right there mate
coin or a button on this one right okay
pretty hard bar there
they were metal detecting in a very old
area
yep got it out your sound's good
dylan's done it
oh
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i do not know at the moment
it looks like
i know it's thick but it kind of reminds
me of the back of a pocket watch
part of a pocket watch found on the
property of samuel ball
could it have been something he bought
with the wealth that he mysteriously
came to possess
or could it have been part of a valuable
discovery
that he made while living here
is a steep curve but it looks like there
would have been an old air and an old
layer so
i am unsure on this one i have no idea i
know it's fragile
i know what it is it's a top pocket vine
it really is a top pocket five mate
we found it and we'll bag it and tag it
that's the safest place for it on to the
next
hopefully this one is just as productive