in this video we're going to take a look
at the developments that took place in
season 7 episode 15 of the curse of Oak
Island but before we do we'd like to ask
that if you haven't done so already you
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in the description in light of Gary
Drayton's discovery of an iron bracket
in the swamp in the previous episode
members of the Oak Island team returned
their attention towards the so called
ship anomaly at the beginning of season
7 episode 15 hoping once again that this
feature might be the site of a buried
ship the narrator reveals that the depth
of the ship anomaly is not uniform with
the northern end lying at a depth of 15
feet and the southern end lying at a
depth of 55 feet accordingly the crew
decides to dig a 15-foot deep
exploratory trench at the anomaly's
northern end several feet below the
surface the treasure hunters discover an
axe cut wooden stake similar to those
discovered nearby in season 7 episode 11
unfortunately Billy Gerhart who was
tasked with carrying out the excavation
is precluded from digging his trench to
the planned depth of 15 feet due to the
hardness of the clay that lies beneath
the organic material fearful that they
might damage their backhoe if they
persist the crew decides to terminate
the operation while Billy Gerhart was in
the process of digging the trench gary
drayton conducted a metal detecting
operation in the surrounding area he
quickly came across a metallic object
buried beside a cone-shaped rock this
artifact proves to be a pointy metal
cone in which a wooden dowel is embedded
held in place by two rivets initially
says Rick lagina in a later interview it
looked like a spear point or a Lance
point rather but then we turned it about
and it appears Hollow
later in the episode Marty lagina Alex
lagina and Gary Drayton had the artifact
examined by Corman leg who identifies it
as the tip of a Pike pole a tool used to
maneuver large wooden objects and dates
it from 1710 to 1790 similar to the
bracket he analyzed in the previous
episode
he further apply and that the object was
used to quote maneuver ships in really
really closed spaces unquote
bolstering the theory that the remains
of a ship burned or otherwise lie
interred within the Oak Island swamp in
the middle of the episode the Oak Island
crew members meet in the war room with
author James McCoy Stone who presented
his Oak Island Theory back in season six
episode 20 in his previous war room
meeting McCoy stone had put forth the
theory that members of the Nights
baronet's of Nova Scotia a 17th century
Scottish chivalric order associated with
a short-lived Scottish colony of Nova
Scotia and buried the treasure of the
Knights Templar on Oak Island sometime
in the 1630s I will explain the story of
the Knights baronet in greater detail
later on in this video
in this episode Mack Weston expands on
his theory by claiming that Sir William
Alexander the founder of the
aforementioned Nova Scotian Colony was
the leader of a secret proto Masonic
fraternity the bottom line he summarizes
is that it's more than apparent that the
Scottish clan leaders who became the
Knights baronet's of Nova Scotia had
lots of links to the Freemasons unquote
free Masonic symbolism having been
associated with a number of Oak Island
discoveries made over the past two
centuries the question goes on to
suggest that Daniel McGinnis Anthony
Vaughn and especially John Smith the co
discoverers of the money pit may have
been aware of the existence of the Oak
Island treasure
due to the descent from members of the
Knights baronet and may have
deliberately searched for the money pit
in 1795 after their meeting in the war
room Marty lagina Charles Barkhouse
Laird Niven Steve Guptill and Peter
Fornetti
head to the foundation of the McGinnis
family home on Oak Island slot 21 the
narrator informs us that the team has
acquired a permit to excavate the
anomalies surrounding the foundation
these subterranean features having
discovered by GPR expert Steve Watson
and Don Johnston back in season 7
episode 5 under Nivens direction the
treasure hunters use pins and string to
mark off the locations of the test pits
they plan to dig and begin to excavate
these areas with trowels each load of
spoils is filtered on a sifting screen
and minutely scrutinized under layered
supervision
Rick lagina explains in a later
interview we will conduct a proper
archeological dig of the foundation and
the surrounding area and
near the end of the episode the treasure
hunters resume the excavation of the
trench in the uplands area between
Smith's Cove and the money pit area in
which several large Timbers were
discovered in the previous episode in
this episode they uncover more timbers
as well as several large wads of what
are later determined to be coconut fiber
material said to have been found in
large quantities on Smith's Cove by the
Truro syndicate in 1850 comprising a
layer of what appeared to be a massive
filter intended to prevent the Smith's
Cove box drains and flood tunnel from
being clogged with sand and debris while
incrementally picking away at the
recently discovered wooden structure
with his backhoe Billy Gerhart
intersects a vein of water immediately
the trench begins to flood the water
flow quickly slows to a trickle allowing
the treasure hunters to examine the area
from which the water erupted curiously
the water appears to have issued from a
space between two large boulders which
as Jack Begley remarks bear great
resemblance to those discovered on
Smith's Cove back in season 6 episode 10
which dug Crowell suspected might be the
remains of one of the Box drains Rick
lagina inserts the end of his shovel
into the cavity and finds it to be
oriented vertically and to be deeper
than the shaft of his Spade Jack Begley
then voices his opinion that the wooden
structure might constitute the remains
of a searcher shaft called shaft 5 as
the narrator goes on to explain shaft 5
was sank by members of the Truro company
in the summer of 1850 the shaft was
located about a hundred feet from the
Smith's Cove beach and was intended to
intercept the Smith's Cove flood tunnel
at a depth of about 35 feet the laborers
had encountered a boulder which when
removed allowed water from below to rise
up and flood the shaft believing that
they had indeed intersected the flood
tunnel the Truro company men attempted
to clog the supposed booby trap with
clay and wood pilings that accomplished
they tried to bail water from the money
pit but to no avail
leading some of the treasure hunters to
believe that they had not completely
plugged the flood tunnel and others to
suspect that there might be more than
one flood tunnel feeding the money pit
for those of you who are here for the
summary of the episode thank you for
watching and I hope to see you again
next week
the rest of this video will be on the
subject of the night's baronet's of Nova
Scotia
a 17th century Scottish shovel recorder
around which author James bequests ins
theory is based the story of the night's
baronet's of Nova Scotia begins in the
early 1600s during the infancy of North
American Colonization at that time King
James the first of England who was also
King James the sixth of Scotland hoped
to control a huge swath of North
American territory stretching from his
newly established colony of Virginia to
his even younger Newfoundland colony to
the north his designs were thwarted
however by French explorer Samuel de
Champlain and Pierre de Garcia de Meaux
who had recently established a number of
North American colonies in Acadia or the
Canadian Maritimes and along the st.
Lawrence River the oldest of these new
French colonies was a settlement of Port
Royal a village situated on the Bay of
Fundy on the western coast of what is
now Nova Scotia although King James had
successively commissioned Samuel Argyll
the Admiral of the Virginia Colony with
raising the town to the ground in 1613
the French had simply rebuilt their
settlement eight kilometers or five
miles up the Annapolis River on the
opposite shore if James were to drive
the French away from the colony he would
need to establish a colony of his own in
the area in 1621 William Alexander one
of James's Scottish courtiers approached
the king with an interesting proposal
intended to affect this end
Alexander suggested that the King
finance a new Scottish colony in the
heart of French Acadia by creating a new
shovel recorder and selling membership
to Scottish aristocrats using the funds
raised to purchase outfits for
prospective colonists King James had
tried a similar scheme in 1611 in order
to populate Ireland with English
settlers with excellent results the King
agreed to the proposal and on September
10th 1621 he appointed William Alexander
the mayor of this vast new colony which
was to be called Nova Scotia or New
Scotland several years later on October
18 1624 he announced his intention to
form the Knights baronet's of Nova
Scotia through which he would finance
this new colony King James the first
never lived to carry out his plan dying
of dysentery on March 27th 1625 his
eldest living son
sir King Charles the first promptly
carried on where his father had left off
forming the Knights baronet's of Nova
Scotia
two months after James's death Charles
ultimately managed to sell 122 baronet
C's two Scottish Laird's and clan chiefs
which allowed William Alexander's son
also named William Alexander to
establish the colony of Charles furred
in the ashes of the old Port Royal the
colony was short-lived in the 1620s the
English fought against the armies of
French King Louie xiii in the siege of
La Rochelle a conflict between Catholic
France and a defending army of French
Huguenots or Protestants the
anglo-french war which revolved around
this battle ended in 1629 and in 1632
the defeated Charles the first signed a
treaty returning all of New France
Charles firt included to the French the
nearby settlement of Port Royal known
today by its British name annapolis
royal would remain in French hands until
1710 thanks for watching if you enjoyed
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