The Curse of Oak Island airs at 9/8c on History.Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters and Critics straight to your inbox.īut what projects could the guys be working on and what are they hopping to dig up? The mysterious feature on Lot 30 is very close to the old ship’s wharf on Lot 32. The proximity of these finds to the old ship’s wharf, and the mysterious rectangular structure on Lot 30 led to the guys determining there must be a link. There were a lot of iron items that they suspected may have been related to a stove or a grate.īut there were also some maritime artifacts, such as lead sheeting, which has been used on ship hulls since ancient Greece. While working in a very small area, they pulled artifact after artifact out of the ground, it must have been approximately ten different items. So much so that Marty, Rick, and Laird joined them with the digger. And oh my, if they didn’t hit a bonanza of artifacts. This discovery led indirectly to Gary and Jack Begley performing some metal detecting on the nearby Lot 32, right by the seashore. A high number of artifacts means there was a lot of historical activity
Resident archaeologist Laird Niven suggested that he and the archaeology team immediately get their trowels out and begin examing what it might be. Ian points out that it’s too rectangular to be a natural feature, and Gary Drayton points out that it’s quite close to the ancient ship’s wharf discovered on Lot 32. What is this strange rectangular shape, and is it related to the nearby ship’s wharf? Pic credit: History Ian Spooner and surveyor Steve Guptill have already examined some of the data, and they’ve noted a mysterious rectangular shape on Lot 30 on the western side of the island. Through the use of a drone, the team had the entire island scanned in the hope of creating a map of any previously missed structures or formations. In the meantime, the guys got some results back from the LiDAR scanning done a few weeks ago. Scanning unearths mystery structure, which leads to a trove of artifacts The guys will definitely do their best to locate more of the tunnel along with any secret chambers, and once the Dumas mining crew have stabilized the Garden Shaft, they will then be able to perform some horizontal tunneling, which will hopefully help the Fellowship uncover any secret tunnels and chambers. The majority of the dating pointed to wood from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, meaning it was very likely researcher tunneling. Get updates on the latest posts and more from Monsters and Critics straight to your inbox.Ĭraig Tester is very quick these days with the Carbon 14 dating, and he had some more good news about the wood they uncovered at 70 feet. This discovery instantly fed into Marty Lagina’s theory of a secret offset chamber that he believes the depositors may have constructed at a shallow depth, away from the water and the flood traps, and filled with treasure. This is particularly interesting because there is no record in the historical documents of any structures built at this depth.
The discovery of part of a wood beam at a shallow depth of 70 feet, led them to believe they’d hit a new tunnel. Meanwhile, the guys, led by Terry Matheson and Charles Barkhouse, continued drilling in their search for a tunnel connected to the Garden Shaft, and they were not disappointed. Rick Lagina thanked them, wished them luck, and then left them to their work. Last night’s episode began with the arrival of the Dumas mining crew, who appeared eager to get to work on excavating and stabilizing the Garden Shaft.
As The Curse of Oak Island team searched for an offset chamber, Gary Drayton uncovered a mysterious bounty of artifacts indicating high levels of historical activity on the eastern side of the island.
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