This week on The Curse of Oak Island, the workforce detected extra gold on the backyard shaft, dug up an historical properly, and dated an previous oak tree. All of this appeared so as to add increasingly more intrigue to the 227-year-old thriller.
By far, probably the most thrilling factor on final evening’s episode was the invention of extra gold within the side-paneling of the backyard shaft. Last week, the workforce sampled a bit of wooden at 55 toes and located it contained about 0.11% value of gold.
This week, the blokes took one other piece from a depth of 58 toes on the other facet of the shaft. Archaeologist Emma Culligan put the piece into an XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) machine, the place she bombarded the artifact with gamma rays to determine its composition.
And Emma was thrilled to tell the Fellowship that this piece had a fair larger content material of gold.
The archaeologist didn’t specify the precise content material, however she was desperate to level out that it confirmed the gold ranges had been rising as they drilled deeper. Marty Lagina said, “there’s a highly unusual source of gold here.” The guys actually can’t wait to unravel that backyard shaft.
Elsewhere on final evening’s present, the workforce continued to broaden their space of operations, all the time searching for the subsequent potential key to the Oak Island thriller.
Oak Island workforce discovered a second historical properly
The workforce drafted in Billy Gerhardt and his digger to excavate an previous properly on Lot 11 on the north facet of the swamp. Oak Island landowner proprietor Tom Nolan recalled that within the Nineteen Seventies, he and his dad, Fred Nolan, discovered an previous properly with a lot of pottery within the backside. At the time, the 2 Nolans had refilled the properly.
Rick Lagina and the blokes determined to dig it up to have a look. The workforce has change into very desirous about wells ever since Ian Spooner found a excessive focus of silver in a small properly on Lot 26. Ian additionally realized that the properly may date again to the eleventh century.
Billy managed to find Nolan’s properly with out an excessive amount of hassle, and Rick immediately famous that it was of an equivalent design and development to the Lot 26 properly. There are a number of watering holes on the island, however these two are so related that the blokes assume there should be a connection.
There did discover just a little little bit of pottery, however not a lot, and, sadly, any extra digging would require permits, so that they known as a halt to that operation. For now.
At the identical time, the blokes have additionally been engaged on an intricate stone wall close to the properly on Lot 26. The wall has an oak tree rising out of it, so that they concluded that if they may date the tree, they’d have a minimal age for the wall.
To that finish, forestry professional Peter Romkey took a core pattern from the tree so he may rely the rings. Last evening, Peter knowledgeable the blokes the tree was at the least 240 years previous however that they may most likely add one other 20 years onto that determine. The heart of the tree was rotten, that means he was unable to rely all of the rings.
That positioned the tree and, subsequently, the wall as being older than the preliminary discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.
In the meantime, Laird Niven uncovered a bit of charcoal from beneath the wall. This is an natural materials that provides the blokes one other alternative to pinpoint the date of the wall.
Carmen Legge returned to Oak Island with professional advise
Blacksmith professional and Oak Island common Carmen Legge made one other look final evening to impart a few of his knowledge. He examined an previous hook found by Gary Drayton within the spoils dug out of the properly on Lot 11.
As standard, Carmen had intriguing information; he claimed the hook was used to winch heavy cargo. He insisted that it was not used for lifting buckets of water however was clearly for one thing heavier. Everyone is hoping it was treasure!
Carmen additionally dated the artifact to between 1650 and 1690, means means earlier than the Money Pit discovery.
The Curse of Oak Island airs at 9/8c on History.