The team unearths a ship's log detailing the burial of
treasure on an island eerily similar to Oak Island.
What I thought
At the Money Pit, excavation on H8 has reached 115ft. They
are turning up a lot of wood from centuries of previous treasure hunters, most
likely the Chappell shaft from early 1900s. The big hammer picker is being used
to bring up all the spoils from within the casing as they head towards 150ft.
In War Room, researcher Doug Crowell Is back with the gang
to reveal more: 6 pages of a ship’s log from a French fleet in 1700s who were
on their way to battle the British and take back Nova Scotia. They failed due
to sickness and weather to even begin the siege. Over 100 of them died on the
crossing, including the duke in charge (who was a Larchwood). The log entry (in
English??) says they decided to dig a pit on an island, of which references in
the text suggest it’s in vicinity of Oak Island. Marty doubts it due to how “perfect”
it is although I’m still wondering why it’s in English when it’s a French
fleet?
Now that the casing is at 155ft and grabber at 150ft, Rick
wants to go a little more carefully as it’s near where they believe the anomaly
is that they found last week. Now, at this depth, the spoils first go to an
area to be metal detected by Gary Drayton before being put on a custom-built
wash table to be cleaned and searched more thoroughly. With the pressure of that
water hose on the contents that Jack uses, I wouldn’t be surprised if he nukes
any evidence! Gary has a few finds in the spoils; first a small metallic nail of
sorts (it’s not really explained) before he comes up with a decent sized metal
spike with some concrete still on it. This must be from Chappell vault as they
didn’t have concrete hundreds of years ago. In the next spoils more goodies
start to appear, like a pick n mix as there’s bone, pottery, bolts and glass. As
the casing reaches 170ft, things grind to a halt as the chief guy controlling
the equipment says that the pressure is so high he feels they are on top of
something significant, although they feel it’s wood. Seems it’s not just the
pressure from x millions spent that’s on everyone’s shoulders …
It’s time for a meeting to discuss what’s next which basically
means they decide to keep going; didn’t see that coming did we? Rick is still worried
about destroying any finds, which is sensible, although most of their methodology
in the past has hardly been gentle. However, whilst the casing is given new
teeth and the outer casing made permanent, Rick and Gary head to Smith’s Cove
for more metal detection. Here they first find a modern bottle top before the
discovery of the season so far; a lead cross!! Rick reckons it looks like the
crosses etched on the wall of the castle room in France that he saw made by the
Knight Templars. I see similarities, I agree. Gary reckons it’s old. Something
like 1200s-1600s. It certainly looks crude and an old style. It’s got everyone excited,
including me, as this appears to be a very significant find, and a fascinating
one.
Rating: 8/10 – Numerous smaller finds from H8 show real
promise, but the find of the cross just knocks the socks off everything else.
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| The grabber continues to get all the spoils from H8. |
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| Gary does his metal magic. |
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| Jack insures they keep the workload down by nuking any evidence in the spoils. |
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| Gary finds a spike. |
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| The spoils reveal more bone. |
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| Jack relives his childhood by rolling in the mud. |
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| Gary and Rick find a lead cross! |
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