TREASURE Hunts and TOP FINDS Revealed | The Curse of Oak Island

You can find anything anywhere in here. You never ever know what’s going to come out your next hole—top pocket find. Pocket find.

Where you headed anyway? Just here. There’s a clearing just here, it’s a good place to start. Whenever you’re in close proximity to The Money Pit, you have no idea the possibility of what you might find. I think we’re all very excited to see what might come of today.

Wow, look at that! Is it a button or a coin? About that… well, David, you are lucky. I’ve got another target. Hang on, nothing—certainly roundness in the hole. Oh, another one! It’s a coin. I’m seeing Britannia on it, definitely some kind of English coin.

I see a one and a six. Looks like it’s got a head on it. Yeah, look who I see—that’s Charles the I! Wow, definitely fantastic! We definitely haven’t found any of these. I mean, well, Marty, maybe I am good luck. You’re God dang right you’re good luck.

I see 1600 something… looks like 1673. Those are probably the most significant thing in a couple of years. Holy sholy, way to go Gary! It’s called treasure hunting, mate—you have to hunt for the treasure. Pretty much sounds good, mate. Got something right down the middle, mate. It’s out, it’s out… hopefully something good.

Oh, that’s fantastic! This is a Bobby Dazzler of a button, mate. This is fantastic. Looks to me like it’s silver, and that’s a starburst design in the center. Yeah, this would have been like a little state symbol back in the day. Nice silver buttons. It is a beauty. Even though I’d love to put this in my top pocket, we know we’ve got to tag and bag it. You know, I’d be curious to see what L says about that one.

Good afternoon. Hi, this is the button that we had. I actually was able to expose at least that much, but it’s so heavily corroded, that’s all that’s available. It is a stamped design on the front, it has a raised foot on the back, and if you look where the silver laminate is broken, that implies that it’s what you might call a mold seam.

And if you add those things up with the Noel Hume guidebook to Colonial artifacts, it says that this can be dated between 1726 and 1776. Really? Yeah, I think the biggest “aha” moment for the years we’ve been involved in this now has been the 1769 date of the slipway, and this brackets right perfectly with that, so it’s a great time period.

Yeah, we don’t know at the moment whether that’s military or not. It could well be. If we can infer that it might be a military coat button, there’s a lot of theories that revolve around the military, right? We found a large amount of military-related items, and so those military-related theories are still with us. Absolutely. It’s shaping up to be a very interesting year, and I look forward to your participation. Appreciate it.

This area is one of the last areas that’s been cleared, and we haven’t detected anything out of place. Everything should be in situ. I love your enthusiasm, mate! I’m PCH, and I’m ready to get stuck in this area as well. Wooo!

Oh, you got a signal, mate? You’re on it. Yeah, I’m on it. Going for it. Wow, oh, you got it! Check this out. Oh, sweet musket ball! Fantastic, mate. This is an oldie as well by the look of it. What time periods for musket balls, Gary? Late 1500s all the way to the mid to late 1800s.

When I think of musket balls, I got to go back to Colonial days on that. Yeah, fantastic! See if it’s got any friends in the area. Oh, that’s a nice signal. Yeah, that’s a nice signal, mate. That’s my best guess. It’s out, mate. Oh, wow, this could be something special, mate. It’s got some little markings on it. Wow, I’m seeing a design on that, mate. But we don’t have to speculate—all the finds go back to the lab, get those guys to tell us what metal it is. It’s an interesting find, that is for sure.

Great find, Gary. This is a little piece that Gary and Jack found on lot 7. I was hoping that it was some kind of coin. You might find what Emma has to say a little more interesting. So what was really interesting about this is the actual material properties. So it’s mainly copper, which wasn’t too surprising. Then it had an extremely high tin content, which makes it bronze, along with a really high arsenic content, which makes it an arsenical bronze, and that stands out to me.

What would be the point of a metal mixture like this? So, anything with like a high arsenate content has a low vaporizing point that’s slower than the melting point of other metals. So during forging or casting, there’d be a lot of arsenic gas in the air, which would affect your nervous system. So there was this long period of it just phasing out, and by the 16th century onwards, it’s non-existent. They stopped making this type of metal in the 1500s.

Yes, that is absolutely brilliant! It is, it is pretty old. Yeah. Alright, well it’s incredibly interesting as everyone has articulated, but it’s time to get back out there and take a look, see what else we can find. Yep, we can do that for sure.

Alrighty, I had a feeling about that. So we should be able to bring back a ton of stuff from here. That is what a button or a coin would sound like. Just an in-baby—be something good. What is that? That’s got some designs on it. Yeah, that has… oh, that’s cool.

This reminds me of like a cap badge, a military cap badge. This would have been a decoration on a cap; it would have been on the front. And it’s a top pocket find, mate. In we go. Alright, and we’ll see if there’s any more parts to it. We got another signal in the top. I’m hoping it’s more of the same. Oh, it is! Yes! Oh man, look at that! I could see the fleur-de-lis before I moved it.

That is definitely a fit like a glove. Wow, look at that design on there. That’s a French design. This would date to the 1700s—French military, baby. Yeah, what were they either putting here, searching for, or protecting? Definitely a top pocket find.

Guys, what we’ll do is we’ll go up and down in this little area here, work our way towards the rock. Okay, one here, Rick. It’s good depth, it’s saying 10 inches.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! See, I see something. Oh, holy shimo! Alright, it’s a cross. That’s a cross! It’s a square roll, yeah, right there. It’s heavy too. Oh my gosh, I mean that is an old, old cross. Gary was extremely excited—more excited than anything he’s ever found on the island.

And mind you, this year he’s found coins from the late 1600s. It looks like it’s lead. How old! Look at that! How old that is. Oh my gosh, that is… that’s really old.

When I first saw it, I thought it looks like medieval, a medieval cross. So I would say that is somewhere in between 1200 and 1600, just the crudeness of it and the style. I mean, you don’t normally see this kind of style. I’ve seen that shape before, I swear. That’ll tell the tale how old it is.

That shape, where do you think you’ve seen it before? You know, when I was in France, I saw a carving like that in the Templar prison in Dome. That is unbelievable. I mean, we might have just made history.

Eric, what a day that was! Fantastic. Remarkable.