The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down (2016–…): Season 6, Episode 2 - Gary Drayton's Top 10 Finds - full transcript

- Oh yeah.
Ooh, look at that. That's nice.

That is old.
It's man-made spike.

Parts from a spanish galleon
found in the oak island swamp...

Ooh, look.

Looks like an old
strap or a bracket.

...Treasure coins from
all over the world...

- Oh, wow. Look at that. Yeah.
- Look at that. That's a beauty.

That is a bobby-dazzler.

...A jeweled brooch dating
back seven centuries,

ancient tools designed
for digging tunnels...

Whoa! Whoa-whoa,
whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa.



...And a lead cross
that may be connected

to the knights templar.

Holy schmoly, all right.

- It's a cross.
- That's a cross.

Each amazing episode
of the curse of oak island

follows rick and marty
lagina... Along with their team...

Making incredible
discoveries in their quest

to solve a 225-year-old
treasure mystery.

Well, tonight, I'm going on a
little treasure hunt of my own

with a special
member of that team,

my mate from another
state gary drayton.

- Gary, how you doing, buddy?
- I'm doing fantastic, mate.

Well,
as we hunt down new bobby-dazzlers,

as gary here likes to call them,
we'll also be counting down



the ten best top-pocket
finds he's ever made here.

- You ready, gary?
- I'm ready, mate.

I got me money maker
and I got me gold digger.

Oh, yeah, let's go.

This is drilling down.

So, uh, where you taking
me... is this an area of interest

- for you?
- It certainly is, matty.

This is fantastic area,
because if you look around here,

what you see is grass.

- You don't see a lot of rocks.
- Right.

What you see
are rock walls around it.

- All around. And-and flattened grass, too, I see it.
- Yeah.

Take me back to, like,
day one, when you got here,

and you'd see a lot like this.

What-what were your thoughts
then as opposed to now?

H-has your belief evolved?

My belief is still the same.

There's a heck
of a lot of history

and mystery on oak island.

I remember the last
time I searched this lot,

I went in this direction
towards center road.

And now we're gonna
zigzag in this direction.

We're looking for that
coin and that buckle,

that button, uh,
hopefully made of gold or silver

that was sitting next to a
piece of iron that we missed

the last time we
searched this area.

Before we begin,
I want to step back a little bit

and talk about
you on the first day

you came to this island,
what your expectations were then

on day one and compare
that to what you've found.

Did it match your
expectation or did it exceed it?

My expectations, mate,
were of spanish treasure.

But since I've been
working on the island so long

and-and seeing the recoveries we've made,
mate,

we're talking about ancientness!

- - I went from pirate treasure

to ancient european treasures.

It doesn't get any better than that,
mate.

We are rewriting history, mate,

with the finds that we're
recovering on the island.

Well, why don't we try and
write some history right now?

- Yeah, you got that right, mate.
- All right.

Let's go.

So,
you're just going right now on instinct,

- just following the grid and just...
- Yeah.

Got eyes like an hawk.

I'm always looking
at the ground.

- Hovering... -

- You like that?
- I like that.

- All right, so, right there? Plug right there?
- Just there, mate.

- How's that look?
- It looks good, mate.

Yeah?

- All right, how's that? - Yeah.

That's a great plug,
mate. Anywhere you like.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, look at that.

Oh, it's out.

It's in my hand, mate.

- I'll let you do the honors.
- All right.

- Okay. - Okay, mate.

You use that pinpointer
and try and locate.

Oh. I see it.

- You see it, mate?
- I actually see it.

- You see that roundness?
- I do.

That's a coin, mate.

- Oh, it is a...
- Oh, no, it's a button.

Ooh, a really old button.

- It's called a single-loop flat button.
- Okay.

This was off an old
jacket back in the day.

This isn't just any artifact,
mate.

This is a little piece
of oak island history

you got in your hand.

- This is fantastic. -

great start,
mate. You know what, gary?

Speaking of holding
history in our hands,

that actually takes
us to the first item...

Or should I say
items... On our list.

17th-century british coins.

Got a target.

In season five,
while gary was metal-detectig

near the money pit area,

with rick,
marty and dave blankenship,

he made two
incredible discoveries.

All right, mate. Just there.

- Rick takes no prisoners.
- You've got a root there, rick.

Well, whatever it is, it's out.

Pinpointer time.

- - ooh.

I see round. Wow, look at that.

- Is it a button or a coin?
- Hey, how about that?

- Wow. -

I've got another
target. Hang on.

Ooh, another one.

Is that a button or a coin?

Wow. It's a coin.

I'm seeing "britannia" on it.

It's definitely some
kind of english coin.

I see a one and a six.

That's charles ii.

- Wow. - Definitely.

Both coins gary found that dy

bore the likeness of
king charles ii of englan.

This is a
treasure hunter's dream.

Meaning that they
were more than 300 years old,

and minted over 100
years before the discovery

of the money pit in 1795.

1600s.

- Unbelievable.
- I can't believe it, honestly.

That's pretty cool.

Look at david,
he's pretty excited.

Right, baby. It means something.

And these aren't
even spendables here.

That's right. It
means something.

- That is fantastic.
- That's pretty cool.

That's a real big deal to me,

the 1600 coins.

Historically, this would not
have been a significant island

in the late 1600s.

It would have been a,
just a nondescript nothing.

Could these two british coins

be key clues as to who
constructed the money pit?

Well,
the next find on gary's list,

which almost didn't even happen,

offered some pretty
compelling evidence.

The gold-plated button.

Maybe we're
done with the money pit.

No, 'cause... No,
I'll be honest, no.

Back in 2016,

after digging four massive

steel-cased shafts
in the money pit area,

trying to locate the
fabled chappell vault,

rick,
marty and their partner craig testr

found themselves at
a major crossroads.

With winter closing in,

and having spent over a
million dollars already that year,

was it worth it to
dig one more shaft?

I mean, you know,
it's the s... Old sorry topic of money.

I-it's a reality, you know,
but I think we can,

I think we can do it.

I think we take another look

at the monies
that are available,

and I think there's a
way to make it happen.

Craig, where are you?

Your criteria's always been:

You don't want to
leave here with regrets.

Are you gonna have regrets

- if we don't dig this hole?
- Mm-hmm.

In my relationship with rick,
there's a strong bond.

Both of us know that if
we fell in a deep hole,

the other one would go in
and get the person who fell.

I mean,
that's-that's just the thing,

there's just this confidence
that they're there for you.

That's the strong
bond between us.

And I respect that.

I'm kind of feeling
shifted towards doing it.

But you know what?

Charles has picked a hole,
craig has picked a hole.

I think the final position of
this one should be yours.

Well,
I-I think we do it for the laginas.

You, me, alex and mom and dad.

So,
let's name it for our parents.

Let's call it the george and
ann lagina... Number one.

- Gal. - Gal number one.

You all right with it?

Mom was quite a gal.

All right,
I like it. I'm on board.

Digging the gal-1 shaft

would lead to a number
of compelling discoveries.

That's a decent-sounding target.

- right in there? - Yeah.

Underneath that pile there.

But then,
while metal-detecting the spoils

excavated from gal-1,
gary made a very telling

and valuable find.

It's something here.

I found a coin!

- Come on! - It's a gold coin.

- All right, this I got to see.
- That's got some marks

- on the side of it.
- Honest to god, a coin?

- Out of this spoils pile?
- I think so.

It's either a coin or a button.

There's marking around the outside,
marty. Look at that.

I think it says "plated"?

What the hell would that mean?

If it says "plated,"
it's a button.

The object
turned out to indeed be

a gold-plated
british military button,

making it not only an
actual piece of treasure

found deep in the money pit,
but perhaps

another major clue
as to who was behind

the oak island mystery.

That gold-plated button
was such an incredible find.

Something like that,
specifically,

what's that like for you,
personally,

when you get to hand rick
and marty something like that,

especially when it comes
from somewhere as special

as gal-1,
which we both know meant a lot to them?

Yeah, it was extra sweet for me

because I know what these
guys have gone through.

Don't forget,
we represent previous searchers

and-and the families
that have been lost

on this treasure hunt.

This is personal,

and you don't associate
that with treasure hunting.

That's great stuff,
gary. As-as marty would say,

"thusly inspired."

let's go find that
next special thing

to hand to the brothers,
how about that?

- Yep, let's get stuck -back in, mate.
- All right.

You know, gary,

speaking of all the
finds you've made,

how do you analyze
them in terms of...

Look,
the coins are amazing and fun...

But the artifacts in general,

I mean,
those can be very important, too.

Well,
the artifacts tell the story of oak island.

There's no mistaking that.

And for rick,
the story of oak island

is every bit as important
as the treasure of oak island.

Yeah and it's exhilarating
for the audience,

all the different
theories out there,

when you find something
that might tie directly to one,

it's a huge piece of the puzzle.

And, in fact,
that's exactly what happened

with the next item on our list.

You found something,

and it might tie directly

to a major theory.

In 2017,
oak island historian doug crowell

made an incredible
find of his own

in archives at the
halifax historical society.

I found eight pages of a ship...
What looks like a ship's log.

In 1746, a french armada

sailed across the atlantic ocean

in an attempt to
seize nova scotia and

parts of the northern americn
colonies from the british.

The commander was a french
admiral named duc d'anville,

who according to the records
doug crowell discovered,

brought an enormous
treasure with him.

Interestingly enough,
the duc d'anville,

his real name was

jean-baptiste louis
frédéric de rochefoucauld.

Here's where
things get really interesting.

The name "rochefoucauld"
appeared in the corner

of a reported 14th-century
mp of oak island...

Believed to have been made by
members of the knights templar

that was given to the team by
the late author, zena halpern.

They were a powerful
family of french nobles

who could trace their lineage
back to the 10th-century town

of charente, France...

And are believed by many

to have close ties to
the knights templar.

So this transcription
I've handed out to you,

I'm just going to read
through it really quickly here.

So on September 6,
the ship's log was...

"at midday we reach a deep bay

"with several
hundred small islands

"wooded to the shore.

"the great quantity of treasure
on this vessel makes it unwise

to jeopardize it in any
engagement with the enemy."

"September 8,
it has been agreed that a deep pit be dug

"and treasure securely buried.

"the pit to have
a secret entrance

by a tunnel from the shore."

"on September 13, down 67 feet,

"pit seemed damp from
seepage of seawater.

Have decided to go
deeper to dry soil."

And it ends.

And that's where it ends.

But it is amazing. I mean,
a great quantity

of treasure and,
and that they appear to be in this bay.

In my mind,
there's no doubt that they're

pointing right to oak island.

Doug's find made
for fascinating speculation.

Could the duc
d'anville ship's log

really be connected to
the oak island mystery?

Well, just one year later,

gary drayton made
a discovery on lot 21

near the western
end of the island

that offered potential
evidence that it might be true.

The french military badge.

It's out, whatever it is.

What is that?

That's got some designs on it.

Yeah, that has.

Oh, that's cool!

Check this out.

- What do you think of that, laird?
- Hmm.

Oh, man, look at that.

Interesting.

I think what this is, is a,

a cap or a hat decoration.

A military uniform piece.

That's kind of the shape
of a grenadier's hat,

- as well, replicating that.
- Yeah!

- And the french influence, as well.
- Yeah, yeah.

If that's french, then obviously
the first thing you think of is

the ship's log and
the duc d'anville,

and all that connection.

Nothing makes an oak
island theory more compelling

than a discovery
that can provide it

with some potential credence,
and that's what gives

this top find a
spot on our list.

Gary, in a way,
a major part of the mission here

is simply proving that
something happened before

the discovery of the money pit,
right?

So what's it like for
you when you find stuff

that predates the money pit?

It's a fantastic feeling, mate.

Whenever we recover an artifact

that predates the
money pit story,

the original money pit story,

we think, "oh,
we've got this figured out."

and then a week later,

we find something
that's even more amazing.

Yeah,
and that's actually exactly what happened

with the next item on our list.
You guys found something that

predates 1795 and the
discovery of the money pit by a lot,

and might directly tie

to the origins of
the mystery itself.

All right, here we go.

Music to my ears.

The hand point chisel.

I'm getting a signal here, alex.

Where is it?

It's just underneath
that rock there.

During season seven,

while combing isaac's
point near smith's cove

for important clues,

gary and alex lagina made a find

that just might be
connected to the origins

of the oak island mystery.

There it is. I see it.

- You do? - An iron spike.

Where?

Just here.

- Yep and look at this.
- Oh, yeah. There it is.

- Huh.
- That could be an old, crude spike.

- That looks old to me. - Sure.

That looks hand-forged.

That's nice.

Only me would get
happy about an iron spike,

but this is a good one.

I won't be surprised if this is

a lot older than the 17s.

Gary's hunch was spot-on,

because when he and
rick lagina showed it

to blacksmithing
expert carmen legge

the discovery turned
out to be perhaps

one of the most important and
ancient ever made on oak island.

What's a hand point?

How old?

Wow.

There are more than a few,

but the, you know,
the significant ones

from the historical record,
of course,

are the-the 90 foot stone in the,
in the money pit, which had

a line of carvings on it,
and hieroglyphs.

Could gary have found
the tol used to carve the symbols

of the legendary 90 foot stone

unearthed from that depth
in the money pit in 1804?

When translated,
the symbols are believed to have read:

"40 feet below,
two million pounds are buried."

if carmen legge is correct,

it would make this top find
of gary's practically priceless.

I mean, that hand point chisel

was such an incredible
find when you think about it,

it could've carved
the 90 foot stone itself.

There's all kinds of stone
carvings here on oak island.

We don't know what it
did or what it was used for.

But if it was as old as
some people think it was,

like carmen legge thinks
it's from the 14th century.

Gary,
does that prove that this mystery starts

way before the discovery
of the money pit in 1795?

That on its own
doesn't prove it.

We've recovered several
artifacts on oak island

that point us all the way
back to the middle ages.

We're talking about oak island,

north america,
medieval artifacts.

So it's interesting
because inland...

In the lots you told
me that you can go

over ground again
because things get

turned up and
obviously here on shore,

with the storms,
things turn up a lot,

so it doesn't matter
where you are,

you really can't check
anything off your list

until you go over it multiple times,
right?

No, definitely not,
mate, you just...

Inland,
you hit the lot from a different direction,

a different size search coil,

but when it comes to the beaches,
you have

got to totally hit all
the beaches again.

- Huh. - Because of erosion.

The waves will hit
the banks of oak island

and they'll flush
all types of coins

and artifacts out the banks.

- And, I mean, the things you've found here on...
- Ooh!

- Here we go, mate.
- You got a little buzz?

That's an interesting
signal there.

Right in here some... ooh!

- Yep. - Ooh, wow.

Yeah,
it's gonna be hard digging, mate,

- and it's just there.
- Right around here?

Yeah, please.

Ooh, yeah, ooh!

Take a... that's it, mate,
take a nice wide plug if you can.

Okay.

All right, let's see how that...
It's not really a plug, gary,

- 'cause it's so... see that?
- That's okay, mate.

- ooh! Ooh! - Yeah.

Aw, yeah, dang, unfortunately

it's a-a modern wire nail.

Aw, boy, it looks kind of old,
doesn't it?

Yeah, it looks old,
but looks can be deceiving, mate.

- 19th century though, not-not 1960s.
- Yeah. Yeah, no.

- This is, this is 1800s.
- Yeah, that's searcher for sure.

And for every dozen
of these you find,

you find an old spike.

And, you know, that brings
us to our next item on the list,

'cause although it wasn't found

in the water,
it definitely came from the sea.

The ship's strap.

Got a signal over here, jack!

During season seven,
rick, marty, craig and the tem

once again drained the swamp
so they could attempt to unearth

what appeared to
be an incredible clue.

A 200-foot-long anomaly
detected by seismic scanning

that eerily resembled the
shape of a galleon ship.

Oh, look.

What is that?

We just pulled out a
big piece of iron, rick, look!

- It's like an old bracket.
- What is it, a strap?

Yeah, a strap or a bracket.

That's an old piece and I know

it's in not very good condition,
but who knows

how old it is,
and how long it's been in that hole?

Although the
massive ship-shaped object

remains a mystery,
this find that gary made

might have been, well,
a piece of its remains.

We knew he'd be
interested in that.

Gary.

There we go.

- Yes.
- Really? Seriously?

Yeah,
that's what we're looking for

in the swamp, an old ship.

Carmen legge's expert opinion

not only corroborated that
the strap was an important clue,

but also gave further
credene to the incredible theory

of the late fred nolan,
that a massive operation

took place centuries ago
in order to artificially create

the swamp to hide a ship,

and the valuable
cargo it contained.

- That sounds good.
- Yeah, that sounds good.

There's the center, mate.

And speaking
of massive workings,

the next top find on gary's list

just might prove another theory,

that both fred nolan and dan
blankenship firmly believed.

The iron swages.

Is that it?

I don't even know what that is.

Wow. Look at that.

Whoever made this
did it a long time ago.

You think it's very old.

Yeah,
I couldn't put a date on that.

I've seen some old, old tools,

and I've found medieval tools,
but I've never found

anything looking like that.

Yeah. I believe that this
would be a top-pocket find.

- I need a big top pocket, mate.
- Strong pocket, yeah.

Also during season seven,
and back on lot 21,

gary found not
one but two large,

heavy, mysterious iron objects.

Wow.

It's another hammer.

It looks like an hammerhead.

Look,
it is. It's got that same end as well.

- And this is even bigger, look.
- It's twice as big as the other one.

- Feel how heavy that is, rick.
- Wow.

- - wow.

Let's have a look at that other one,
dan.

Let's see if it's similar.

Wow. So we got two of them.

At first,
gary thought he might have found the heads

of two quarry hammers,
used for splitting boulders.

But when the team
once again enlisted

blacksmithing expert carmen
legge to examine them,

they were stunned by
what gary had actually found.

Mm-hmm.

They're not? - Gary: Oh, wow.

It's a sharpening tool?

For tunneling?

Have you ever seen
any of these in this area?

Hmm.

Yeah,
that... 'cause what I'm getting at

is where did these come from?

Wow.

One of the few things
that the legendary treasure huntes

dan blankenship and
fred noln agreed on

was that an elaborate
system of tunnels exists

below oak island's surface,
and there are numerous

treasure caches waiting to
be recovered from within them.

Well, this top find of
gary's just may be evidence

that dan and fred were right.

So you got this story,
this fable about oak island

that somebody might have,
a very long time ago, right,

constructed massive underground works,
and then,

you find swages, you find tools

that would actually enable
someone back then to build

such an underground thing...
It's an incredible find, gary.

Yeah,
that was the last thing I ever thought

that I would find on oak island.

That means people were chiseling rock,
tunnels

and, hopefully,
vaults, on oak island.

There's only one thing you
build tunnels and vaults for,

That's treasure, baby.

That's right.

You know,
I've always wanted to ask you

where does
"bobby-dazzler" come from?

It's a local expression, mate.

I'm from lincolnshire,
England, and we always say,

"bobby-dazzlers,
the shiny gold thing."

I know the stories of coming from london,
where the guys

were robbing jewelry
stores and they'd hold up

flashy pieces of gold and
jewels to distract bobbies.

"bobby-dazzlers."

fantastic,
and you bring it here on oak island,

it becomes its own treasure,
its own legend.

Let's revisit one of
those bobby-dazzlers

with the next top
find on gary's list.

The garnet pin.

While searching on
lot 8 with rick lagina

during season five...

I've got a good digger with me.

...The two made a find
that left both of them

practically in disbelief.

That was weird. Look.

We've got it.

We got it. It was a bit
of metal in the-the thingy.

- Look at that, that's a beauty.
- Oh, wow. Look at that.

That is beautiful.

You think that's a ruby? Look
at how many facets on that.

That is a bobby-dazzler.

Now we know why we always recheck the hole,
don't we?

- Look at that. - Oh, man.

We've just found a jewel.

Even with the naked eye,

it was clearly a special find.

We have a large red gem.

Anything I should
understand about the context?

But when rick,
marty and dave blankenship

had it examined by
gemologist charles lewton-brain

at the alberta college of art
and design the following year,

they were amazed by just
how special it proved to be.

You can see the facets,
they don't meet perfectly.

- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.

And so, definitely hand-cut.

Not machine-cut and definitive handmade,
not modern.

When you say "not modern..."

at least, um, 500 years.

We do have a lot
of surface damage.

Perhaps we should look
at the other microscope.

And there's cracks and grooves,

but they're sharp
cracks and grooves.

- Is that good or bad?
- It's good. Well,

if you want it to be a gemstone,
it's good.

But I would say, so far,
consistent with garnet.

- We've got us a gemstone.
- Yes, you do.

Even though the stone
did not turn out to be a rub,

as they had hoped,

the possibility that it could
be more than 500 years old

makes it one of the
most critical finds

in oak island history.

Just like the next find
on gary's all-time list,

and also found with rick lagina.

The gold-plated brooch.

- Here we go. -

sounding good.

Oh, my gosh.

It's another
bobby-dazzler. Look.

It's a bloody brooch.

- Look at that.
- This bobby-dazzler,

found on lot 21 in 2018,

officially made gary and
rick the "brooch brothers."

and when marty and alex lagina,
along with craig tester,

had it analyzed at saint
mary's university in halifax,

it was officially proven to e
a piece of actual treasure.

Dr. Brosseau. Nice to see you,
christa.

Welcome down to
the microscope lab.

- Xiang. Good to see you.
- Nice to see you again.

- Good seeing you.
- Hi, how are you?

We have something
here that I think you're gonna find

- quite interesting, actually.
- Okay.

A piece of jewelry of some sort.

- Very nice.
- Pretty, isn't it?

Yeah. Where did
you guys find this?

Kind of the
western end of the island.

It's in really good condition.

Have a look and we'll
see what your machine says.

Now is there any manganese

in what you're seeing there?

No, that's just copper.

Zinc. Typical brass.

What are the lighter spots?

Yeah,
what are we seeing that's bright?

Is that the potential gold,
or...?

It could be.

This is right under

- where the stone was.
- This was the brightest.

To the naked eye,
this is by far the brightest.

So,
the dark area here is pure copper.

That's interesting.

But...

The bright area?

- Yeah?
- I would say it's pure gold.

- Gold. - Well, how about that?

Gary can go do his gold
dance. He found some gold.

You've definitely struck gold.

We struck gold.

Yeah, I guess I'd have
to say that's the first piece

of verified gold
found on the island.

- It's a first for us, right?
- It's a first for us, for sure.

I think this would be
considered actual treasure.

All right.

- So that's pretty cool. I mean, yeah.
- Not bad.

These brooches are very,
very old, and I'm wondering,

do you feel like they're
part of an original treasure?

Or maybe dropped here by people

who were searching
for that treasure?

These bobby-dazzlers are
600 and 700 years old, mate.

This is precious metal.
This is gold-plated.

And we got precious gems in them,
mate.

I will never forget that time.

Rick and I were
the brooch brothers,

recovering these brooches.

I truly believe

that these
bobby-dazzlers were...

Lost by depositors.

You go to any castle in europe,

and you'll see a
painting on the wall

and there'll be someone
wearing a brooch

very similar to
what we recovered.

Wow. That's incredible, gary.

We are searching for
a medieval treasure.

Oh. I love to hear that.

, it's cool. Every time I
come back to smith's cove,

it's completely different.

You know,
there's been bladder dams,

steel wall dams,
huge hills, huge holes.

And now it's, like,
back to its original state.

Has it really changed though,
mate?

- This is exactly how smith's cove was back in the day.
- Mm.

And you saw what we
uncovered last year here,

the u-shaped structure,

that massive slipway.

Isn't too hard to imagine, mate,

templar boats just sitting offshore there,
mate.

This is treasure alley, mate.

Well, speaking of treasure,

we're getting down
to the top finds.

Number two on our list, gary,

is one of the best
you've ever made.

It's one of the oldest ever
found here on oak island,

and it just might be
that piece of the puzzle

that proves that whoever
did this did it for reasons

that go far beyond
just regular treasure.

You know where it is, mate.

Would you like to do the honors?

The ultimate top-pocket find.

- All right, you take number two, gary. Take it over.
- Yeah.

And I'm gonna have to put a glove on,
mate.

- Give it the white glove treatment...
- Mm.

Because this is a
real unique artifact

and we treat it as such.

And found right about
where we're standing, right?

You got that right, mate.

Right here.

Feast your eyes
on that ancientness.

It doesn't get any better than that,
mate.

The lead cross.

In season five of the
curse of oak island,

gary, working once again
with his good luck charm,

rick lagina, made one of the
most profound discoveries evr

in oak island history.

Another one here, rick.

It's good depth. It's
saying ten inches.

Whoa! Whoa-whoa,
whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa!

- I don't see anything.
- I see something.

Holy...

Holy schmoly, all right.

It's a cross.

That's a cross.

It's heavy, too.

Uh, it looks like it's lead.

How old? - That is...

Oh, my gosh.

That is...

That's really old.

This is the type of thing
I'd expect to find in europe.

When I first saw it,
I thought that looks, like, medieval.

A medieval cross.

I would say that is

somewhere between 1200 and 1600.

Finding the cross
was an incredible moment.

But what was even
more incredible

was the timing
that it was found,

because it perfectly matched
a carving that rick lagina

had seen just a
few weeks earlier

on the walls of a
14th-century french prison,

one that once held members
of the knights templar.

How would they have carved this?

They surely would not
have had implements.

It's said that,

because their weapons would
have been removed from them

when they were imprisoned,

they would have had to have...

Maybe used their teeth

or their fingernails.

It was now
time to try and verify

where the cross
may have come from

and just how old it really was.

- - chris?

Hey.

Craig tester.

To do so, the team employed

a lead isotope test
known as laser ablation.

So, the cross is not...

Obviously, related to...

...North america.

- That's very good.
- Yeah.

If the cross didn't
originate in north america,

then just where and
when did it come from?

To answer those
critical questions,

the team turned to
geochemist tobias skowronek.

I compared the lead isotope data

of the cross that you
gave me with my database

of ore bodies and metals here,

and I think I got some pretty
interesting results for you.

So, as you already knew,
the lead

that was used for the cross
cannot be from america.

Comparing the data,
I noticed that the lead isotopes

of the cross are somehow
related to european deposits.

But I did not find

any match with the
quarries that were used

in the 15th to 17th centuries.

I, therefore, went on

and compared the lead
isotopes of the cross

with those of deposits

where archaeologists know
medieval mining took place,

and I think I found
a match there.

- Really? - Yeah!

And time period-wise,

you think it's
pre-15th century then?

Um...

I think it's pre-15th century,
yes.

- You nailed it, gary.
- Yeah. -

where the heck did it come from?

The data of the cross

is very consistent with the
area of southern France.

Wow.

Look at him. Look at him.

That cross

is associated with
the templar-influenced

region in France.

It's certainly the
time of the templars.

1300s, 1400s,

um, or even earlier.

All of that is astounding news,

but it's not just
the one item...

It's what that item represents.

And that item
represents possibilities.

What other answers
reside in that cove?

Using hard science,

the team was able to prove
that the cross was made of lead

that had been mined
prior to the 14th century

and in a region once known to be

a stronghold for
the knights templar.

Could it really be evidence
supporting the various theoris

that the templars brought
a vast treasure to oak islan?

You know, gary,
standing here with you right now,

you holding that cross,
I'm getting the chills.

And I know we
don't know for sure

that it connects
to the templars,

but, boy, oh, boy,
is it a huge piece of proof.

I defy anyone to hold this
cross and not get shivers.

I mean, just go back, mate,

- to the person who made this cross...
- Oh.

The person who wore this cross.

This would have meant so much

to the person who
brought this to oak island.

What does it mean to you,
to be the guy who found it?

I mean, again,
this is hundreds and hundreds of years

of rumor and possibility

that maybe there's
a templar connection.

Fast-forward through history,

a young guy from
England comes here,

and you're the one
that maybe proved it.

It means everything to me, mate.

This is why I cross the
causeway every day,

for the chance to hold a
piece of history in my hand.

And that's what I'm doing now,
mate.

Well,
it's number two on our list for a reason.

So, gary, I mean,
with all your incredible finds

that we've gone over, you know,

the swages, medieval artifacts,

coins, gold... you found gold...

I just can't imagine
what number one is,

that we still have
another item on the list.

I can't believe the
cross wasn't number one.

It certainly was mine.

So,
you got to tell me what your number one is.

I haven't found it yet.

Wait a second,

what do you mean?

Seriously,
mate. I haven't found it yet.

You don't know what
your next find's gonna be.

You think you've found the
number one find on oak island,

and then you find something else

that completely blows you away,
mate.

Because all the artifacts
I recover on oak island,

they're all special to me.

- They mean so much... - Mm.

Because I found
it on oak island,

a unique place where you
recover coins and artifacts

that shouldn't even be here.

They defy logic.

You know,
I was gonna call foul on that,

to say your number
one being the next thing,

but we've proven with
this list that it's true.

Because as we're going through it,
I'm seeing, oh,

like, "oh,
that's incredible. That's the best one."

and then the next
one is better than that.

So,
I'm gonna take your word for it.

And like I always
tell rick and marty,

"you're only as good
as your last find."

- mm. - And I feel good.

I always believe

there's treasure at
the end of the rainbow.

We're getting tantalizingly close,
mate.

We are closer than we've
ever been before to the treasure.

Now,
you imagine what that treasure is.

So you think,

that motherlode, whatever it is,

whether it's vast amounts
of wealth through gold

or if it's something
incredibly... Important,

significant in terms
of a culture or religion,

you think it's still here?

Oh, I do, mate.

- Wow. Mm. - Yeah, I do.

All these clues... 'cause
that's what these artifacts are...

Are leading us to
the ultimate prize,

the bravo tango like
you've never seen before.

Well, I think we're gonna
have to make your list bigger

and soon,
from that look in your eye.

Well, acorns,
that concludes our list for now.

But just where is that
next big gary drayton find,

the one that will finally unlock

the ultimate secret to
the oak island mystery?

I know gary, along with rick
and marty lagina and their team,

won't stop until they find it.

In the meantime, shall we, gary?

- Follow me, mate.
- All right.

Ooh,
that sounds really good, mate.

Really?