Pic credit: History A couple of other finds on Oak Island this weekĮlsewhere in last night’s episode, Gary Drayton and Michael John uncovered a leather strap that blacksmith expert Carmen Legge said was used to hold a trunk or wooden chest together. The Oak Island team suspect they may have found shaft 6, which searchers previously used in an attempt to access the Money Pit from underneath. Hopefully, next week, the guys can learn its orientation, and then they can finally put an X on the ground and dig up the Money Pit. This is starting to look more and more like shaft 6. Furthermore, Laird said the nail looked to be from the early to mid-1860s, which puts it in the right time frame. They were in luck, the XRF found manganese in that nail, a chemical element that would not be present in a nail older than 1840. The team wanted this shaft to be shaft 6, so the hope was to find something to date it to around 1861. They hit at least 20 feet of stacked timber and didn’t need to dig any deeper to be sure that they’d hit a shaft.Īt 89 feet, the guys found an old square nail embedded with the wood, and Marty was wasting no time, straightaway, he took it to Doug Crowell and Laird Niven at the archaeology trailer to have it analyzed in the XRF machine. At 79 feet, they hit what was obviously stacked timbers, and again at 79 ft. However, if our guys hit that shaft and can figure out its orientation, then they will be just 18 feet away from the Money Pit! Simple!Īnd Terry and Charles got a result almost straight away. The project failed when the shaft filled up with seawater, and they suspect the Money Pit chamber collapsed scattering the treasure. This shaft was constructed by searchers in 1861 and was built to enter the Money Pit chamber from underneath, thereby avoiding the flood tunnels. And Rick wholeheartedly agreed, stating that he has always thought shaft 6 was key to finding the treasure. With that in mind, surveyor Steve Guptill recommended they move the borehole drill about 17 -18 feet to the southwest of the C-1 hole to see if they could find shaft 6. Rick told the guys, “we need to move from exploration to confirmation.” In approximately one month, four giant 10-foot steel caisson cases will arrive on the island, and the team needs to have four locations to put them in the ground where they can guarantee results. In recent weeks, they have uncovered various pieces of wood dating as far back as the 15th century, along with a couple of metal pieces with golden flakes. Geologist Terry Matheson and historian Charles Barkhouse have been overseeing the borehole drilling in the Money Pit area and have been concentrating on the C-1 cluster. There was quite a bit going on in different places on this week’s episode, but the most interesting action happened in the Money Pit area, as Rick Lagina ordered the guys to go in search of his “white whale,” or as everyone else calls it, shaft 6. The guys believe they may have hit shaft 6, which would put them merely feet away from the Money Pit and the treasure. This week on The Curse of Oak Island, the team changed direction with the borehole drilling and instantly found a shaft.
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