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 — it’s 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… wow

definitely fantastic
we definitely haven’t found any of these

I mean — well Marty — maybe I am good luck
you God dang right you’re good luck

I see 1600 something — looks like 1673
those are probably the most significant thing in a couple 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 too
nice silver buttons — it is a beauty

even though I’d love to put this in my top pocket
we know we gotta 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
has been the 1769 date of the slipway
and this brackets right perfectly with that — so it’s great time period

yeah — we don’t know at the moment whether it’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 uh — look forward to your participation
appreciate it

this area is one of the last areas that’s been cleared
and we haven’t detected — nothing’s out of place
everything should be in situ

I love your enthusiasm mate
I’m PCH — 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 period’s musket balls, Gary?
late 1500s all the way to the mid to late 1800s

when I think of musket balls I gotta 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 like 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 its 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 phasing out
and — 16th century onwards — it’s non-existent

they stopped making this type of metal in the 1500s?
yes — that is absolutely brilliant — it is pretty old

yeah — all right — well it’s incredibly interesting
as everyone has articulated
but it’s time to get back out there and see what else we can find

yep — we can do that for sure
all righty — 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’ve been on the front
and it’s a top pocket find, mate — in we go

all right — 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 — 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 or searching for or protecting
definitely a top pocket find, guys

what we’ll do — we’ll go up and down in this little area here
work way towards the rock

okay one here Rick — it’s good depth — it’s saying 10 in
wo wo wo — see I see something — oh holy shimo

all right — 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 — now 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

I first saw it — I thought, that 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