About This Structure
A massive granite boulder comparable in size to the five boulders forming Nolan's Cross, discovered buried in the Eye of the Swamp during excavation in Season 7. The site was targeted after researchers Corjan Mol and Chris Morford demonstrated that a pentagram encoded in Nicolas Poussin's painting The Shepherds of Arcadia II, when projected onto Oak Island using Nolan's Cross as the framework, placed its center point precisely on the Eye of the Swamp. The boulder was found with smaller angular stones stacked around it and no clay between layers, a configuration that prompted the team to halt excavation and consult geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner. Blue clay packed onto a large stone at the base of the formation recalled the blue clay layer found at forty feet in the Money Pit by Daniel McGinnis and his partners in 1804. Core samples from the Eye had previously dated human activity at the site to between 1680 and 1700, with a deeper sample returning a date of approximately 1220 AD. The stone takes its name from the Arcadia inscription in the Poussin painting and the historical French name for Nova Scotia.
Historical Context
The Curse of Oak Island, Season 7, Episodes 3, 9, 16, 17. Poussin theory presented by Corjan Mol and Chris Morford. Dating by Dr. Ian Spooner (Acadia University).
Where It Was Found
Found at Eye of the Swamp — Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
