Flat Stone with Hooked X

About This Carved Stone

A flat stone slab discovered on Oak Island bearing a distinctive hooked X symbol - a marking identified by Charles Barkhouse and later examined by geologist Phil Finck of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. Finck confirmed that while most markings on the stone's surface are natural glacial striations, the hooked X itself appears to be deliberately carved rather than a product of geological processes.
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter has identified the hooked X as a medieval rune adopted by the Knights Templar, a symbol he has documented at multiple sites across North America and Europe in connection with pre-Columbian exploration theories. The presence of a potentially Templar-associated marking on Oak Island adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting medieval European activity on the island centuries before the Money Pit's discovery in 1795.
The stone was examined during the same investigation period that produced significant findings in the Oak Island swamp, including a wooden plank carbon dated to 1680-1735 and metallic anomalies detected by Matt Savelle of Canadian Seabed Research Ltd. using a Geonics EM-61 MK IIA metal detector at Mercy Point and the central-western swamp edge.