Location
Isaac's Point
Discovered
Season 8, Episode 2
Date Range
1730 AD – 1770 AD
Category
Artifact
Era
Colonial
About This Artifact
The bowl of a pewter spoon recovered by metal detection at Isaac's Point, a shoreline area on the eastern side of the island. Gary Drayton dated it to the mid-1700s. Pewter spoons were ordinary domestic tableware in the eighteenth century, and the form and alloy support a broad rather than precise date. The find joins a group of colonial-era objects recovered at Isaac's Point and is consistent with activity there before the 1795 discovery of the Money Pit.
Historical Context
Recovered by Jack Begley and Gary Drayton at Isaac's Point, Season 8, Episode 2. Dated by Drayton.
Where It Was Found
Found at Isaac's Point — the shoreline areas of Oak Island.
