Alex Lagina, Terry, and Charles Barkhouse supervise the drilling of borehole EN14 in the Golden Egg, five feet east of EN13. The team hopes to find more soft material that could indicate proximity to a feature. Terry checks with Mike Tedford, who says the drill is in soft, disturbed material. Rick Lagina arrives as Adam brings over a core from 79 feet containing soft material. The next sample, from 89 feet, is also soft but not as much as the material from EN13. The following day, drilling of FN14 begins, and a core from 99 feet comes over firm.
Marty Lagina, Doug Crowell, Emiliano Cataldi, Laird Niven, and Emma Culligan travel 625 miles to L'Anse aux Meadows, the only verified Viking settlement in North America. Discovered in 1960 by Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad, the site spans nearly 31 square miles and contains the remains of eight buildings, including a forge. Nearly 800 artifacts have been recovered there. Around the year 1000, the Norse arrived from Greenland, and the Sagas, written during the 13th and 14th centuries, describe events from the 9th through the 11th centuries. Loretta Decker tells the group the Sagas mention another place called Hóp where the Vikings worked in summer. She adds that the collection includes butternuts and a butternut burl, proof that the Norse traveled further south, since butternuts grow no farther north than the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia areas. Ragnar, whose real name is Mark Pilgrim, has trained in Viking blacksmithing and worked at the site for 25 seasons. Doug shows Mark the iron arrowhead that Robert Dunfield reportedly found on Oak Island. Mark says he has made arrowheads using Viking techniques that looked identical and believes this one was likely made from bog ore.
On Lot 4, Gary Drayton and Peter Fornetti search spoils removed from the circular stone feature on Lot 5. Gary picks up a hit, and Peter digs out a copper coin. Gary soon gets another signal, producing a second copper coin. On Lot 5, Rick, Doug, and Emiliano meet with the archaeology team at the stone foundation to see newly uncovered features. Emiliano suggests the structure could be a church, a ritual place, or a place of worship. In the War Room, the team discusses the L'Anse aux Meadows trip, noting that the Norse had the means to reach Oak Island, that the Roman Catholic Church likely knew about North America before Columbus, and that the Church was actively acquiring land.
The team meets with Dr. Fred Michel to hear water testing results from the Baby Blob and Golden Egg. Dr. Ian Spooner reports that most wells showed no metals, but two, GN10.5 and B.5N11, did contain metals that he believes are not naturally occurring. Dr. Michel says the strongest anomalies have appeared in the southern part of the Baby Blob area where it overlaps with the Golden Egg. He adds that in July, borehole DN12 produced one of the highest silver values at 0.7. Dr. Spooner concludes he believes a tunnel or shaft lies in that area.
