Oak Island – Curios Copper Artifact

Posted on December 20, 2022 by vanbraman

Season 10 of The Curse of Oak Island continues to show new discoveries and theories.

This week on Oak Island we start to see progress on the rehabilitation of the Garden Shaft.

Curse of Oak Island, History Channel, Did they find anything?Of course, one thing to remember is that the dig season is already over. They have taken the time to determine how to present things each week to build suspense and keep viewers tuned in.

oak Island, Money Pit, Mahone BayThey also continued to drill bore holes in the Money Pit area looking for shafts and tunnels. They are continuing to follow a tunnel as they progress toward the Garden Shaft. They also found what they believe is a tunnel on top of another tunnel. Perhaps tunnels crossing one above the other?

Curse of Oak Island, Mahone Bay, Nova ScotiaThe muon imaging project is in the way of where they wanted to drill the next bore hole, and they still has several months remaining in the data acquisition stage. It will be interesting to see their next steps.

It is interesting that the name of the episode includes muon, but no results. Only that it is in the way of their current drilling project.

oak island, curse of oak lsland, satellite, money pitThey also did some more metal detecting on lot 8 and found a curious copper artifact. The artifact is hand decorated with interesting symbols and is folded over. The imaging equipment was able to give a detailed scan of the surfaces and the symbols on the artifact.

It will be interesting to see how this piece is interpreted as it has now been shown to fans with a more diverse range of experience. I found it interesting that the expert they interviewed has a specialty of Mesoamerican archaeology. The theory is that the artifact is European in origin, very old and possibly religious in nature.

They also found two links of a metal chain, which of course were interpreted as a chain to help secure a treasure chest.

Near the end of the episode large equipment was brought in to start the excavation of the Garden Shaft.

In the preview of the next episode they showed a return to the swamp and also some excitement when the core drilling experienced a large drop through an open area which could be a man made cavern. They also had some excitement again with a metal detecting find.

It looks like things will get interesting next week as they start the excavation in the Garden Shaft. Was it the original Money Pit? There is some speculation that it may be.

How long before they can finally go below the surface?

What will happen next?

Steven

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Four Anker Creches

Posted on December 19, 2022 by vanbraman

For those who build with Ankerstein it is traditional to build a crèche during the holidays.

I will admit that I have only done this a couple of times as I usually have too many books that I want to read 🙂

However, I may build one this year.

So what is a crèche?

Anchor Stones - Anker Nativity Scene - Building Blocks - Christmas Scene - CribA crèche is a model or tableau representing the scene of Jesus Christ’s birth. In other words, a nativity scene. I don’t have the figures for a nativity scene, but I can build a building that is a stable with my Ankerstein sets.

Ankerstein Manger - Nativity Scene - Anchor BlocksThis is a manger built with the first two boxes of Ankerstein.

You can see an artistic representation with figures in my post Anker Nativity I.

Anchor Stone - Ankerstein Crib built with set NF12 - Nativity Scene - Building BlocksThis one is built with the first four boxes of stones and is the manger that is in the first picture of the post.

You can see more in my post Anker Nativity II.

Anker Nativity Scene - Toy Blocks - Ankerstein - Christmas - Christmas Eve - Anchor BlocksHere is an even larger manger. This one is build with six boxes of stones. You can see here that the stones are getting smaller and that there is much more detail in the building. That is the wonder of the Ankerstein system. Each additional box of stones has smaller and more detailed stones.

Find out more about this one in Anker Nativity III.

Anker Nativity Scene - Toy Blocks - Ankerstein - Christmas - Christmas Eve - Anchor BlocksHere is the picture from the Ankerstein plan for the third one. In this you can see a camel and elephant which according to tradition were ridden by the three wise men.

However, do we know how many wise men there were? And, did they visit Jesus at the stable?

Visit my post Three Wise Men? to find out the answer to these two questions.

Here is fourth and final Nativity Scene that I built from the Ankerstein plan books.

I will start with a drawing from the plan book.ankerstein, nativity, christmas, krippe, stable, building blocksHere is the drawing for the  Krippe/Crib. Here again we have the traditional nativity scene shown.

ankerstein, nativity, christmas, krippe, stable, building blocksHere is my construction of the Krippe. The structure was built with nine boxes of stones – 6, 6A, 8A, 10A, 12A, 14A, 16A, 18A,and 20A. These nine boxes of stones make up set number NF22. If you contrast this structures with the ones above, you will see that this one is not only bigger, but has more detail with the increased variety in stone shapes and sizes.

Find out more about this one in Anker Nativity IV.

You can visit my first post about Ankerstein to find out more about how the set system works.

I have looked through the plan books through the rest of the boxes and this is the last of the Nativity scenes. However, perhaps I can find some plans that others have created and build another one sometime.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Steven

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