The Templar Cross

The Templar Lead Cross
Found in Smith's Cove

This small lead cross really is one of the most significant items to be found on Oak Island. Even if it turns out to have nothing to do with the money pit, it is still a very significant find. Pieces of Templar jewellery do not turn up every day, and certainly not on an island in the North Atlantic that the Templars were not even supposed to know about.

After the Lagina brothers usual diligent testing of the cross it was dated to the correct time period and the metal it was made from was even proven to have come from a mine in the correct area of Europe, thus tying it fairly conclusively to the Knights Templar movement. But, does this prove that a Templar knight lost his cross while walking around Smith's Cove, where I believe it was found?

It is very tempting to believe that this was what happened, but there are other possibilities. If it was dropped by someone all those centuries ago, would it still be lying so close to the surface on the beach that is being constantly washed by the tide? Many of us have old family heirlooms that date back to our grandparents or great grandparents. If I were to lose, and someone else find, a piece of jewellery that could easily be dated to Victorian times, would they assume that it had been lying there since Victorian times, or would they consider that I might have dropped it last week? O.K. so I exaggerate, but you can see what I am proposing here. Just because an item is centuries old does not mean that it was lost centuries ago.

Something like the cross is likely to have been recognised as valuable by almost anyone who came into possession of it at any time after it's original owner lost possession of it for whatever reason. It could therefor have been lost at any time over the centuries by someone far removed from the Knights Templar movement.

Yes, it most likely is a very important relic from the Templar age but there does not seem to be anything at all to definitively connect it to Templar treasures in the money pit. It could even have been dropped over the side of a passing ship and eventually washed ashore by the tide.