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What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [www.oakislandlotfive.com] and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and it's owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all Canadian laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. An example would be; remembering the pages in the order you visited them so you can use the browsers back button to step back several pages, or to save your username and password if you are required to login.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors. This should have no deleterious effects on your use of this website, but may limit some features accordingly.

This website also uses tracking software to monitor it's visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor it's owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

The Finds
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To contribute a modicum of reality to the story of Oak Island and for the benefit of those who may be interested, here to follow are the finds recovered from Lot Five.

These objects were discovered under the rules of evidence regarding Treasure Trove License #T-162, Order In Council #1998-418 and Treasure Trove License #T-162, Order In Council #2004-168 between the dates July 1998 and June 2008. Each artifact has a bespoke specification sheet listing the pertinent details of its discovery and all were dutifully reported to the appropriate government departments. I am proud to state that every artifact was recovered with nil damage using hand tools only.

The following copyright protected photographs were taken by Robert S. Young and the artifacts are displayed here in chronological "as found" order. 

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Picture Gallery  


These copyright protected photographs/videos were personally selected from my private library of over 6,000 Oak Island images and unless credited otherwise are the work of Robert S. Young. 

This Picture Gallery is arranged in mostly chronological "as created" order and since it's designed to be a work in progress content may be added or removed at any time - latest update May 27, 2020  

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Treasure Trove License


TTLTo legally search for and recover treasure in Nova Scotia requires a special license and in 1998 I applied for and received Treasure Trove License #T120A, Order In Council #1998-418 for Lot Five from the Government of Nova Scotia.

As Treasure Trove Licensee I explicitly abided by the rules and conditions set forth in the Treasure Trove Act and utilized contemporary archaeologic protocols and methodology during the execution of the work. Everything found under the auspices
of the Treasure Trove License was duly documented to professional standards and each find was video taped in real time as it was removed from the ground. Periodically I would voluntarily submit progress reports to the Department of Natural Resources (the issuer of the license) and the Nova Scotia Museum replete with photographs, artifact specification sheets and a GIS (Geographic Information System) showing where on Lot Five they were found. David Christianson, Curator of Archaeology of the Nova Scotia Museum once took occasion to personally thank me for these reports, explaining that they were now being used as examples for other Treasure Trove Licensees to emulate. 

For the first time in the island's history, in the summer of 2002 the entirety of Lot Five was systematically surveyed using non destructive, state of the art Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) by GeoScott Exploration Consultants of St. John's, Newfoundland.  The information gleaned from these surveys is private and remains confidential.

The initial Treasure Trove License was extended in 2003 for another five years with the issue of Treasure Trove License #T-162, Order In Council #2004-168. Upon its expiry in 2008 I made the decision to retire Lot Five from the Oak Island treasure hunt so
that I may enjoy it as a vacation retreat and focus my attention on ecological studies and practices.

All activities with regard to these Treasure Trove Licenses were self financed by Robert S. Young and as such not beholden to any government assistance. 




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