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Yep.. A much more interesting episode tonight..Not a bad episode tonight….And is the 'concrete wall' just the concrete injected by Robert Restall in 1961 in an attempt to plug the flood tunnels...
Here are some screen captures to aid discussion..





The concrete wall appears to go very close to the pier. The picture of Rick has him standing on the pier/slipway looking at the concrete. I think the last above images show the concrete wall and the pier in same image.
The pier itself is not that amazing a find

As this picture shows the remains sticking out of the water. Still if their is an ancient slipway under the more modern pier that would be interesting.
As to concrete if it was not built by the Romans then the concrete must be fairly modern. The tech to make concrete was lost at the end of Roman empire and not rediscovered until mid 18th Centaury. So groups like the Knights Templar did not have the ability to make concrete..
I imagine it will be pretty easy to tell if the concrete was roman or modern in that the way it was made by the Romans is different from the more modern recipes for concrete..
If I was a betting man my money would be on modern... But happy to be wrong...
It seem pretty difficult to believe that those building the pier did not know about the concrete. I would guess the concrete is part of the foundations of the pier... This is why no one mentioned it as it was not relevant to anything to do with the treasure..
The piece of metal

Could be anything.. Hopefully more investigation will show it to be part of a tool that can be dated (Once again I would bet money it is not a Roman spear point)..
I really hope they can pull some interesting stuff from H8 but the shorts for next week did not show treasure being found...
The expert on the "Rune" stone basically just said a decorative piece used in architecture .. No Runes, no ancient language... Who would of guessed that.....