# A shaft at least 90 feet deep was dug and refilled with platforms before 1795 to hide a deposit.

> Disputed: A shaft at least 90 feet deep was dug and refilled with platforms before 1795 to hide a deposit.

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# A shaft at least 90 feet deep was dug and refilled with platforms before 1795 to hide a deposit.

A shaft at least 90 feet deep was dug and refilled with platforms before 1795 to hide a deposit.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** Two pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Cores or excavation below the searchers' disturbance show worked timber or masonry in a cut with defined walls.
- Wood from the structure dates to before 1795.
- An engineered channel or tunnel connects the shaft to the shore.

## What would rule it out

- Cores to bedrock across the pit area show only natural collapse breccia, till and fallen timber with no cut walls.

## Evidence 2 for · 2 against

[Accounts of 1862 and 1864 describe oak platforms at regular intervals and layers of charcoal, putty and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X4K07KKA/accounts-of-1862-and-1864-describe-oak-platforms-at-regular)

Suggestive

FOR

[Coconut fibre, a tropical material, exists from the pit and Smith's Cove; a 1970 analysis identified three of…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X4TT5PBM/coconut-fibre-a-tropical-material-exists-from-the-pit-and)

Suggestive

FOR

[No documented worked chamber or structure has been reached in digging and drilling to 235 feet.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X52M65H5/no-documented-worked-chamber-or-structure-has-been-reached)

Supported

AGAINST

[No record older than 1857 mentions a pit, a treasure or the three discoverers.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X5AE4SXR/no-record-older-than-1857-mentions-a-pit-a-treasure-or-the)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

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Most likelyThe depression was a natural sinkhole over a dissolved cavity in Windsor Group gypsum; the platforms were…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A shaft at least 90 feet deep was dug and refilled with platforms before 1795 to hide a deposit. [Answer ANS0D52X4B62ZZW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D52X4B62ZZW
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