# The drains are the remains of an early salt works or similar shore industry.

> Still possible: The drains are the remains of an early salt works or similar shore industry.

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# The drains are the remains of an early salt works or similar shore industry.

The drains are the remains of an early salt works or similar shore industry.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The layout matches documented salt-evaporation works of the period.
- Associated finds are domestic and industrial, not defensive.

## What would rule it out

- The drains are shown to run inland rather than to a shore-side pan.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Dennis King (2010) argued the layout matches a salt works.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XEBG4FSQ/dennis-king-2010-argued-the-layout-matches-a-salt-works)

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## The questions it answers

[What are the stone and timber structures at Smith's Cove?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X3KR6V71/what-are-the-stone-and-timber-structures-at-smiths-cove)

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Most likelyThe structures are wharves, slipways and coffer dams left by nineteenth- and twentieth-century searchers and…

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