# Pirates or privateers (Kidd is the usual name) buried loot in the late 1600s or early 1700s.

> Still possible: Pirates or privateers (Kidd is the usual name) buried loot in the late 1600s or early 1700s.

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# Pirates or privateers (Kidd is the usual name) buried loot in the late 1600s or early 1700s.

Pirates or privateers (Kidd is the usual name) buried loot in the late 1600s or early 1700s.

**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

- Materials and coins date to about 1650 to 1720.

## What would rule it out

- Nothing datable to that window is found in a sealed context.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[The pirate reading is the one DesBrisay records as local belief.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XHH24ZDY/the-pirate-reading-is-the-one-desbrisay-records-as-local)

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## The questions it answers

[If something was buried, who buried it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X43C0QAM/if-something-was-buried-who-buried-it)

Part of [What is the Oak Island money pit?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/questions/QST0D52X2WA4BV7/what-is-the-oak-island-money-pit)

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