The inscribed stone (the "90-foot stone")

Not kept here. This copy isn't ours to show. See it where it's published.

No photograph, rubbing or drawing made from the stone survives. The cipher reproduced in books first appears in 1949 and the earliest printed reading is in the 1893 prospectus. Record of a lost object.

Oak Island Treasure Company, 1804. Public domain

Copies 2

TranscriptionOak Island Treasure Company · canadiana.ca · 1893 · Public domain (published 1893)Primary source: Oak Island Treasure Company (prospectus)1 step from the original

Where it's published

DrawingA. T. Kempton, as printed by Edward Rowe Snow in True Tales of Buried Treasure (1949), p. 32 · criticalenquiry.org · 1949 · publisher1 step from the original

Where it's published

Where it was made

The money pit · Excavation

Sources 6

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The inscribed stone (the "90-foot stone") [Artifact ART0D52XKFJ73SG]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D52XKFJ73SG

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
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