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

> 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…

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/artifacts/ART0D52XKFJ73SG/the-inscribed-stone-the-90-foot-stone  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
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**ART** 0D52XKFJ73SG·Artifact · object

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

ObjectPublic domainSaid to have been found about 1804 at about 90 feet

[Cite]

**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.34838).

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

**Transcription** Oak Island Treasure Company · canadiana.ca · 1893 · Public domain (published 1893)Primary source: [Oak Island Treasure Company (prospectus)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WPNP5A6J/oak-island-treasure-company-prospectus)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.34838)

**Drawing** A. 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](https://criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/kempton.shtml)

## Where it was made

[The money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D52WT320S53/the-money-pit) · Excavation

## Sources 6

- [A History of the Oak Island Enterprise](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WPDW5RX9/a-history-of-the-oak-island-enterprise)_SRC_
- [A.T. Kempton's Fake Inscription](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WTJP24NT/a-t-kemptons-fake-inscription)_SRC_
- [History, Hoax, and Hype: The Oak Island Legend](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WPXG04KS/history-hoax-and-hype-the-oak-island-legend)_SRC_
- [Oak Island Treasure Company (prospectus)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WPNP5A6J/oak-island-treasure-company-prospectus)_SRC_
- [Oak Island mystery](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WRW07XRG/oak-island-mystery)_SRC_
- [The Oak Island Diggings](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D52WP62302N/the-oak-island-diggings)_SRC_

## Cite it

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

Key

**ART** 0D52XKFJ73SG

Kind

Object

Held by

lost

Dated

said to have been found about 1804 at about 90 feet; said in 1864 to be built into a chimney; read for investors in 1893 as 'Ten feet below are two million pounds buried'; last placed at Creighton's bookbindery, Halifax, which closed in 1919; symbols first printed in 1949 (Snow, from the Rev. A. T. Kempton)

Licence

Public domain (published 1893)

Place

[The money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D52WT320S53/the-money-pit)

Part of

[Oak Island money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island)

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