Oak Island mystery

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A reference summary of the chronology from 1795 to the present with a usable reference list (Bowdoin 1911, Harris 1958, O'Connor, Crooker, King 2010).

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What it's used for here

Used only for the outline chronology of the twentieth-century companies and the stone's later history, pending checks against the books it cites.

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A colonial power (British, French or Spanish) cached pay or plate during the wars of 1740 to 1783.

Answer

ANS

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

Answer

ANS

Axe and miner's pick from the 1931 Chappell shaft

ART

Borehole 10-X underwater video

ART

Coconut fibre samples from the pit and Smith's Cove

ART

Parchment fragment with the letters "vi" or "wi"

ART

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

ART

A 1935 statement places the stone as a bookbinder's beating stone in Halifax until 1919, worn smooth.

Evidence

EVD

An 1864 correspondent (Cooke) said the marks looked scraped rather than cut; the stone was by then walled…

Evidence

EVD

Bowdoin in 1911 described a hard stone with no visible symbols.

Evidence

EVD

Coffer dams at Smith's Cove have never stopped the pit flooding.

Evidence

EVD

Companies built dams and wharves at the cove in 1850, 1866 and later; a 1931 photograph shows a wharf.

Evidence

EVD

Dennis King (2010) argued the layout matches a salt works.

Evidence

EVD

Dunfield's 1965 to 1966 excavation reported no sign of the tunnel described by earlier expeditions.

Evidence

EVD

Every deep shaft dug near the pit since 1849 has flooded, including those far from any claimed tunnel.

Evidence

EVD

No channel from the drains to the pit has been found in 170 years of digging.

Evidence

EVD

No documented worked chamber or structure has been reached in digging and drilling to 235 feet.

Evidence

EVD

Searchers in 1850 described five converging box drains under coconut fibre and eelgrass.

Evidence

EVD

Searchers in 1850 found converging stone box drains at Smith's Cove and later dyed water that reportedly…

Evidence

EVD

Several people between 1864 and 1935 described handling a particular stone said to be it.

Evidence

EVD

The cross and other finds were recovered from a beach and from fill worked by searchers since 1850.

Evidence

EVD

Maynard Kaiser falls to his death in a shaft

EVT

Rick and Marty Lagina buy half of Oak Island Tours

EVT

Robert Dunfield builds the causeway and excavates the pit area to 134 feet

EVT

Triton Alliance drills Borehole 10-X to 235 feet

EVT

The Oak Island money pit

The mystery article

MYS

Oak Island Tours Inc.

ORG

Triton Alliance

ORG

What are the stone and timber structures at Smith's Cove?

Question

QST

Cite it

Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Oak Island mystery. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island_mystery

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