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[ Drilling Results || Artifacts Found ]

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Here you'll find summaries of some of the vital information that is known about the Oak Island mystery. Hopefully this information will help you check your facts and theories.

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Drilling Results

Below you'll find information about some of the major drillings that have occurred on the island.

• Triton - 1967-1969
• Determined that bedrock layer was at 162 +/- 10 feet
• Between 172 and 224 feet found china, oak buds, cement, wood, and metal
• Found tunnels that were cut through bedrock - under 40 feet of bedrock
• Found 40 feet rock, inches of wood, layer of blue clay, inches of wood and 6-7 foot void
• Carbon date of wood - 1575 +/- 80 years
• Depression from 172 to 222 feet (beneath Hadden shaft) - 30 foot in diameter filled with layers of blue clay with small stone spaced at 18 inches!!!
• 186 feet metal and brought up piece of brass (high impurities)
• 212 feet brick-like material found - it had been fired
• Cement found - worked by man
• 210 feet hard metal hit
• Borehole X-10
• 140 feet found a 4 foot cavity
• 160 feet found a 4 foot cavity
• Bedrock at 180 feet
• 210 feet hit a 2 foot cavity
• 230-237 feet a cavity
• Handfuls of metal found at 165 feet - low-carbon steel - prior to 1800
• Spruce found at 155 feet
• 155 feet eight pieces of steel chain - Swedish steel made prior to 1790
• Wood at 180 feet
• Metal in several places above and below bedrock
• 660 feet north-northeast of the Money Pit - 1973 - p220
• 110 feet a 2 inch piece of wire - dated to 1500s to 1800s
• A solid metal plate
• There are future plans to excavate

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Artifacts Found

Below you'll find a listing of the artifacts found, or allegedly found, on the island. Many of the artifacts have been lost and are known only through writings left by early searchers or writers.

• Copper coin, bosun's whistle, and iron ring bolt imbedded in a rock at Smith's Cover - 1795-1802
• Inscribed stone
• Gold links - 1849
• Remains of the old cofferdam
• Wood and end of a keg pulled out when the Pit collapsed
• Blue clay
• Parchment
• Anchor fluke of ancient design - 1931 - since disappeared
• Dump with thousands of broken pottery flasks
• Rock with "1704" inscribed on it.
• Nail, washer
• Scissors, heart stone
• Original cofferdam - logs 2 feet thick up to 65 feet long with Roman numerals marked on them.
• Nails and metal-straps
• Leather shoes
• 3 drilled rocks and ask piles analyzed to be burned bones!!!!!

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