The island was sold again and all construction was stopped due to the bad holes everywhere
2006-06-28 17:50:23
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answered by Man 6
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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!!!!!
2006-06-22 10:13:10
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answered by billeebobb 2
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The island is too riddled with holes to do excavation anymore without collapse
2006-06-22 10:07:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Same as always.A lot of myths about what's been found with little or no proof.
It was probably just a gag that got out of hand,and there's nothing there but dirt.
2006-06-22 12:59:21
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answered by Anonymous
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