Synopsis
The discovery of a document offers new clues on the exact
location of the Money Pit, and the fellowship of the dig makes a cryptic
discovery at uncharted depths.
What I thought
Ricky, Marty and drilling team are back in the Money Pit. 16
of the 40 holes complete in GeoTech grid and there’s lots of wood coming up
that they are sifting through like a scene out of a gold rush movie. John Wannacott, Geophysics engineer and
historian, turns up. He and his partner originally helped devise the grid of Geotech
holes, which leads Marty to ask the obvious to him “Why haven’t we found it
yet?” Of course, they are not half way through the holes yet and the area is
littered with past excavation remains. There’s bit of debating about if all the
holes are needed and the order they will be drilled but essentially, they all
agree to continue as planned. That’s five minutes of basically nothing then.
Next, we’re off to Sydney! No, not Australia but another
town miles NE of Oak Island where Alex, Jim and Peter are meeting Doug Crowell,
researcher, who has spent a few days looking through documents donated to the Beaton
Institute library from past treasurer hunter, William Chappell. I’m not sure
what he was doing for last few days as all the good stuff seems to have been
found today, although I expect that’s just the way it looks on TV. In 1897, it
was William Chappell who believed he found a vault and the small parchment of
paper before flooding destroyed location in Money Pit. There’s a lot of very
decent informative documents in this institute (which leads me to ask, where
have they been for the last 100 years then?) including a document written on
oath from a William Blair that Chappell drilled through gold. There’s also a
map that basically shows that where the gang thought the bottom of the Chappell
shaft was is wrong as the bottom extended 12ft north. More holes needed it
seems. Why didn’t they look at this data before they started?
A Day later, 8 new holes mapped in new area and a start on
one of them, H8. Currently they are turning up wood that was painted in a black
substance that they used around 1890s to protect wood from water. Apparently,
it smells. This new H8 hole had seemed to have gone past an object in a void
but at 200ft they don’t seem to have found anything. Then, they found small pieces
of pottery at 190ft. As they call it a day on drilling further, they find a
larger object in the spoils, about the size of a finger.
Marty, Dave and Gary Drayton are at boulderless beach on the
north shore. They find a large iron spike. Probably early 1700s from a ship so
they call up Laird who marches all the way there and basically confirms what
they said. Poor chap, Why they dragged him there I don’t know. It could be a
spike from a ship or a wharf. Maybe boats were offloaded etc there. Could
explain the odd formation of that area.
At War Room, Laird looks at the pottery and he reckons it’s
late 1700s English imitation pottery of sorts, which would just predate
discovery of the Money Pit. Why’s it so deep though? The other item the size of
the finger Laird says he’s fairly certain is bone! Exactly if it’s human or
animal though remains to be seen. It looked like bone from day one to me, but I
might have thought that thanks to the sneak peek from last week and not due to
any intelligence in detective work.
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