GravelTeeth
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What I'm gathering from this is that it would be highly unusual, if not completely unique, for a treasure cache to have been put 98' or deeper in the ground, unless it had been a pit dug for other uses and repurposed. Of course that doesn't rule out the possibility of such a thing, but it would be fairly unprecedented and tends to worsen the odds. Tombs seem to be the exception, and indeed some of the more "out there" theories regarding Oak Island do include the entombing of some personage ... Viking, Templar, what have you.
In an interesting flashback to ~2017 in the latest episode of the show (s12e19), they replay a War Room discussion where Doug Crowell reads from a ship's log found in the Nova Scotia Archives from an expedition led by the Duc D'Anville that records "it has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasure securely buried" [emphasis added]. Without getting into the provenance of those log documents, it does make me wonder how deep they were envisioning at that time, way back in 1746.
Other theories, like the "pirate bank" theory, speculate that the central shaft was always a decoy and/or access point to shallower caches that tunneled away from it like spokes on a wheel. Unfortunately, extant examples of such an arrangement, as supposedly found in places like Haiti and Madagascar, are very tricky to find evidence for to compare, at least from my desk.
--GT
In an interesting flashback to ~2017 in the latest episode of the show (s12e19), they replay a War Room discussion where Doug Crowell reads from a ship's log found in the Nova Scotia Archives from an expedition led by the Duc D'Anville that records "it has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasure securely buried" [emphasis added]. Without getting into the provenance of those log documents, it does make me wonder how deep they were envisioning at that time, way back in 1746.
Other theories, like the "pirate bank" theory, speculate that the central shaft was always a decoy and/or access point to shallower caches that tunneled away from it like spokes on a wheel. Unfortunately, extant examples of such an arrangement, as supposedly found in places like Haiti and Madagascar, are very tricky to find evidence for to compare, at least from my desk.
--GT
