Oak Island Treasure #3 - The Cipher Stone Traditional Cache
AOI Treasure Hunters: No longer able to maintain as property was sold
Oak Island Treasure #3 - The Cipher Stone
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A series of 4 caches that will take you on a journey for treasure. Permission has been granted to be on the property.
One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches had been cut in a way which looked like it had been used as a pulley. Having heard tales of pirates in the area he decided to return home to get friends and return later to investigate the hole.
Over the next several days McGinnis, along with friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, worked the hole. What they found astonished them. Two feet below the surface they came across of layer of flagstones covering the pit. At 10 feet down they ran into a layer of oak logs spanning the pit. Again at 20 feet and 30 feet they found the same thing, a layer of logs. Not being able to continue alone from here, they went home, but with plans of returning to search more.
It took the three discoverers 8 years, but they did return. Along with The Onslow Company (owned by Simeon Lynds, a wealthy business man from the mainland), formed for the purpose of the search, they began digging again. They quickly got back to 30 foot point that had been reached 8 years ago.
They continued down to 90 feet, finding a layer of oak logs at every 10 foot interval. Besides the boards, at 40 feet a layer of charcoal was found, at 50 feet a layer of putty, and at 60 feet a layer of coconut fiber.
At 90 feet one of the most puzzling clues was found - a stone inscribed with mysterious writing. The translation by the Halifax professor was:"Forty Feet below two million pounds are buried".
The accuracy of the translation, whether the symbols as commonly depicted are accurate, or if they meant anything at all, remains disputed.
Complete all 4 caches in the series and answer the questions found in each container. The answer will be a number. The sum of all 4 answers completes the journey and a treasure, a limited edition geocoin awaits you! Email your answer to the CO. Please do not post it in your log.
Additional Hints
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