After 15th Episode of Season 12.... Still any believers...?

[FreeBirdTim]

We don't actually believe it was done with slaves. There was a literal army of tradespeople who made a living in residence nearby doing this large public works project. There was great collective pride taken in it. Of course, even a wage slave is a form of slave, but the great many did not have to be whipped to produce it. Narratives alone can get people on board.

But that would defeat the most basic requirement of burying treasure, which is secrecy. If you have dozens of people digging a hole to bury treasure, you're totally defeating the purpose of burying that treasure!

 

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[n2mini]

Not if you of the same group with all the same reasons for doing it with the plan that years from then their groups decedents would retrieve it. Plus the fact that most would never be able to find there way back to this island if they came from over seas even if they wanted to. Only the navigator would know how which would be passed down some how to whoever needed it within their groups decedents..
Plus maybe everyone does not know what they a burying and or why...

 

[GravelTeeth]

Plus the fact that most would never be able to find there way back to this island if they came from over seas even if they wanted to. Only the navigator would know how

That's an interesting idea. For all the different groups that have been postulated, would the average member of the labor force have been able to make their way back if they wished? One imagines that even among a group of Templars or other religious or martial order of above average skills, not every member would have the seafaring suite. Even if they managed to get back to the right spot, then the question of resources to go down that far again ... could they have managed enough manpower on the return trip to make the task reasonable?

I was pondering yesterday, after reading more about Captain Kidd's trial, whether a cache that deep was simply for the purpose of making the largest possible set of obstacles to casual discovery and retrieval. Just for the sake of argument, let's say Kidd did have stuff buried. He'd want the task of retrieving it to be too big a job for any but the most organized expedition, i.e. one that he arranged or bargained for. Any given deckhand simply wouldn't have the set of resources and skills necessary, even if they were free to try.

--GT