Take Offsets from the East Rock, West Rock and Tree, and then from Centre of Triangle

[TruthbeTold]

If there's more, then post it. Or do I have to buy your book?

Don’t waste your money on the book.

I did then regretted it. Right off the bat it had acknowledgements to suedo history fiction writers such as Peter Amundsen, which sent my BS meter pegging.

The rest of the book was filled with the same word salads that we see here with no basis in history or reality.

Just like the laginas, the author was spinning tall tales about oak island hoping to cash in.

 

[Cryptid1990]

Don’t waste your money on the book.

I did then regretted it. Right off the bat it had acknowledgements to suedo history fiction writers such as Peter Amundsen, which sent my BS meter pegging.

The rest of the book was filled with the same word salads that we see here with no basis in history or reality.

Just like the laginas, the author was spinning tall tales about oak island hoping to cash in.

To be fair, if you ignore the mumbo-jumbo he writes about Oak Island in his Maps, Mystery and Interpretation trilogy (especially the second book) his books are very useful and informative since he publishes/quotes from various private letters (Hubert Palmer, Harold T. Wilkins, Rupert Furneaux, etc) only he has access to and some of his chapters on Captain Kidd, piracy, and so on are fairly well written. The books also have excellent bibliographies and I came across and bought new books from reading them. Unfortunately, his research went off-the-rails by linking the Kidd-Palmer maps to Oak Island and geometric nonsense. The idea of linking Oak Island to the Kidd-Palmer maps is not even his own; it has been around for many decades, so that is another bad (and quite frankly boring) aspect of his books. He is not actually coming up with a novel hypothesis but regurgitating a far-fetched/discredited idea about Oak Island that traces back to Gilbert Hedden.

 

[TruthbeTold]

To be fair, if you ignore the mumbo-jumbo he writes about Oak Island in his Maps, Mystery and Interpretation trilogy (especially the second book) his books are very useful and informative since he publishes/quotes from various private letters (Hubert Palmer, Harold T. Wilkins, Rupert Furneaux, etc) only he has access to and some of his chapters on Captain Kidd, piracy, and so on are fairly well written. The books also have excellent bibliographies and I came across and bought new books from reading them. Unfortunately, his research went off-the-rails by linking the Kidd-Palmer maps to Oak Island and geometric nonsense. The idea of linking Oak Island to the Kidd-Palmer maps is not even his own; it has been around for many decades, so that is another bad (and quite frankly boring) aspect of his books. He is not actually coming up with a novel hypothesis but regurgitating a far-fetched/discredited idea about Oak Island that traces back to Gilbert Hedden.

So basically he is taking other's works and putting his spin on them in an attempt to sell his fiction.

No different than the laginas.

 

[Armchair detective]

According to the book I am reading, turns out that surveying above ground is very important to mining underground. When mining, diggers follow the vein, but to drive air shafts you got to know where that tunnel is.
So I am wondering if these survey rocks, drilled rocks were a part of that.
If memory serves there was an episode of OI (somewhere in seasons 4-6) that some people showed up with what Marty denounced as "black box technology" and actually painted a LOT of tunnels under OI. If the tunnels actually do exist, perhaps your markers would find them.

 

[TruthbeTold]

According to the book I am reading, turns out that surveying above ground is very important to mining underground. When mining, diggers follow the vein, but to drive air shafts you got to know where that tunnel is.
So I am wondering if these survey rocks, drilled rocks were a part of that.
If memory serves there was an episode of OI (somewhere in seasons 4-6) that some people showed up with what Marty denounced as "black box technology" and actually painted a LOT of tunnels under OI. If the tunnels actually do exist, perhaps your markers would find them.

Like so many other "finds" by the laginas on oak island, they never went back to investigate these "black box technology painted tunnels".

Surveyors on oak island over the past several hundred years surveyed property lots, not fictional vast treasure holds.

 

[Armchair detective]

Another tidbit from COOI.

Fred Nolan found at least two lines of very old survey stakes. In dating them by carbon dating, one stake was determined to be 1575 years old, plus/minus 85 years.

They were noted on Nolan's survey maps. Possibly they could point to a site, or follow underground tunnels.

 

[TruthbeTold]

Another tidbit from COOI.

Fred Nolan found at least two lines of very old survey stakes. In dating them by carbon dating, one stake was determined to be 1575 years old, plus/minus 85 years.

They were noted on Nolan's survey maps. Possibly they could point to a site, or follow underground tunnels.

No site or underground tunnels.

Just common survey stakes for common things such as lot boundaries.

 

[Armchair detective]

No site or underground tunnels.

Just common survey stakes for common things such as lot boundaries.

You may be right - jury's still out.

The point is there was activity there way before 1795 ( 200 plus years !!!) with no record.

Now I need to switch to a wider view to see what was known about that time in NS history, and what was going on in the world at that time.

The mine idea seems a little more possible, but there's a long way to go.

 

[TruthbeTold]

A mine on an island with an extremely high water table is not plausible.