Open excavation Era III, The Machine Age Approximate outline

Dunfield excavation, Money Pit (1965-66)

Recorded 1965 to 1966 by Robert Dunfield, to 140 ft

Depthto 140 ft
As reported by the source

Years1965 to 1966

ByRobert Dunfield

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In the autumn of 1965 Robert Dunfield stripped about 12 ft of topsoil from the Money Pit area with bulldozers, then dug an open pit with a 70 ton crane: about 100 ft across and nearly 140 ft deep by William Crooker's account, a cone to about 125 ft below the lowered ground on the section in Les MacPhie's 2008 report. Rain and cave-ins stopped it; he refilled the hole and drilled from the backfill in 1966. The Hedden Shaft stood outside the pit and survived; the Chappell Shaft collapsed into it. The 10 ft drop in ground level is why later depths at the Money Pit carry a "post-1966 ground" datum.

Placed from distances and directions in the record.

Depth

to 140 ft, as reported by the source.

Where It Sits

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Connected to Dunfield excavation, Money Pit (1965-66)

Sources

Les MacPhie, The Money Pit (2008), Figure 3 and Section B-B; William S. Crooker, Oak Island Gold
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