Oak Island Association tunnel at 118 ft (1861)

In 1861 the Oak Island Association sank a shaft 118 ft deep beside the Money Pit and tunnelled into it; the pit's bottom gave way during that work, the collapse that is said to have dropped the "treasure" out of reach. Hamilton's sketch marks the shaft, with "timbers on end", about 25 ft south of the pit and the tunnel running to it, which is why Shaft No. 6 is placed there.

Placed from distances and directions in the record.

Depth

Where It Sits

Connected to Oak Island Association tunnel at 118 ft (1861)

• Money Pit (Shaft No. 1)1795114 ftSearcher shaft
• Shaft No. 61861118 ftSearcher shaft

Sources

• R.V. Harris, The Oak Island Mystery (1958); Erwin Hamilton, undated sketch of the Money Pit shafts
• Positions and depths: see how we know this on the Money Pit Map.