The 'Deep' Finds

By deep finds, I am referring to the items that have been found at great depths during the drilling operations.

There have been a number of items discovered at surprising depths from some of the holes that have been drilled over the years. Things like tiny fragments of parchment and fabrics that suggest that documents of some kind may be 'down there'. The Lagina brothers and their team have gone to great lengths to have most of these items authenticated and they all seem to fit perfectly with one or other of the theories about what may be down there.

Small fragments of leather and parchment fit in with the idea that Francis Bacon may have buried documents relating to Shakespeare.

A Spanish coin lends credence to either pirates or Spanish soldiers having left something there.

A couple of finds dated to the Templars suggest that their massive wealth may be waiting to be found. And so it goes on.

Clearly these theories are unlikely to be all correct, unless the money pit was being run as some kind of secret bank for folks with treasures to hide. I suppose that even that could have an element of truth given that it is exactly how the Knight's Templar gained their huge wealth. It also might explain why the pit appears to have nothing to show for itself. If the Templars had been renting out space in their secure subterranean vault until business dried up, they would be unlikely to leave much behind when they filled it in.

With regard to some of the items that have been found at unlikely depths, I offer this as something to think about. I make no claims as to the likelihood of it being correct, but it does offer possibilities.

Many years ago I was thumbing through one of those 'Believe it or Not' type books when I came across this.

Some one had posed a question about where all of the rocks in her garden kept coming from. Apparently, every spring when preparing the ground for the new plants there always seemed to be numerous rocks and stones that needed clearing out. It seemed that no matter how diligent she was about clearing up, there was always another load to be cleared the following spring. Where were they coming from?

The answer was interesting. Apparently, as the ground is being constantly heated and cooled between day and night as well as differences during the changing seasons, as things expand and contract, small fragments of earth tend to fall between the larger items like rocks. This apparently has the effect over time of exposing the rocks and pushing them up to the surface, where gardeners have to move them out of the way. This seems to be helped along by vibrations caused by small earth tremors or a flow of traffic past your home.

This may seem odd, but apparently you can prove it yourself by way of a simple experiment. Take an empty glass jar and place an inch or so of those decorative stones or glass beads you can get from a craft store in the bottom. Top the jar up with fine sand that you might use in a child's sand pit. Put the lid on the jar and stand it on a shelf. Left to it's own devices it seems that the sand will eventually begin to sink toward the bottom of the jar helped along by tiny vibrations set up as we go about living in the room. People walk across the room, doors get opened and closed, stuff gets dropped on the floor and the vacuum cleaner rattles and bangs it's way around the room. Eventually the sand and stones or beads will change places leaving the beads on the surface.

Is it possible that some of the fragments that have been found a long way beneath the surface might have got there in this way? Remember that they may well have had a minimum of 200-300 years to get there. Although there is no traffic to disturb the island, it is constantly subject to the tides rolling up and down it's beaches.

I can't really vouch for this theory but can we afford to discard it completely?