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The remaining nine treasure boxes have not yet been recovered. [4] The Boston treasure box's recovery was filmed for Discovery Channel's television show Expedition Unknown and aired on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, a recovery which only occurred due to the puzzle being featured in two previous episodes of the series. [6] [7] [8]
This is a list of hoards (buried treasure caches) that were unearthed in North America. "Unearthed" unusually means they were found buried in the ground but some are hidden by other means. Baltimore gold hoard [1] Bank of New York Hoard [2] Castine Hoard [3] Dawson Film Find [4] Great Kentucky Hoard [5] Saddle Ridge Hoard [6]
The myth of buried pirate treasure was popularized by such 19th-century fiction as "Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving, "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The idea of treasure maps leading to buried treasure is considered a fictional device. There are cases of buried treasure from different ...
George Whytock, commander of the ship Rodney, of London, which sailed from Boston, on Thursday the 22d of November, and unfortunately was shipwrecked on Duxburough beach, the Sunday morning following, in the severe snowstorm, takes this public method to return his most grateful thanks to the benevolent people of Duxborough, Marshfield, and ...
Edgar Allan Poe uses the legend of Kidd's buried treasure in his story "The Gold Bug" (1843). In L. Frank Baum 's children's fantasy The Sea Fairies (1911), the sea serpent King Anko lists Captain Kidd among the historical figures he has met over the course of his long life, and insists that the Captain's real name was Captain Kid Glove.
A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.
Hiram Marble's excavation of Veale's treasure at Dungeon Rock (Lynn, MA), from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 1878). “Captain Veale” was the name shared by two unrelated Massachusetts pirates active in the 17th century. The first, Thomas Veale, was known for legends of his buried treasure.
Removing rocks and other debris in a very large urban privy (c. 1855). Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past.