> Where on earth did those come from? Are the pirates supposed to have brought dynamite with them a century or two before? This is an obvious point which the O

> Where on earth did those come from? Are the pirates supposed to have brought dynamite with them a century or two before? This is an obvious point which the OP does not entertain at all. Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel in the mid 19th century, so pirates in the 17th century would not have been able to bring dynamite to the site. It must have been left by excavators from the The Oak Island Association or by other excavators trailing them.