It was the Spanish - and it was/is Inca Gold-
I read the book - there are many layers - people make friends(!) and they also may well have buried something ultra-mysterious in their amazingly clever flood trap system - the author missed a trick and said they would have been 'noticed building it' -
WOULD THEY CARE!? -
They would have just scared the locals off by direct aggression and/or force and weapons (as well as spreading ghost stories) - but it is very haunted anyway -
it was a popular respite for repairing storm damaged ships, and yes there is probably an abandoned ship in the swamp which helped form the Drumlins together over time, along with the docks and workings, general traffic.
The DEEP History of the Island will reveal itself more as very serious underground imaging tech improves; (which is also something that will put an awful lot of scumbags behind bars).
The original treasure hunters did obliterate the 'main' area, so did subsequent, it was sadly a grey area between an archaeological site and a treasure dig - I'm not getting into all that
I read the book - there are many layers - people make friends(!) and they also may well have buried something ultra-mysterious in their amazingly clever flood trap system - the author missed a trick and said they would have been 'noticed building it' -
WOULD THEY CARE!? -
They would have just scared the locals off by direct aggression and/or force and weapons (as well as spreading ghost stories) - but it is very haunted anyway -
it was a popular respite for repairing storm damaged ships, and yes there is probably an abandoned ship in the swamp which helped form the Drumlins together over time, along with the docks and workings, general traffic.
The DEEP History of the Island will reveal itself more as very serious underground imaging tech improves; (which is also something that will put an awful lot of scumbags behind bars).
The original treasure hunters did obliterate the 'main' area, so did subsequent, it was sadly a grey area between an archaeological site and a treasure dig - I'm not getting into all that
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