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Investors formed The Truro Company in 1849, which re-excavated the shaft back down to the level, where it flooded again.

They then drilled into the ground below the bottom of the shaft.

According to the nineteenth-century account, the drill or " pod auger " passed through a spruce platform at, a head space, of what was described as " metal in pieces ", of oak, another of metal, of oak, another spruce layer, and finally into clay for without striking anything else.