Hi Ya'll I don't often reply to posts on the forum but sometimes when I feel I may be of help I get wound up. So here goes! Rock monuments are found all over the world. For some reason any found in our Great Southwest automatically are designated as Spanish.. The earlier Spaniards and later Mexicans did mark their trails and directions to important sites i.e. water, shelter, mines and supply caches with various monuments. However, the Indians used similar although smaller monuments to do the same thing. When the Americans came on the scene they also used monumments to mark the way to places they needed to relocate. There are small but noticable differences in the various types of rock monuments or reference points. Only by spending years following all of the markers can you determine what it is they are trying to tell you and even then you will be mistaken much of the time. Once sure way to identify when and perhaps who made the marker is to find a buried clue near or around the marker or monument. Our late friend and fellow TH'er Chuck Kenworthy wrote a fasinating book on Spanish Rock monuments in the Southwest. Chuck was well versed in reading these stone clues, but you must keep in mind that Chuck like myself and many other life long treasure hunters didn't tell everything he knew. There are many types of treasure signs and markers besides rock monuments. If the persons who buried anything really wanted it found by others they might have made reading their treasure markers easy using simple logic. Truth is the markers were there for THEM NOT US to use to relocate whatever it was they wanted to come back to. When we try to use logic to follow a treasure trail we are doing what they expected and wanted us to do. A secret that none of the Pro treasure hunters ever mentioned and I won't go into it deeply either. Is that large, gaudy,obvious, highly visible markers may guide you along routes or major trails used by people who once traveled through an area but they seldom will lead you to anything valuable by themselves. You must find progressively smaller and smaller treasure markers as you get closer to the prize. In fact when you get very close the clues will become fewer and farther apart until finally they disappear from sight altogether. That's when the men are seperated from the boys. If you are not trained in what to look for and where to look for it chances are you're search will become stalled. Here are a couple of tips. First treasure clues can be almost anything and I'm not exaggarating here in the least. What type of terrain you are in and the distance you can see makes a great difference in what you are looking for. In wooded areas treasure signs are usually much different than those in desert regions. Take a camera wherever you roam and when the clues seem to vanish snap a photo in every direction from where the last suspected clue was found. Blow up your photos to reveal the smaller details. This is now cheaply done on a computer, years ago it cost a bundle for photos you just threw away when they didn't show what you wanted. I will only mention this and then you can decide what to do with it... The really good clues will be found buried in places you would least expect them. Almost every cache ever found, that I am aware of and I'm aware of plenty, was finally discovered by digging up a buried clue.. Some of the clues are quite deep and usuallly the deeper the better although that is not always the case. If you search for Rebel Treasure-until you do a lot of clue digging you won't get close to their loot... Honest Indian! Hillbilly Bob

• Re: NEW HYPOTHEIS: Origin of Spanish Rock Monuments Ecominer 07:37:35 2/01/99 (3)
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