Druid gold in the San Juans

[Follows Camp Craig]

For a moment I thought I got redirected to a "Dungeons and Dragons" thread

I'm glad everyone is playing nicely!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

No, no. Leif Erikson (or St. Brendon, or Joseph of Aramathea, or Jaques de Molay, etc.) brought a ship full of gold and precious stones to this contenent so he could bury and abandon them because he didn't want to be burdened with having to enjoy them during his lifetime. He left a whole bunch of treasure markers so others would learn all about in time and keep busy interpreting them - because after all the location was secret and we all know the best way to keep a secret is to leave a lot of markers all over the place nearby.

hahaha, how can you be such a KILL-JOY charlie?? tsk tsk

 

[Marmentman]

The only reason I ask is I found the supposed temple and the same colored band of rocks as the rock I found I have only seen at that location. This rock was about 20 miles away from any rocks that look anything like it.

 

[yelnif]

How large of a 'diamond shaped' turquoise rock did you find? any pics of the rock or the area you think it came from- would/ might help?

 

[Marmentman]

Not sure if this uploaded but this is the rock I found at an old mining camp in the La Platas not far from parrot peak.

 

[Marmentman]

Sorry posted twice

 

[Marmentman]

After doing further research on my own about Druid markers and writings I do not believe this is Druid but something else. The author of the book I think was looking to create something else out of what the markings actually are. There was a lot of Chinese emigrants working the mines around the San Juan moutians, and I think the dragon marker as well as the other markers may be in relation to them. Does anyone know anything about markers that I could send pictures to and see what they might mean? I was told that people also made stone markers to locate their mines, or to throw off people who might be following them back to their claims. Does any one know any info on the durango silverton area? There are a lot of ledgends surrounding this area.

 

[Marmentman]

Just got back from a hike on the Animas trail in Durango co. Here are the pictures, looks like someone has tried to rub off some of the details. Hope someone here can give me some insight on these pictures

 

[Marmentman]

Just got back from a hike on the Animas trail in Durango co. Here are the pictures, looks like someone has tried to rub off some of the details. Hope someone here can give me some insight

 

[Marmentman]

 

[Marmentman]

These photos are hard to see I will try to draw and post a picture of what is there, but it is old there is moss in the lines.

 

[Marmentman]

Socalrick suggested they might be Aztec calendar symbols. Is that possible since others have suggested that people were not in this area that early.

 

[Marmentman]

 

[Oroblanco]

View attachment 948881These photos are hard to see I will try to draw and post a picture of what is there, but it is old there is moss in the lines.

Thank you for posting this - very cool amigo! I am jealous!
Roy ~ Oroblanco

 

[Marmentman]

Yes I have been to this site. It's sad people have vandalized it since the last picture I posted and the ones I took didn't turn out as good as these. As far as knowledge of the Druids in the area, I am limited, I have read a book that a guy in durango Colorado wrote on the possibility of them being here pre-Columbus. The san juan and rio grand have some of the best placer gold locations in the four corners area. I say that because I still find a fair amount of flour gold. And this is after many of these streams have been dredged. A lot of what I believe come form questions about history that haven't been answered. If the world wasn't so against trying to prove the bible to be false then I think we would find a lot of simple answers to to hard questions. But I will leave it at that. If you have specific questions, then I will try to answer what I know or understand, but for those who are not serious, I will not waste my time.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Hey marmentman, if you REALLY want to dose up on great treasure stories (all sure-fired iron-clad true, of course), just pick up any treasure magazine from the 1960s and '70s. They were all FILLED with "lost mine" stories, stagecoach robbery tales, etc... You know, like the dying miner drags himself into the wild-west saloon, the lone survivor of an indian attack. He spills the story of fabulous riches to curious onlookers in the saloon. But dies of his injuries before being able to reclaim his riches. And here's his 4 clues: blah blah. Great fun to read!

Throw in a few faded newspaper clippings, and a drawing of a miner posed next to his pack-burro, and well then it MUST be true!

 

[Marmentman]

Tom what you are saying is true, but only one problem, this guy wrote this for collage research. I guess that doesn't prove it's true, but then again we graduate more fools every day.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Marmentman, so too is every treasure story. There's always the proofs, evidences, etc... The human mind wants so hard to believe (lest you be "left out"), that .... sure, anything advanced (even though it can be quickly dis-assembled logically), is sure-fired proof. I chased such iron-clad stories all over the Sierra Madres in Mexico, where stories abounded. And each one had details that were just too good to be true (and hence simply had to be iron-clad). But after a month of that, and hearing the same silly details woven 20 different ways, for 30 different stories, I began to figure it out.

But to no avail. If you tell the people it's superstition, they will grow all the more adament that it's true. Why? because they saw smoke coming from the ground, or had a vision, or saw a man acting strangely 30 yrs. ago there, blah blah blah. And it's never that it's not there. It's simply deeper. If you've dug 5 ft, well then by golly it must be 10. If you've dug 10, well then by golly it must be 15, etc...