Lost in the Forest,
Yes, I live in the area - down in Roswell though. You're much closer. I hear you that there has to be more caches out there..... just need to find the petroglyph and/or arborglpyh signs. If they still exist. I know the land that is posted you're talking about. I did not know that crazy stuff about it. I think it's the same owner whose land development went bust on top of the hill there. Which of course is a prime hunting spot. We contacted him on that phone number on the gate and he shot us down immediately when we asked permission.
I also have liability insurance that lasts until end of the year. And yes indeed, a contract is a must. In fact, our team (now defunct) even hired a lawyer to help us work through all the ins and outs. It's rather daunting.
Did you acquire a GPR unit, meaning you purchased one or borrowing if I might ask? Because I still have exclusive permission on the private land I'm relic hunting up in Graball, Ga for the lost Confederate treasure. See
this POSTING. Possibly we can work something out. I own a MineLab 3030 CTX and it is badass.
The other nutsy thing is there's a local guy who has been digging for the Scudder cave you mentioned just off Mt. Tabor and Whitmire alongside Brewton Creek. The new landowner invited me over a couple of years ago to play devil's advocate after this guy – with one eye (not kidding) – was insistent on digging there. You see, his family previously owned the land and a Cherokee woman approached them back in 1993, supposedly with a map on an old deer skin looking for the cave entrance. A descendant of the Red Bank tribe. I dropped by the other day and he has dug a sloping tunnel about 60 feet in and even has electricity. It is absolutely nuts the amount of work he's done, mostly by hand. I took some video as I was just shocked. Any way, he hasn't found anything at all, not even Indian relics. Except, of course all the hundreds of invisible carvings that only HE can see, if you get my drift. Too long of a story to tell. But I plan on making a video of this soon explaining how treasure hunting can utterly consume your life away – like this guy.
You'll like this YT video I posted on the
Jacob Scudder gravesite.