Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

[stilldign]

Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

In over twenty years off treasure hunting I have never seen the symbol of a turtle with its "hands in its pockets".

 

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[Leones Corazon]

Re: Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

My .02 cents on turtles.

90 percent of the time a turtles size is indicative to distance from the cache.
Sometimes the removed head is like a cracked heart...cache removed...but
note i said sometimes...not always. Sometimes....a missing flipper indicates
cache direction. And at least in my area when the cache is still a distance
away a turtles head is used to indicate direction of travel...and the head may
or may not have and eye. I have also ran into very large turtles...the cache
being extremely nearby and the back side of the head will have subtle info
on it...inn my case it was a triangle with a dot in the center....with a straight
line below in and in the middle of the line a half circle.

Another item to remember about turtles in the field. They are sea turtles not land
based turtles or tortises. Do some reading and one might understand why the
turtle was used. As an example....why are there small stone turtles in a hole one
is digging....? Google sea turtles and one might understand the answer to that question...

Getting ready to lay down tools and have my day or day and a half off. When i return i
will post some turtle pics.


DW

 

[MesaBuddy]

Re: Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

Whether it is attached or not , has no correlation to the goodies being carted off , another wives tale , more misinformation that's been floating around
Digin ,
Are you speaking of a monument , or of a carved Turtle ?

As seen from a trail leading into an area ^

Same view , zoomed out a bit ^

As seen up and to the right ^
This monument was built this way , and meant to be seen coming up to it

MB

 

[Leones Corazon]

Re: Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

MB....its truely funny how as time goes by we learn so much more.
After all the hard work i have been putting in to my colorado sites
and i look at this picture...and realizing i have even stood under this
and looked it over...i now see things in it that mirror my own sites
out here....

When i get back sunday and settle back in i'll dig up my original fullsize
pics of this and highlight a few things for you and provide pics from
my own sites to cement the point.

I'll be down in july for a wedding....got time for diner with me and
my family? A barby-q perhaps?
Did they get that new hotel west of the house started yet?

DW

 

[VICTORIO]

Re: Turtle With Head "Chopped Off"

How are you azstomper. At one of my sites I have seen a turtle carved on a rock. This Turtle has an arrow for a head and is pointing to something. Haven't figured out what. As you know I'm new to this. This same Turtle is missing it's right rear Fin. I have been told as you say that this means direction of Cache or it could also mean direction to " entrance ". I was also taken to where there is a Turtle made of piled on rocks. The head is missing. Cut off. When my friend was about 12 years old him and a buddy of his found this turtle next to a river. I have been to this site and have pictures of the Turtle with missing head. In this case I can tell you exactly what the missing head means. It simply means my friends buddy when they were 12 Yrs broke the Turtles head Off and threw it in the river. True story .