Mmmmm I felt the same way when I saw that T-horn, always keep a open mind. Not everything is Spanish/Mexican, not that I don't rule it out but just keep an open mind. So many cultures long before the Spanish, however the Spanish were pretty much on top of the Older Mine and Treasure sites as well, so there could be a mixture of signs in there. I see you are in some forest country. You got any Old Odd Looking Trees around that site? Do you know what Indian Trail Trees are? The Spanish/Mexicans also did these too. the Indians and their Predesessors, (wish I could spell, hee,hee), The ANCIENTS, for lack of a better term or name, used them too. The Trees marked Trails leading in and out of Mine area's or to Better Hunting Grounds or to Water or to Camps, sometimes even though they are rare led them to Burial Grounds. The Indians were never lost in the forest. Check your area for Older past Cultures, Indians etc.. Box Eyes sometimes means they are Closed or Sleeping or Looking Down, like into the Underworld. All Indians Mined to some extent even if it was just for Obsidian, Flint, etc.. It's a falicy that they didn't mine for something, they made such a wide array of Tools and Fetishes, they were always looking for (and finding) different resources in rocks, like even Soapstones. Depending upon your area and the different Tribes will give you a better handle, certain tribes did indeed mine gold and silver but not necessarily for the economic value of it. Navaho - Turquoise, Silver for example even though it was a later commodity for them and their jewelry, several different Tribes that were on the WarPath in the early years before the American Revolution (like the French & Indian Wars), ran out of Lead for the rifles they had, through the French & Dutch Traders the Injuns learned how to smelt lead out of rocks (anybody can do this in their bar-b-cue, well just about), anyhow so they would mine the lead ore from their secret places. Geronimo is hooked up with a Gold Mine, lot's of different stories and tales, many of which are quite True. Of course there were Indian Tribes all across the Nation that were Traders themselves for a wide variety of commodities. and they remained Neutral to all of the War'ing Tribes. First Pic"s is a Old OAK TRAIL TREE and YES it is close to where my recent concern is. Then a few of a Carved Basalt Stone Head that is thousands of years old from My MTN., Note the box like Eyes, the DIAMOND in it's FOREHEAD. These pic's are not that good, better one's over at Treasure Legends threads
