Wishful thinking or does anyone else see something here...

This site is an area near what I have thought for many years to be a possible gravesite. Thing is, after recently returning to my old interest in treasure hunting and hitting the web, you guys have made me take another look. That "gravesite" is actually a mound of stones within a circle. One of many circles in the immediate area. Today, after some metal detecting nearby, we went for another look. Do you guys see any possibilities here or am I just dreaming? I'd appreciate input pro or con. Happy huntin' 

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A photo showing more area would help a bit.

Until then just Natural Rocks.

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The rocks do look like a human hand has arranged them but the purpose of that arranging may be lost forever. They could be the site of a multiple person campsite where each was a fire pit. The edges of the pits may have been kicked towards the center as most Boy Scouts are taught to do. That's a simple possibility. A grave site is also possible but it would have to be a hastily arranged one since reverence and permanence are traditionally the basis for memorializing a grave site.

There may be some research tools available to you. If you can find a local historical society, they may have information on skirmishes that happened in the local area. After one of those, casualties from both sides were often buried at the site. Google Earth or the Google satellite images also might allow you to spot a skirmish boundary even after more than a hundred years after the fact if you carefully observe the lay of the land.

Sometimes the outhouses of a homestead were marked with a cairn so as to remind the future diggers of the new outhouse to stay away from the previous holes. A privy that is dug up after 100 or so years is not going to be an upsetting event because the earth will have done its job in converting waste to soil. Very rich soil. You'll know fairly early if that's what you have discovered.

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I wouldn't fall into the trap of believing that those are treasure markers of any kind. In true fact about treasure, the people who hide it do not ever put them near public markers of any kind. Get that thought out of your mind right now. Treat it like a curiosity or a potentially important historical event.

Regarding treasure, think about it from your own perspective. Would you ever in a million years bury a treasure with signs and arrows pointing towards it? Like most who really bury treasure, you'd most likely keep it secret. Some have kept it secret for one day too long, dying before they told their own family. I once uncovered 12 mason jars filled with gold and silver coins for a friend of mine whose granddad had passed away without ever revealing where he got the silver dollars he gave his children and grandchildren every year on their birthdays. There wasn't a single sign pointing out the location but I managed to think like he did and found it within a few minutes of arriving at the old homestead.

But that's another story for another topic. Good luck with this one, mate. You're going to have a ball doing the research and discovering what's there.

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If you have not told that story, you have my attention! I would love to see it in a new topic...or a link if you have.

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