Sigh . . .
My most fervent wish regarding hunting treasure is that those who bury them would leave me signs all over the place where I could find them and then locate the treasure. Seriously. That is just what every treasure hunter would absolutely love!
In reality, they leave no public markers that indicate treasure. They might leave a marker that indicates they are now at a location they know to be correct but there won't be any arrows, signs or hidden meaning. In other words, imagine you bury a treasure at a spot only you know of. Looking around, you find three landmarks that won't change over time. Perhaps a boulder, a cliff face and a gorge. Using triangulation, you can later find the exact spot where you stand.
On your way out, you might mark a boulder along the path back to civilization. You might even make a mud map (crude map) describing a few features and the treasure as a field of native orchids. You'd be an absolute fool to use any standard set of symbols or even mention treasure on your map. You certainly wouldn't mark those signs in public for anyone to see.
"Oh, look. Tree carvings that say to go forward 20 paces. I wonder what's there?" More importantly, a tree does grow, get chopped down or die making it a most unlikely spot to put a treasure sign.
Most signs in public places are simply signs towards another kind of treasure. They may be signs indicating the direction to water. They may be signs for directions to a gathering of people. They might be signs leading to the path through a dangerous area. All of those are treasure of a different kind that what you seek.
Go and have fun looking at your signs and dreaming of what they mean but open your mind to the fact that the likelihood of them being treasure sign is practically zero. So try and figure out what they mean. If they are signs toward any of the things I mentioned above, that means human activity and the possibility of coins, relics and artifacts. Not a chest of gold by any means but small treasures build up into large ones.
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It's all about that moment when metal that hasn't seen the light of day for generations frees itself from the soil and presents itself to me.
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