Treasure Hunting: Clues and Informations
November 7th 2006 17:04
When seeking treasure, learn to read the lay of the land -- study topography. This can be undertaken at any library. As well, the study of local history is invaluable to the metal detectorist, and this too is available at your local library. Many detectorists say that the best treasure hunting really happens in the library, with the actual retrieval being just the clean up operation!
Old Treasure Hunting Clues
I once met a man in Arizona, at a flea market in Tucson. He had been rat-tat-tatting on something, so I went to have a look. He was reproducing petroglyphs on big rocks, with a nail and a small hammer, pecking them into rocks which he had collected for their size and more particularly, for their desert varnish, which is a coating the rocks get out here as a result of weathering in the desert. It is usually a lot darker on the outside of a rock than on ths inside, out here in the desert Southwest, so when petroglyphs and other designs get pecked through the desert varnish of a stone, it really shows up well and is quite attractive. This gentlemen had actually gone and recorded many of the petroglyphs etched into the rocks by ancient peoples of the Arizona desert, by taking pictures, and keeping an album. He then pecked them into the stones he collected, as ornamental objects with historical information embedded. This fellow was also intimate with surveying, and he showed me well recorded documents which exhibited some truly amazing alignments that take place monolithically in any place Early Peoples lived, that are totally invisible to the vast majority.
| 42 |
| Vote |
Add To: 
subscribe to this blog
