Strange cave found Options

[johnnybravo300]

We found a strange opening and I spent a few hours today digging the entrance hole out. It's full of bedding and rat chit a few feet deep with the bottom foot pretty compacted.
There isn't any mineralization around there at all that I've ever seen. Not even quartz. The rock its dug into is volcanic breccia type sedimentary i believe. It's fairly softish and crumbly.
There is an old cabin ruin up the canyon about 100 yards away but its barely visible now with only the bottom course of logs almost covered with earth. This cabin has almost rotted away entirely and most cabins I find are still standing somewhat. It may be way old. I haven't detected it yet but I will.
I took a rake with me today to open up the hole enough to crawl in and it was kinda sketchy. It opens up just inside the hole and goes straight for about 12 feet, then there's a small room to the right. There is alot of nesting material on the floor as you can see.
It was hammered out with steel tools as I can see the chisel marks scraping deep and its not natural of course.
It will take time to clear it out before I can find the treasure but I'll keep you up to date. Or not!!

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[jimmyrig]

Just FYI about the legal stuff. I have been contemplating and researching the "what if I find something". To sum it up is: Go find it and don't tell anyone where it is. Leave it there and go get a treasure permit from the forest service. Go back and recover your treasure. It may be hard to do but that is really the only legal way. Usually the forest service and BLM are reasonable with permits, worst case you will have to take an archeologist with you but the permit and treasure are yours.