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Boattow, you just have to stir that pot, don't you!

In my opinion (for what that's worth to anybody) the only cause JJ had was JJ.

Lady Sicily, there are many, many places a treasure can be hidden and they seemed to use them all. As for developers, contractors and the like running acorss a cache when digging/building in an area, it happens a lot more than what you think, you just don't hear about it. That's the way most treasures are if the finders have any brains, they take what they find and deal with it VERY quietly. I have seen stories in the newspapers about different things being found like spanish armour or coins that where accidently dug up by a bulldozer and I have heard several others from people "in the know". Some of which are very intriguing and make you mad all at the same time. It's kind of tough to take when you spend years wondering the hills and mountains looking for treasure to hear of a guy that was digging a pool or septic system and accidently breaks into an old Spanish tunnel or scoops up a bucket full of gold coins. There's just no accounting for luck.

As for maps from any secret groups or even not so secret groups and other people being handed down from generation to generation you are correct about that. The only thing wrong with your theory is that usually each generation tries to find what the map goes to and either does or gives up and packs the map away. I have a map just like that that I bought when the last generation that had it gave up.

Generally speaking, anyone who believes in lost treasure that comes across a map will try to figure the map out, I don't care what person or group it originally came from. It's just human nature. The people that don't believe in buried treasure, and there are more of those than the ones that do believe, will just put a map in a cabinet or drawer and forget about it because they feel it is not real or heaven forbid, they will toss it in the trash, never to be seen again. There are a few families who feel a treasure map is a curse because they have seen what it has done to the person who had it before them so they hide the map away so know one else has to go through that. I really hate it when people try to look out for my own well being!!

There might be a family or two that have land that they have passed down from generation to generation that has treasure on it but I don't think that is a very plausible scenario. Most families that have/had maps got them from somebody who actually put the money in the ground. I don't beleive that there are very many "large depositiories" nor do I believer there ever was. At least not here in the US.

I personally believe that if anybody had access to a large treasure that was buried in the ground they would have moved it somewhere else other than be buried if they didn't decide to spend it. Having something buried in the ground doesn't seem like the safest place to keep your family's inheirtance.