lost gold
Sunken Spanish doubloons
Lost gold is treasure—coins, bars, artifacts—believed to exist but whose location is unknown.
The phrase evokes buried pirate hoards, sunken Spanish galleons, and hidden stashes from outlaws or fallen civilizations.
Lost gold drives treasure hunters and fuels legends: They've been searching for the lost gold of the Confederacy for decades.
The appeal lies in the promise that immense wealth waits somewhere, needing only to be found.
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- buried treasureValuables interred for safekeeping
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- hiddenKept out of sight
- X marks the spotTreasure location indicator
sunken · pirate · mine · rush · nugget · prospector · doubloons · El Dorado · forgotten · ancient · hoard · chest · map · treasure hunter · quest · excavation · relic · Aztec
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- treasure huntingmetal detecting, beachcombing, geocaching, prospecting, relic hunting
- Western folklorePecos Bill, tall tales, cowboy legends, jackalope, ghost towns
- frontier folklorefolk heroes, tall tales, pioneer tales, frontier stories, local legends