Górhegy Traditional Geocache
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The cache can be conquered from different directions with no trace of a footpath though.
This cache is surrounded with a group of trees, which are part of a narrow line functioning as a border between plough land and an uncultivated vineyard. It is a plastic container sized 19*14*7 centimetres, not big enough to hold a CD. It lies on Górhegy (the name of a hill with the ruins of a castle on it) whose three sides are scrubby, the fourth is plough land. The cache can be conquered from different directions with no trace of a footpath though.
Górhegy is located two kilometres to the north-west of Nagybörzsöny (name of a village). It proceeds to a plateau of the same height on one side, leaving all the others rather steep. Vineyards and ploughed fields occupy most of the land on the hill. Agriculture has changed the surface heavily, particularly towards the northwest end where the mound has almost completely been weathered making it hard to recognize. Górhegy has a height of 187 metres above sea level but its relative height is only 50-60 metres.
In 1944, while digging a trench, soldiers discovered broken pieces of earthenware at a depth of 1-1.5 metres. It was also then that a piece of cast iron mould was found, probably that of a round-cornered axe. From near the surface a few broken bits of pottery have come to light with textile-patterned ornaments typical of the so-called "Hatvan Civilization".
The mound is easiest to reach by starting a 1.5 km long walk at a bend of the road to Nagybörzsöny at a point where a dirt road forks off to the north-west.
A guide post is placed at the border of the plateau and the spur of the hill.
(from "Várak a Börzsönyben")
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