BRUM’S ERRATIC METEORITE Traditional Cache
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A quick cache and dash but in a very busy area, hence the difficulty rating. If you're very lucky you might be able to park alongside the cache. Easier to retrieve now that it's magnetic and not right by the pavement!
Some time ago a fellow member of West Bromwich Mountaineering Club, who found out I was interested in Astronomy, told me that I ought to visit a churchyard in Hockley where a large meteorite could be seen.
So I went to find it but according to a sign by the rock it isn't a meteorite after all but an erratic felsite boulder, left behind when the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age!
It was at one time used as a parish boundary marker and known as the Hoar Stone, which has been corrupted so it is now known locally by a different ‘bellicose’ name. You can read all about that when you find the cache. Don't just come for the cache and dash, however, if you've time you can spend a fascinating couple of hours visiting the Museum of the Jewellry Quarter sited in an old goldsmith's factory.
The cache has been 'muggled' humpteen times, first as a 35 mm film container, then as a small blacked out cylinder under the overhand at the front of the stone itself. These were retrievable from the street by someone in a wheelchair but, alas, I've had to give up on this hide and gone for a small micro tube containing just a roll up log hidden a bit further from the pavement. You may need a pointy instrument to extract the log roll from the container and don't forget to have something to write with you.
A BIG THANK YOU TO "TraxUK" FOR DOING SOME MAINTENANCE ON THIS WHEN IT SUDDENLY SEEMS TO HAVE 'GONE WRONG' IN 2015 & TO "Martmcc" AND "FEMXIII" FOR HELP IN SUMMER 2017 WHEN THE MAGNET SEEMS TO HAVE COME DETACHED.
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Cvcr oenpxrg 5sg
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