Hanging Stone Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Dalesman: This cache has been in need of care and maintenance for some time and as the owner has not responded to my note I am archiving it.

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If you wish to contact me about this cache please use my Email address below my signature and quote the GC number of the cache. Please note this system is not infallible and I may miss any such mail.

Many thanks,
DalesmanX - (Email address)

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Hidden : 9/1/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The Hanging Stone is a site that I first came across almost 20 years ago in a fell race named after the Hanging Stone. I visited it recently and a lot has changed in those past 20 years, so much so that I feel that it deserves a cache placed here. To appreciate the site you need to approach from Newton Moor. You will see what I mean when you arrive at the stone.....

The stone is a natural outcrop at the most northerly point of a narrow 2km long ridge that runs roughly north/south from Newton Moor. What makes the ridge and the stone significant is that the people of the Bronze Age placed at least 4 burial mounds along the short narrow ridge behind the stone. Maybe the stone was significant to the Bronze Age tribes in that area. One theory is that it could have been a platform on which the local tribes would place their dead until the bodies had decomposed leaving only the bones to be collected and buried. One other point of interest is that there is a smaller stone set back about 2m away which contains an almost perfectly circular 15cm basin, the edges of which are extremely smooth. Why this is here, I do not know.

This cache is placed within 2km of five other cache sites and can be accessed from at least 5 parking areas. The easiest route being from Percy Rigg Timulus, NZ606118.

This is a small cache, in a cylindrical tub with a prize inside for FTF.

Happy hunting.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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