Yorkshire's Elgin Marbles Part2 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/15/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

A black nano cache in an interesting very busy public location in
Holmfirth a short walk from either the Co-op or Bus Station Pay and
Display Carparks. The other in the series is GC1EAXT.

GPS reception is poor and the cache is the otherside of the river to the Co-op Car park

This is Part 2 of a Two Cache Series. The public object is in the
corner of a public park and is easily missed when passing through
on the bridge and foot path which links the Co-op and Bus Station
Carparks. I have been hunting this object since coming across the
other object in Maythorne. I have been looking in New Mill and to
my surprise I have been walking past the object frequently in
Holmfirth. Most people come this way to visit Holmfirth and some feed the ducks.

The stone
object has some history and dates from Saxon times. I found some
info on a Sheffield Forum Web Site and the object has been subject
to a local feud not unlike the "Elgin Marbles" between UK and
Greece. Try the web link to The Independent Newspaper web site
(visit link)

The full text is below:
"Districts split Saxon cross to settle 150-year feud
By Ian Herbert, North of England Correspondent
Published: 27 March 2004
After a feud lasting 150 years, involving theft, vandalism and
municipal threats of legal action, two districts in Yorkshire
reached an unusual settlement yesterday over a 1,000-year-old Saxon
cross.
New Mill in West Yorkshire and Dunford in South Yorkshire have
decided that the only way of resolving their differences over the
8ft-high Maythorne Cross is to split it. Dunford gets the ancient
base; New Mill gets the rest.
It was erected as a boundary marker at a cross-roads between
Cheshire and Wakefield. The dispute was sparked by Dr Henry
Morehouse, a local historian and collector, in the 1850s. With the
aid of a horse-drawn cart and several men, Dr Morehouse stole the
cross from its ancient site near the hamlet of Victoria, in
Dunford, added a new column and ball, and placed it in his own
garden.
One of his descendants moved it four miles to the grave of his
favourite horse, where he left it on a poorly laid foundation for
decades. After it was vandalised in 1959, Kirklees council stepped
in, restored the cross and gave it to the local civic society,
which placed it outside the village library in 1984.
When the library closed the battle began again in earnest. After
there was talk of the monument being removed, a local roofing
contractor, Gerald Parker, recruited eight other men and launched a
dawn raid in June 2000, claiming the cross

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

"Ab Qbtf"

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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