Yairs of the Beauly Firth Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/2/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

About 15metres from path down to shore line over rough grass.

To benefit from visiting this cache you need to visit when the fishtraps are exposed at low tide.

The fishtrap in front of you when at the cache is one of a number around the firth with this style possibly dating back to 2500 years ago as recent archaeological digs at the Redcastle Crannog have indicated.
Also known as a Yair the fishtrap would have been a much more substantial structure than now. It may have been a stone dyke structure with a wooden hurdle fence on top with the opening on the up river side. People of the time would have kept it mud free so that it would have been inviting to the fish heading back out to sea when the tide was in retreat. With the water draining through the dyke the fish would have been trapped behind the walls and would have not gone against the tide to the opening and to freedom making catching them easy. Fish likely to have been caught would have included flat fish such as flounder, mackeral, herring, collies, salmon, sea bass and trout along with eels. Just over the wall from the parking space there is ariel photogrpahic evidence of hut circles and furrows which may indicating a settle group farming the land and fishing at the same time. As there has been no investigation of the site the above is only interpretation based on similar structures elsewhere.

Further out in the firth you may be able to see at very low tides the Coulmore Crannog which also dates to the same period. It is the smallest (25m x 18m) of four marine crannogs located in the Beauly Firth. Shells, wood and brushwood have been found but no timber during archaeological sampling in 1994.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Tenff pbirerq pbooyrf nobir uvtu jngre znex fb sne.

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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