The Boley Holestone Traditional Cache
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Cache is a 35mm film container containing log and pencil. The cache site itself is wheelchair friendly but the walk to the Holestone isn't as it is over uneven grass and involves a climb.
The cache is placed at the roadside and there is a handy place to park just beside it. Please do go across to see the Holestone. There is a right of way to the outcrop across the field and it is only a few yards through the gate. You will have to climb up onto the top of the rock but there is a natural set of steps which will get you there, just take it easy as they can be slippy.
The previous cache disapeared when hooligans set fire to the whin bushes which cover the top of the rocky outcrop so there was nowhere to hide another cache at the stone.
This remarkable stone stands on a rock outcrop near Doagh in County Antrim. It overlooks the entire Six Mile Valley and is one of only a few holed stones in the Brtish Isles. Its age and origin are still a mystery but it has probably stood here since the Bronze Age.
It is about five feet high with the four inch diameter hole three feet from the base. On a nearby hill at Browndod is a court cairn tomb and other evidence of early settlement.
In recent centuries it has been a trysting place where young couples came to pledge their love. The hole will only allow the hand of a girl to pass through and that was then clasped by the man as they made their vows.
The area has never been excavated but as our recent finds have shown there are several souterrains all around.
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