COALPOST # 203 Traditional Cache
Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache, I'm archiving it.
Andy
Long Man
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A straight forward cache and dash. In Stones Cross Road, a narrow lane with restricted parking.
The post were erected under the London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Act 1861, but some were originally set up under earlier nineteenth century Acts. The duties whose area of application they marked out originated in the seventeenth century and earlier. The City of London had excercised the right of 'metage' ( measuring) of coal and other commodities since mediaeval times and these rights were confirmed by two Charters of King James 1. The City was later permitted to set up " a boundary stone, or some other mark " where any turnpike road, public highway, railway or canal entered the district.
The surviving boundary marks define the London district after it was changed in 1861. Most of the post were erected by the sides of roads, but very little coal actually came into London by road or canal.
Of the original 250-260 post about 200 have survived. Some are owned by the City of London, in areas such as Epping Forest and the commons of Kent and Surrey.
The cache when set contained, a Sayer Voyager's Compass Rose Token and a FTF badge for the first to find.
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Oruvaq gur Pbnycbfg haqre vil.