The Butts - Sandwich #3 Traditional Cache
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This cache is #3 of 5 on a pleasant walk around the town of Sandwich allowing you to take in the sights. Collect all the clues and find the bonus cache - Ringlemere Chalice GC1Y4H4
The Butts was an area used for archery training during the Medieval times especially using the longbow weapon. The following description of the Medieval Butts provides basic facts and information:
> Skill in using the Medieval longbow had to be acquired over many years
> The first Archery Law was passed in 1252 when all Englishmen between the age of 15 to 60 years of age were ordered, by Law, to equip themselves with a bow and arrows
> The second Archery Law of 1363 made it obligatory for Englishmen to practise their skills with the longbow every Sunday including holidays !
> In 1542 another Act established that the minimum target distance for anyone over the age of 24 years was 220 yards.
> The Archery Law "forbade, on pain of death, all sport that took up time better spent on war training especially archery practise".
> King Henry I proclaimed that an archer would be absolved of murder, if he killed a man during archery practise.
The Archery Laws led many accidents when people were hit by 'loose' arrows so special places were assigned for the archery training. These were called the Butts and were usually situated on a flat area of land, up to 200m long, on the outskirts of villages or towns on common land.
> The draw weight of a longbow was up to 120 pounds
> A trained archer was expected to shoot 12 to 15 arrows per minute
> He was expected to hit a target at a minimum of 200 yards with an ordinary bow and 400 yards with a long bow
> The longbow could pierce armour at ranges of more than 250 yards
The medieval knight had no protection against the arrows of the longbow - this enabled an ordinary soldier to kill a noble knight. Up to the advent of the longbow a knight was deemed to be worth the equivalent of ten ordinary soldiers. However, The power of the longbow was so great that at the Battle of Crecy, in 1346, the French army was decimated. It is estimated that nearly 2000 French knights and soldiers were killed by the longbow arrows where the English lost just fifty men!
You are looking for a cylindrical tube 4in x 1in. Please put back in its holder. This is a popular area but if you time it right then there will be less problems with muggles.
This is cache #3 of 5 sited around Sandwich. Collect all of the clues and see if you can find the bonus cache which is sited a couple of miles out of town
Gazen Salt Reserve - Sandwich #1 - GC1Y4KV
The White Mill - Sandwich #2 - GC1Y4KF
The Butts - Sandwich #3 - GC1Y4JD
Guildhall - Sandwich #4 - GC1Y4JR
Town Quay & Barbican - Sandwich #5 - GC1Y4K8
Ringlemere Chalice - Sandwich bonus - GC1Y4H4
Congratulations to Meer and MooToo for their FTF - indeed for FTF 5/6 of this series !
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