Canute Cache #3 - The Pusey Horn Traditional Cache
Hidden : 2/27/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A medium sized clip lock box located on a footpath out of the village of Pusey

This is one of a series of 3 caches, called the Canute Caches.

Local folklore has it that in the time of King Aethelred the Unready, when Canute the Dane was storming across the country, a fierce battle took place in this area. Canute and his army were based at Cherbury Camp, near Charney Bassett (Canute Cache #1), but the Saxons moved secretly up to Uffington Castle, to “persuade” them to leave.

A young shepherd boy, named William Pusey, saw their armies marching across the Downs, and being sympathetic to the Danish cause, blew his horn to warn Canute of the ambush.
The two armies met at the crossroads near Gainfield (Canute cache #2), at a field which is now known as The Gore, because of all the blood that flowed that day during the battle. At first the English were pushed back to Stanford in the Vale, but they soon recovered ground when the Danes stopped to eat honey on Honeycomb Hill. The invaders eventually managed to Gain-the-Field, and when Canute also gained the whole Kingdom, the brave Berkshire shepherd boy was rewarded with all the land within the sound of his horn and the manor which still bears his name – Pusey Manor (Canute Cache #3).

Pusey

An estate called Cern is recorded as being given by King Edwig to Cenric in a Saxon charter of 958. It probably lay in the parish of Pusey, as it twice touched the River Cerne, from which Charney takes its name. It was valued at two hides, and may be the estate of the same size which belonged to Abingdon Abbey at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.

The first holder of the ancient manor of Pusey was granted it by King Canute, through the tenure of a horn. The horn bears an inscription, which reads:

Kynge Knould gave Wyllyam Peuse thys horne to holde by thy Lande.

King Canute had the horn inscribed, and otherwise embellished, and then returned it to William as proof of his gift. The Pusey Horn is now on display in the Victoria and Albert museum.
The Puseys held Pusey until 1710, when they died out. Several families changed their name to Pusey in order to inherit Pusey House and its estates, until both horn and estate were sold off in 1933.

The cache is a medium sized clip lock box in an ammo bag.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Snyyra ybt

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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