Dingieshowe Traditional Cache
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An easy drive by cache in the East Mainland of Orkney close to Deer Sound. There is a lovely sandy beach behind the Dingieshowe mound, which is well worth visiting when you have found the cache!
Stealth required on busy days!
The mound opposite the cache is called Dingieshowe, meaning the assembly mound where local people met in Viking times to pass laws and settle feuds.
Around the years 1016-1018 Earl Einar Wry-mouth called an assembly to demand taxes to pay for the longships that he would take on a raid. The saga says that Earl Einar ‘was a great bully’ who took so much in taxes and dues that there was famine in the area of Orkney that he ruled. Thorkel Amundisson spoke on behalf of the farmers, asking the earl to reduce the crippling levy. Earl Einar agreed to take fewer ships, but warned Thorkel never to ask for anything again. The next year Thorkel repeated his request and was driven from Orkney. He went to Caithness and became the foster-father of Earl Einar’s half-brother and rival, Earl Thorfinn the Mighty, later one of the most powerful of the Orkney Earls.
The feud between Thorkel and Earl Einar went on until Thorkel invited Earl Einar to a feast at his hall in Deerness and murdered him there. Thorkel’s hall probably stood close to the present-day farm at Skaill on the east coast.
(The information above is taken from the information board at Dingieshowe)
The cache is a 35mm film canister containing log and pencil.
Car parking available at N58 54.941 W002 47.023
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NI 150 - 07Z
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