First Kiss Traditional Cache
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Lorgadh
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There is a lovely walk around Lindean Loch and it is popular with dog walkers and bird watches so some stealth may be required. The cache is a small plastic box and contains a flower eraser, a bouncy ball, a puzzle, a monster finger puppet, a couple of badges and a pen and log book.
Lindean Loch may look natural, but much of it was dug by hand. Its story began and the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. As the ice sheets melted they left large quantities of fine clay called Marl in shallow lochs. The lochs became boggy areas, known locally as "mosses" , like the Nether Whitelaw Moss just over the road.
Marl is rich in lime, which neutralizes acids in the soil. It made a valuable fertiliser in areas without natural sources of limestone. From the 1500s onwards the demand for better grazing lands to support more cattle and sheep meant that huge quantities of fertile mud , left behind by the glaciers , were dug from Lindean.
The demand for Marl was so great that in the late 1700s a tunnel had to be dug under the hill on the south side to drain the moss. Legend has it that an Irish labourer and his wife were paid the princely sum of one shilling and sixpence per yard to dig the tunnel. History does not relate how long it took them!
The Lime-rich water and soil make Lindean Loch unusual for Scotland. Over 600 plant and animal species have been found in the loch, along its edges and surrounding grasslands.
Once a public water supply, Lindean Loch is now a Nature Reserve accessible to all.
Well done Tigtog - FTF
Additional Hints
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Onfr bs ynetr gerr arkg gb jnyy, haqre fgbarf.