It's a Cup and Ring thing! Traditional Cache
It's a Cup and Ring thing!
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Cup and ring marks are a form of pre-Christian Celtic art found mainly in Atlantic Europe (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Portugal and Galicia (North West Spain) and Mediterranean Europe (North West Italy, Thessalia Central Greece, Switzerland) although similar forms are also found throughout the world including Mexico, Brazil, Greece, and India, where the oldest cup marks so far recorded are to be found in the Paeleolithic cave shelter site of Chattan.
This example is in rather a poor condition. They have been vandalised with paint and who knows what else over the years so some one knows where they are! Please see the 'related' website option at the top of the page for better details before you go!
The cache is located next to a fairly quiet road in some dense undergrowth. You can park here. I searched for years for these markings, even asking locals to no avail! Eventually found them recorded on 'The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland website' with coordinates listed and they were spot on! Don't trust OS maps as they are wrong! Co-ords for the actual monument are, 55.822955N, 4.497933W (basically about ten feet away!). There may be a discrepancy as the signal comes and goes in the tree cover.
The cache is in a medium sixed box wrapped in camoflage. It contains a lifeboat key-ring, bouncy ball, girly bracelet, pink whistle, love-heart message holder and a geocache stash card (not to be removed).
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(Decrypt)
Vg vf ybpngrq va gur onfr bs n gerr ng gur pb-beqf.
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