MP004: Cwm Philip Traditional Cache
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This is the Fourth in a series of ten cache's in the grounds of Margam Park. There is no cache smaller than a 35MM film canister. There will be clues in some not all of the cache's to a 11th Bonus cache.
This is located along the Family MTB trail, so please be aware of people on bikes.
'Murder most foul.' by Joseph Lewis:
In Margam Wood
Soft lights were in the summer sky,
The air was all perfume,
When Lewis, down the mountain path,
Came walking to his doom.
He turned into the covering wood,
No man can tell his thought,
But on the listening summer air
Was heard the deadly shot.
He fled the spot - he has his gun,
He changed his clothes in vain
For clear behind the avengers came,
He bore the mark of Cain
And now by law and justice tried
He's numbered with the dead,
For men still keep the olden text,
'Gainst blood unjustly shed'
See passion's work! The summer eve
When calm twilight fell -
A murdered man - a widowed home,
And now, the felon's cell
'Tis done! The dark death-telling flag
Droops on the conscious air,
His debt to man he now has paid
For his soul we breathe a prayer
This poem by C Westwood was published in the South Wales Daily Post on 31st August 1898. A poacher, Joseph Lewis, was hanged for murdering a gamekeeper, Robert Scott in Margam woods that August. When the execution was complete it was the tradition to unfurl a black flag from the roof of Swansea Prison although this was the last occasion on which it happened.
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Fgnaq jvgu obgu srrg ba gur syng fgbar, snpr vagb gur fznyy dhneevrq nern, 2aq gerr ba evtug jryy pnzzb'q