The Crompton Circuit Cairn Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Hitman9956: It is with regret that I am arching this cache - terrain has wholly changed in the years since this was first placed, and it's time for this cache to be put to bed.

Just a side note to those criticising the name of the cache - it once had a cairn, it has changed over the years, hardly the fault of the CO. I nearly changed the name but decided to retain it for historical purposes.

Also, BOST is Base Of Small Tree - acronyms are clearly not welcome by cachers of today, so I have had to simplify my hints for current caches to avoid anyone not understanding the initials.

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Hidden : 10/24/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a small contaner with a log and a pencil located on the Crompton Circuit above High Crompton.

Cairns are built for several purposes:

They may mark a burial site, and may memorialise the dead.
They may mark the summit of a mountain.
Placed at regular intervals, they indicate a path across stony or barren terrain or across glaciers.
The Inuit erect human-shaped cairns, or inunnguaq, as milestones or directional markers in the Canadian Arctic.
In North America, cairns may mark buffalo jumps or "drive lanes.
In North America, cairns may be used for astronomy.
In Norse Greenland, cairns were used as a hunting implement to direct reindeer towards cliffs.
In the Canadian Maritimes cairns were used as lighthouse-like holders for fires that guided boats, as in the novel The Shipping News.
In North America, cairns are often petroforms in the shapes of turtles or other animals.
In the United Kingdom, they are often large Bronze Age structures which frequently contain burial cists.
In parks exhibiting fantastic rock formations, such as the Grand Canyon, tourists often construct simple cairns in reverence of the larger counterparts.They may have a strong aesthetic purpose, for example in the art of Andy Goldsworthy.
They may be used to commemorate events: anything from a battle site, to the place where a cart tipped over.
Some are merely places where farmers have collected stones removed from a field. These can be seen in the Catskill Mountains, North America where there is a strong Scottish heritage, and may also represent places where livestock were lost.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

OBFG

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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