The Tide Stone Multi-Cache
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This is an offset-multi cache. A small cache with room for a few swaps and travellers. Requires an easy but longish walk on flat but sometimes muddy paths – or an easy bike ride plus a shorter walk.
This rather weathered, carved stone was erected near Newburn Haughs, on the north side of theTyne to mark the tidal limit of the river, which was some 19 miles from the sea. The stone bears the, just discernable, ‘three castles' emblem of Newcastle and the date 1783. The stone became the boundary for the work of the Tyne Improvement Commission set up in 1850 to manage the river, which until then had been virtually “abandoned to itself” by the City Corporation to the great detriment of Newcastle’s trade and commerce. A report at the time concluded that…”the most ordinary duties of river engineering, such as regulating and deepening the channel, cutting off projecting points, dredging away or otherwise removing shoals so as to produce a uniform bed of the river, have all but been entirely omitted ….” However the work of the Commission had one unexpected result. The dredging of the river from Newburn to Ryton from 1880 to 1900 steepened the upstream reach and made the river rush down into the dredged area, ripping out the bed right up to Wylam, which, by 1900, had become the new tidal limit. Thus the high tide mark is now 1.5 miles further upstream. The walk will be about 3 miles round trip from the West and and about 2.5 miles from the East. Take the footpath which runs close to the North bank of the Tyne, ignoring bridleways when they diverge from the footpath. This is a small snaplock box which will only hold small TBs and GCs and small items. The first cache disappeared within a few weeks so this one is in a different spot further away from the public footpath From the Tide Stone head through the woods in a NW direction, along the fence, to the large prone tripod (about 40m). Continue along the fence-line until you have passed the second pile of rotting logs (duck on the way) (about 25m). Turn left and go over the small embankment into a clearing. Continue until you are nearly at the second embankment (about 20m). Under the large tree on your left, with a rotting but still growing stump attached.
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(Decrypt)
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