Newton Hill Traditional Cache
TheTraynors: Sadly we are leaving the area so this will be relocated north of the boarder.
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Nano Cache is at the top of the hill, just off the road. Land to the south of the road is owned by the Military so do not cross the hedge line or fences. An easy find for our first. It will only get harder from here.
There is clear evidence that Barton Stacey has been inhabited since the Neolithic period dating from 3500 to 2000 BC with the burial mounds (barrows) on Moody's Down.
There was an Iron Age hill fort at The Andyke, Bransbury which formed its defences with the rivers Test and Dever and the marshes between them. Celtic field systems were in the area too, but have since been ploughed out and no visible traces remain.
The parish takes its name from Saxon times, when the village was Bertun ("ber" or barley and "tun" or place - another name for farmyard?), a Royal Manor of Edward the Confessor. In 1206 the Manor was bestowed on Sir Rogo de Stacey and became the Berton of Stacey or just Barton Stacey.
Additional Hints
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Gur jnl vf oneerq.
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