Rainy Day Dash #3 - Beating the Bounds 3 Traditional Cache
Rainy Day Dash #3 - Beating the Bounds 3
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The third cache of a driving circuit for those pesky rainy days or a cycling circuit if you are that way inclined. Wellies/old shoes are advisable as some of the lay-bys can get muddy especially in wet weather. Unfortunately wheel chair users are unlikely to be able to retrieve many of the caches due to the terrain of the laybys.
This third cache of the series is a large sized clip top container. It is big enough to contain decent size swaps and travel bugs, and is hidden near one of the Helston boundary stones.
The beating of the bounds is an ancient custom still observed in some English parishes including Helston. Prior to the widespread availability of maps, a group of old and young members of the community would make a formal perambulation of the parish boundaries, usually on Ascension Day or during Rogation week, in order to share the knowledge of where boundaries lay and to pray for protection and blessing of the lands.
A crowd of young boys armed with willow or birch boughs would accompany the priest of the parish, the churchwardens and parochial officials, who would beat the stones with the boughs. The purpose of including the young boys was to ensure the information was retained for as long as possible. Indeed, it is said that this information was considered so important, that the boys themselves were sometimes whipped or violently bumped on the boundary-stones to help them remember.
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