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Calluna Tib: As there has been no response to the previous log requesting that this cache is checked I have no option but to archive it.

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Heather
Calluna Tib
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Hidden : 3/26/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Small container holds log book use your pen to remove. (Bison)

The famous Dorset Red Post on the B3163 near Evershot.

There are two other Red Posts in Dorset, one on the A31 between Bere Regis and Wimborne and one north of Sherborne.

The brightly painted post has a much darker history; among stories about it is one that it was at the site of a former gibbet with the post red for obvious reasons.

But factual evidence indicates that the post was a marker or reference point for illiterate guards who were escorting prisoners to Dorchester prison then onto Portsmouth from where they were transported to Botany Bay, Australia

Being unable to read, the guards used the distinctive signs as an indicator to nearby Botany Bay Farm on the A31 where prisoners were held overnight in a barn, now largely destroyed."

The substantially built barn was used as a cell for the prisoners when they were held on their first overnight stop.

Only the base of the barn walls remains now after the building burned down in the 1930s.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Tb svfuvat!

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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