'Gold Rush' Traditional Cache
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A quick roadside cache, a longer visit with the right equipment may just prove fruitfull!
In the spring of 1869, Scotland had its own gold rush, after a local man, Robert Gilchrist, who had worked for 17 years in the Australian goldfields, was permitted to start prospecting in the Helmsdale river, at Strath Kildonan where, 50 years earlier, a nugget big enough to make a ring was discovered. The ring is still owned by the Duke of Sutherland's family.
After word got out that Gilchrist had found significant quantities of gold in two tributaries of the Helmsdale, 600 prospectors poured into the valley and set up a shanty town. They started drifting away when the Duke of Sutherland demanded £1 per head per month for prospecting licences, plus 10 per cent of all gold found. At the end of the year, the remainder were ordered out.
Why not take a panning bowl & have a go yourself?, you never know!
It is easier to desent the southern side of the bridge & walk under.
Many thanks to Suisgill estate for granting consent to place a cache here.
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