Eynhallow View Traditional Cache
groatiebuckies: I will be unable to travel to the Island of Rousay meantime. As a result it will have to be archived. Disappointing, given the time of the year and the hope that I could have passed a cache to anyone wanting to visit this cache location to carry out maintenance or replace it.
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This cache is one of a set of caches found along the roadside as you take the circular walk (preferable) or drive around the island of Rousay. The island contains some of the richest and best preserved monuments in the North of Scotland, which are free to enter. There are good car parking areas near all the major heritage sites. The Rousay Heritage Centre is well worth a visit giving a good overview of Rousay past and present.
Fine views from the cache location across Eynhallow Sound to the Island of Eynhallow and the hills of Evie on the Orkney Mainland. Eynhallow is now generally uninhabited but the island contains the remains of a 12th Century monastery and The Lodge, dsigned by Lethaby and now used as a research station in the study of Fulmar Petrels.
The important ancient monument of Midhowe Broch and Cairn is close by and well worth a visit. The Westness Walk close by and described as the most important archaeological mile in Scotland spans settlements from the first Stone Age settlers, the Pictish Iron Age, the Viking invaders, the period of the Orkney Earls and the troubled crofting times.
The cache is a 35 mm film canister with log and pencil.
Additional Hints
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Oruvaq ebpx!