Kilmersdon Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/21/2011
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


haydon Kilmersdon Colliery It is believed that coal was mined in the local area during Roman times and there is documentary evidence of coal being dug on the Mendips in 1305 and at the area of Kilmersdon Colliery in 1437. Although officially named Kilmersdon Colliery, the pit entrance was within Haydon so locally named Haydon Pit. A shaft was sunk in February 1874 and the main shaft eventually reached depths of 1560ft/500 metres. The complex geological disturbances that characterized the Somerset Coalfield made working conditions both difficult and costly. The coal often ran into faults where an earth movement had slipped across the coal seam causing fractures in the strata, making seams very difficult to follow. Coal was removed from Kilmersdon Colliery by hand using the “topple down” method. This method tried to ensure that the coal was removed along a downward passage to the waiting Coal Trucks below, to be dragged by a carting boys “crawling Like a crab” away from the face and down to the topple passage which was about 3ft high, 3-4ft wide and up to 60 yards from coal face to the tramway using a putt, guss & crook. The Kilmersdon Shaft worked at 30 winds per hour, 90 trams of coal were wound in an hour this came to a total of 85 tonnes an hour. To carry the coal a standard gauge railway and self-acting incline was laid to the GWR Frome to Radstock line. The arising’s or spoil from the sinking of shafts and removing the material between seams was lifted from the working face to the surface before being transported by a locomotive across Kilmersdon Road along the colliery railway to the tip or batch (Western Corner of Haydon) located behind Haydon Village Hall/Que Club Now marked by a public footpath. The tip has since been reshaped following a landslide in the early 1980’s, enhancing the fine views of the surrounding coal field and beyond, Ammerdown Tower can be seen.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

BA GUR OBGGBZ PBEARE ,HAQRE GUR YRGGRE A

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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