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Warp & Weft ~ BC B.C. Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

allieballie: Gradually going to be archiving all my caches. I have endured the rudeness of some cacher's logs, and more significantly have coped with social exclusion by some members of the caching community for quite some time now, thinking that my love of this pastime was strong enough to cope with it. Unfortunately I have now reached a point where it has become unbearable. It feels like bullying by some quarters and to be quite honest I am too old to be made to feel like that and I have enough other worries going on in my personal life to add this to the list. My feelings and emotions are clearly regarded as being insignificant by other cachers therefore why should I continue to contribute to geocaching by providing caches for people to visit? Yes, play the game as you want but remember that there are other people playing it who are flesh and blood and whose feelings can be hurt. I would be ashamed of myself if I had made another person feel the way that some cachers have made me feel recently.

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Hidden : 12/5/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A resurrection of an old cache in the same place as before.

Balbirnie Circle is a stone circle 15 metres in diameter which dates from around 3000B.C.

It would have formed part of a larger prehistoric complex which included Balfarg Henge. The size of this complex would indicate that it must have been an important ceremonial site during Neolithic times. Although it seems likely that the structures at both sites were built at about the same time, the circle here at Balbirnie appears to have been in use after activity had ceased at Balfarg.

The circle used to be located just over 100metres to the north west but it was relocated when the nearby A92 was widened. Historic Scotland excavated the site at the start of the 1970’s. Today there are eight stones left but there would have been ten originally. Burials took place within the circle, and one of the burial cists has a stone marked with cup and cup-and-ring marks (now replaced with a concrete replica). During the archaeological dig, several finds were made including cremated bones, a beaker, a flint knife and a jet button. All of these are now in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Please note that a brand new cache has been hidden here but you may come across the old cache too as we couldn’t find it when resetting this one – although admittedly we didn’t look very hard at all! Don't even know if we were looking in the right place!

This cache has been set for the Culdee Cell event on Sunday 11th December. Please do not find until that day.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre

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)