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Roseberry Romp #10 - Cliff Rigg Quarry Traditional Cache

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Big G & Pix: Removing the Roseberry Romp as many of the caches are a bit past their best or destroyed. A new romp will appear some time in the near future.

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Hidden : 3/9/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The National Trust's Roseberry Romp


This series of caches will take you on a circular walk around Roseberry Topping of around 5 miles. Some caches are small and well hidden, while other are large with plenty of room for swaps.

The National Trust is a charity that protects special places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for ever, for everyone


To get to this cache you should pass the striking landscape of Cliff Rigg Quarry. With its towering rock formations and sheer slopes it's a favourite spot for geologists.

The Cleveland Dyke formed around an estimated 59 million years ago when hot magma forced its way through layers of sedimentary rock before cooling to form a hard igneous rock known as whinstone. This harder stone formed a ridge as the surrounding land was subsequently lowered by glacial action and the shape of this ridge can clearly be seen at Cliff Rigg Quarry.

Quarrying activity began in 1869 with huge quantities of whinstone being removed to provide high quality setts and road aggregates for the rapidly expanding city of Leeds. As a result of the quarrying Cliff Rigg Quarry today appears as a steep sided valley. The exposures left by the quarrying show the Cleveland dyke in full cross section and this has earned the site SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) status due to its geological importance.

This is a small cache with room for small swaps, travelbugs or geocoins.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre n ynepu, ohg juvpu bar?

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)