St Ives muggle central 2 Traditional Cache
Calluna Tib: As there has been no response to the previous log requesting that this cache is checked by the CO I have no option but to archive it.
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Heather
Calluna Tib
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This is the 2nd St Ives cache in a very busy area, especially the summer months, so a big degree of stealth is required. Again it is a very small cache requiring a pen(cil).
This is the 2nd St Ives cache in a very busy area, especially the summer months, so a big degree of stealth is required. Again it is a very small cache requiring a pen(cil).
A rubble and masonry pier extending south from the coast at St Ives, on the east side of the harbour's south entrance.
In constructing the pier, Smeaton's 1766 design also provided a seabed reservoir at its root. This fills at high tide, allowing wave action to scour the harbour. During surveying, the seabed was probed and the sand found to be dense at 6ft below surface. On this suitably secure base a tipped stone mound was made, on which to found the pier.
The pier walls are of coursed masonry, enclosing a rubble masonry core and supporting a parapet wall, 9ft tall. The crest of this wall is at 15ft above the high water mark of spring tides, and 36ft above the pier's foundations. At top, the pier measures 24ft across.
Originally 360ft long, comprising some 35,000 tons of stone and costing £9,480 to construct, the pier was built by Thomas Richardson, who had been Smeaton's foreman mason on the construction of Edddystone Lighthouse.
The pier was extended by a further 300ft in the late 1890s.
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