Beating The Bounds 8 Traditional Cache

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Calluna Tib: As there has been no response to the previous log requesting that the cache is checked it will now need to be archived.

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Heather
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Hidden : 7/15/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

The 8th cache in this series ideal for rainy days or for a quick cache and dash

The beating of the bounds is an ancient custom still observed in some English parishes including Helston. Prior to the widespread availability of maps, a group of old and young members of the community would make a formal perambulation of the parish boundaries, usually on Ascension Day or during Rogation week, in order to share the knowledge of where boundaries lay and to pray for protection and blessing of the lands.

A crowd of young boys armed with willow or birch boughs would accompany the priest of the parish, the churchwardens and parochial officials, who would beat the stones with the boughs. The purpose of including the young boys was to ensure the information was retained for as long as possible. Indeed, it is said that this information was considered so important, that the boys themselves were sometimes whipped or violently bumped on the boundary-stones to help them remember..

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