Papingo Abbey Traditional Cache
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Spend quality time walking through the centre of Kilwinning. Visit nice, little shops and enjoy something to eat.
"Kilwinning Abbey (founded sometime between 1162 and 1188) is a ruined abbey located in the centre of the town of Kilwinning. Kilwinning was a Tironensian Benedictine monastic community, named after Tyron in the diocese of Chartres. The abbey was dedicated to Saint Winning and the Virgin Mary."
"King Robert II granted the abbey a charter, erecting all the lands of the Barony of Kilwinning into a free regality, with full jurisdiction. They received ratifications of this charter from Robert III and James IV. King James IV visited the abbey in 1507, making an offering of 14s. to its relics."
"At the Abbey, the Society of Kilwinning Archers, dating back to 1483, still meets regularly, including the annual papingo shoot held on the first Saturday in June. This event is said to be the oldest archery competition in the World and involves a wooden 'papingo' or 'popinjay', which is suspended from the clock-tower, which the archers attempt to dislodge."
"Abbey treasure
The Black Book of the abbey, gold candlesticks and crosses, silver cups and bells were never found and legend has it that they were secreted away in a vault beneath the abbey buildings where they lie to this day."
Text source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilwinning_Abbey
The cache is a small nano container. Please take a pen with you.
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