Covenanters’ Hill Traditional Cache
Hidden : 12/12/2012
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:






In the latter half of 1687 James Renwick took his field preaching campaign against James VII’s edicts of toleration beyond the United Societies’ strongholds. One of the places that he probably preached at during this campaign was at Craig Minnan on Duchal Muir in Kilmacolm parish in the western portion of Renfrewshire.

The exact location of Renwick’s preaching is described by the editor of the later edition of Wodrow’s History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland as ‘on a beautiful green hill, a little way nearer the Lady-muir than Craigminnan. On the spot there is a great circle, or a big ring, as the neighbours used to call it, raised of earth and some stones mixed with it. The sentinels watched on the neighbouring hill, Craigminnan.’ (Shields, LoR, 154; Wodrow, History, IV, 448.)

According to The Borderlands of Glasgow, a guide book for walkers using the tram terminals in the 1920s, the site is known as the Covenanters’ Hollow or the ‘Big Ring’ and lies just below and to the east of the escarpment of Craig Minnan towards Ladymuir farm. From the indictment against Renwick in February 1688, we know that Renwick probably preached to an armed conventicle there in September 1687.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)


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