Hillside Commemoration Multi-Cache
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A short 2-stage multi that will take you to the “Hillside” sculpture commissioned by the Craiglockhart Community Council commemorating WW1 officer Wilfred Owen's poetry and the inspiration of the Craiglockhart area.
The coordinates take you to the “Hillside” sculpture commissioned by the Craiglockhart Community Council and created by artist Lara Green which was unveiled on the 19th December 2012.
This new piece of public art represents the Craiglockhart environment and takes inspiration from the poetry of the war poet Wilfred Owen. On the south face it features symbolism in the form of gorse and brambles, endemic features of the area and Wilfred Owen’s Poem “Spring Offensive”. The north face of the sculpture features the image of a Hydra, the many headed snake and informative plaques about Owen and his time in Craiglockhart.
To find the coordinates of the nearby cache you will need to answer the following questions, the information you seek can be found on the sculpture.
- How many letters make up Owen’s mentor’s first name (A)
- How many heads does the hydra have on the northern face of the sculpture (B)
- Find the plaque that begins “But what say such as from existence’ brink”. How many lines of text are found on this plaque? (C)
- How many bolts hold this individual plaque in place on the sculpture? (D)
The cache can be found at 55.5C.41(A-1); 3.14.D2(B-3)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
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