Beware of the tractors Traditional Cache
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Magnetic Nano cache 'n' dash placed just off the A17 in a hamlet 2 miles from Holbeach. Please bring your own pen. Not recommended at night due to lack of lighting and location. There is a tractor yard nearby so stealth will be required.
The Romans made Roman Bank all the way from Tydd to the Humber, over 150 miles long. Sections of this old sea barrier remain where roads have been constructed on top of this bank. The rest of the bank was cleared away many years ago. It is thought that the Roman sea banks were made during the 3rd century. Sections of this bank still remain between Moulton Seas End and Saracen's Head where the road has been constructed on top of the bank for many years. The Road is called Roman Bank.
In early times Saracen's Head was known as Saltney which means "Island Of Salt." Many hundreds of years ago the area was an important salt manufacturing centre. The Romans and Anglo-Saxons relied on salt to preserve food for a large part of the year. The process of making salt was to let the dirty sea water run into many pits or pans and there let it remain until all the silt settled at the bottom. The clean water was then taken out and boiled in coppers which were heated by reeds which were very plentiful in the fens. When the brine was boiled the water evaporated, leaving the salt in the copper.
Saracen's Head takes its name from an inn so named because it was the ambition of anyone returning from the Crusades to bring home the head of an 'infidel' or Saracen.
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