Dent-De-Lion Gateway Traditional Cache

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Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I'm archiving it.

Andy
Long Man
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Hidden : 5/20/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A small to medium clip top box near the remains of Dent-De-Lion gateway. Please note that parking in  the area by the remains are for residents only. Roadside parking is available. Popular dog walking area so stealth required. Please put back as found so that it is out of sight from muggles. Thankyou. Also could you bring your own pen as I forgot to leave one!

 
Dent-de-lion Gatehouse, Garlinge. Fine 15th century gatehouse is all that is left of what must have been a mansion of some magnificence. The shield of arms over the main arch dates it to before 1445, when the last of the Daundelyons died. Lion heads too with their tongues out. Now it stands in a farmyard and a host of bungalows has wiped out the site of the house. The entrance was from the south. Four lofty stair turrets at the angles, square in plan, and linked by plainside walls. Two outer arches, the main one four-centred, that for thefootway two centred; and an inner arch so lofty that there cannot have been a room above it. The doorway high up in each turret must then have given on to the roof. Battlements over the outer arches and arrow slits low down. The special thing about the gatehouse is the wasp-like striping all over, with alternate bands of squared, knapped flints, and bricks, mostly red, but yellow in the turret-tops.
 
Medieval fortified manor house. Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 469147. Grade II Listed Building. 

*                                  Medieval fortified manor house, square with square turrets.
*                                  Gatehouse defended by round gunports and loops for hand guns or
                                     crossbows.
*                                  Carts of smuggled corn were driven through the gatehouse.
1272-1307                   Held by the family of Dandeleon or Daundelynn.
1379                            Held by William Daundelynn.
1399-1413                   During: Held by John Dandelyon (1).
1445                            John Dandelyon (2) died and his daughter inherited. She had
                                    married a man called Pettit and they held the site jointly.
*                                  Held by John Pettit, son of the above.
15th C                          Gatehouse.
1661                            Capt. John Pettit died and left it to his five sons. They sold it to
                                    Henry Fox, Lord Holland.
*                                  Henry Fox, Lord Holland conveyed it to the Hon. Charles James
                                    Fox, his second son.
*                                  James Fox left it in his will to John Powell, Esq..
*                                  John Powell died without issue and it passed to his sister, wife of
                                    William Roberts Esq.
1703                            Large room discovered with urns of earth and glass.
1847                            Name changed to Dandelion.
1963                            Field Investigation.
1987                            Scheduled.
1998                            Scheduled.
21st C                         Beginning: Only the gatehouse remains.
 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abg ba gur tebhaq! Unys jnl hc.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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