The Dredge Bridge Traditional Cache

In 1843, the Earl of Caledon commissioned James Dredge to build two suspension bridges over the River Blackwater on his estate at Caledon - one sufficiently wide to take cattle and carts, close to Caledon House, and the other a footbridge located several miles downstream. The bridge still spans the river.

The 'Metal Bridge' is a unique suspension bridge, the only surviving example in Northern Ireland of a 19th Century wrought and cast-iron suspension-type footbridge, it spans the River Blackwater. It is unique in that the number of iron rods progressively diminishes towards the center of the bridge. The bridge was dismantled, refurbished and re-erected in its present location on the same river. The cache is a tablock box, 120mm in diameter, camo'd containing logbook,  pencil and room for swappables. Parking is by the main road close to the bridge.