Remember the poem?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Find this cache and then have a look at the broken columns in the sand. I wonder what building they are from. One is on the beach, another is just up over the small (5 foot) bank where the cache is hidden. There is another, larger one further up the beach. Was there a building here, or is this building debris dumped over the bank? Are these columns from an old building, or just an inconvenient one? How shocked would the builders be, to find these columns broken and cast away on the beach?
If you know the origin of these chunks of carved rock, please include in your log!
Note: This cache is hidden on the very low bank that borders the beach. It is in an alder growing about 5 feet above the beach. No climbing of high banks is needed, or recommended. Look up however, and see the arial set at the edge of the high bank beyond the cache. I wonder what it is for? Another mystery to ponder, safely, from the shore below.