Take a Leat! Traditional Cache
smithy138: When first placed the leat was clear and it was easy to get to the cache. Nature has won. The leat is impassable now because of gorse growth. Other ways in are also very very difficult. Will archive and place another cache nearby but with safer accessibility.
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This cache is placed near the summit of Kit Hill with views to the North. The Country Park, part of the Tamar Area of Natural Beauty and because of it's deeps mining history, a World heritage site. Given to the people of Cornwall by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1985 to celebrate the birth of Prince Andrew. Enjoy this place and it's views as you search for this cache.
A leat (also lete or leet, or millstream) is the name, common in the south and west of England and in Wales for an artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground, Other common uses for leats include delivery of water for mineral washing and concentration, for irrigation, to serve a dye works or other industrial plant, and provision of drinking water to a farm or household.
This is a simple traditional cache is placed in a good example of a leat used in the mining process on Kit Hill. In fact there are quite a number of leats on the hill that were used to move water around.
You are looking for a small tube. You will know it's GZ when you see it. Rabbits started to make home here but it obviously wasn't good enough for them as they gave up on their excavations and moved on.
cache site is easy to get to but is uneven underfoot.
Nearest car parking is the summit car park.
This cached is placed with the kind permission of the Kit Hill Park Manager and complies with park and geocaching guidelines.
Additional Hints
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Lbh'yy arrq gb zbir n ebpx be gjb, be guerr.......
Cyrnfr znxr fher ebpxf ner chg onpx nf sbhaq
OR NJNER - gurer ner NQQREF ba Xvg Uvyy naq gurl ner ng gurve zbfg qnatrebhf Ncevy gb Whyl jura gurl ner fyhttvfu.
Or pnershy va ybat tenff & frnepuvat
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