Following the discovery of a message in a bottle, washed up at the Barton foreshore in April 2018, new information has been coming to light regarding the infamously inept pirate Geordie Redbeard. The most recent scholarship uncovered a treasure chest attributed to the pirate on nearby Ferriby Road (for academic references see:https://coord.info/GC7NGQX). Thanks to the tireless work by many members of the Lincolnshire Academy of Geocaching, some of whom were even sober when studying their subject, another script relating to the famous pirate was discovered on the back of a bottle of rum kept on a high shelf in the Sloop Inn for many years.
It read:
"When I first hid me chest filled up with the loot,
I'd had too much grog and rum chasers to-boot.
Me fortune was made by sword and by sin,
but I'd bloody forgot to put some gold in!
So's I spent some more coin on a sip o' the mead,
walked into some woods and BANG! I struck me heed.
'Twas on a tree branch, I don't remember quite where,
But if you find the place me gold's probably still there.
I remember a path surrounded by green,
and a Mallard and Eider I was sure I had seen.
At the bend in the path, look for the pine,
if you wants to find what was once mine.
I'm stuck on this island, I'm not getting off.
So go find me nugget and live like a toff!
Go walk West up the hill from Barton's old port,
If its riches and treasures that y'all sought."
As it was written shortly after the first text, it is also of an early 18th century script and the indications also suggest that it is a small container, probably containing documents and writing implements. The pirate is well known to have enjoyed a short walk through woodland paths throughout his lifetime. Hopefully this discovery and the renewed interest in the pirate will reveal further information about his life in the coming months...