The co-ordinates will take you to a monument to 10 martyrs from the East Kilbride area. The monument was opened on the 5th October 2002.
The following information was taken from http://www.covenanter.org.uk/est_kilbride.html
The ten martyrs fall into four classes:
- John Parker and Christopher Strang and two other who were hanged at Edinburgh in December 1666 after being apprehended at the Battle of Rullion Green.
- John Clyde was hanged in November 1679 with four others at Magus Muir, Strathkinness, as a reprisal for the assassination of Archbishop Sharp.
- After the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 many prisoners were confined for five months in Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh; 257 of them were transported to the new colonies in America where they were to be sold as slaves. On a wild stormy night of December 10 1679, the convict ship was wrecked off Deerness, Orkney. 200 were drowned--among them the following East Kilbride men -Robert Auld, James Clark, John Clark, William Rodger and John Struthers.
- For his insistence that Christ was King, John Watt of East Kilbride was hanged at Gallowlee, between Edinburgh and Leith, on 14 November 1684 and in the same place, Robert Pollock, a shoemaker in East Kilbride, was hanged for similar beliefs on 23 January 1685.
Two of these East Kilbride men were executed at the Grassmarket in Edinburgh and afterwards their hands were sent to Lanark, and their heads to Overtoun. A monument documenting this still exists in Hamilton Parish Kirkyard. This link will take you to an image of this memorial stone - check out the inscription! http://www.covenanter.org.uk/hamilton_heads.html
To find the cache you will need to solve a very simple puzzle...the cache is a short distance away.
Number of bricks in the strip below the plaque = A
Number of bricks in the strip to the left of the plaque = B
N55 45.(A+2)BB W004 B(A-A).B(A/2)9
The coordinates were calculated using an Iphone and as such they could be inaccurate. A good hint has been given...good luck!