Two logs to find, but only one log to sign.
The cache is metres away from where two becomes one.
The cache contains a log book, pen, and space for small trackables, geocoins etc.
If you're finding this cache why not try my other cache, GC8GM76 Chained unicorn on the other side of the roundabout?
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This cache is NOT on the main A4074 road. You do not need to park on the main road or walk in the main road. The cache can be approached from the north or south by car.
** Congratulations to Boggy_boys for a super-speedy first to find. **
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This cache is a very tenuous reference to the marriage between David & Victoria Beckham. David was known as "Golden Balls" whilst playing for the England football team. Meanwhile, Victoria Beckham or "Posh Spice" in the band the Spice Girls had a 2000 hit with "2 become 1".
This cache is just off the A4074 at the Golden Balls Roundabout between Oxford and Reading, at a point where two directions become one. Today a curiously named roundabout, the junction has a long and bloody past.
The junction takes it's name from the Golden Balls pub, which used to be at the southern tip of the almost lost village of Little Baldon. In the 19th century the pub became notorious when one of the lodgers was murdered. The landlord of the pub was hung for the murder outside nearby Hangingsland Copse. However, it later transpired that although the landlord intended to murder the lodger, the lodger's servant had actually murdered the lodger first. The reason why two people sought to murder the same person is, unfortunately, as far as I can ascertain not recorded.
In 1965 a Hastings C1A RAF aircraft crashed in the adjacent fields when two bolts in the flight control surfaces snapped. Tall barley in the field made search efforts difficult. All 41 on board were killed, at time the UK's third worst air disaster.
Meanwhile the road itself continued to claim lives. It used to be a lethal staggered junction at a kink in the main road, other sections of which are still known as the "bends of death". In the 1980s the road was straightened and made dual carriageway, leaving behind the remenant of the old road that this cache is located on.
However, it turned out the new, straighter road simply made drivers faster the collisions even worse. With little money left the junction was converted into current pill-shaped roundabout, although the paths of both previous layouts are very clear.
Overlay of 1960s mapping onto modern day map
