The geocache is an easy find at the start of the Camaes woodland footpath, it was placed here in lovely Camaes Bay to bring you to view the -
Time & Tide Bell 🔔 and to read about the reason the Bell was placed here?
Get your tide times right and you can see the bell or at high tide you can hear it. Free parking in the village (we would be grateful for a set of coordinates for it then we will put it on the cache page). There are a few nice on the front parking spots near GZ but not always available. Nearby cache on the coastal path - Dolphin view GC47EV2 only 0.1m away.
Rung by the high tide, time and tide bells are positioned around the coast of Britain, sounded by the waves. Each bell has been installed by the local community, celebrate connections between the land and the sea, between ourselves and our environment.
The Cemaes Time and Tide Bell was installed in April 2014, and has become a prominent feature on Traeth Mawr. It is one of only Eight bells installed so far as part of the ambitious project by sculptor Marcus Vergette. The others can be found in Appledore Devon, Trinity Buoy Wharf London, Aberdyfi Gwynedd and Bosta on the Isle of Lewis. Severn more bells are currently under development.
Each bell has its own inscription, chosen by the community. The Cemaes inscription is a poem by Glyndwr Thomas:
Tawel ei chnul uwch heli,
Enw Sant yn ei llais hi,
Cloch a’i thraw yn dweud o’i thrig
Dragwyddol weddi Padrig.
Above the waves, melodiously, sounds
The name of a saint, so fair,
A bell whose knell is here to tell
Patrick’s eternal prayer.
The Project - Time and Tide Bells
One of the unique features of this project is the period over which it has been sustained. Marcus Vergette started research on the design of the bell, to create a shape that would be rich in harmonics, in 2008.
The first installation was in Appledore, Devon in 2009 and they followed every year or two for the next decade. As the project grew and evolved, its richness became ever clearer; above all, its potential to act as the focus, the crucible or springboard, for further creative activity, be it artistic, educational, and more.
A video made following the installation of the Mablethorpe Bell, captures that richness, both visually and through the mouths of many of the people involved in it.
The Bells have a unique position as public artworks. They are not commissions; no individual, developer, local authority or other institution has paid the artist to make them for particular locations. Although a number of copies have been and will continue to be made, they are not in the conventional sense an ‘edition’, let alone are they numbered. They offer very limited recognition for the artist; they are not vehicles for an ego.
What they are is a gift to the host community, and owned, in every sense, by them. A gift both literal and metaphorical; to date the all ,installations have come about because by one means or another – often by visiting an existing bell – potential hosts have embarked on the very substantial labour of getting a bell installed.
TO CELEBRATE AND REINFORCE CONNECTIONS IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES, BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA, BETWEEN OURSELVES AND OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Location of the bells in 🇬🇧 UK
The location of bells has been largely organic; sites have selected themselves, whether on the largely rocky West coast, or the sandy or muddy East coast. They each have their own personality, as existing or former fishing villages, trading and shipping (sometimes ship-building) centres, holiday resorts and more. They are all working out what their identity in the twenty first century is – and we have every expectation that the bell will help.
Bosta beach, Isle of Lewis. Morecambe Bay. Cemaes Bay, Anglesey. Aberdyfi, Gwynedd. Appledore, Devon. Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. PROPOSED SITES - Par, Cornwall. Brixham, Devon. Isle of Wight. Harwick, Essex. Happisburgh, Norfolk and Redcar, Yorkshire.
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