This cache is placed with inspiration from another cache we found whilst looking in Germany. We searched everywhere for it not expecting to see what we found and the hint didn't help much. We hope this cache brings you the same amount of joy and frustration that it brought us.
Please place the cache back in an appropriate place the same way you found it for the next explorer to discover.
There is little risk if thus cache being muggled because it is very well disguised.
Sabrina, Goddess of the River Severn
According to mythology the River Severn is said to have a goddess named Sabrina.
King Locrinus, one of the sons of the Trojan Brutus once led an army to the north of England and fell in love with a German prisoner called Estrildis, although Locrinus had promised marriage to Gwendolen, daughter of Brutus’s second-in-command, Corineus.
Hearing the news of Locrinus’s other love, Corineus, forced Locrinus to marry Gwendolen. The King agreed but kept Estrildis as a mistress in an underground dwelling for many years. He pretended to make sacrifices to the gods, but instead was visiting his lover, after time she fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter by the name of Habren.
When his wife’s father died, Locrinus took the opportunity to finally leave Gwendolen and marry his true love and mother of his daughter, Estrildis. Enraged, Gwendolen killed her former husband near the Severn tributary that joins the Severn at Stourport and ordered that his mistress, Estrildis and daughter, Habren be put to death by being drowned in the River Severn.
To remember the poor child Habren, Gwendolen suggested that the river should bear the child’s name – Habren or Hafren in Welsh, Severn in English, and Sabrina in Latin and is often known as the Goddess of the River Severn.
Supposedly a temple belonging to Sabrina stood at the hilltop at Littledean and in 1984 Donald Macer-Wright discovered the remains and it was identified by the late Professor Barri Jones as a Roman Water Shrine.
Happy hunting.
Placed with kind permission of the forrestry commision.
Well done to **sniffadogz** for being FIRST TO FIND