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Clearbury Ring (Wilts) Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Bill D (wwh): This one is missing. It's had a good run of over sixteen years, but I think it's now time to let it go. Archived.

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Hidden : 1/22/2003
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Clearbury Ring is an Iron Age hill fort on Clearbury Down some three miles south of Salisbury. The hill fort covers about five acres, and is heavily wooded. As you walk around the edge of the wood views open up in all directions. There are no rights of way across the fort, but there is a right of way around part of it.


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There is a lay-by at N 51 01.454 W 001 45.864 on the northbound side of the A338, just south of the power lines. A track leads up the hill from the southern end of the lay-by, but although it is used by walkers it's not marked on the map as a right of way. It's the most direct route, but becomes quite overgrown though passable in summer. Beware the ditch at the entrance to it. There is a right of way somewhat ambiguously waymarked from that end of the lay-by across what is usually a crop field, and another right of way from the A338 a little north of the lay-by under the power lines. If you use the latter, take care with children and dogs as the verge is narrow and the road fast. Whichever route you take they all join up, and it's about a mile from the lay-by to the cache, mostly uphill.

When you come out into an open field about two thirds of the way up, please don't strike diagonally out across the field straight toward the cache and wear a new path there. Stick to the right of way, which runs along the side of the field up the hill and then around the wood clockwise.

Whichever way you approach, don't cross the hillfort, go around it. You don't need to climb any fences. There are gates near the cache, further clockwise around the fort, if you need them.

There is a trig point at N 51 01.194 W 001 47.044 near to the route to the cache, just inside the wood but close by the fence.

The cache is under tree cover, so GPSrs may not be accurate. The container is a tupperware type 2 litre box, in a cammo bag. Please cover the cache well when re-hiding it.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

N ynetr-gehaxrq gerr ba gur bhgre fybcr yrnaf abegu-rnfgjneqf. Gur pnpur vf va gur ebbgf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)