Vista of an Arthurian Landscape Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 3/8/2004
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Terrain possibly not suitable for young kids - depending what route you take and definitely NOT for night time cachers.

The vista from the cache location looking out across the somerset levels is steeped in 2000 years of History, Mystery,Legend & Myth.
(visit link)

In Britain as a whole, many places are named after King Arthur, such was his influence throughout the land, but no place in Britain are there so many folklore and traditions like there is around this area. Cadbury castle, believed to be Camelot; Brent Knoll known as the 'Mount of frogs', to name two of the most well known and least well known places, but many other Arthurian folklore connections exist even closer including Pomparles bridge (Pont-Perles or "Perilous Bridge") nr Street; a small lake near Priddy; Wookey Hole caves where Arthur had the witch who lived in the caves killed; Glastonbury, known as the Isle of Avalon and believed by some to be King Arthurs final resting place; Glastonbury Tor, where Melwas had abducted Guinevere and where Joseph of Arimathæa supposedly hid the holy grail in nearby chalice well, can also be seen from this cache site as an unmistakable hill with St Michaels church tower on its summit.
The landscape of 1500 years ago of the somerset levels below would have been much different from it is today, being flooded as far as the eye could see, giving rise to the impression of the hill being an island, hence, its ancient British name was Ynys Witrin, which may translate as "Island of Glass.
Apart from the Arthurian legends,Holy Grail, Glastonbury's Holy thorn tree and Jesus' uncle, Joseph of Arimathæa, who is said to have brought Jesus here on tin trading missions and who had built Britains first christian church here in about 37 A.D, one other mystery associated with the levels is the Glastonbury zodiac.
From the cache location one can see some of the hills that surround the Tor which make up what is known as the Glastonbury zodiac.
See following link for more on that.
(visit link)

The cache itself is at the location called Arthurs point (not a lot of people know that), so named because local folklore claim that King Arthur posted a look out here. Unfortunately this vantage point these days is obsured somewhat by trees.
The cache is in a red tupperware box wrapped in dark plastic bag to blend it in with the more natural setting - The bag is secured by elastic bands so that small animals cannot endanger themselves by becoming trapped within the bag (please make sure this is secured when you replace the cache). The cache may be a little difficult to find in the summer months, due to tree cover giving GPS errors, although I had no problems at this time of the year when the tree foliage is practically non existant.
Some people, I'm sure, will, to increase the difficulty of finding caches go searching for them by torch light but this cache should NOT be attempted during darkness hours due to unguarded shear drop cliff edges involved.

N.B The original cache location has changed by a few hundred feet because it was felt to be safer, out the sight of rock climbers and easier to access, but the best views can be had from a few hundred feet away from the new location, very close to the original rock face cache position - ST 53900 47149.

suggested parking at: Milton Lane off Ash Lane
Lat (WGS84) N51:13:12 ( 51.219982 )
Long (WGS84) W2:39:30 ( -2.658322 )
LR ST541469

Brent Knoll can be seen by looking westerly if one walks North of the cache as if coming down off the hill.

The views over the levels are best from the rock face summit at about:
Lat (WGS84) N51:13:16 ( 51.221180 )
Long (WGS84) W2:39:41 ( -2.661274 )
LR ST539470

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abj jub vf vg jub fnvq n ebyyvat fgbar tnguref ab zbff? Yrnir ab fgbar haghearq.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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