Common As Duck Traditional Cache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
Hanoosh - Volunteer UK Reviewer www.geocaching.com
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Best place for parking is N52 31.629 E001 02.156.
This is a pleasant 1/4 mile walk on common land. The first part of the path is gravel this gives way to a mud track. The cache is a small tupperware container - concealed extremely well (which is why it is 3 for difficulty).
"THE History of Duck Decoys is surrounded by difficulties of no ordinary kind, for the art of constructing and working them was carefully concealed in former times, so as to prevent as much as possible any addition to the number already existing, which otherwise would necessitate a division of the spoil, that spoil being the myriads of wildfowl which formerly haunted the fenlands of England.A Decoyman lived a lonely, quiet life, seldom attending fairs or markets; he conversed in a low tone, and his appearance and manner was inoffensive and reserved: always as though going stealthily for fear of alarming the ducks. When he died all he knew was handed down to his assistant in the Decoy, most likely a near relative. All his successor learnt was vivá voce, or by watching his manoeuvres as he attended him in the Decoy from year to year. So from father to son were the Decoymen of past generations. Is it, then, to be wondered that, under these circumstances, so little is now generally known of ancient Decoys and Decoying?On what is still known as the Decoy Common, in the, parish of Besthorpe, 1¼ mile from Attleborough, there was formerly a Decoy, which is believed to have been abandoned about the time of the enclosure of the common in 1815"(from the The Book of Duck Decoys by Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, 1886.)Original contents are: log book, heart shaped crystal, telephone socket "doubler", dart sharpener, postman pat zip decoration.
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