The Wirral Stone Traditional Cache
TheDiscoMessiah: Archiving
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Very quick and very easy roadside cache – no walking involved!
Some people believe the stone was a Roman milestone forming part of a geometrical survey of Cheshire, while others consider that the Stone may have marked the meeting place of the Wirral Hundred - a Hundred being a division of an English county which contained a hundred families. Each township in the area had to send four of it’s chief men to a periodic assembly which met at Wirral’s centrally located Willaston. This system continued to the Middle Ages, but the Hundred Court which grew out of it persisted until the middle of the last century. The Wirral’s was one of the last in the country to survive.
The most likely explanation however, is that the stone is nothing more than an old mounting block with three steps placed there as a 'matter of convenience' for men on horseback returning from Chester. An old tithe map shows it as the ‘P-Stone’ which would seem to corroborate this, but try not to think about that too much while you’re feeling around for the cache though!
The cache itself is slightly smaller than a 35mm film canister.
Additional Hints
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Ghpxrq oruvaq ivarf nobir gbc bs srapr