Mearth: Stopped to check on this one and couldn't find it. I'd been confused about the reference to brambles in an earlier post, but with blackberries, anything is possible with a season or two of negligence.
No brambles in the original hiding area at all. No cache either.
I hate to archive it when there's a good chance the cache is still there, somewhere, lurking as geotrash, but I hunted around a lot with no joy. Maybe the next person to place a cache in this groovy location will run across it?