Pottery Pond Multi-Cache
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A relatively simple offset cache until the final location when poor reception and camouflage may make things a little more tricky. A sort-of-spoiler photo is available in the gallery.
Pottery Pond is a small wildlife haven with (apparently) heron, kingfishers, dragonflies and the usual complement of ducks for feeding. (The Rangers recommend corn rather than bread and the inhabitants are surprisingly hungry given how close humans are.) You may also glimpse the Pottery Pond Monster speeding along just under the surface.
Pottery Pond was the reservoir for water used to drive five watermills for the Bovey Pottery. Three kilns can still be seen at the House of Marbles. http://www.devonmuseums.net/collection.show.asp?No=146
The cache container is a small/micro but is not a 35mm film pot. It contains the usual pencil and log and a £2 for FTF. It won't hold much bigger items.
At the above coordinates you'll find a sign. Find the dates that Bovey potteries were in operation. This becomes abcd-efgh.
Now go to waypoint two. The sign here names a number of types of dragonfly/damselfly - how many? This becomes j.
Update at 13/06/10: The path near to waypoint 2 is still closed, but it's worth going to see the pond and get mugged by some usually frantic duck residents. Instead of using the sign at waypoint 2, use the following j = f-h
The cache is at: N 50 35.(b-c)gj W003 40.bh(a-e)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Naxyr-uvtu va n zhygv-gehaxrq unmry, fvk cnprf sebz n ybt, sbhe cnprf sebz n fvyire ovepu.