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CATACOMB MYSTERY MULTI Multi-cache

Hidden : 7/3/2017
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

A MULTI THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO AN AMAZING SITE IN AN OLD VICTORIAN CEMETERY IN THE JEWELLERY QUARTER. IT WAS A VERY SPOOKY PLACE WHEN THE CACHE WAS CREATED AND STILL IS IF YOU VISIT AT DAWN OR DUSK (NOT RECOMMENDED AT NIGHT!)

If you park near the listing co-ordinates you will not be far from the actual hide but you'll first have to visit some spooky catacombs to collect the information for the final cache co-ordinates.

At the listing co-ordinates you will see a 4 colour fence by a Children's Nursery.
Put the 4 colours in order and substitute numbers for the letters. e.g. if the colours were Black White Purple Pink the 3rd letter would be worth 1, the 4th letter 3, the 6th letter 22 & the 20th letter 11 (as they are a c w & k)
The colours are not these, however, but put together in order (left to right) there are 18 letters:

You will find the next place to visit at North 52 degrees & West 0001 degrees and the minutes are found by the following letter positions
North minutes are represented by the (4th) ( 18th minus 2nd ) . ( a quarter of the 10th ) (17th minus 3rd ) (4th) letters
West minutes are represented by the (7th) (one third of the 10th ) . ( 5th minus 3rd) ( 6th minus 12th ) (9th) letters

When you get to the spooky intermediate waypoint you should notice 3 or 4 pillars and 2 tiers of arches. You need to look out the following information:-

(P) = The number of pillars with shrouded urns
Q = The number of broken pillars without urns or shrouds (although they were there once!)
W = The number of pairs of arches on upper tier
X = The number of single arches on the upper tier
Y = The number of blank arches on lower tier
Z = The number on the lower tier that are NOT blank

You can then work out where the actual cache is hidden. It is at
North 52 degrees (P) (W) . (Z) (X - Z - P) (P) West 001 degrees (X) (W - Z - Q) . (P + Q) (P) (Y - W - Z - Q)

The total of ALL 7 numbers of the final North co-ordinates is 23 and ALL 8 numbers in the final West co-ordinates is 20 There is one very busy road to re-cross to get back to the final hiding place and the whole jaunt should take between 15 to 30 minutes in all. The cache is very small and there is no room for trackables.
Please bring your own pen.

Congratulations to SOAPY Chickens on another FTF and thanks for some suggestions to help improve the questions which I have used.

And a HUGE thank you to angebucket32 for paying a visit during COVID times when I was unable to make a trip over and checking the questions after all the renovation work. She also kindly replaced the missing container and so helps keep this cache going

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Penjy bire ng fanvy'f cnpr gb Orghyn onfr

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)