Kelvin Mill Traditional Geocache

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Lorgadh: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 1/29/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Close to the ruined remains of the North Woodside Flint Mill, on the banks of the Kelvin.
An easy cache and dash from Belmont Street or part of a lovely walk along the Kelvin.

Small clip lid box.

Walking along the Kelvin here it's easy to forget you're in the middle of the city. This is our first hidden cache and I'm surprised there isn't already one here.

North Woodside is probably the best-known mill on the Kelvin. This is because of the survival of the mill foundations, the dam and the long lade. For part of its life the mill used water power to process flints, one of the ingredients for pottery making. The process had a number of stages, but the reason for its being situated beside the Kelvin was to apply water power to the grinding stage. The grinding house and its water wheel straddled the lade, just where it disappears under the mill site. The grinding pans were in the rectangular building whose foundation survive to the east of the lade. Grinding was the middle stage of three main processes. The first stage was the burning of the flints in the kiln, whose altered stump survives. The final stage was drying of the wet flint slurry in the drying house, whose foundations also survive.

This however was only it's final use, it's other lives having been as a medieval meal mill, a barley mill, a mill for grinding coloured dyes, when it had the engaging title of ‘the Colour Mill’, a gunpowder mill, a corn and flour mill and finally a flint mill. It closed in 1963.

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Congratulations to Aphid Greene and Eavesclan for FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybbx sbe gur pneivatf ba gur jnyy. Orgjrra gur zna naq gur gbjre.

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)


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