Szalacska Celts Multi-Cache
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You can find three characteristical points in the field of the ancient main town an one-time tribe of Transdanubian Celts lived in Szalacska that is the outskirts of Nagyberki village.
You will seek two micro-caches and one normal cache near the tourist-path signed by red +. The first micro-box shows the coordinates of the second one and the second micro-box shows the coordinates of the normal box that containes the logbook.
Transdanubian celts (about B.C. 2nd century – A.C. 1st century)
There are finds from the copper age to age of Celts in Szalacska. There were a lot of nations those lived here before the Celtic tribes settled down here. Celts put to use the elder earth-castle. Maybe that was built in the copper or bronze age therefore this earth-castle can be elder than three thousand years old one.
This earth-castle of very big acreage (a triangle footing area of length about 900 metres) defended the main town of Kapos-valley Celts. The town (with metal processing workrooms and mints) was situated on the entire plateau of Szalacska-hill. The side of this hill was whittled down let the side be very steep and the steep side was the castle-wall. On the lower ground there were mounds and trenches around the central earth-castle.
Are the Szalacska kurgans built by Celts? Maybe Celts came into legacy from earlier nations? In any case they also used these kurgans as burial places.
There are a few groups of kurgans near Szalacska-hill. This group of about 16 kurgans is one of them.
How to approach?
You drive in the No61 highway in Nagyberki village and you turn southward in the direction of Kercseliget village. You drive along the road signed with RED CROSS tourist-sign to Holy Anton Chapel of Szalacska-hill. You can drive further southward on the main cart-road to the branching off: N46° 18.864’ E18° 01,053’ (230m). Then you drive (be careful beside the steep hillside!) to the parking place N46° 18.807’ E 18° 01.090’ (230m) that is a grassy field.
1. Seeking the 1st box. From the parking place you will walk always on the edge of the little earth plateau (castle-wall) and you find the N46° 18,744' E018° 01,193' point, then you walk on the ancient mound further. You can find the micro-box at the stem of a hazelnut (Corylus avellana) tree at the forest staircase that is leading down to the spring („forrás”) walley from the partially damaged mound of the earth-castle: N46° 18,753’ E18° 01,281’ (220m). Here you find the coordinates of 2nd point.
2. Seeking the 2nd box. You return to the parking place and can drive back to the main cart-road, then you turn southward and drive to the 2nd hiding place.
You look around and you will see an unclaimed cellar it is hollowed into the steep wall of the earth-castle. You get into the cellar and can find the cache above the lintel of the entrance. Here you find the coordinates of 3rd (final) point.
3. Seeking the 3rd box. You will drive southward (the cart-road is in rather bad condition here) to the next parking place: N46° 18.675’ E18° 00,851’ (further from this place you can only walk!). You walk southward while you find the nearest forest cart-road to the left. You can find the cache on the top of a kurgan (tumulus), under the branches of a little evergreen shrub (butcher’s broom that is ruscus aculeatus): This place can be a hunting area, therefore the seeking is recommended only at daylight!
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