Logs Bartlow Hills (Historic site) 4x 0x 1x
2021-12-29 08:33 sandvika (105) - Cache gearchiveerd
2021-12-29 08:29 sandvika (105) - Notitie
A local geocacher has adopted this historic cache on Groundspeak but sadly the ammo box and all the logs back to 2001 were muggled. The new owner decided to replace it with a micro-cache and since it had been an ammo box for almost 20 years I feel it has lost too much for me to continue to cross-list it.
2017-07-28 15:46 Clive8 (1) - Gevonden
2012-06-17 15:30 nick_h_nz (16) - Gevonden
2009-08-13 00:00 Amberel (610) - Gevonden
Logged on 25/08/2009 after visiting the cache earlier this month.
As I arrived, a family group was coming back to their car, so I visited
the Hills first. An amazing sight, words can't really convey the scale
of these things. Regrettably the steps are broken, and while it would
have been easy for a geocacher to negotiate them, or to climb the
barrow by other means, I felt this would have been unsympathetic to the
site. While I was therefore unable to see them from the top, they were
pretty impressive from the bottom.
I then made my way back to the cache location, where the cache was
lying in pretty much full view. Now that I knew where it was, something
that happened earlier then made sense - some of the children in the
family group I saw at the start had shouted "let's go and look at it",
and they had gone to where I now knew to be the location of the cache.
Despite being in the open, the cache had not been vandalised. I
tried to repair the broken catch, but suspect my repair won't last
long. I also hid it rather better than before, but it's still only
rather delicate stick-o-flage and leaves.
Thanks for bringing me to a very interesting place,
I really enjoyed this one.
Rgds, Andy
2007-12-06 12:00 geotrowel (2) - Gevonden
I'd been here before on a Colchester Archaeological Trust trip…
absolutely fascinating place. Had the same problem that I experienced
the last time I was here; Gerti Vo (at least I think that's her name),
my constant companion, prevented me from getting to the top of the
barrow. It's a real pain, especially when you've got the interest in
Roman history that I have!
Anyway, after easing myself down the
wooden steps, I endeavoured to locate the cache… it took me quite some
time, I have to say! It wasn't totally covered and it was still
virtually invisible. The top wasn't locked, but the contents were still
dry… good old ammo boxes!
Many thanks for a brilliant cache!