Shallow Grave Traditional Cache
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A small clip box with space for a TB or two and maybe a couple of small swaps.
Great Cumbrae has been inhabited for thousands of years. Originally arriving as hunter gatherers over 8000 years ago, over time islanders developed agriculture prompting the construction of more permanent settlements and monuments during the later Stone Age.
The most striking artefacts from the island’s prehistoric past are a number of Bronze Age cists, or burial chambers, at both Fintry and Lady Bays. Similar cists have been found only in the Pyrenees suggesting evidence of transmigration over a long distance. One cist from Fintry Bay is on display in the Museum of the Cumbraes at The Garrison in Millport. The location of this cache brings you close to where the cist was discovered by roadbuilders in 1873.
This is a good starting point if you want to find GC The Gowk Stane!
The exact location of the cist is marked on the pavement kerb by two iron bands (co-ords below). Watch out for the many cyclists circumnavigating the island!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Nal byq veba? Gur ehyr vf nyjnlf xrrc yrsg.