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thats a good point. the only thing is all the clues were very long and involved and buckinghamshire specific.....i will give this some thought and post here what i decide. thanks again. Paul

Hi all, About six months ago i moved away from bucks to sussex. Sadly i was in the middle of hiding caches when i moved. So, the situation is this. I have a four cache set with clues of which three caches are hidden. The cache that is not yet hidden is the second in the set. NONE of these caches are yet registered. What i am seeking is someone to see if they are still there and hpoefully that same person to take the caches over and register them. The second cache i think will need a new clue set being done i think. If you are interested drop me a line on here or something. They are three normal caches leading to one BIG and well stocked bonus cache...mmmmmmmmm tasty...... if there are no takes i will drive back there and pick them all up and re hide them in sussex. Kind Regards Paul Edwards

Personally when I found the cache, there was little to no chance it could cause damage. But this never the less is a most valid point John Having revisited the cache tonight, I have moved Emma a few meters across the road. Moote is correct "there was little to no chance it could cause damage", however, there was a wobbly stone on the road side of the wall, which I suspect a number of people had tried first. In isolation that is not going to affect the integrity of the wall, however, repeated removal of this and perhaps other likely candidates on the road side of the wall might have a negative cumulative affect on the wall. Note also, that in addition to being mortar-topped, the wall is also mortar-ended: This look like a dry stone wall to anyone? i will comment on the last remark only. to me this wall appears to be of drystone origin which has been morter ended and mortor topped to prolong its life. I may also be wrong on this as i am neither a farmer, drystone wall builder or knowlegable local. most drystone walls i have seen use the stones on their sides/ends and wedge each other and the likelyhood of a single person being able to physically remove a stone from the wall while it is intact is very remote due to the huge amount of weight on each stone lower in the wall. however, to contradict my own statement i observe that the stones in this wall seem to be placed and stacked on top of each other in a way that may not mean the wall has the same structural properties of a dry stone wall, making it more vulnerable to lateral movement and collapse. however, the point i believe remains this: is there the potential of damaging the wall in the short, medium or long term by using it as a cache stash. I would guess that the answer to this would have to be yes. unless the wall was constructed with the express requirement that a particular stone should be made removable. i doubt that this was the case and as such the wall depends upon all stones in structure to maintain integrity. someon must have felt the wall was vulnerable or it would not have been topped and ended. at the end of the day regardless of my personal feelings i would bow to the wishes of a moderator. full stop. that is all kind regards Paul

1085 within 25 miles of hp5 3af, chesham, bucks

im not up for dublin personally but i am in posession of a travel bug i retreieved the other day who wants to go to ireland. perhaps we can route the bug up to you wherever you are? kind regards paul

hi, are you planning to go all day or just a portion of the day? i work from home and have been sneaking time this week to go caching!!! hopefully my other half wont get to upset at me logging finds when she is at work. hahah not that we are competitive with each other or anything. noooooo we are in chesham by the way. paul