Placed in one of our and many other peoples favourite areas of Shropshire this cache marks our contribution to the Little Quest phenomenon.
The cache is a walk of about 0.73 of a mile from the given parking co ordinates and involves some scrambling over rocky terrain.
PARKING WITHIN NT REPORTED TO BE £5.50 AS OF MAY 2023
It is possible to approach from above as well but this will involve driving up the fabled "Burway"
The geology of the Long Mynd is unique in the world and the Lightspout Hollow provides a source of inspiration for many a geologist.
Lightspout Hollow contains the most instructive sections through the Lightspout Group of the 'Stretton Series'.
The rocks consist of sandstones and siltstones, including probable channel sandstones, and record the further emergence of the area, as a result of sediments infilling the basin.
The sediments present are typical of shallower water than those of the underlying Synalds Group. Hawkham Hollow contains exposures of the upper 'Stretton Series' Portway Group and the supposedly overlying, unconformable, 'Wentnor Series' of the Longmyndian.
This is the only area where the relationship of the two major divisions of the Longmyndian can be studied.
The rocks of the Long Mynd are also of exceptional historical interest, having been described by several of the great names in 19th Century geological research, and have remained the subject of important work during this Century.
Evidence from this site has contributed greatly to the recent realisation that many of the socalled 'Precambrian' rocks of southern Britain could in fact be of Cambrian age.
