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Bucks A-Z Series....L (Mark 2) Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 5/3/2015
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

After seeing many other Alphabetical series, we decided to do our own for our corner of the county of Buckinghamshire.
The caches all vary, some are bigger than others, but none are micros and all have room for swaps.

 


After the locatioj of our original Lwas destryed, we decided to move it here to Lenborough.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about Lenborough 

Lenborough is a hamlet in the parish of Buckingham next to Gawcott, in Buckinghamshire, England.Lenborough consists mainly of barn conversions and farm houses and connects by footpath to the Buckingham Industrial Estate.

Not much as you can see, but then in late 2014 a chap with a Metal Detector put Lenborouugh on the map with style.  He found 'The Lenborough Hoard'.  Wikipedia says.....

 

The Lenborough Hoard is a hoard of more than 5,000 late Anglo-Saxon silver coins, dating to the eleventh century, that was found at Lenborough in Buckinghamshire, England in 2014. It is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever found in Britain.

The hoard was discovered, on 21 December 2014, on farmland in the Buckinghamshire hamlet of Lenborough, between Buckingham and Padbury, during a metal detectorist rally organised by the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club involving approximately one hundred people. One of the participants, Paul Coleman, located the coins inside a lead container buried 2 feet (0.61 m) under the ground.

Coleman said that he "found a piece of lead and thought it was junk. But then I looked back in the hole and saw one shiny coin. Then I lifted a larger piece of lead and saw row upon row of coins stacked neatly." According to Pete Welch, the founder of the club, the coins were in remarkably good condition: "They're like mirrors, no scratching, and buried really carefully in a lead container, deep down. It looks as though only two people have handled these coins, the person who made them and the person who buried them." They were found covered in clay and silt that had seeped though holes in the lead, but otherwise, they were pristine.

Buckinghamshire County Museum archaeologist Ros Tyrell, the Buckinghamshire Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, was present during the rally to record any objects discovered, and excavated the hoard immediately after it was found. The hoard was taken to the British Museum for examination and conservation.

The hoard consists of 5,252 silver coins, of which 5,251 are whole and one is a portion of a coin that had been cut in half. They date from the first half of the eleventh century, and include many coins from the reigns of two Anglo-Saxon kings, Æthelred the Unready (reigned 978–1013 and 1014–1016) and Cnut the Great (reigned 1016–1035). The coins were wrapped in a sheet of lead.

As the hoard consists of precious metal more than 300 years old, it will be assessed by a coroner under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996 to determine whether it is treasure. If found to be so, the hoard will be valued by the Treasure Valuation Committee, and a museum may apply to acquire it by paying the amount of the valuation, which will be shared equally by the discoverer and the landowner. The coins are in such good condition that their total value has been estimated at possibly as much as £1.3 million.

The reasons for the burial of the hoard are unknown. Simon Keynes, Professor of Anglo Saxon at Cambridge University, calls the hoard "difficult to explain" at present, and he wonders whether it is "a hoard of a Viking—his accumulated wealth" or something else. A fuller explanation may be possible when the coins have all been cleaned and it is clearer from which reigns the coins date.

We are afraid we cannot promise you treasure of that great magnitude, but if you are lucky you will find a small box with some swaps in it.....

 

 

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs sbbgcngu fvta

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)