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Church Micro 124 St Michael's Church Cuxton Traditional Geocache

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Long Man: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache, I'm archiving it.

Andy
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Hidden : 2/10/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


St Michael's Church Cuxton

If you should see a church miswent
Then you must go to Cuxton in Kent
The old couplet refers to the curiosity of the Cuxton church alignment, on a south-west axis instead of the more usual east-west one. There could be several reasons for it, but one suggestion is that the church was built on the foundations of an existing Roman chapel or shrine which did not have the normal Christian church alignment. There was certainly a Roman villa nearby. In fact, the area around the church has probably been more or less continuously inhabited for about 250,000 years. In 1962, archaeological excavations at Cuxton uncovered some 200,000 year-old bones of an elephant that once stomped around these parts, together with a great many flint hand axes and chips left over from their manufacture. There were some human bones, too, dating from about the first century AD.
The coordinates will take to the cache via the church yard.


The cache has a log book but no pen so please bring one with you



If any body would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

syvag

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)