Series Description:
Please read the series description in the first and last caches in the series.
All caches in this series are placed in accordance with DNPA guidelines
Please be aware that most of the caches will involve walking on Dartmoor on quite rough terrain. The weather on Dartmoor can change suddenly and unexpectedly. Please ensure that you have the correct clothing and map & compass even though the cache may not be far from the suggested parking.
Geocache Description - 5. The marshes
The Story
The children decipher the map that Dick was given, and the man in the post office at "Reebles" tells them the way to Gloomy Water by Two Trees. He warns them to stick to the paths and about the dangers of trying to take a short cut across the marshes. ("don't go treading there, or you'll be up to your knees in muddy water")
The Cache
This cache is placed in an area where you can look out over the basin of one of many Dartmoor marshes.
A return walk from the suggested parking to the cache is less than 2 miles.
Points of Interest
On the way to the cache you will pass by Scorhill Stone Circle, one of the many bronze age circles on the moor. it is approximately 27 metres in diameter and at one time may have contained about 70 standing stones. Only about 32 remain today, some upright, some fallen. If you stand in the centre of the circle on midsummer eve you can see the sun setting behind the tallest stone.
A couple of miles to the north west are some of the notorious mires of Dartmoor - Raybarrow Pool and Gallaven Mire. Don’t go there.