Monumental

Momentous Moments - GC4CFF

The great thing about box hunting is that you get to see stuff you never knew existed - and this bloody huge monument is just such a thing. I've driven along the Old Birmingham Road from Bromsgrove to Cofton Hackett many times, but I never knew this existed until today.

We drove to the junction of Monument Lane and Old Birmingham Road, parked up at the roadside and headed towards the monument. The hint suggested facing the plaque and finding the cache in the trees to our left, but when we looked at the plaque on the monument, our GPSr suggested that the cache was to our right instead. We had a quick look in the trees on our left, but our GPSr was insisting that we were in the wrong place.

When we checked the trees on the other side of the monument, we soon found the cache, hidden in the roots of a partly-fallen tree. It turns out that there is another, separate plaque on the other side of the monument, and the hint was referring to this.