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Yet there was another reason to bury them there: dying in a non-ecclesiastical parish, without so much as a chapel nearby, absolved anyone of the responsibility – or cost – of formal burial.

They were not found until May of that year, with ‘Snow lasting probably the greatest part of the Time’ (Balguy 1735: 413), by which point the smell of the decaying bodies prompted the coroner to recommend that they be buried on the spot (Cox 1877). The detail of this well-preserved clothing, which had nonetheless failed to protect them from the engulfing snow, is both moving and appalling.

Intimate details are revealed in Balguy’s account, gleaned from his close colleague Dr Bourn of Chesterfield, who saw the remains in 1716 and recalled that the woman was dressed ‘in new serge’ while the man had on ‘a Broad-cloth coat, which he had tried to tear a skirt off, but could not’ (Balguy 1735: 414). Perhaps it was the most visible landmark on a dark day, but before them lay the upland bog that skirted this peak. It is thought that they were trying to cross Whin Hill: the sharp eminence that overshadowed their valley. The route they took was precarious: marked for the first half only by prehistoric cairns, sheep walks and perhaps a packhorse track, but lacking many of the stone-built enclosure walls and formal paths visible on the later first edition Ordnance Survey map. Whether Barber was married or not, or whether this was an elopement due to their servant and master relationship, is unclear. On 14 January 1674, a man named Barber – a ‘considerable Grazier … well-known by the People that found him … reduced in Circumstances’, as Balguy ( 1735: 413) puts it – set off for Ireland with his maidservant. The background to these events is intriguing. He himself took a medical path, which perhaps explains his curiosity about the local couple who died in a snowstorm and were buried where they fell.

Balguy had grown up in the parish of Hope his forebears were ‘Overseers of the Poor’ and their signatures litter the accounts of small payments to widows and orphans or countersign canny expulsions of unmarried mothers crossing to ‘the other side’ of a parish boundary to defray any ongoing financial responsibility towards these poor women. While a historic case, whose tragic end on the upland peat bog of Hope Woodland was well documented by the local vicar, Wormald, this telling line in Balguy’s letter alludes to a phenomenon of peat preservation that was apparently well known by the locals. This correspondence between two men of science alludes to the bog bodies that have become known (somewhat ironically) as the ‘Hope couple’ (van der Sanden 1996: 19). (Part of a letter from Dr Charles Balguy of Peterborough, to Cromwell Mortimer, MD, cited in Balguy 1735: 413)

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You MUST have discovered an item before buying it from the Cache.They lay in the peat moss 28 years and 9 months before they were looked at again, when some Countrymen, having observed, I suppose, the extraordinary Quality of this Soil, in preserving dead bodies from corrupting, were curious enough to open the ground to see if these Persons had been so preserved, and found them in no way altered, the Colour of their Skin being fair and natural, their Flesh soft as that of Persons newly dead.

You MUST have the spoils to acquire these items.

Security Spoils Cache – Arms, Legs, Class Item or Scout Rifle.

Replication Spoils Cache – Arms, Legs, Class Item, Sniper Rifle or Shotgun.

Disarmament Spoils Cache – Chest, Arms, Class Item or Hand Cannon.

Abomination Spoils Cache – Head, Chest, Leg, Sword or Machine Gun.

Each cache has its own loot table and the drop is random between the available items in the cache. Any armor of weapon drops you have already acquired from the raid can be purchased again for 20 Spoils for a random roll and 4 Caches are available for 60 Spoils each and they have a chance to reward either an armor or weapon drop. Cache of the Crypt is available after defeating the final boss encounter and allows you to purchase additional rewards for Spoils of Conquest.

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