A small cache hidden near an ancient field system, just outside the village of Jevington.
You can reach the cache from the parking location by walking through Jevington, and taking either the Wealdway or the 1066 Country Walk eastwards.
LOCAL INFORMATION
Ancient Field System
The field you have just walked through and which you look over to the south is an ancient field system, listed and protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The remnants of the field system are thought to date back to the Iron Age, between 800AD - 42BC. The banks you can see, running roughly from east to west, are known as 'lynchets' and were formed by the build up of earth as a result of continual ploughing of the land over a long period of time.
DISCOVERING MORE
Several long distance trails pass through this field. The 1066 Country walk commemorates the Norman conquest of Britain and the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066. The route runs from Pevensey (where the Normans landed) in the east, to Rye in the west, and links together some of the historical places from this time, such as the battle site, and the castles at Pevensey and Herstmonceux.
The Wealdway is an 81mile trail from the Gordon Promenade in Gravesend, Kent, to Eastbourne Pier in East Sussex, which passes through the Kent Downs AONB and the High Weald AONB, as well as the South Downs National Park.
Finally, just to the south is the South Downs Way, the National Trail of the South Downs National Park which runs from Winchester, in the west, to Eastbourne in the east.
PERMISSION
Thank you to for Richard Martin for permission to place this geocache, and to East Sussex County Council for archaeological information on the site.