This is the only cache hidden quite in this way in the local area and we hope that you will enjoy a slightly different find.
Now for the history- 'About 10,000 years ago, the natural landscape would have been dominated by birch, lime and oak trees. Stone Age man started clearing the woods to provide farmland. The heath was maintained by sheep and rabbits grazing the heather and grass; while local people cut bracken for animal bedding. Over thousands of years, plants and animals evolved to live in this habitat, created by a unique mixture of management, climate and geology. Now there are some very rare plants growing only in the Brecks. In the Middle Ages, rabbits provided valuable food and skins. Special rabbit warrens were built for breeding. On the heath, there are remains of a circular warren. By the 1950's, sheep grazing had declined throughout the Brecks. Rabbit warrens were no longer used and myxomatosis, a fatal disease, killed all the wild rabbits. Because there were fewer animals grazing, trees began to grow on the heath'. Knettishall Heath is also the start of Peddars Way, a 45 mile ancient trail to the north Norfolk coast.
There are plenty of other caches at Knettishall so do come and find them all!