The Curse of the FTF Kent #11 - Bethersden Multi-cache
The Moor We Hunt...: We visited today and eventually found the container some distance away from the hiding place. It was missing its lid and contents and had lots of animal teeth marks in it. All evidence suggests that a critter with large teeth developed a taste for the camouflage tape on the box. We've decided that it's time to archive this one. Thanks to all who took the trouble to come and find it.
The Curse of the FTF Kent #11 - Bethersden
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This is a simple offset multi cache, with parking available at the given coordinates, beside the Church.
‘The Curse of the FTF Kent’ is a series which requires the First To Find cacher to place the next cache in the series, but please read the following rules:-
1. The FTF'er should place the next cache in the series (in this case, Curse of the FTF Kent #12) within 1 month. Please note only the FTF'er should place the next cache and not every time someone finds the cache.
2. You can only be a FTF for this series once. This spreads the FTF love around, and gives others a chance to play along. (This is at least until everyone has had a go at FTF who wants to).
3. The cache can be any size or type of cache (Puzzle, Multi, etc.), but Jimbo-ugk asks that: You set it in County of Kent and if it is a puzzle then it should not be too hard, as it should be easy enough for everyone to find.
4. You must include this set of guidelines in your listing for the series. Jimbo-ugk will be happy to answer any questions concerning the guidelines or about the placing of caches to those who have not placed a cache before.
By way of clarification, there is no requirement besides the standard signing of the cache log to prevent you from logging this cache when found. Everyone should log their find and hopefully the FTF person will play along and place another cache, but it is in no way a requirement for logging your find. If you do not intend to carry on the series please DO NOT FTF but leave it for someone else.
Once a new cache has been published, please e-mail the link to Jimbo-ugk and he will add it to the Kent Curse #1 page.
The village of Bethersden is well known for its ‘Bethersden Marble’, quarried since Medieval times, which was used in Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals as well as other Churches and a few Wealden hall houses in the Bethersden, Smarden, Pluckley and Headcorn areas of Kent. The pavements in Biddenden High Street are a famous example of it. On the floor of the porch and inside St Margaret’s Church here in Bethersden there are some fine slabs of the ‘marble’. In reality it was not marble but a local stone, also known locally as winklestone, which could be fashioned and polished to look like marble. It is made up of limestone filled with small fossilised crustaceans, is irregular in shape and has a similar colour to weathered Kent Ragstone. Local people also used it to make causeways across the muddy Wealden clay fields so that their pack horses could carry woollen goods to the markets, as Bethersden was once a centre of the Kentish wool trade.
At the given coordinates you will find a bench ‘In Loving Memory of Irene May Collins’. Use the dates below her name on the plaque to replace the following letters and work out the cache location:
AB.C.DE – F.G.HJ
The cache can be found at: North 51º07.(C+D)(C+J)D East 000º45.FAG
Follow the footpath through the Churchyard to head towards the cache. You are looking for a small camouflaged ‘Clip & Close’ box. Please watch for muggles and be sure to hide the cache securely. Thank you.
Additional Hints
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