Bible belt

Having climbed back up near Cuilfail, the Gorse Fox headed across the Golf Course - watching carefully for strangely dressed men with wayward balls swinging in from the left or the right. (In this part of Sussex, you can never be too careful).

Once clear of the golfers, GF had the Downs to himself again. Traversing the slope of Cliffe Hill, GF got this view up along Caburn Bottom - you can see as it zigs and zags climbing slowly up to the Mount.


This seemed like an ideal spot for a short break. The Gorse Fox shrugged off his rucksack, and dropped his camera, map and GPS to the ground. What an idyllic spot for lunch. Delving into his pack, he retrieved one of Ginster's finest, and a bottle of carbonated water.

As he ate he watched as the waves of colour marched across the hill, driven by the stiff summer breeze. Finally, he twisted the cap on the bottle (carefully) and freed the imprisoned carbon dioxide. Fly away little molecules. Be free!

Finishing lunch GF set off again. He was walking along the upper edge of Bible Bottom and peering down into its depths looking for the earthwork that gave it its name.

It suddenly occurred to the Gorse Fox that it was staring him in the face. This wasn't a partly harrowed field on the side of hill - it was the "The Bible". Not sure what page it's open on... but that's it.

(Interestingly, there is picture, owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, of Bible Bottom painted in 1881 by the artist Hine)