Blackpatch Flint Mines

Nearest town:
Arundel (8km WSW)
OS reference:
TQ094089
OS sheet:
198
Latitude:
50° 52' 7.12 N
Longitude:
0° 26' 42.42 W
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Image of Blackpatch Flint Mines (Ancient Mine / Quarry) by A R Cane

Blackpatch Hill from the path down from Church Hill beyond Long Furlong.

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Image of Blackpatch Flint Mines (Ancient Mine / Quarry) by A R Cane

Buy one, get two free! Cissbury Rings and Church Hill to the left.

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A R Cane May 9, 2011
Image of Blackpatch Flint Mines (Ancient Mine / Quarry) by A R Cane

The barrow at the summit of Blackpatch Hill with Cissbury Rings just visible behind the Trig point.

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A R Cane May 9, 2011
Image of Blackpatch Flint Mines (Ancient Mine / Quarry) by A R Cane

A solitary barrow as you approach from the North West with the echo of Harrow Hill in the background.

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Blackpatch Flint Mines
Ancient Mine / Quarry
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 30, 2004

from James Dyer’s ‘Southern England, an archaeological guide‘

Today only low hollows indicated where more than a hundred flint mine shafts lie buried beneath the soil. Seven were excavated in the 1920s – they showed that the pits were dug to reach a seam of nodular flint about 3.4m down. From most of the shafts galleries radiated out (as far as daylight permitted them to be worked). As a new gallery was dug the chalk extracted was deposited in one of the already worked galleries. Some shafts contained cremations and burials, and small barrows were built over the filled=up mines.

“From these remains it is possible to deduce that the mines had been worked intermittently for perhaps 500 years through the Neolithic toMiddle Bronze Age. A new shaft dug every five years would have supplied the needs of a small community, traces of whose village were found north east of the mines” (on the other side of the footpath up the hill).

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