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Blackpatch

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37: 30: 228:. Seven shafts were excavated. They were up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) deep; from them, galleries extended up to 8.5 metres (28 ft), following a single seam of flint. Flint flakes and pottery sherds were found in the infills from the shafts. Around the shafts were working areas where mined flint was processed. An antler pick from a shaft has been 221:
The flint mine, which was levelled about 1950, is on the south-west slope of Blackpatch Hill. There are more than 64 infilled shafts, diameter up to 6 metres (20 ft).
313: 353: 363: 101: 29: 107: 69: 292: 287: 288:"Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (1015880)" 358: 236: 191: 123: 334: 331: 252: 201: 180: 57: 256: 229: 205: 198: 139: 127: 368: 283: 347: 259:. Three of them were over infilled flint mine shafts, with others to the north-east. 194: 224:
The shafts and other features at the site were investigated from 1922 to 1932 by
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Pull later investigated the flint mines in West Sussex at
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The site, now levelled, contained more than 12 round
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Blackpatch is located in West Sussex
Findon, West Sussex
50°52′6″N 0°26′48″W / 50.86833°N 0.44667°W / 50.86833; -0.44667
OS grid reference
TQ 094 088
Neolithic
Bronze Age
Scheduled monument
West Sussex
Findon
Worthing
Neolithic
flint mine
Bronze Age
barrows
scheduled monument
John Pull
radiocarbon dated
Church Hill
Cissbury
barrows
Bronze Age




Historic England
"Prehistoric flint mine and part of a round barrow cemetery at Blackpatch, 400m north east of Myrtle Grove Farm (1015880)"
National Heritage List for England
"Blackpatch, Findon, West Sussex"

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