Stoughton Down

Nearest town:
Chichester (8km SE)
OS reference:
SU823122
OS sheet:
197
Latitude:
50° 54' 10.12 N
Longitude:
0° 49' 45.99 W
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Images

Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Expansive view from the northern monument.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Northern long barrow, looking approx south-west.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Looking approx north along the western flank of the northern barrow. I guess the damage is caused by livestock.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Approaching the northerly long barrow.... again, wonderfully sited.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Looking approx north-west across the southern monument.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

The southern monument commands excellent views to the south-west... I reckon that’s a surviving remnant of ditch to foreground.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

The northern long barrow (highlighted) from a’top the southerly...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Looking uphill towards the western face of the southern barrow...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by GLADMAN

Looking approx west across the southern long barrow of the pair. Not bad positionning at all...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Oct 5, 2011
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by A R Cane

The more southerly of the two long barrows with Bow Hill in the background to the right.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 8, 2009
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by A R Cane

A minor nuclear explosion above the southerly long barrow. The yew forested Kingley Vale stands in the background.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 8, 2009
Image of Stoughton Down (Long Barrow) by A R Cane

X marks the spot. The more northerly of the two compact and bijou long barrows at Stoughton Down.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 8, 2009

Articles

Stoughton Down

A R Cane
A R Cane Apr 8, 2009

Long barrows in Sussex are few and far between but I thought it worth mentioning them as they form part of the abundant collection of earthworks within the Kingley Vale Nature Reserve north of Chichester. The other notable relics being the enormous round barrows on top of Bow Hill and Goose Hill Camp Iron Age Hill Fort. You can find them quite easily by following the trail next to the dyke that runs alongside the round barrows north-east for about half a mile. You’ll come to an opening in the woods to your left and the first long barrow sits in a field beneath you. The other lies in an adjacent field and the pair of them are bisected by a footpath leading down to the village of Stoughton itself.

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