The Trundle

Nearest town:
Chichester (6km SSW)
OS reference:
SU877111
OS sheet:
197
Latitude:
50° 53' 31.65 N
Longitude:
0° 45' 10.51 W
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Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

Sunburst over Chichester and Selsey viewed from the South Western entrance to The Trundle.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 23, 2016
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by juamei

Open Source Environment agency LIDAR

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juamei Jan 5, 2016
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

‘Artemis’ which was installed in June 2010 (why did I not know of this?!) looking south over the Downs towards Chichester.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 15, 2011
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The ‘Artemis’ sculpture in context to the barrow in the centre of the hill.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 15, 2011
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The lower earthwork or boundary marker on the northern side.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 15, 2011
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The ditch/track which is almost a continuation of the road as it swings around the base of The Trundle on the northern side.

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 15, 2011
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

Looking back up towards the fortifications at the top of The Trundle

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A R Cane
A R Cane Mar 15, 2011
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

View from the car park at the foot of the Trundle looking west, showing the two earth banks end on to the road

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A R Cane
A R Cane Oct 15, 2007
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

Looking from the Trundle to the North showing the two large earth banks adjacent to the road to Singleton

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A R Cane
A R Cane Oct 15, 2007
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The entrance to The Trundle hill fort from the northern side

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A R Cane
A R Cane Oct 15, 2007
Image of The Trundle (Causewayed Enclosure) by baza

Part of the hillfort rampart, overlooking the grandstand at Goodwood Racecourse.

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baza Jul 29, 2005

Articles

The Trundle

dickie
dickie Apr 24, 2002

Better known as a local picnic site with good views over Goodwood, the downs and Chichester. The iron-age hillfort dominates the hill profile but there is an internal Neolithic Causewayed enclosure and pits which were excavated in the 20’s.

Folklore

The Trundle
Causewayed Enclosure
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 20, 2023

In the same district, near to what must be the most delightfully situated racecourse in the land is the Trundle Hill, Goodwood, which takes its name from an ancient British earthwork on the summit, where is buried Aaron’s golden calf, upon which His Satanic Majesty keeps a paternal eye. To quote Clare Jerrold:

“People know very well where it is – I could show you the place any day.”
“Why don’t you dig it up then?”
“Oh, that is not allowed; He would not let me.”
“Well, has any one ever tried?”
“Oh, yes: but it is never there when you look; He moves it away.”

Hastings and St Leonard’s Observer, 1st August 1936.

Folklore

The Trundle
Causewayed Enclosure
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Feb 22, 2006

To add to Bryony’s note,

“on the Trundle, near Goodwood, Aaron’s Golden Calf lies buried, and local people in the 1870’s claimed to know the very spot -- only no one could dig it up, because whenever anyone tried, the Devil came and moved it away.”

From Brewer’s ‘Dictionary of Phrase and Fable’ 1870 (351,761) and the Rev. W D Parish’s ‘Dictionary of Sussex Dialect’ of 1875, and mentioned by Jacqueline Simpson in:
Sussex Local Legends
Folklore, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Autumn, 1973), pp. 206-223.

She also says (p207) “Modern archaeological excavations may serve to reinforce [traditions of buried treasure]; a party digging on the Trundle in 1928 found that the story of the Golden Calf ‘was much upon the lips of the people of Singleton during the progress of our excavation’. Their presence can only have strengthened, not created, the belief, for it happens that this particular tale first appeared in print in 1870.”

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