Barkhale

Nearest town:
Arundel (7km ESE)
OS reference:
SU976127
OS sheet:
197
Latitude:
50° 54' 17.72 N
Longitude:
0° 36' 42.33 W
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Images

Image of Barkhale (Causewayed Enclosure) by juamei

Open Source Environment agency LIDAR

Image credit: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.
juamei
juamei Jan 3, 2016
Image of Barkhale (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The whole site from the top of the more northerly barrow

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Feb 13, 2008
Image of Barkhale (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The second barrow at the Barkhale site looking to the north west

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Feb 13, 2008
Image of Barkhale (Causewayed Enclosure) by A R Cane

The enclosure with one of the two quite large, but low round barrows adjacent to it.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Feb 13, 2008
Image of Barkhale (Causewayed Enclosure) by Cursuswalker

The view north west from the path that runs trough the centre of Barkhale. The rise on the path ahead, and to either side, is the only substantial trace of the enclosure bank that I could make out. The shade behind helps with the contrast.

Taken 2/8/99

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Jan 25, 2004

Articles

Barkhale

Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Jan 3, 2004

Not a visually exciting site this one. But still good to know you stand on ground that, at one time, held a special meaning. It’s also strange to think that the Romans, when they were laying nearby Stane Street, probably had not the slightest clue this site was here.

The South Down’s Way meets the Roman road at Bignor Hill car park. Diverting off the Way south, then south west along the Monarch’s Way, takes you right through the centre of the enclosure.

On your right the south western third of the site is delineated by scrubland, presumably cleared from the interior of the site for archaeology in 1983. The treeline, therefore, marks the edge of the enclosure.

On the left, the north eastern two thirds of the site lie in an open field, and seem invisible, though it is only in this part that remains of the enclosure seem to have been recorded.

Entering the enclosure from the north west, at SU974126, one walks over a very low rise in the ground, which is the only original physical sign of the enclosure I could make out.

Folklore

Barkhale
Causewayed Enclosure
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Dec 29, 2006

“A dragon once lived on Bignor Hill, where ridges made by its coils can be seen.”
It doesn’t seem wholly unlikely that this folklore could refer to the enclosure, which is slightly along the ridge from Bignor Hill. The area also has many Bronze age barrows. Folklore from the Sussex County Magazine, III, 1929, p552, by F.J. Bulstrode.

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