Barnes Chine

Barnes Chine is a geological feature on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England.

It is a small sandy coastal ravine, one of a number of such chines on the island created by erosion of the cliff edge made of soft Cretaceous rock.

This chine is difficult to identify as there is no obvious stream valley leading to the cliff edge, just a slight undulation of the gently sloping agricultural land.

At the bottom of the undulation look over the cliff edge to see a small v-shaped gully descending rapidly to the beach below.

Flint work dating from the Bronze Age through to the Mesolithic have been found as the result of archaeological excavations on the site.