It is the site of a Neolithic flint mine, and Bronze Age barrows.

[1] The flint mine, which was levelled about 1950, is on the south-west slope of Blackpatch Hill.

Flint flakes and pottery sherds were found in the infills from the shafts.

[1][2][3] Pull later investigated the flint mines in West Sussex at Church Hill and at Cissbury.

[3] The site, now levelled, contained more than 12 round barrows, dating from the Bronze Age.