Bosham Bell

Bosham bell

This i found, appears to be a depiction of the longboat

by an artist Robert Taylor Pritchett, 1828-1907

A wood engraving.

 

Bosham is also alleged to be where that famous

incident, which we all learnt in school, happened..

Where King Canute taught his entourage a lesson, 

by trying to hold back the tide!

The concept was to prove to his courtiers, that even

though he was King of England, he couldn't hold back the sea.

Maybe the dykes built in Chichester harbour couldn't hold it back either,

Because apparently he sat there in a "chair..."

Where a dyke or wall of earth was called a "char" in  Saxon. 

All of these legends relate to the boundary between the land and the sea,

And the difficulties of protecting these gateways from outside forces.