Info Of Prehistoric Norfolk Mine Grime’S Graves To Opened Upwards 2Nd Pit To Public

Tourists volition hold upwards winched deep surreptitious to encounter 4,000-year-old site where Neolithic miners used antlers to hack out flint

The remains of the ancient pits created an extraordinary pockmarked landscape. Photograph: English linguistic communication Heritage/PA Wire

A challenging descent past times ladder, winch together with harness into a prehistoric underworld volition opened upwards to the populace for the outset fourth dimension this year, allowing exploration of shafts together with galleries cutting deep nether Norfolk heathland to a greater extent than than 4,000 years ago.

The extraordinary surface landscape of Grime’s Graves, pockmarked amongst hundreds of shallow depressions, puzzled people for many centuries until they were identified virtually 150 years agone every bit neolithic flintstone mines. 


The get upwards Grime’s Graves has Anglo-Saxon origins, given long afterward the mines vicious out of purpose every bit metallic tools replaced flint, together with about of the convenient hollows were used every bit burial grounds inwards the Iron Age. Under the Normans the site was used to continue rabbits for their meat together with skins, every bit the miserable sandy soil was ideal for the animals’ warrens.

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