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Grime's Graves (Norfolk)

Description: Prehistoric flint mine.

Newest Review: ... displays of findings from the area. You can see what the flint was used for; there are some examples of clothing and items of daily use as they would have looked like during Neolithic times and some information on how the flint was excavated. All in all this is a very small exhibition and it won't take more than a few minutes to see everything. The actual mine, the only one of the more than ... more

... 300 that has been fully excavated and restored, is located just a few metres behind the visitor centre. It is the only Neolithic flint mine that is open to visitors in Britain. "If you want to take a walk please stay on the paths as there are sna...more

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Grime's Graves (Norfolk): There is nothing devilish about those holes (1451 words)
by - written on 23/04/08 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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"What happened here?" asked my husband as soon as he got out of the car and had a look around. "Looks like Swiss Cheese!" And right he was, the pockmarked landscape at Grime's Graves really resembles an Emmental cheese with all those holes in the ground abd exactly those holes were what we had come for - at least one of them. The shape of this strange landscape is nothing that has grown naturally and all those holes and hills are man made - about 5000 years ago, the oldest ones probably about 3000 BC. Back in Anglo-Saxon times they must have thought that they were looking at ancient burial mounts and so they named the place after the pagan ... Read the complete review