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English: Entrance to Grime's Graves An English Heritage Site; Grimes Graves is the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain. A grassy lunar landscape of over 400 shafts, pits, quarries and spoil dumps, they were first named Grims Graves meaning the pagan god Grims quarries, or the Devils holes by the Anglo- Saxons. It was not until one of them was excavated in 1870 that they were found to be flint mines dug over 5,000 years ago, during the later Neolithic and early Bronze Ages.
What the prehistoric miners sought here was the fine quality jet-black flint floorstone, which occurs some nine metres below surface level. This was prized as an easily knapped material for axes and other tools and much later elsewhere for well-sparking flintlock muskets. Digging with red-deer antler picks, they sank shafts from which radiated gallery-tunnels, following the seams of flint. |
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| Author | Jonathan Billinger |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Jonathan Billinger and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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