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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.3 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Descent into Greenwell Pit - ladder
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Log Text: Unlike the public access pit this one will generally be via restricted ticketing, the event I was at was a members event. The English Heritage description of the event
thanks to a new winch and harness system we can now access Greenwell’s Pit and see a mining shaft in its original archaeological state.
Join our Neolithic expert Will Lord and discover the history and archaeology of the site before he leads the descent in to the newly opened pit.
This event has been graded as challenging access as the descent in to the pit is by winch and harness only and will require an extended period underground.
made it sound like we were going to abseil into the pit, but although visitors are kitted up with a harness and attached to a winch with a breakaway cable, this is only a safety requirement in case someone slips or has a heart attack underground, entry is quite conventional, down a steel ladder.
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