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Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
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Sites ermine has logged on trip number: 10 (View all trips) View these posts as a blog
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Sites ermine has logged on trip number: 10 (View all trips) View these posts as a blog
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| Site Name (A/D) |
Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Grime's Graves Flint Mines | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | England | Norfolk | Visited | 6th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | It's worth bearing in mind that to see much underground you will need to enter the shaft on hands and knees, so dress accordingly. The temperature is about 10C.
The flint was mined from the chalk using red deer antlers that had been naturally shed - the antler material is hardest when just shed.
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| Grime's Graves Flint Mines | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | England | Norfolk | Visited | 6th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | English Heritage have opened up a new pit to occasional public access. Greenwell Pit is one of the 433 on the Grimes Graves neolithic flint mine site at Grimes Graves. I was on the first public descent into this pit – it had of course been opened and entered before by archaeologists, but the 6th A... Read More |
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| Grime's Graves Flint Mines | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | England | Norfolk | Visited | 6th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | There’s not much to see above ground at Grimes Graves, this is a mine, after all, so all the action happened underground. The surface is pockmarked by depressions where the backfill has settled, and sheep are used to keep the ground clear. (part 2 of 4) | 10 | 2 |
| Grime's Graves Flint Mines | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | England | Norfolk | Visited | 6th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 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... |
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