Sehen Sie S in Canon Greenwell's Pit bei Grime's Graves prähistorische Feuersteinminen, Norfolk, England, Großbritannien, mit verlassenen Geweih-Picks neben einer Feuerschicht
3780 x 2679 px | 32 x 22,7 cm | 12,6 x 8,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
5. November 1987
Ort:
Grimes Graves Prehistoric Flint Mines, Brandon, Thetford, Norfolk, England, UK
Weitere Informationen:
View S in Canon Greenwell's Pit at Grime's Graves prehistoric flint mines, Norfolk, England, UK, showing abandoned antler picks beside a seam of flint floorstone within the chalk. The red deer antler picks were used by miners in the later Neolithic & Early Bronze Ages to dig & lever out the high quality jet-black floorstone to make & trade roughouts of axes & other flint tools. Vertical shafts were sunk to reach the bands of floorstone some 9-12m (roughly 30-40ft) below ground level, then low horizontal galleries were cut to follow the seams. There are over 400 shafts, quarries & spoil heaps at Grime's Graves creating a lunar landscape in the Norfolk Breckland NW of Thetford. Anglo-Saxons named the complex Grim's Graves after their pagan god Grim, meaning his quarries or the Devil's holes. The site was archaeologically excavated & identified as a prehistoric flint mine in 1868-70 by Canon Greenwell, & again in the 1960s by Leslie Armstrong. Canon Greenwell's Pit is not open to the public but Pit Number 1 is.
