Over 20 years ago we took the kids to Grime's Graves, yesterday we revisited this English Heritage site. Grime's Graves are a series of pits - mining shafts, where Neolithic man cut flint out of the chalk to make tools. There are more than 400 shafts and the site was first named by Anglo-saxons as Grim's Graves, meaning pits of the pagan god Grim. There is a short interpretive trail and you can go down pit no 1, not the same pit as we had gone down all that time ago, but still good to do. An excellent audio visual show projected onto the walls at the bottom of the pit and it was nice to handle items from box a beautiful flint finds.
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| The site... |
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| Artistic interpretation (English Heritage) |
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| Pits.... |
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| Down the pit .... |
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| Screenshots from the audio visual...explaining chalk formation... |
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| Flint knapping.... |
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| The middle bottom flint was found sitting on the surface, locally, just a year ago... |
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