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	Grimes Graves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		View of a seam of Flint in the Grimes Graves excavation.
		Grimes Graves is in the care of English Heritage.
		It is open to the public and it is possible to descend and explore some of the galleries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grimes_Graves (818 words)

	BBC Online - Norfolk - Your - A-Z - Flint
		Grimes Graves is a bit of a misnomer.
		The surface of Grimes Graves was once covered with birch, but this material was removed in the 1970s to leave a heathland clearing around Thetford Forest.
		Brandon, close to Grimes Graves on the Suffolk border, was the centre of the flint-knapping industry for 200 years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/your/a-z_norfolk/a-z_flint.shtml (353 words)

	Grimes Graves -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The miners used (A thin sharp implement used for picking) picks fashioned from the antler of (Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia) red deer.
		It is estimated that 8 tons of flint could have produced as many as 10,000 of the (A stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping) hand axes which were the mines' main product.
		In common with the difficult location of the (additional info and facts about Langdale axe industry) Langdale axe industry, it has been suggested that Neolithic peoples placed great emphasis on acquiring their flint axes from hard to reach locations and that such effort gave the tools greater significance.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Grimes_Graves.htm (756 words)

	BBC - Norfolk Fun Stuff - 360 views: Grimes Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grimes Graves is one of the most fascinating Neolithic sites in Britain.
		Despite its name, it is not a grave, or burial place, but a flint mine.
		Brandon, a town close to Grimes Graves on the Suffolk border, was the centre of the flint-knapping industry for 200 years.
	www1.thny.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/funstuff/360/grimes_graves.shtml (281 words)

	Encyclopedia: Grimes Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A nodule describes similar aggregation of cells or particles in a number of scientific fields: In medicine it refers to a small aggregation of cells.
		The Langdale axe industry is the name given by archaeologists to the centre of a specialised stone tool manufacturing in Englands Lake District during the Neolithic.
		Sussex is a traditional county in southern England, divided for administrative purposes into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grimes-Graves (1381 words)

	Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grimes is the name of several places in the United States:
		Burleigh Grimes (1893 - 1985), US baseball player
		Grimes Graves, Neolithic flint mining complex in England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grimes (98 words)

	British Archaeology 72, September 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The haunting, pock-marked landscape of the Neolithic flint mines at Grimes Graves, in the Norfolk Breckland, is one of the most eerily evocative sites in Britain, particularly on a mist-shrouded early spring morning with woodlarks singing overhead.
		The excavation of this flint mine was one of the most controversial at Grimes Graves, particularly because of the discovery of the famous chalk 'goddess'.
		Grimes Graves became, at this time, the site of massive midden or rubbish deposits dumped into a number of the Neolithic mine shafts.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba72/feat2.shtml (2514 words)

	Grimes Graves
		Grimes Graves is the best preserved Neolithic flint mine in Britain, providing a fascinating look into the lives of early settlers in Britain.
		Located in open heath country near Thetford Forest, Grimes Graves consists of over 350 hollows in the ground marking the location of the former mine shafts.
		The most memorable discovery at Grimes Graves is what appears to be a fertlity shrine set up in an abandonned shaft.
	www.britainexpress.com /articles/Ancient_Britain/grimes-graves.htm (561 words)

	Grimes Graves (Grime's Graves) (Ancient Mine / Quarry) \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Grimes Graves (Grime's Graves) ...
		Grimes Graves (Grime's Graves) (Ancient Mine / Quarry) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK and Ireland's most popular megalithic community website.
		Grime's Graves is one of only handful of Neolithic flint mines in Britain, and the only one where you can actually go down into one of the 5,000 year old mine shafts...
		Went to Grimes Graves on route from North Norfolk to London but it was closed for lunch.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/57 (925 words)

	Grimes Graves - www.ezboard.com
		Accessed by a 12m shaft it is the first time that a flint mine will have been surveyed in such detail, from the axe cuts made in the walls by miners to the antler picks left behind on the floor.
		Grimes Graves are one of only 10 flint mines in England and the only one to have an excavated shaft open to the public.
		So far 433 mining shafts have been identified at Grimes Graves, most of which have filled in, creating a landscape of bumps and dips.
	p208.ezboard.com /ftalkinghistoryfrm18.showMessage?topicID=212.topic (570 words)

	Main Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We visited Grimes Graves on the last Sunday of August 2001.
		Grimes Graves are stone age flint mines, and are to be found in the middle of Thetford forest in Nolfork.
		The land is looked after by English heritage, and although there is only one pit that is accessible the surrounding area with the forest makes it well worth a visit.
	www.horncastle9.fsnet.co.uk /Grimes%20graves.htm (100 words)

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		If you are considering Grimes Graves as a coven day out it wont last long.
		On a very wet and windy day we had organized for the last coven to go to grimes graves.
		Grimes Graves is an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
	members.lycos.co.uk /artemis789/Grimes%20Graves.htm (307 words)

	Britain Update
		Today we'll look at the stately splendour of Saltram House, Devon, the fascinating prehistoric remains of Grimes Graves, and there's a useful selection of travel news and notes which should prove helpful in your travel planning.
		The most memorable discovery at Grimes Graves is what appears to be a fertility shrine set up in an abandoned shaft.
		Grimes Graves is under the care of English Heritage.
	www.britainexpress.com /update/102.htm (1732 words)

	British Archaeology, no 20, December 1996: Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir: Having been involved in the publication of the current series of fascicules on excavations at Grimes Graves, I should like to make one or two comments on your article `Grimes Graves mined for ritual reasons', (October).
		Without doubt there was ritual activity at Grimes Graves but I question the significance of this as motive force.
		By no means all the floorstone extracted at Grimes Graves would have been suitable for the manufacture of quality axes and much raw material was discarded on site.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba20/ba20lets.html (987 words)

	Ancient Secrets of Thetford and its Forest Page 4
		Banks were then built to mark the edges of these extensive post-medieval warren areas, in which all rabbits remained under the protection of the warrener, who often lived in fortified lodges, overlooking the warrens.
		Grimes Graves marks the site of an extensive complex of flint mines, dug from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (2100 BC - 1600 BC).
		Amazingly, after the mines fell into disuse, the mines were forgotten by all except locals, until recently rediscovered and recorded by archaeologists, who noticed their soilmarks on fields along the edge of the Forest on aerial survey photographs.
	www.aoqv41.dsl.pipex.com /secrets/page4.htm (602 words)

	Grimes Lighting - Amazing Lighting Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grimes Industrial is 3M Canadas largest distributor of abrasives.
		Grimes Graves in Norfolk is a Neolithic flint mine of extraordinary size and scope.
		Grimes in 1963 for conversion to a lighting demonstration aircraft.
	www.amazinglightingguide.com /grimes-lighting.html (477 words)

	Graves, - Robert Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ceremony at Grimes Graves' reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn.
		Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease -- one in which the immune system attacks certain Graves' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism.
		Robert von Ranke Graves, the son of Alfred Graves, an inspector of schools, In 1975 Robert Graves retired to the village of Deya in Mallorca,
	www.hispider.com /?q=graves (603 words)

	Norkie News Web Site, Grimes Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hidden in the forest of Breckland in the Southwest of Norfolk is a heathland known as Grimes Graves.
		They did not think it was a burial place, for graves means holes or hollows.
		Some people thought it was a pre Roman town others a Viking camp but it was not until 1870 that the true nature of the side was learnt.
	www.btinternet.com /~bjh35/norkie/G.Graves.htm (288 words)

	Grime's Graves. Flint mines in Norfolk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The moon like landscape of Grime's Graves was created 4000 years ago by Neolithic man.
		The area around Grime's Graves is know as 'Breckland'.
		With it's low rain fall and light sandy soils it is not without it's problems.
	www.aboutnorfolksuffolk.co.uk /grimes_graves.htm (440 words)

	Dorabel Graves Grimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Services for Dorabel Grimes, 90, Dallas, formerly of Spur, were at 10 a.m.
		She was born in Mansfield and moved to Spur in 1924.
		She married George Weldon Grimes on December 31, 1924 in Spur.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txdicken/spur/g/grimes_dorabel.html (121 words)

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		The Grimes Graves site on heathland in Thetford Forest contains hundreds of flint mines dug more than 5000 years ago.
		Now one of the most important mines has been mapped by laser to allow visitors to "fly" in virtual reality over the surface and along the shafts and galleries.
		He was able to prove, from a stone axe he found in there, that it was a prehistoric mine from the Neolithic period.
	new.edp24.co.uk /content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED13%20Sep%202004%2020%3A22%3A07%3A330 (268 words)

	Norwich Moot's Magical Mystery Tour of Norfolk Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Neolithic miners dug flint out from the chalk at Grimes Graves, near Thetford.
		In more recent times, flint was mined in the area by solitary miners and knapped into gun-flints, in particular.
		The surface of Grimes Graves was once covered with birch, but this growth was removed in the late 1970s, leaving a heathland clearing in the surrounding Thetford Forest, rather like a vegetated lunar landscape with all its basins of filled-in pits.
	www.norwichmoot.paganearth.com /tourpage6.htm (110 words)

	Archaeoptics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grimes Graves Fieldwork Completed Thursday, 20 Oct 2005
		We’re pleased to announce that the fieldwork for our mammoth 3D scanning project at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, is finally complete.
		Our data processing engines are now ready to crunch this dataset into the final deliverables of huge detailed triangle meshes.
	minotaur.archaeoptics.co.uk /index.php/tag/neolithic (198 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team
		The Anglo-Saxons called the curious depressions left by the mining activity 'Grime's Graves' – the devil's holes of the pagan god Grim.
		Panoramic VR: Visitors are able to enter this excavated mine at Grimes Graves.
		Panoramic VR: The exterior of the Grimes Graves site, with the spoil heaps and depressions left behind by the mineworkings clearly visible.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/archive/2000histbrit.html (576 words)

	Breckland Council - Grime's Graves
		There is also a search box for you to search the site from here.
		Hidden amongst the pine forests of Breckland is an area of heathland known as Grime's Graves.
		Grime's Graves English Heritage 7 miles NW of Thetford, off A134.
	www.breckland.gov.uk /breckland\tourism.nsf/textpages/GrimesGr104152.html (152 words)

	Flintknapping - www.findon.info
		Mounds comprising excavated soil and chalk, plus heaps of flint chippings can still be seen on Cissbury Ring and at Grimes Graves today.
		I watched John Lord demonstrating the ancient craft of flintknapping, during a visit to Cromer Museum, one day in 1997.
		While we were in Norfolk we visited Grimes Graves where it is possible to actually go down into one of the mine shafts that has been re-opened for visitors.
	www.findon.com /cissbury/flintknapping/flintknapping.htm (388 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-76: Neolithic Bronze Age and Later Pottery. I.H.Longworth, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Amazon.co.uk: Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-76: Neolithic Bronze Age and Later Pottery.
		Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-76: Neolithic Bronze Age and Later Pottery.
		Top of Page : Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-76: Neolithic Bronze Age and Later Pottery.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714113913 (263 words)

	Grimes Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Later Neolithic flint mining complex comprising at least 433 shafts surviving as earthworks over an area of 6 hectares.
		The earthworks at Grimes Graves were surveyed by RCHME in 1995 as part of the project to record Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Period.
		At the same time, documentary evidence relating to all known archaeological investigation at the site was examined.
	pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk /hob.asp?hob_no=382869 (295 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Lasers look at ancient flint mine
		A ground-breaking 3D laser scan of the Stone Age flint mines, Grimes Graves, has revealed fresh details of the ancient mine-workings.
		Greenwells Pit, a 40-feet deep shaft sealed for preservation, is the first site in the UK to be surveyed to such a level of detail.
		Experts hope the venture will create a 3D virtual reality model of Grimes Graves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2240973.stm (133 words)

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