Reconstruction drawing showing Neolithic flint miners performing a ceremony in a pit at Grimes Graves. Red deer antler picks are being ritually deposited at the base of the shaft to honour a small goddess sculpture found at the site.

Date:
circa 1960 - circa 1963
Location:
Grime's Graves, Weeting-With-Broomhill, Breckland, Norfolk
Reference:
IC046/005
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

This illustration was reproduced on page 20 of the 1963 Department of the Environment guidebook for Grimes Graves, and again on page 12 of the 1964 DoE publication entitled 'Young People's Guide to Grime's Graves'.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC046 Grime's Graves, Norfolk; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Sorrell, Alan Ernest

Keywords

Neolithic Flint Mine, Ceremony, Industrial Heritage, People