Reconstruction drawing showing Neolithic flint miners at work in a gallery off a main shaft at Grimes Graves. One miner is using a red deer antler pick to work free the flint from the chalk wall, and the other gathers material to take to the surface.

Date:
circa 1984
Location:
Grime's Graves, Weeting-With-Broomhill, Breckland, Norfolk
Reference:
IC046/006
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

This illustration was reproduced on page 10 of the 1984 guidebook for Grimes Graves published by the Her Majesty's Stationery Office, and again on page 10 of the 1990 English Heritage reprint edition of the guidebook.

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

People & Organisations

Attributed to: Brouard, William

Keywords

Neolithic Flint Mine, Industrial Heritage, People At Work