Reconstruction illustration showing the arrangement of ritually-deposited objects excavated from a gallery off Greenwell's Pit at Grime's Graves flint mine; two deer antler picks, the skull of a phalarope wading bird, and a polished greenstone axe

Date:
2003
Location:
Grime's Graves, Weeting-With-Broomhill, Breckland, Norfolk
Reference:
IC046/011
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

This illustration was first reproduced on page 11 of the 2003 English Heritage guidebook for Grime's Graves, and again on page 12 of the 2011 reprint edition of the guidebook. Illustration IC046/027 shows these objects being carefully placed at the bottom of Greenwill's Pit during what has been interpreted as an 'abandonment ceremony'.

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

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© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Dobie, Judith