Excavations at Grimes Graves
Project leader: Gillian Varndell
Department: Prehistory and Europe
Project end date: 2009
Other British Museum staff: Stephen Crummy
External partners: Ian Longworth
Description:
This research project will result in the publication of the final volume in the series covering the British Museum excavations at Grimes Graves from 1972-1976. Grimes Graves, near Brandon, Norfolk was the site of intensive flint mining activity during the later Neolithic and of later occupation during the Bronze Age.
This volume (Fascicule 6)
deals with survey and excavation beyond the area of the deep mines
published in Fascicule 5. It sets out to consider what we have
learned about the mining activity itself, what was being made from
the material extracted, the period of time over which this extends,
and the nature of the Bronze Age occupation.
Publications:
I. Longworth and G. Varndell, Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk 1972-1976. Fascicule 5: Mining in the deeper mines, (London, British Museum Press,1996)
Images (from top):
- Excavating one of the areas of shallower workings in the West Field
- An antler pick abandoned by the Neolithic miners