Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, 1972-76: Mining in the Deeper Mines

This is the fifth in a series of fascicules publishing the British Museum’s programme of research excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk. This volume provides an account of the exploration of the deep mine sites which formed one component of a reassessment of how the mine field itself developed. It deals with those pits previously examined by Greenwell, Peake and Armstrong deemed useful for reappraisal and contains a catalogue of other shafts known to have been have been excavated or partially explored and previously unpublished data from the Armstrong archive. A final section assesses the original mining methods used and quantity of flint likely to have been excavated.