Mar 10th, 2017: Grime’s Graves
Grime’s Graves is a pock marked section in Thetford Forest in Norfolk, England. I don’t know who the hell Grime is, but he’s
probably hiding from a lynch mob because there’s no graves. What is there is the remnants of over 400 holes in the earth where flint was mined, starting at least 4500 years ago, around the same time the Druids were erecting monuments at Stonehenge and at Avebury. Of course we all know the purpose of flint is cutting, slashing, stabbing, skinning, maiming, and butchering, as well as lighting up your musket or Zippo. http://cellar.org/2017/grimes-graves1.jpg The flint runs in seams through the chalk strata, so every year or two they’d dig a pit more than 14 meters(46 ft) deep and 12 meters(39.4ft) across at the surface, using antlers for picks and wooden shovels. They’d dump the diggings in last years pit. At the bottom lateral tunnels followed the flint seams because after digging that hole they wanted to grab as much flint as they could. In the tunnels light came from lamps made by scooping out hollows in the chalk walls and filling them with animal fat or oil and floating wicks, Must have been pungent. http://cellar.org/2017/grimes-graves-2.jpg Quote:
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OK, then Grime should be Grim.
Grim is the Devil. The Grimms were brothers. So the Devil is a Bro. Cool. http://cellar.org/2016/reddevil.gif |
I had no idea this type of flint-mining existed. I'm going to ask dad and uncle if they've ever seen anything like this.
The flint tools from Texas are made from pieces of flint you could easily find near the top of the ground, especially after it rains, or the fields have been plowed. I suppose, if larger pieces are further down, and if the Native Americans had looked further down, they would have had larger tools? |
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Is that an archeologist's boner in your pocket or are you...Oh. Never mind.
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Please, please, please. Somebody that knows how to do it, link in photos of the Mima Mounds in Washington state. They are the opposite of these dips. Thank you ever so much.:3eye:
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Flint weapons and tools having long since disappeared from the catalogue, flint became a building material.
Brick and flint houses can be seen all over south and east England and are still being built today. These old cottages are in Norfolk on the same chalk belt as Thetford, above. Attachment 59741 Many of these buildings will be in conservation areas so repairs and renovations will have to be made using original materials. New houses tend to look a bit stark, but there's nothing that a couple of centuries of weathering won't put right. Very much in FWIW territory, but when researching my family history I found one strand of my family had the surname Flint. I traced them back into deepest Yorkshire in 1770. |
Your contributions are always worth reading. :thumb:
Condolences on the Flint in the family tree. |
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Relax, man, I'm just poking ya.:stickpoke:D |
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One pressed down and the other did yield. First come flints then gopher-zillas. What's going on with these turfed-over ripples? One side's dimples and the other's all pimples. |
That reminds me, where the hell is blueboy56? I made a whole thread for him, rush rush, set aside what I had prepared, and he doesn't show up.:(
I wonder if he has a financial interest in Mima Mounds? :eyebrow: Then again, maybe somebody kidnapped his sainted mother until he got Mima Mounds posted? :eek: Just kidding, he'll be back, they all come back after UT's koolaid. |
:blush: Again sorry for the delay. I was doing reasearch by jumping up and down on the mounds, then looking on google maps to see of any of the Grimey holes poked out.
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