Guidebook: Grime's Graves

- Outstanding quality and value

- Beautifully illustrated

- Written by leading English Heritage experts

- Reveals the facts behind this mysterious landscape

Grime's Graves were the first Neolithic flint mines to be recognized as such in England. The shallow depressions over 400 in all that create such a mysterious, lunar-like landscape, represent the infilled shafts and pits of these mines, which were dug about 5,000 years ago. Here, prehistoric miners extracted the fine quality, jet-black flint from which they fashioned tools, weapons and ceremonial objects.

This guidebook provides a tour of Grime's Graves and explains the history of this extraordinary site from the Neolithic Age to the present day.

Extent: 36pp

Illustrations: 66 illustrations (colour and b&w)

Publish date: June 2011

About the Series

English Heritage Red Guides bring history to life, with fascinating eyewitness accounts and exquisite drawings that recreate each site at the most exciting point in its history.

Written by leading experts in their fields, they feature specially commissioned photography, fold-out plans, bird's - eye views and reconstruction drawings. Each new guide contains a tour of the site, followed by a history of the property and the people who lived and worked there.