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The Grime's Graves Experiment
Forty feet below ground, in the breckland of Norfolk, lies a monument as remarkable as Stonehenge to the abilities of Neolithic man - the flint mines of Grime's Graves. How did the miners of 4,000 years ago produce these complex subterranean workings - perhaps the most extensive yet discovered?
Are they the earliest evidence of some kind of industrial organisation? Were the men who dug them, in effect, professional miners?
Using the techniques of experimental archaeology, Gale Sieve -king, Deputy Keeper of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities in the British Museum, tests the underground evidence.
Film editor PAUL THIRER
Directed by DERRICK AMOORE and RON JOHNSTON