Thought I'd better use my English Heritage membership to visit here. I've been a couple of times before but last time the children were probably under 10 so it was a long time ago.
It's in Norfolk, NW of Thetford just over an hour from home.
The area was named by the Anglo Saxons meaning "Pits of the Pagan God Grim"
From ground level it's difficult to see this very weird landscape of grassy hollows. Below is just one of hundreds. The empty area of Grimes Graves is surrounded on all sides by forest.
Recently this building has been erected over the entrance to the only pit that is open to view. It involves climbing down a long ladder backwards, which I didn't fancy but there is also a video of everything down there which I sat and watched instead.
Flint from Norfolk has been found all over the country, needed everywhere so traded widely.
Then along came the Bronze and Iron Ages and mining at Grimes Graves finished
Sheep graze the site to keep the grass down.
The English Heritage Website page is HERE
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I remember Phil knapping flints on Time Team. I'd like to see Grimes Graves one day.
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