Grimes Graves

American  

noun

1. an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.

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Example Sentences

He grew up on the English Heritage site of Grimes Graves, a prehistoric flint mine in Norfolk.

From BBC

Rev. Canon Greenwell, of Durham, “the well-known opener of the Yorkshire wold tumuli,” who had been making scientific investigations at Weeting, opened one of the peculiar mounds known as “Grimes’ Graves,” and discovered therein “two primitive picks in situ, with a splendid ground axe, the skeleton of a bird, a chalk bowl or lamp, and other curious relics.”

From Project Gutenberg

Of geology Mr. Amyot had much practical knowledge, was one of the first to write about the famed Hoxne pits, and he also assisted Canon Greenwell in his examination of the Grimes’ graves. 

From Project Gutenberg

Close to Brandon, but in Norfolk across the river, at the village of Weeting, are the so-called Grimes’ Graves, which, long supposed to show the foundations of a British village, and probably so occupied, were proved by excavation to have been actually neolithic flint workings.

From Project Gutenberg

Horn picks similar to those employed at Stonehenge have been found in considerable numbers at Grimes Graves, where they were used for excavating chalk in order to win flint for implement making.

From Project Gutenberg