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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

8. Chasing The Future - Grime’s Graves, Norfolk

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Neil takes us deep underground chasing the beautiful, ‘must-have’ raw material our ancestors craved.


Travelling to the incredible lunar landscape of Grime’s Graves in Norfolk, Neil unravels the story of how, 5,000 years ago, our ancestors mined high quality flint on an almost industrial scale. Miners with a deep sense of responsibility, always giving something back for what they took from the earth - an ancient knowledge we are only just starting to relearn today.


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over It's a big expanse, but it's a big expanse, but it's pockmarked. It's a sort of a moonscape, a kind of a lunar landscape. Creators all over the place as far as the

0:38.8

I can see. In this week's podcast we're setting foot on a lunar landscape with over 400

0:49.1

vertical shafts descending deep, following the trail of a precious raw material.

0:57.0

Sophisticated mining on an industrial scale, where our ancient ancestors worked in harmony with the world

1:07.0

always giving back for what they took. I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped

1:20.2

you, me and the whole world. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. In the last podcast we walked with the dead in Ireland's Boine Valley.

1:44.0

Where are we now?

1:47.0

The next stop on my travels throws up so many questions,

1:51.0

nestled near the Norfolk-Suffic border. It's a place that still has a thing

1:56.5

or two to teach us today. The incredible Grimes Graves is one of those good names. You know it begs the question how does a

2:09.6

place come by such a name it's's quite romantically, quite imaginatively translated from the Anglo-Saxon.

2:18.1

The name means something like the mines or the holes dug by the hooded man.

2:25.0

In Anglo-Saxon cosmology, folklore, ideas of gods,

2:30.3

there was a god called Grim or Grim.

2:33.0

And he was a hood, he wore a hood.

2:35.0

You couldn't see his face.

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