#Fritton woods

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Carnivore (Justin Boote) "Detective Inspector Jim Morfield is worried. In the quiet, countryside village of Fritton, human remains have begun appearing. Bodies so viciously mutilated that only their bones are left behind, in some cases less than a few hours after they were reported missing. What creature could possibly devour human remains so quickly? Surely, as with the case of farmer Stanley Walters, it couldn’t be his cows nearby and covered in blood that dismembered and devoured him? Then, when another person is attacked by a horse, his arm nearly torn off, he has no choice but to consider the impossible. The problem is that there is another killer to contend with. One who has Fritton terrified. A serial killer hiding among the woods and fields, unseen, unchallenged. Now Jim has to decide if the bodies accumulating in the area are the works of a human or something as harmless as the local wildlife."

A Planet Named Shayol (Cordwainer Smith) "The protagonist, Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, where he lives in a penal colony whose inhabitants must undergo grotesque physical mutations caused by tiny symbiotes called dromozoans. Most grow extra organs, which the Empire harvests for medical purposes. The bull-man B'dikkat administers the prisoners a drug called super-condamine that alleviates the pain of their punishment and various surgeries.

More than a century passes. Mercer has found a lover, named Lady Da. B'dikkat shows the couple a sight that horrifies him: children have been sent to Shayol -- alive, though with their brains removed. Lady Da knows how to contact the Lords of the Instrumentality so that they can intervene. When the Lords arrive on Shayol, they are shocked by what they find. Moreover, the children there are heirs to the throne. Apparently, the Imperium has become so bureaucratic and corrupt that it condemned them to prevent them from committing treason when they matured.

The Instrumentality voids permission to allow the Empire to exist and to maintain Shayol. They will free the prisoners who are still sentient and provide a cure for their suffering with a substitute for the super-condamine, namely an electronic "cap" which stimulates the brain's pleasure center. The mindless prisoners will be decapitated, their heads "taken away and killed as pleasantly as we can manage, probably by an overdosage of super-condamine", leaving the bodies to be used by the dromozoa."

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Long-Necked ‘Entities’

Even scientists admit it is unlikely that humankind is alone in an infinite universe and that somewhere out there, other intelligent beings are looking up into their night sky from different worlds and asking themselves the same questions we do.

In July 1997, two people were sitting in their car at the woods during the hours of darkness when they saw something very strange.

There, next to a tree were two people. But were they people?

Weird Norfolk: Long-necked ‘entities’ in Fritton Woods

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We are Lucky to Live In A Place With So Much Natural Beauty

The Guardian newspaper recently published an article about my hometown, Lowestoft, and how stunning the town centre and our golden beaches are. As a resident of this beautiful town, I completely agree with their sentiment. We are lucky to live in such a stunning location, with no shortage of amazing natural surroundings.

One thing the Guardian missed, however, was the other side of town that is part of The Boards National Park. This area is steeped with marshes and nature reserves, which adds to the overall richness and diversity of Lowestoft's and its surrounding area natural environment. It’s a shame that this aspect wasn't included in the article because it also offers a unique perspective on the town's natural beauty. 

The golden sandy, award winning, beach is just a 15-minute walk from my house, and the walk takes us through Gunton Meadow Nature Reserve, and then woods and the warren. It’s a delightful walk that showcases the stunning natural scenery that surrounds us. Alternatively, we can take a five-minute drive and take our kayaks and paddle boards out on The Broads. We also have Fritton Forest, Carlton Marshes and Lound Lake nature reserve all just a five-minute drive away, so we are truly spoilt for choice. 

The Boards is a vast network of rivers and lakes that span across Norfolk and Suffolk counties. Full of luxury cruisers, sailing boats and so much more, all cruising up and down the broads looking for a slice of tranquillity. The broads is also perfect for kayaking and paddle boarding. There are many special spots to visit, historic water mills, quaint riverside pubs, or a simple jetty where we stop, have a picnic and the kids play in the water. Day or early evening in the summer months, is just perfect. The kids love it too, it’s an adventure every time we go out.

Living in a place where I feel spoilt for choice in terms of natural surroundings is a real privilege. The abundance of natural beauty allows residents and visitors alike to immerse themselves in the wonders of nature and enjoy a fulfilling and enriching lifestyle. It provides opportunities for exploration, relaxation, and a deeper connection with nature. I truly appreciate and take advantage of these surroundings, especially with my ill health as I use it as medicine to harness the therapeutic benefits that nature offers; nature truly has a way of providing comfort, peace, and rejuvenation.

Lowestoft is a town that is rich in natural beauty and history, and it’s amazing to see it getting the recognition it deserves. The Guardian's article highlights how amazing our town centre and beaches are, but it’s important to remember that there's more to this place than just that. It provides a brief respite from the hustle and bustle of life, giving us a place to relax and unwind in nature's beauty. It's a wonderful reminder that we live in a stunning location, with amazing natural surroundings that add to the overall richness and diversity of our environment.

Finally, Lowestoft is famous for being the most easterly town and the first place to see the sunrise in the UK. We also had the world-famous graffiti artist Banksy visit a couple of years ago and leave some murals. 1 was damaged, 2 were removed and sold, but we have one original Banksy mural left.

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any girls! dark academia movie recs? i really struggle to find anything not about a group of boys (as much as I love them)

SO MANY!!! This is probably a far more detailed answer than you were expecting but this is a popular question and I want to keep a list for myself and others.

Feel free to add to it/give opinions. I've tried to give a tw for anything I can remember

Girls! Dark Academia Movies/TV Shows

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

1950s Women’s college

Art professor! Julia Roberts

She’s legit the female Mr Keating of the art & college world

Feminism vs. Tradition

Maggie Gyllenhall x Ginnifer Goodwin; their characters were more than friends. Fight me.

Does not end how you expect

Strike!/All I Wanna Do/The Hairy Bird (1998)

MY FAVOURITE!!!

Free on YouTube under one of its various names

Comedy

1960s all girls boarding school

Young Kirsten Dunst

Group of girls plot to sabotage a merger with a boys school less prestigious than their own

Secret attic clubhouse meetings of the D.A.R aka Daughters of the American Ravioli (eaten cold, ew)

girls get political & advocate for their rights using ANY elaborate and chaotic scheme

TW: eating disorder, vomiting & creepy male teacher but the girls plot against him too

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

based on a short book I read for uni by Muriel Spark

1930s girls school in Edinburgh

Scottish teacher! Maggie Smith, controversial with a focus on romantic ideals

Spoiler alert, the liberal teacher is actually a fascist

Her group of fave students has cult- vibes and it’s fascinating

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1970s movie or 2018 mini series

Never watched either but I plan to

Wild Child (2008)

00s romcom every UK teen girl loves

Emma Roberts as the spoiled rich American teenager sent to a strict English boarding school

Plots to get herself expelled but oh no she’s making friends with the girls who help her

And the headmistress has a hot son, and he’s nice??? Double oh no

ICONIC SCENES

Everything! Goes! Wrong!

omg she burns the school down

Feel good, comfort, nostalgia

St Trinians (2007)

English girls boarding school

The kids are all criminals, no joke

So are the teachers

CHAOTIC

gay awakening for british girls

Art heist pulled off by school girls

Government tries to shut them down but oh no, the education minister & the headmistress are ex-lovers

Colin Firth x Rupert Everett in drag

Superior cast: Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Juno Temple, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, etc...

embodies the phrase 'problematic fave'

St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009)

Mystery, pirate ancestors, hidden treasure

omg Shakespeare was a woman

girls disguised as boys to infiltrate and rob the posh boys school

Villain! David Tennant in that ICONIC boat scene

Teen girls vs. ancient misogynist brotherhood

like the first film but MORE chaotic and BETTER!???

The Falling (2014)

1960s all girls school

best friends! but its unrequited love

Agoraphobic + distant mother aka mommy issues

Sudden death and the school suppresses/ignores the students grief, sparking mass hysteria & a fainting epidemic in the girls

Cast: Maisie Williams (GoT) & Florence Pugh (Little Women) & Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders)

TW: teen pregnancy, death, vomiting, underage s*x, sibling inc*st, past s*xual assault

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The Book Thief (2013)

Based on an amazing book by Markus Zusak

set in 1940s Nazi Germany

Daughter of a communist whose family were taken by the Nazis/died is fostered by an older couple who teach her to read & she paints a dictionary on the basement walls

Coming of age story about a compulsive book thief. No joke, this kid steals books from banned book burnings and breaks into the mayor's library through the window

Family hides the Jewish son of an old friend in their basement and he helps her to start writing about her experiences in the war

TW: death, bombings, WW2 anti-semitism

Mary Shelley (2017)

Overall good & roughly biographical

Pretty costumes and aesthetic

Modern feminist take on Mary Shelly in her own time period

So many INACCURACIES for the drama so don’t take it as truth

Percy Shelley slander and not all of it is justified

Cast: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, and Maisie Williams

The Secret Garden (1993)

Based on a fave childhood book

1901 colonial India & Yorkshire, England

Orphaned, spoilt & neglected girl sent to live with her reclusive Uncle in the English countryside

Gothic elements, mysteries, secret doors/passages/locked gardens

local boy with a flock of animals, magic, kids chanting around a fire and all around immaculate vibes

Happy ending!!!

Hidden Figures (2016)

African-American women as mathematicians for NASA

1960s space project

Women balancing a career and family obligations

Deals with racial & gender discrimination

Loosely based on the lives of Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan who worked for NASA as engineers & mathematicians

Anne of Green Gables (1985) & sequel (1987)

Adaptation L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ books

Canada (late 1890s/early 1900s)

Highly imaginative & bookworm orphan is adopted by a reclusive elderly brother and sister duo

Small town & school years comedic drama

Unrequited Enemies -> Friends -> lovers

Inspiring new woman teacher

Girls re-enact Tennyson’s poem and nearly drown for the aesthetic™

Dramatic poetry reading with INTENSE 👀eye contact👀

Writer! Anne & English teacher! Anne dealing with unruly girls school antics

Collette (2018)

biographical drama on french writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette

Victorian & Edwardian era France

More talented than her husband so she ghostwrites for him

Fight for creative ownership of her wildly successful novels

Affairs with a woman called Georgie and also with Missy, born female but masculine presenting

Cast: Keira Knightly, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Netflix book adaptation

Younger sister of Sherlock Holmes

Victorian era! feminism/suffragettes

Mother-daughter focus

Mystery, adventure, secret codes, teens running away & escaping from (and eventually fighting) assassins

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Fiona Shaw, Millie Bobby Brown

Ginger & Rosa (2012)

1960s England

best friends since literal birth navigating troubled teen years

poet & anti-nuclear activist! Ginger

off the rails but also catholic! Rosa

Shout out to Mark & Mark the gay godfathers we all want

family troubles 

TW: older man has an affair with a 17 yr old

Testament of Youth (2014)

based on WW1 memoir by Vera Brittain

young woman (writer & poetry lover) escapes traditional family & goes to study at Oxford University

abandons to become a war nurse

romance, tragedy and war trauma

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington (GoT), Taron Edgerton (Rocketman), Colin Morgan (Merlin)

Little Women (2019)

Writer! Jo & Artist! Amy

Mother/daughter focus and sister dynamics

the March sisters’ theatre club is *chefs kiss*

champagne problems edits of Jo x Laurie are a mood

Ambivalent ending perfectly captures Louisa May Alcott’s dilemma with the book the movie is based on

set in 1860s America

ALL STAR CAST and a Greta Gerwig masterpeice

Lady Bird (2017)

coming of age in early 2002/2003 Sacramento, California

all girls catholic school

writer! Christine aka Lady Bird wants to get outta town and start her life again at college 'in a city with culture'

Mother/daughter dynamics - so realistic!

I live for that Jesus car stunt & the nun's reaction

school theatre program

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein

Another Greta Gerwig gem

Beguiled (2017)

Virginia, civil war era

Girls school with only five students and two teachers left

Find an injured Union army soldier & bring him inside

Women & teenagers want his attention (v. problematic) before uniting against him

(tbh you'll either love it, hate it, or watch once & forget it)

Sofia Coppola film so its very feminine gaze

TW: violence, death, underage

Legally Blonde (2001)

No questions will be taken

Elle Woods was the blue print

TV series:

House of Anubis (2011-2013)

I know it’s a kids/young teen show but I still unironically love it

ANCIENT EGYPT!!!!

Modern day with Victorian era links to treasure hunters & Egyptian research expeditions (stealing from tombs)

Chosen one plot lines, curses, kidnapping, mysteries, secret tunnels under the school, elixir of life

Teens have investigate & protect themselves cus oh no the TEACHERS are involved in some shady stuff

new American kid at British boarding school is the actual premise not just a fanfic au

Nostalgic, light-hearted, funny, and kinda cheesy but I will accept no criticism

The Alienist (2018 -now)

Mid 1890s, New York

Woman’s private detective agency (Season 2)

Serial killer mystery

Woman secretary turns detective and teams up with a criminal psychiatrist and a newspaper editor to solve crime

TW: violence, child pr*stit*tion

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

Woman chess prodigy

1950s & 1960s

TW: drug & alcohol abuse

Gentleman Jack (2019 - now)

Based on the diaries of Anne Lister

Victorian Yorkshire, England

Upper-class lesbians

Confident, suit wearing! Anne Lister x shy! Ann Walker

Business woman! Anne running the family mines

Cast: Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster) & Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders)

TW: violence

Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

bubbly/ambitious single mom + intelligent daughter

bookworm! Rory Gilmore gets into a prestigious private school and then an Ivy League college

Small town drama is comedic gold

Fast dialogue packed with pop culture and literary references

Comforting & nostalgic

TEAM JESS

Anne with an E (2017-2019)

Loose adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ books

they completely change the plot lines but it’s still very good content!

Orphan girl with trauma and a love of books/poetry is adopted by an elderly brother & sister duo, bringing light and fresh ideas to a rural community

Feminism, girls writing club, lgbtq safe spaces, girls eduction, black/indigenous representation

Miss Stacy as THAT inspiring teacher

Aunt Josephine’s lavish gay parties have my heart

TW: creepy male teacher tries to marry a student, racial discrimination, indigenous assimilation school

Victoria (2016-2019)

Adaption of Queen Victoria’s life

Victoria navigating her political, royal, and personal life

Albert’s involvement with The Great Exhibition, 1851 (on cultural + industrial innovations)

Alfred Paget x Edward Drummond is exquisite

Gorgeous costumes and aesthetics

TW: bury your gays trope

Derry Girls (2018-now)

1990s Northern Ireland during the troubles

Comedy, episodes 20-25 mins long

English boy sent to an all girls Catholic school with his cousin

✨Dead Poets Society parody episode ✨with a free-spirited female teacher

Sister Michael, the sarcastic nun who hates her job & reads the exorcist for giggles

Wee anxious lesbian! Clare Devlin (plus her friends wearing rainbow pins)

Badass with bad ideas! Michelle Mallon

Main Character! Erin Quinn

Lovable weirdo who would fight a polar bear! Orla McCool

Wee English fella & honorary Derry girl! James Maguire

Dickinson (2019-now)

Loose adaption of the poet Emily Dickinson’s life

Set in 19th century Massachusetts, US

Historical drama with modern dialogue & music that works SEAMLESSLY

gives a great understanding of Emily Dickinson’s poems

💕Vintage gays! Emily x Sue💕

Theatre club, writing, poetry, dressing as men to sneak into lectures, love letters, teen drama, feminism, and an underground abolitionist journal as a brief side plot in season 2

Wiz Khalifa plays death in a horse drawn carriage

TW: opium use

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017-2019)

Based on great childhood books

Bookworm! brother, Inventor! sister, and baby sister with sharp teeth

Mystery, secret organisations, orphaned siblings figuring things out & fending for themselves against the villain after their fortune

Adults either cartoon evil, comedically incompetent, or SPIES

Boarding school, library owner, scientific researcher, and theatre episodes

Ambiguous time period which is really fun to try and pin point

Killing Eve (2018-now)

Classic detective who has homoerotic tension with the assassin she is tracking down

British Detective! Eve Polastri figures out the notorious assassin MI5 are investigating is a woman, is fired & then put on a secret MI6 case with a small team

Assassin! Villanelle, a psychopath with a tragic past and a mastery of both accents & fashion

Woman MI6 boss! Carolyn Martens, head of Russian section

Travel Europe following Villanelle’s killings and escaping the assassins sent by Villanelle’s organisation

‘You’re supposed to be my enemy and moral opposite but omg you’re the only one smart enough to get me and why am I obsessed with you????'

🚨 GO IN FOR A KISS AND THEN STAB YOUR ENEMY 🚨

Cable Girls/Las chicas del cable (2017-2020)

Spanish drama set in 1920s Madrid

Four young women at a telecommunications company form a group of friends and help navigate the difficult situations they are all in

Secret identities, dangerous pasts, murder, crime, lgbtq couple & throuple, trans man character, feminism/suffragists

girls commit crimes for humanitarian reasons and cover! it! up!

UNDERRATED SHOW!!!!

Gorgeous costumes and set

Haven’t finished it yet and I’m catching up

TW: abuse, violence, death

Outlander (2014 - now)

haven’t watched yet but plan to

Woman time travels to Scotland, 1743

Rebel highlanders, pirates, British colonies, American revolutionary war

Time jumps between 18th & 20th century

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Also the cast of St. Trinian’s is really good. Colin Firth plays Geoffrey Thwaites the former love interest of the dean of St. Trinian’s Camilla Fritton who is played by Rupert Everett, who also plays Camilla’s brother who is the main character’s father, Stephen Fry is in there as a game show presenter, and Russell Brand plays a criminal that helps the girls out on their heist. During the first movie Colin and Rupert play that Geoffrey and Camilla still have feelings for each other and actually get back together.

Warning for dog, obviously fake, death cause Camilla’s dog has a running gag of humping the legs of Geoffrey who kicks it off and a plush dog goes flying and lands in a wood chipper.

Thank you for the trigger warning for anyone who cannot see dog deaths on screen.

Okay, will be watching the films soon! Thanks for the recommendation.

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Get to know me :)

Saw alot of people doing it so I thought I’d give it a go. Also I just picked a load of questions from random people’s posts so thanks👍

Name: Neve

Gender: female

Sexuality: bisexual

Zodiac: Capricorn

Hair colour: brown but imma dye it blue this year

Eye colour: brown

Height: like 5’1” I think

Languages: English and Welsh fluently but I’m learning German in school and Spanish myself

Last thing I googled: weird but, ‘how long in minutes does it take for someone to die of cyanide poisoning’ (I’m a writer soo)

Do I have a pet: Yea, I have one dog and he’s a westie/miniature schnauzer cross and he’s called Scruff

Nationality: British, Welsh specifically

Favourite movies: I have 3- Adult Life Skills, St Trinians and Pitch Perfect (they change and get more added all the time tho)

Favourite word: Razzle-Dazzle

Night owl or morning person: NIGHT OWL. I am soooo not a morning person

Fandoms: I add more all the time but the main ones I’ve been apart of forever are Doctor Who, Tom Holland and Good Omens

Hogwarts house: either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, pretty sure it was Gryffindor (haven’t checked my pottermore account I made since I was like 9)

Song stuck in my head: Umbrella by Rhianna

Random fact about me: I once had to memorise 36 different random facts for a play for a drama exam in school. I was playing this weird character that would only answer you with a random fact and nothing else. Worth it tho, I now I have 36 convo starters AND we got an A sooo

Favourite food: Pasta, I fucking love all types of pasta

Favourite season: Autumn for sure

Favourite flower: white rose

Favourite scents: dusk, witch hazel, wood fires and vanilla candle

Favourite ice cream: either Neapolitan or cookie dough

Favourite characters: Thirteen, Lyra Belacqua, Annabelle Fritton, Kelly Jones and Peter Parker (there’s loads more but i can’t remember)

Favourite songs: I have alot- It’s a good day to save the world by Danger Twins, evol by Marina and the Diamonds, Attention by Charlie Puth and Cake by the ocean by DNCE are probs the main ones at the moment😂

Favourite colour: Copper orange

Favourite animal: Bumblebees coz they’re so adorable

Favourite author: probs Neil Gaiman?

Favourite cereal: the chocolate pillow ones, can’t remember their name

Lucky numbers: 7, 4 and 1

Dream trip: Italy or the Scottish highlands

Average hours of sleep: like 4

Last time I cried: two weeks ago when I went through my first break up

Current time: 04:07 (yeah Ik it’s kinda late)

Longest relationship: a month ish (got asked out on Valentine’s Day this year, she broke up with me 22nd March this year)

First thing people notice about me: my eyelashes (I have weirdly long natural eyelashes) and my hair (I’ve got super curly hair and I only wear it down rarely coz it’s so fucking hard to control)

Instruments I can play: I can play guitar and sorta the keyboard

Do I like my handwriting: yeah, I hated it before but then I fixed it and now it looks good

Last thing I ate: a brownie

My aesthetic: it changes all the time😂

Dogs or Cats: probs dogs coz I do actually like cats they just don’t like me😂

Hot chocolate, Tea or Coffee: My blood is basically 96% tea. But I do like a mocha or a latte or a hot chocolate on a snowy day

Number of blankets: about 7 coz I like blanket forts

When I made the blog: Friday 3rd April 2020

Reason for url: well quackson coz of Tom Holland even tho I’m British and I say it like him too and then on Gallifrey coz I love Doctor Who so yeah

So thanks for reading this and like if u...liked it😂

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Fritton woods

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Search and rescue dog Juno found safe after going missing for six days

Search and rescue dog Juno found safe after going missing for six days

A search and rescue dog has been found safe and sound after going missing for almost a week in a wooded area outside Norwich. Juno a search dog with Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue, disappeared on Tuesday, December 21, while on a training exercise in Fritton Wood, near St Olaves on the Norfolk Broads. A large-scale search and social media appeal was quickly launched, with 65 searchers and 20…

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Grime's Graves - Wikipedia

flint mine

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between c. 2600 and c. 2300 BC, although production may have continued well into the Bronze and Iron Ages (and later) owing to the low cost of flint compared with metals. Flint was much in demand for making polished stone axes in the Neolithic period. Much later, when flint had been replaced by metal tools, flint nodules were in demand for other uses, such as for building and as strikers for muskets.

The scheduled monument[1] extends over an area of some 37 ha (91 acres) and consists of at least 433 shafts dug into the natural chalk to reach seams of flint. The largest shafts are more than 14 m (46 ft) deep and 12 m (39 ft) in diameter at the surface. It has been calculated that more than 2,000 tonnes of chalk had to be removed from the larger shafts, taking 20 men around five months, before stone of sufficient quality was reached. An upper 'topstone' and middle 'wallstone' seam of flint was dug through on the way to the deeper third 'floorstone' seam which most interested the miners. The site is managed by English Heritage and can be visited.

The site is also a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest[2] and a Geological Conservation Review site.[3] It is part of the Breckland Special Area of Conservation[4] and Special Protection Area.[5]

Mining method

Plan of old shaft and galleries

In order to remove the chalk efficiently, the ancient miners built wooden platforms and ladders as they dug downwards and piled the spoil around the shaft opening using turf revetments to hold it in place for the season, when the shaft and all its galleries were thoroughly and fastidiously backfilled to promote stability. The landscape around Grime's Graves has a characteristic pockmarked appearance caused by the infilled shafts. This is probably what inspired the later Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of the area to name it after their god Grim (literally the masked, or hooded one, a euphemism for Woden). Although the pagan Anglo-Saxons seem to have had some idea of what the site was, as the name of the site means literally "the masked one's quarries" (or Grim's Graben), it was not until Canon William Greenwell excavated one of the shafts in 1868–1870 that their purpose was discovered in modern times. Other similar sites have been found in Europe like Cissbury in West Sussex, Krzemionki in Poland, and Spiennes in Belgium.

The miners used picks fashioned from the antler of red deer. They probably used wooden shovels, although this is only inferred by analogy with other flint mines with better conditions for the preservation of artefacts. Analysis of the antlers (Clutton-Brock 1984: 25) has shown that the miners were mainly right-handed and favoured the left antlers out of those that were naturally shed seasonally by the deer. The 28 pits excavated up to 2008 yielded an average of 142.5 antler picks each, of which an average of 14.8 have been found to be left-handed.

Once they had reached the floorstone flint, the miners dug lateral galleries outwards from the bottom, following the flint seam. The medium-depth shafts yielded as much as 60 tons of flint nodules, which were brought to the surface and roughly worked into shape on site. The blank tools were then possibly traded elsewhere for final polishing. It is estimated that 60 tons of flint could have produced as many as 10,000 of the polished stone axes, which were the mines' main product. Extrapolation across the site suggests that Grime's Graves may have produced around 16–18,000 tonnes of flint across the 433 shafts recorded to date. However, there are large areas of the site covered by later activity which are believed to conceal many more mineshafts.

There were other hard stones used for axe manufacture, those of the Langdale axe industry and Penmaenmawr in North Wales being traded across Europe, as well as other less well-known igneous and metamorphic rocks. The axes were much in demand for forest clearance and settlement, development of farmland for arable crops and raising animals, which characterises the Neolithic period.

Customs and beliefs

Neolithic flint axe, about 31 cm (12 in) long

One unproductive shaft (pit 15) appears to have been turned into a shrine. An altar of flint lumps had been built with a chalk bowl at its base and antler picks piled around. In front of the altar had been placed a Venus figurine of chalk, a chalk phallus and some balls, also of chalk. It may have been an attempt to ensure that the mine remained productive or 'fertile' after this particular shaft turned out to have little flint in it. However, it is possible that the Venus figurine and the phallus are modern fakes – there is a lack of primary evidence surrounding their recovery in 1939, and rumours circulated at the time of the excavation that they were planted in order to deceive Leslie Armstrong, the archaeologist overseeing the dig.(Piggot 1986: 190, Longworth et al. 1991: 103–105).

Neolithic infrastructure

The remains of mineshafts, pits, and spoil heaps pockmark the surface of Grime's Graves

Such a large industry may have required supporting infrastructure. Assuming no more than two shafts were open at any one time, around 120 red deer may have needed to be bred and managed nearby, in order to provide a steady supply of antler as well as skin, food and other products that the miners would require. Alternatively, the mines may have been worked intermittently by local farmers, as happened in many early metal mines during the Bronze Age and the later Iron Age.

Earlier flint mines in Britain such as Cissbury in Sussex were just as important as Grime's Graves, and there were many very local sources of flint which were exploited on the downlands. However, it is probably relevant that Grime's Graves were close to the very rich soils of the Fens, and forest clearance here would rely on local products.

There was also extensive farming settlement during the Bronze Age, known from middens that infill the mouths of many Neolithic mineshafts. Animal bones from these middens show that the Bronze Age people kept cattle, which they milked, sheep and a few pigs. They also grew barley, wheat and peas.

The site today

Grime's Graves is in the care of English Heritage. It is open to the public and it is possible to descend a 9 m (30 ft) ladder and explore one of the shafts. There is a small exhibition area.[6] This is the only shaft of its kind open to the public in Britain.

Publications

The full English Heritage reports on the excavations at Grime's Graves in 1971–72[7][8] are now available online through the Archaeology Data Service. Doctor Philip Harding FSA, later to appear in the TV programme Time Team, dug the site each summer from 1972 to 1976.

The visitor's hut and picnic tables.

The entrance to Pit I at Grime's Graves, the only flint mine open to the public.

One of the many pits at Grime's Graves.

The first of two Second World War foxholes at Grime's Graves, located between the car park and visitor's centre.

The second of two Second World War foxholes at Grime's Graves, located on the eastern side of the site.

The exhibit in the visitor's centre.

Multimedia exhibit at the visitor's centre.

See also

References

Russell, M., (2000) Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain. Tempus. Stroud, ISBN 075241481X

Russell, M., (2002) Monuments of the British Neolithic: The Roots of Architecture. Tempus. Stroud, ISBN 0752419536

Barber, M., Field D., Topping, P, (1999)The Neolithic Flint Mines of England, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England / English Heritage, ISBN 1-873592-41-8

Piggott, S., (1986) 'Early British craftsmen' Antiquity LX No 230, Pages 189-192.

Clutton-Brock, J., (1984) Excavations at Grime's Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 1: Neolithic Antler Picks From Grime's Graves, Norfolk, And Durrington Walls, Wiltshire: A Biometrical Analysis, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1374-3

Longworth, I., Herne, A., Varndell, G. and Needham, S., (1991) Excavations at Grimes Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 3: Shaft X: Bronze Age Flint, Chalk and Metalworking, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1396-4

Legge, A. J. (1991) Excavations at Grime's Graves Norfolk 1972-1976 Fascicule 4: Animals, Environment and the Bronze Age Economy. London, British Museum Press, ISBN 0-7141-1399-9

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The Itinerant Printer | Modern. Tramp. Printer.

On the 26th January 2015, Chris Fritton aka ‘The Itinerant Printer’, set out on a coast-to-coast journey to redefine the idea of itinerant or “tramp” printers in modern times. Fascinated by the concept of ‘a union card’ back in 1852 where a member of the International Typographical Union (ITU) could travel anywhere in the states and pick up a printing job, Chris aimed to relive history. With only paper and ink, he hit the road, envisioning it would be a lot more like ‘a mid-level touring band’.

Poet, print practitioner, fine artist, and former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center Chris Fritton has over a decade of experience writing, printing, publishing his own books, and has collaborated directly with the likes of influential American artist Richard Tuttle, Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Dennis and renowned type designer Richard Kegler to name but a few.

Using his ‘Moveable Type’ caravan as his domicile and his transport to travel 50,000 miles across the rich North American landscape, Chris Fritton created prints at every shop he visited, working exclusively from ‘their idiosyncratic collections of wood type, metal type, border, ornament, cuts, and photopolymer plates’. From a studio cabin nestled amongst the live oaks covered with Spanish moss to a printing lodge situated in the wide expanse of western Texas, Chris has produced a total of 15,000 prints from 120 letterpress shops in the 38 US states and Canada. What’s more, he also visited schools and universities, private boutiques, non-profits, and historical preservationists to capture the culture and spirit of modern printers, educators, and art practitioners who have been working hard to keep letterpress alive through these rapidly changing times.

“That’s what the trip is about: printers. And printers are people. And people make places.” – Chris Fritton.

Chris originally planned that this whole trip would only take a year, but in the end, it had stretched into two long, trying years. Every letterpress shop has a unique tale and still, Chris Fritton is now on his mission to New England to recount the glories of this once obsolete technology. For most people, it must be hard to imagine what it feels like after two years travelling solo, but maybe for Chris, it must feel like coming home.

“It’s a place where I was constantly reminded of my humble size by the vastness of nature, the scope and scale of the human population, and the endless drives. It’s a place where the world affirms its turning, and lives went on and lives ended without me. It’s a place where I discovered how much and how little I need people, and how much and how little I want from them. It’s difficult to explain, but every single day I wanted the trip to end, and every day I wanted it to go on forever.”– Chris Fritton.

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