Easton Down Ancient Mine / Quarry View all content for Easton Down

Flint mine complex of over c200 shafts, Excavated by J F S Stone in the 1930s. The shaft was 'bell-shaped' and antlers in the shaft produced a Carbon 14 date of c3300 BC indicating a Late Neolithic mining industry. Site is cheifly associated with Beaker settlement

Posted by Chance 25th December 2011ce

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