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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Esther Addley

‘It’s magical’: prehistoric mines in Norfolk to reopen to visitors

Two people standing next to metal ladder in put below ground
More than 430 pits have been identified, some up to 14 metres deep and 12 metres in diameter. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian

Nine metres below the grass level of an undulating Norfolk field, at the bottom of a very deep hole, Jennifer Wexler is talking about what makes this subterranean space particularly special.

“I’ve spent a lot of time crawling around [down here], and you can go into certain spaces where you see someone’s tool and think: someone just put that down 4,500 years ago, and it’s still here,” she says.

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