Thesaurus Term/Concept: FLINT MINE

Identifier 69346
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A site where flint seams within chalk have been exploited by digging deep vertical shafts, often with horizontal galleries radiating out from the base. Use for Neolithic examples and for Post Medieval gunflint industry.

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Context Record
Monument Type MNW2922 Black Horse Opening (Monument)
Monument Type MNF52205 C Bacon and Sons Blacksmiths, Hindringham Road, Great Walsingham (Building)
Monument Type MNW1552 Chalk / Flint Mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF11779 Cropmark of possible flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF11780 Cropmark of possible flint mine or ring ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MNF11781 Cropmark of possible flint mine or ring ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MNF33618 Earthworks in Chapel Farm Square (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF69546 Earthworks of possible post-medieval flint mining shaft or Second World War gun emplacement (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41281 Earthworks of possible undated flint extraction (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69561 Earthworks of probable post-medieval or modern date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41280 Earthworks of undated boundary, enclosures and possible flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF63893 Eaton Chalk Pit (Monument)
Monument Type MNF74784 Evidence for prehistoric activity (including Neolithic flint working) and remains associated with early Roman farmstead (Monument)
Monument Type MNF14363 Flint mine of unknown date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5640 Grimes Graves Neolithic flint mine and Grimshoe Mound (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69300 Large area of extraction and mining remains, probably post-medieval (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF13946 Medieval/post medieval chalk mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5712 Mesolithic worked flints and potentially prehistoric earthwork features (Monument)
Monument Type MNF56998 Multi-phase cropmarks and geophysical anomalies (Monument)
Monument Type MNF2302 Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF2310 Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF9547 Neolithic flint mine and post medieval lime kiln, Eaton Dell (Monument)
Monument Type MNF7798 Neolithic flint mine/flint working site (Monument)
Monument Type MNF2318 Neolithic flint mines, Massingham Heath (Monument)
Monument Type MNF9257 Neolithic flint mining and axe-production site, multi-period finds and post medieval lime kiln (Monument)
Monument Type MNF7893 Neolithic flint working site and possible flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF62024 Neolithic flint-working site (Monument)
Monument Type MNF9237 Neolithic to Beaker period flint working site (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5131 Palaeolithic worked flints, possible Neolithic flint mines and/or post medieval flint manufacture, the Swell Pit/Forestry Commission Pit (Monument)
Monument Type MNF71779 Pits of probable 20th century – possibly Second World War - date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF62494 Pits of unknown date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF31555 Possible Early Saxon buildings or Neolithic flint mines at Foxburrow Plantation (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF4999 Possible flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41268 Possible flint mine of unknown date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41269 Possible flint mine of unknown date (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41256 Possible flint mines in Bunkers Hill Plantation (Monument)
Monument Type MNF62503 Possible gunflint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF17501 Possible medieval or post medieval flint or chalk mine, garden of 30 Castle Street (Monument)
Monument Type MNF56999 Possible mining pits and quarry pits (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69150 Possible mound, pit or emplacement of unknown date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF5000 Possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5086 Possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69246 Possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF9779 Possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF2338 Possible Neolithic flint mine on Grimston Heath (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69338 Possible Neolithic flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF18608 Possible Neolithic flint mines and medieval church, Little Massingham (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56997 Possible pits or flint mines, linear features, and curvilinear feature (Monument)
Monument Type MNF72985 Possible post-medieval flint extraction pit (Monument)
Monument Type MNF72987 Possible post-medieval flint extraction pit (Monument)
Monument Type MNF68065 Possible prehistoric flint mines or later extraction pits (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4998 Possible site of Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF44716 Possible undated flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF33621 Possible undated flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF61315 Possible World War Two practice trenches and post medieval to modern flint mining (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5687 Post medieval gun flint pits (Monument)
Monument Type MNF31296 Post medieval gunflint mines at Bromehill (Monument)
Monument Type MNF22885 Post medieval mine shaft (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4997 Post-medieval quarries and possible flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF33258 Ringland Hills (Monument)
Monument Type MNF65241 Sand mound and possible Neolithic flint mine, Broomhill (Weeting with Broomhill, poorly located) (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69166 Second World War emplacements, weapons pits and possible craters, formerly interpreted as Neolithic flint mine shafts (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69347 Site of possible (Neolithic?) flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69348 Site of possible (Neolithic?) flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69245 Site of possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69380 Site of possible Neolithic flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69374 Site of possible Neolithic flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69376 Site of possible Neolithic flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69381 Site of possible Neolithic flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF69384 Site of possible Neolithic flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5694 Site of post medieval gunflint pits (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5685 St Helen's Well (Monument)
Monument Type MNF57203 Undated flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MNF38839 Undated flint mine and site of post medieval gallows, Lambert Street (Monument)
Monument Type MNF11782 Undated flint mine or ring ditch in centre of field west of New Belt (Monument)
Monument Type MNF656 Undated flint or chalk mining tunnels (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41267 Undated possible flint extraction pits (Monument)
Monument Type MNF3703 Undated shallow depressions, possibly Neolithic flint mines or Early Saxon grubenhauser (Monument)
Monument Type MNF13947 Undated subterranean gallery, Black Horse Inn, (Great) Magdalen Street (Monument)