Thanks Will, my family and I visited Grimes Graves many years ago, and eldest daughter and I went down into the (Show)pit , it was a great experience ,and very moving, we couldn't go into any galleries, but you could see pieces of antler lying there, the effort that went into the whole site told you how valuable the black flint was, I think sometimes we don't give enough credit to our ancestors ,for what they could achieve whith what they had, , Thanks Will for taking us down into the past whith you, it brought back happy memories.Best wishe's , and happy knapping. Stuart ,Uk.
your respect and reverence that you have for the period and the people is what moves me. I hope that others feel that as well. it's important to know where we are from and how we got here. you've proven they were far more than just " cavemen". I tell people my ancestors invented the wheel. without which nothing we have today would be possible. I will never make it there to meet you. so you know you have my respect and gratitude for what you are doing. Thank you
LOVE ur attitude. Archaeology vids/docs .. well, they dont show the respect, honour n love that u show for this era. This felt as a viewer very special to see. i feel honoured we got to see such an undisturbed site. i can only imagine how it must be to actually be there as i cannot travel, but boy do i wish i could!
Just spotted a spirit anomaly ! It comes into view around the 8.30 mark just after you turn the light on :) sorry to comment again but I’m blown away by this video (I make jewellery out of flint) hence the obsession
Thank you Mr. Lord for sharing this video. It is probably the best video ive ever seen. What amazing history still in place and not on display in some museum. Truly amazing. Thanks again for sharing. I cant wait to share with my family
Thank you so much for sharing that amazing glimpse into our past. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. simply awe inspiring. Thank you and the mother stone
That is incredible and underground I bet it's incredibly peaceful,what n amazing place,if I was on the other side of the pond I would definitely join you for a trip down there
Very interesting trip underground. I actually worked at the Homestake Gold mine in Lead, SD USA. (Pronounced Leed). Underground operations. Had the opportunity to do a lot of exploring from the upper country 800’ to the very bottom skip pocket on the 8100’. Loved the upper country where the miners used a drill bit and another miner hitting said drill bit. After striking bit the holder turned the bit. This is rock as hard as granite. Saw a lot of geodes come out of there I have a couple small examples that I found. That soft ground you were in is quite dangerous alright. Thanks again for sharing.
Thanks that was so excellent I have seen a few things about the graves but watching this with you showing us through the excavations it got a bit claustrophobic watching you go through some of the spaces even though I would love to go down to see them first hand
That's interesting,I hadn't thought about English flint being even better than ours,just figured they had the same stuff going on all grades from no good to spectacular
Wow! This tour was amazing! The "mother stone" is the largest piece of Flint I have ever seen!!! History Frozen in time! Thanks so much for a glimpse back in time... Wow!
Fascinating and Thankyou so much, I admire your respect for history and I hope your visitors do the same. There are some things and places in life that are best vvied by eyes alone.. stay safe keep up your good work. Respects to your dad
That was really amazing to see and I'm glad you can go down there. I am way to claustrophobic to ever do something like that. Thank you very much for the experience.
Simply amazing. All the hard work dedication, planning and insight that had to have went into digging that site up and then the galleries all for tool material. It kind of humbles you when you think about it. Because our life span has gotten longer with time. So the people who dug that 4,000+ year's ago had to have been handed down generational information. Mind blowing. Absolutely love this thank you.
Considering that two of the people who were buried at Abri Cro-Magnon were in their fifties, 33 thousand years ago, what is the basis for the assertion that we had short lives?
Thanks for taking us along on such a special journey, That was amazing to see, your small humble video just blew away hour long archaeological shows full of talking (waffle) and showing very little. You dont need words when you see those unmoved antlers left by our distant relatives 4000 yrs ago, you can see and feel what was going on down there and in those moments you 'understand' more than what you get from those hour long shows... so thanks again for allowing us to go with you. watching you put that polished axe stone in that smoothed hole was amazing, i totally feel the archaeologists are wrong about the ritual thing always being involved when finding such polished stones, just gives them an easy 'cover all' answer.... yes i think they thought about, just like we do, who made us, where did we come from..and maybe an elemant of that is true but it isnt the only reason for finding such stones, in my opinion. they also loved friends and relatives so i think leaving a loved one with polished axe stones, antlers etc in burials for the future/next life is just how we still send our loved ones off with certain gifts or items we drop in a grave at a funeral. I did a lot of digging driving work 15 years ago in the south of the UK, i was sent on hundreds of archaeological digs and have got lots of iron age and other items, flints shaped like hearts to round sticks for arrows... but my best bit is an iron age pot rim still with the makers thumb and forefinger mark where he or she pressed the rim when making it, every time i put my thumb and finger in theirs i get that 'connection' feeling in my soul..... our ancestors were amazing in so many ways! Your lack of ego and obvious deep love for this shines out and makes it very interesting to watch and i always learn something from you.... As always Will a great show!
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Will...just...AMAZING and GORGEOUS...I enjoy and like the Respectfully treatment you have with that ancient flint mine and the vestiges!!! BRAVO!!! (By the way...excuse my english...I have not very much chance to practice it...) It is a pleasure for me...to learn form you!!!
That would be an excellent pleasure to see in person, watching this video I felt as if I was there however! What a treat! Thank you Will Lord for the cool journey and let's not forget the camera man or woman I think Sam? I'm not 100% on that last but thanks all for the sweet footage of time.
There was a man , a flint knapper in Livingston who shared some of the quarries within a couple hundred miles of town . He was a notable addition to the museum and they might be able to help your quest for knowledge. I’m old and have forgotten his name I regret to say . He may have a son still living there . Up near Willsal a rancher digging gravel on bank of the Shields River found a major cashe of ceremonial blades left with the bones of a child or perhaps the child was killed so as to guard the blades . The blades having never been recovered makes me believe it was a burial cash.
I've been fortunate in being able to go down this pit a couple of times ! It is indeed a very special place ! I saw the polished axe marks ! I feel its a 'Museum' in itself ! Thank you ..
@16:30 The impertinence of this human passing his hands over the voluptuous curves of the Goddess Stone! Has he no shame? 😂😂😂 This is a seriously cool video. Thank you, Will. n-times better than more professionally produced content, if only for the very nature of its intimacy, and ofc your clear passion, glistering brightly as flint in moonlight.
Great work Will! Thanks for putting it together. Living in the US, this is the only way I’ll ever experience these places. I love the way you led the way as if I’m right there with you. Thanks again!
i used to go there on me bike as a kid, and was lucky enough to have a historically educated father, PLUS i have a question .... @Will @Lord ,, Did you work on the Norfolk broads reed/bogmyrtle clearance in summer early 2000s?
Wow! Will thanks for sharing this,I’m fascinated with stuff like this from another time and you have a ringside seat,many thanks for taking us and sharing this journey!
Thanks will. We went there on a school trip in 1976 a totally amazing place with what's probably the best flint in the country especially for them folks back then. Excellent video again thanks
My God in Heaven! This was eye-opening. I wish I'd known of your videos when I was teaching architecture and drafting and technology in high school. You want to talk about enrichment and extension . . . Thank you.
Working with a small stone or clay Betty lamp with marrow fat , the cleanest of fats or oil with little soot . Nearly dark with the lamp and black without . Why not a torch you say ? Not much oxygen down there and caves don’t circulate well .
First of all, thanks for sharing a video of your experience. It offered a glimpse of how industrialized the search for knapping flint was. No doubt a huge investment of time to dig to such a depth and confirmation that the flint recovered was a traded commodity. The witnessing first hand of antler digging tools with wet chalk hand prints on them must have been an unforgettable adventure. Lucky you!
Really interesting. I just never really thought that flint/chert was mined thousands of years ago. But it makes sense. We mine metal from the earth today to produce our tools. They did the same thing with stone. I’ve worked stone for nearly 11 years and practice flint-knapping every once in a while to keep my skills sharp. I’m by no means a master flint-knapper. I just produce tools that work for me and for the task at hand. I’ve built a handful of bows from stone and it’s a slow process but it forces you to slow down. You can’t always rely on steel tools. It’s invaluable to know how to work stone. Even the very basics of flint-knapping can create as sharp edge to do anything from dressing game to shaping a hand-drill set to make a fire. Great video! -Aaron
Outstanding video, Will. We’re there any baskets left behind that survived the centuries? Or any pottery that the miners used for water, or a tea break, or lunch? Fascinating tour. Thanks for sharing.
Incredibly amazing to see a wonderful site like that 😍 🙌 😀 I find it interesting that they would dig so far underground to find the flint. Lots of questions: how did know where to dig? How did they get the tailings and flint out? 🤔😀👍🍻
Thank you for the most awe inspiring paleo experience. The actual tools still on the floor fresh from the hand of 4,000+ year old miners. It would be interesting to have an appropriate technician collect floor samples and check for paleo DNA. I'm not certain where in the UK you are, but was this mine contemporary with the Doggerland inhabitants?
I remember going down into the hole before safety got stupid. I climbed down that ladder with my young kids climbing down with me. Not sure about Grimes Graves not being used for 4,500 years. There's a great 20 minute documentary on Talking Pictures TV channel that was made in the mid 1930's which has footage of flint knappers still working at GG then. Making building flint & flints for flintlock muskets for the foreign market.
Will, why would they leave their tools like that? Could that dirt be a cave in and not a re-fill? Perhaps the miners bones are still beneath the mound...
The antler with the hand print gave me the chills. Fantastic video! Thank you!
Thanks Will, my family and I visited Grimes Graves many years ago, and eldest daughter and I went down into the (Show)pit , it was a great experience ,and very moving, we couldn't go into any galleries, but you could see pieces of antler lying there, the effort that went into the whole site told you how valuable the black flint was, I think sometimes we don't give enough credit to our ancestors ,for what they could achieve whith what they had, , Thanks Will for taking us down into the past whith you, it brought back happy memories.Best wishe's , and happy knapping. Stuart ,Uk.
I hear ya brother..... DON'T bump into the girders!!!!
COOL THE "MOTHER STONE" REMINDS ME OF A HUMAN HEART!
Will lord omg that was extremely moving thanks for sharing a fantastic video stay safe 🐺🐾👍:-)
your respect and reverence that you have for the period and the people is what moves me. I hope that others feel that as well. it's important to know where we are from and how we got here. you've proven they were far more than just " cavemen". I tell people my ancestors invented the wheel. without which nothing we have today would be possible.
I will never make it there to meet you. so you know you have my respect and gratitude for what you are doing.
Thank you
Dave Latimer I’ve met him at the Bushcraft show!
LOVE ur attitude. Archaeology vids/docs .. well, they dont show the respect, honour n love that u show for this era. This felt as a viewer very special to see. i feel honoured we got to see such an undisturbed site. i can only imagine how it must be to actually be there as i cannot travel, but boy do i wish i could!
I can clearly see the spirits there ,at 8.27 from right to left an orb appears and floats away,what a fantastic journey in this liminal place )O(
Simply amazing! Thanks for the tour.
You have respect and reverence for historical places and the people who were them before you ,that's an amazing place
went here last week! the most incredible place in the world
Just spotted a spirit anomaly ! It comes into view around the 8.30 mark just after you turn the light on :) sorry to comment again but I’m blown away by this video (I make jewellery out of flint) hence the obsession
Thank you Mr. Lord for sharing this video. It is probably the best video ive ever seen. What amazing history still in place and not on display in some museum. Truly amazing. Thanks again for sharing. I cant wait to share with my family
Magic.... my ancestors were there for sure....I do wish I could come home, even for a visit... 😞
Thanks for taking us in there, Will. This may be a 5 year old video as I write this but it's timeless. Cheers.
@@digitaIgorilla ahh cheers mate
Stunning mate! Still absorbing what I've seen but just wanted to say "Thank you!"!
I just watched this video. A truly spiritual experience. Thank you Will.
Going down the hole in the ground has never been this fun before.
Would love one of those antlers
I remember visiting Grimes Graves many years ago. Thank you for taking me back.
Thank you so much for sharing that amazing glimpse into our past. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time. simply awe inspiring. Thank you and the mother stone
That is incredible and underground I bet it's incredibly peaceful,what n amazing place,if I was on the other side of the pond I would definitely join you for a trip down there
That torso is amazing, definitely makes you think
Very interesting trip underground. I actually worked at the Homestake Gold mine in Lead, SD USA. (Pronounced Leed). Underground operations. Had the opportunity to do a lot of exploring from the upper country 800’ to the very bottom skip pocket on the 8100’. Loved the upper country where the miners used a drill bit and another miner hitting said drill bit. After striking bit the holder turned the bit. This is rock as hard as granite. Saw a lot of geodes come out of there I have a couple small examples that I found. That soft ground you were in is quite dangerous alright. Thanks again for sharing.
Ejoyed this walk thru your eyes.
Your at home 4500 years ago time of ancient reading
Being there voice.
Best part of it all.
Amazing look into the past, thank you!
Thanks for the tour Will.
Lord, have mercy, that was cool. I appreciate what do for us.
Absolutely amazing, sir.
Very interesting I always feel an atavistic connection to our past when I'm out in nature especially early morning
Fantastic Will, thank you!
I like your way of respect to the things..
Thanks that was so excellent I have seen a few things about the graves but watching this with you showing us through the excavations it got a bit claustrophobic watching you go through some of the spaces even though I would love to go down to see them first hand
I live in the states and we have rich deposits of flint/chert throughout the country, however, I feel that English flint is the best in the world.
That's interesting,I hadn't thought about English flint being even better than ours,just figured they had the same stuff going on all grades from no good to spectacular
I love your channel this is wonderful Thankyou
Interesting video first time I've watched one of your videos .
That was amazing
Wow! This tour was amazing! The "mother stone" is the largest piece of Flint I have ever seen!!!
History Frozen in time!
Thanks so much for a glimpse back in time...
Wow!
Brilliant stuff. Thanks for the tour. Christ it takes a little bit of bottle to crawl around there.
In awe, awesome more new vids will, Stone Age food, clothing, jewellery and more knapping please.
That's cool I love going back to the past its such a great feeling and makes me think of the people who dug it and how brilliant they were
Fascinating and Thankyou so much, I admire your respect for history and I hope your visitors do the same. There are some things and places in life that are best vvied by eyes alone.. stay safe keep up your good work. Respects to your dad
great video Will ...see you at the bushcraft show
I am sorry mate but Im not there this year
On no..where you at Will?
Such an awesome video, Will. Thanks for sharing the experience!....Ben
That was really amazing to see and I'm glad you can go down there. I am way to claustrophobic to ever do something like that. Thank you very much for the experience.
Simply amazing. All the hard work dedication, planning and insight that had to have went into digging that site up and then the galleries all for tool material. It kind of humbles you when you think about it. Because our life span has gotten longer with time. So the people who dug that 4,000+ year's ago had to have been handed down generational information. Mind blowing. Absolutely love this thank you.
Considering that two of the people who were buried at Abri Cro-Magnon were in their fifties, 33 thousand years ago, what is the basis for the assertion that we had short lives?
Thanks for taking us along on such a special journey, That was amazing to see, your small humble video just blew away hour long archaeological shows full of talking (waffle) and showing very little.
You dont need words when you see those unmoved antlers left by our distant relatives 4000 yrs ago, you can see and feel what was going on down there and in those moments you 'understand' more than what you get from those hour long shows... so thanks again for allowing us to go with you.
watching you put that polished axe stone in that smoothed hole was amazing, i totally feel the archaeologists are wrong about the ritual thing always being involved when finding such polished stones, just gives them an easy 'cover all' answer.... yes i think they thought about, just like we do, who made us, where did we come from..and maybe an elemant of that is true but it isnt the only reason for finding such stones, in my opinion. they also loved friends and relatives so i think leaving a loved one with polished axe stones, antlers etc in burials for the future/next life is just how we still send our loved ones off with certain gifts or items we drop in a grave at a funeral.
I did a lot of digging driving work 15 years ago in the south of the UK, i was sent on hundreds of archaeological digs and have got lots of iron age and other items, flints shaped like hearts to round sticks for arrows... but my best bit is an iron age pot rim still with the makers thumb and forefinger mark where he or she pressed the rim when making it, every time i put my thumb and finger in theirs i get that 'connection' feeling in my soul..... our ancestors were amazing in so many ways!
Your lack of ego and obvious deep love for this shines out and makes it very interesting to watch and i always learn something from you.... As always Will a great show!
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Will...just...AMAZING and GORGEOUS...I enjoy and like the Respectfully treatment you have with that ancient flint mine and the vestiges!!! BRAVO!!! (By the way...excuse my english...I have not very much chance to practice it...) It is a pleasure for me...to learn form you!!!
That would be an excellent pleasure to see in person, watching this video I felt as if I was there however! What a treat! Thank you Will Lord for the cool journey and let's not forget the camera man or woman I think Sam? I'm not 100% on that last but thanks all for the sweet footage of time.
A real treat! That was awesome in the true meaning of awe. Thanks so much!
Can’t get enough of this stuff. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I don’t intend on disappearing so you’re in luck 😎👍
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival keep on keeping on ❤️❤️❤️
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival do you know what they used for light down there..? ❤️❤️❤️
Awesome thanks for sharing Will , watching from Montana USA
There was a man , a flint knapper in Livingston who shared some of the quarries within a couple hundred miles of town . He was a notable addition to the museum and they might be able to help your quest for knowledge. I’m old and have forgotten his name I regret to say . He may have a son still living there . Up near Willsal a rancher digging gravel on bank of the Shields River found a major cashe of ceremonial blades left with the bones of a child or perhaps the child was killed so as to guard the blades . The blades having never been recovered makes me believe it was a burial cash.
That was a fabulous insight Will! Superb!
Nice tour. A treat to see.
I've been fortunate in being able to go down this pit a couple of times ! It is indeed a very special place ! I saw the polished axe marks ! I feel its a 'Museum' in itself ! Thank you ..
Truly amazing, thanks for the trip back in time!
Sensational, bringing to life the lifeless, but yet it is full of life.
Geez Will, I got claustrophobic just watching the vid!
Thanks much for taking the plunge.
Enjoyable commentary. d:^)
Absolutely mind blowing! Just wow will tthank you so much
@16:30 The impertinence of this human passing his hands over the voluptuous curves of the Goddess Stone! Has he no shame? 😂😂😂
This is a seriously cool video. Thank you, Will. n-times better than more professionally produced content, if only for the very nature of its intimacy, and ofc your clear passion, glistering brightly as flint in moonlight.
Would love to have you come across the pond to the Flintridge knap in at the end of August one of these years
If you want to send me more info on that I would possibly be interested cheers
Thank you so much for the video and fascinating look into these quarries! Loved it!
Great work Will! Thanks for putting it together. Living in the US, this is the only way I’ll ever experience these places. I love the way you led the way as if I’m right there with you. Thanks again!
Great video! Awesome place!! Just like going back in time!! Thanks for sharing!
i used to go there on me bike as a kid, and was lucky enough to have a historically educated father,
PLUS i have a question .... @Will @Lord ,, Did you work on the Norfolk broads reed/bogmyrtle clearance in summer early 2000s?
Wonderful! Thank you so much, I’m absolutely awestruck by the magnitude of this site!
Wonderful . Thank you i really enjoyed that.
Fantastic, thank you so muchfor sharing. Just amazing.Hey, since we are due for a ice age and nova, we might be picking up them tools again.
Wow! Will thanks for sharing this,I’m fascinated with stuff like this from another time and you have a ringside seat,many thanks for taking us and sharing this journey!
Thanks will. We went there on a school trip in 1976 a totally amazing place with what's probably the best flint in the country especially for them folks back then. Excellent video again thanks
My God in Heaven! This was eye-opening. I wish I'd known of your videos when I was teaching architecture and drafting and technology in high school. You want to talk about enrichment and extension . . . Thank you.
Bless your heart thanks
Truly one amazing and personal experience. Thank you for sharing something so awe inspiring!
Amazing video, thanks for the journey back
Amazing, thanks!
what an awesome video..i loved this.totally awesome. Ancient insights.
Thanks for the fascinating insights. I really liked the chalk paste handprints!
Thanks!
Bless your heart ♥️
Fascinating!
LOVED this video. Thanks for sharing this experience Will, wonderfully presented. Fascinating and astoundingly beautiful.
That was great Will!! :)
@@stooartbabay cheers mate
Working with a small stone or clay Betty lamp with marrow fat , the cleanest of fats or oil with little soot . Nearly dark with the lamp and black without . Why not a torch you say ? Not much oxygen down there and caves don’t circulate well .
First of all, thanks for sharing a video of your experience. It offered a glimpse of how industrialized the search for knapping flint was. No doubt a huge investment of time to dig to such a depth and confirmation that the flint recovered was a traded commodity.
The witnessing first hand of antler digging tools with wet chalk hand prints on them must have been an unforgettable adventure. Lucky you!
Mr. Lord?
Has anyone done a survey using ground penetrating radar on the site?
Thank you for sharing this.
What is the thoughts on how did they know to dig so deep. How did they first figure out the 40 foot flint layer was there to dig for?
Really interesting. I just never really thought that flint/chert was mined thousands of years ago. But it makes sense. We mine metal from the earth today to produce our tools. They did the same thing with stone.
I’ve worked stone for nearly 11 years and practice flint-knapping every once in a while to keep my skills sharp. I’m by no means a master flint-knapper. I just produce tools that work for me and for the task at hand. I’ve built a handful of bows from stone and it’s a slow process but it forces you to slow down.
You can’t always rely on steel tools. It’s invaluable to know how to work stone. Even the very basics of flint-knapping can create as sharp edge to do anything from dressing game to shaping a hand-drill set to make a fire.
Great video!
-Aaron
Thank you for this honor.
Amazing
Outstanding video, Will. We’re there any baskets left behind that survived the centuries? Or any pottery that the miners used for water, or a tea break, or lunch? Fascinating tour. Thanks for sharing.
Incredibly amazing to see a wonderful site like that 😍 🙌 😀 I find it interesting that they would dig so far underground to find the flint. Lots of questions: how did know where to dig? How did they get the tailings and flint out? 🤔😀👍🍻
Some of those unexplored tunnels look very explorable
Wow very humbling would love to bring my faimly to experience something like that do u have prices somewhere
Hi thanks for commenting and yes I do here is the link www.will-lord.co.uk/courses/grimes-graves-ultimate-flint-knapping-experience/
Amazing!
its a time capsule....I can just imagine the sounds, the flickering flames, the smells..
Wonder full explanation of how things were worked...
Imagine the images in the walls the miners could carve with those tools.
Cave art turned into tool art. Carving images into tools and wepons.
Thank you for the most awe inspiring paleo experience. The actual tools still on the floor fresh from the hand of 4,000+ year old miners. It would be interesting to have an appropriate technician collect floor samples and check for paleo DNA. I'm not certain where in the UK you are, but was this mine contemporary with the Doggerland inhabitants?
I remember going down into the hole before safety got stupid. I climbed down that ladder with my young kids climbing down with me. Not sure about Grimes Graves not being used for 4,500 years. There's a great 20 minute documentary on Talking Pictures TV channel that was made in the mid 1930's which has footage of flint knappers still working at GG then. Making building flint & flints for flintlock muskets for the foreign market.
muy bueno! que lugar !! claro que lo hubiera disfrutado más si tuviera subtitulado en español. gracias saludos desde Córdoba Argentina
Really good thank you.
Will, why would they leave their tools like that? Could that dirt be a cave in and not a re-fill? Perhaps the miners bones are still beneath the mound...