September 26, 2009 We got a couple families together (Listellos, Snows and Carpenters) and went out to the Thetford Forest where there are awesome bike trails, a high wire course, and lots of play equipment and walking paths. It was a great day for the kids to take turns on the zip line, scale the net like monkeys, and be outside in some beautiful fall weather. 
After the forest, we headed over to Grime's Graves, which is a field full of over 400 shafts, pits, quarries, and filled holes. It was not until 1870 that they were discovered to be flint mines, dug into the ground over 5,000 years ago. 
We got to go
We got to go down one of the shafts to explore what the Neolithic people were able to dig with nothing but antler horns. These mines provided the material for tools, and then in the 19th century for much of the musket flint used in the Napoleonic Wars. The kids enjoyed wearing the hard hats and treated us all to their best Village People impression.
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