2015-08-28 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-20（在线收听）

 This is one of the larger galleries spaces down here in the mines. A lot of them are far more restricted than this. Because the reservation is so incredible, we’ve still got a whole series of their antelope’s peaks, the tools they were using down here to chip away at a chalk, now using the end sometimes to batter away blocks and also to lift a flint up. The high grade flint found in this depth motivated the prehistoric miners. It’s some of the flore and flints they were looking for and you can see its jade black color. It fractures beautifully and still rays sharply. Russell also believes the mine severed an important ritualistic role. Moving towards adulthood in a right passage you need to be doing something that is quite extreme and coming down here into the mine, crawling into the galleries, into the unknown and into the mysterious, digging up the flint and propelling it back up to the surface. It could move you from child to adult, especially as an audience out there waiting for you to emerge with your flint in hand. Excavated human bones from another Neolithic flint mine, highlighted the dangers miners faced.