As regards the use to which the material was put, a neolithic workshop was found just to the south of Grime's Graves.

Here, scattered about on all sides, were the cores, the hammer-stones that broke them up, and knives, scrapers, borers, spear-heads and arrow-heads galore, in all stages of manufacture.
Well, now let us hie to Lingheath, not far off, and what do we find?
A family of the name of Dyer carry on to-day exactly the same old method of mining.

Their pits are of squarer shape than the neolithic ones, but otherwise similar.

Their one-pronged pick retains the shape of the deer's antler.

Their light is a candle stuck in a cup of chalk.
And the ladder is just a series of ledges or, as they call them, "toes" in the wall, five feet apart and connected by foot-holes.