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"Bell Pit Mines" are both ubiquitous in very early Europe (2500 BC) and notoriously prone to sudden collapse when working on them. Have archaeologists found anything interesting digging up collapsed Bell Pits? Neolithic flint miners, buried with all as it was at the moment of collapse?

by /u/Basilikon in /r/AskHistorians

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