🏛️ Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region

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Krzemionki, also Krzemionki Opatowskie, is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age complex of flint mines for the extraction of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints located about eight kilometers north-east of the Polish city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. It is one of the largest known complexes of prehistoric flint mines in Europe together with Grime's Graves in England and Spiennes in Belgium.

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Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region is a cultural World Heritage site in Poland, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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