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(Meanwhile, elsewhere in East Anglia)
“There’s pollen, beetles, macroflora – all in incredible detail. The really important thing about the site is that there’s not just one time window but a broad range of deposits covering from perhaps 10,000-120,000 years ago.”
The finds are of much interest to researchers of the Ice Age, and those looking into the early colonisation of the British Isles, and have led to a study involving experts from the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project from the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, Queen Mary University, London, and NMAS.
Norfolk is blessed when it comes to the remains of woolly mammoths and the flora and fauna of the Ice Age, as Nigel explained:
“Although we have not found any evidence of humans at the Saham Toney site, just three miles away downstream in the 1970s amateur archaeologists found three Neanderthal tools and in 2002, just seven kilometres away downstream, we found the remains of a dozen woolly mammoths and over fifty Neanderthal flint handaxes dated to about 60,000 years ago. Each of these sites are part of the bigger picture, part of the jigsaw.”
Many parts of this jigsaw - including the remarkable 2002 discovery in a gravel pit at Lynford in which a dozen woolly mammoth skeletons were found with the remains of reindeer, woolly rhino, bison and over fifty Neanderthal flint handaxes - were unearthed by members of the public. The Lynford site turned out to be the best Neanderthal site ever discovered in the British Isles and is of international significance...