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A Neolithic Site Near Thetford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

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This site is in the parish of Thetford S. Peter, near Two-Mile Bottom. It is distinct from that described by Mr. F. N. Haward last year, being on the other (eastern) side of the Thetford-Mundford road and of the G.E.R., and somewhat north of the Vitriol and Manure Works. The implement types, too, differ greatly.

In 1906 I obtained one or two scrapers in the roadside belt adjoining the site on the west. Southwards the land dips down to the little valley which probably gave the name to Two-Mile Bottom, but the characteristic flakes of the site seem to thin out directly the slope becomes definite; and what flakes there are, are of more recent type and condition. From this low level site came several harpoon barbs in Mr. H. H. Halls' collection, and a barbed arrowhead and many other implements found by Mr. W. G. Clarke. The site is thus on a slight plateau about 80 ft. above O.D., and about 60 ft. above the river. Northward it is very indefinitely bounded, as flakes and implements are strewn about on the open breck and among the furze and bracken for a quarter of a mile or more, but the more characteristic patinas seem soon to disappear.

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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1915

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page 42 note * Proceedings Prehist. Soc. E. Ang., Vol. I., p. 461Google Scholar.