Mundford
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Mundford is a village about 8 miles north west of Thetford in the district of Breckland, Norfolk, England.
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[edit] Archaeology
Lynford Quarry is a well-preserved in-situ Middle Palaeolithic open-air site dating to 60,000 years ago which is believed to show evidence of Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals)). Whilst there are no neanderthal bones present, the finds include the in-situ remains of at least nine Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoths) with associated Mousterian stone tools and debitage. The artefactual, faunal and environmental evidence were sealed, in-situ, within a Middle Devensian palaeochannel with a dark organic fill. Well preserved in-situ sites of the time are exceedingly rare in Europe and very unusual within a British context (Donoghue, 2006).
[edit] References
Donoghue, J. 2006. The Lynford mammoths: slaughtered by Neanderthals? Current Archaeology 205: 40-44
