NHER 5724 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced prehistoric worked flints, Two Mile Bottom (Thetford, poorly located)

Various prehistoric objects known to have been found in the Two Mile Bottom area of Thetford parish, but with little or no additional information regarding provenance.

FINDS IN THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM

The Norwich Castle Museum T. F. Newnam collection includes a number of "Mesolithic flint implements" from Two Mile Bottom (NWHCM : 1950.114.6).

FINDS FROM OTHER NORFOLK MUSEUMS

The Thetford Museum holds two small curved long flakes of possible Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date recorded as being found at Two Mile Bottom during the 1920s or 1930s (THEHM : 1979.13). This musem also hold a retouched flake and a Mesolithic or Early Neolithic blade/knife that are recorded as having been recovered from this area around the same time (THEHM : 1979.20).
P. Watkins (HES), 29 July 2013.

REPORTED DISCOVERIES

Eight Cissbury type flint implements.
Reported in (S1). Information from (S4).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).


RECENT FINDS

13 September 1952. Fieldwalking.
Various worked flints of possible Mesolithic date collected by J. J. Wymer from the Two Mile Bottom fire strip. The fire strips were the narrows belts of open ground that lay on either side of the railway line. Numerous worked flakes were observed, of which 12 were retained due to their possible Mesolithic character. A Mesolithic small 'graver' (borer) of "screw-driver type" was also recovered. Information from (S2). These finds believed to now be part of the Wymer Collection held by Royal Holloway, University of London (W1288-1301).
P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2013.

26 July 1979. Stray Find.
Flint flake, possibly from a polished flint axe found by J. J. Wymer on "track near the Insulation Blocks Factory". Information from (S3). The exact location of this find is unclear as this factory (TL 851 867) lies close to many different tracks. The flake itself presumably also part of the collection held by Royal Hollloway (W3910).
P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2013.