NHER 5673 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint flakes, Two Mile Bottom (Thetford, poorly located)

Several Palaeolithic worked flints are known to have been found at Two Mile Bottom during the early 20th century. Two Mile Bottom is an area of low lying land on the north bank of the Little Ouse River, to the north-west of Thetford (TL 84 87).

FINDS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

1910 and 1917. Stray Find.
The Norwich Castle Museum hold 3 Palaeolithic flint flakes that were found at Two Mile Bottom. These are part of the H. Dixon Hewitt collection (NWHCM : 1922.39) and are recorded as having been found on a "stoneheap". These were recovered in 1910 and 1917.
Information from (S1).
These flakes are listed in (S2) and described on (S3) and in (S4) as rolled and stained. According to (S3) one is a possible Levallois flake.

OTHER REPORTED DISCOVERIES

It is possible that the flakes in the NCM were not the only objects that Dixon Hewitt recovered at this location, as it is recorded that he exhibited a series of implements of "later Palaeolithic cave" type from Two Mile Bottom at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia in December 1912 (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2013.

Pre 1911. Stray Find
A Palaeolithic flake from Two Mile Bottom was exhibited at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia by J. Chapman on 23 January 1911 (S6). No further details are known.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 July 2013.