Caravaning around: Lynford Water

Lynford Water / Lakes

Incredibly interesting and beautiful place. The information boards show that they have been digging and removing gravel here since the 1950s.

However, in 2002 they came across a Woolly Mammoth Tusk which then of course stopped all commercial gravel removal. It didn't stop there they continued to find Mammoth bones and even Woolly Rhinocerous Teeth, Axes and tools and further bones of reindeer and brown bears.

It is thought that this area was a killing zone in Mesolithic times and this site is one of the most important Neanderthal sites ever excavated in Britain.

What do you think of my flint stone I picked up. Just a stone or possibly a fossilised creatures bone? ......... you never know do you on a site like this!

The other stones around looked so different and you can see why the flints made such good tools because they are as sharp as razors!

I was really intrigued by the whole area and so I looked up some further info online and found the original survey documents that Norfolk Council obviously commissioned and this was even more unbelievable. The stuff they found there was incredible: flint tools galore and so much evidence of who lived there, how they lived there and what they eat, absolutely fascinating.

The survey wasn't a particularly easy document to read but was really detailed and in depth about what was found. However, since I've tried to get back on it, it seems to have been removed. Try the link and see if you have more luck with it.
http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf49987

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Lynford Lakes Leisure

Of course the original reason for visiting the area was to walk the dogs and that's what we did. Me, Stroller and the dogs walked around the lakes and the boys had a really good swim and play. Boblicious was so exited he was diving around like a young pup.