Lynford Quarry

Lynford Quarry
José-Manuel Benito Alvarez · CC BY-SA 4.0

Approximately 60,000 years ago, Lynford Quarry near Mundford, Norfolk, was a Middle Palaeolithic hunting site where Neanderthals killed and butchered at least nine woolly mammoths. The site contains in-situ mammoth remains associated with Mousterian stone tools and debitage, providing rare evidence of Neanderthal hunting behavior in England. [1]

TypeMine/quarry
Period500 BC - 1 AD
CountryEngland
Coordinates52.5084° N, 0.6557° E

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