NHER 3890 (Monument record) - Mesolithic flint working site

1960. Fieldwalking.
Mesolithic 'flint industry' discovered T. E. Matthew in 1960. The finds recovered are listed on (S1) as an unspecified number of long flakes (blades?), "about 60 good cores", 'core trimmings', 2 tranchet axes, 2 tranchet axe-sharpening flakes and 4 'microlithic points'. These discoveries were reported in (S2). The flints from this site are listed in (S3), although the quantifications are identical to those given by (S1), suggesting the finds themselves had not been examined.

The King's Lynn Museum's T. E. Matthews collection includes a number of Mesolithic flints from South Acre (KILLM : 1977.130.35). These are recorded as "microliths, core tools and blades from South Acre Mesolithic site", suggesting that most, if not all, are from this site. This collection was examined by R. Jacobi, although the only items recorded as Mesolithic in (S4) are 7 microliths.

The precise location of these finds is not entirely clear, with only an approximate grid reference given by (S1) and (S2) (TF 801 150). A note has however been added to (S1) indicating these finds were from an area centred at TF 8025 1505. This places these finds somewhere in the vicinity of the Southacre/Castle Acre parish boundary, close to where it appears a number of other Mesolithic worked flints were recovered in 1947 (NHER 4105).

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 June 2013 and 15 August 2014.