NHER 60550 (Find Spot) - Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe roughout, Blackdyke (Hockwold cum Wilton, poorly located)

The Norwich Castle Museum holds a large Palaeolithic flint handaxe roughout that is marked "Blackdyke" (NWHCM : 2013.297). This was almost certainly recovered in either Feltwell or Hockwold, most likely somewhere in the vicinity of Blackdyke Farm (TL 690 884). It should be noted that there is a large disused quarry pit immediately to the north of Blackdyke Farm that has been open since at least the late 19th century.

This object was formerly in the collection of C. E. N. Bromehead of the Geological Survey, which included objects found or collected between the 1920s and his death in around 1950. These finds are known to have passed through various hands before being eventually donated to relevant local museums. This particular implement is however marked in pencil "H Elliot Colln", suggesting that Bromehead was not the original finder.
Information from museum records. See drawing (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 19 November 2014.