NHER 6130 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Neolithic part-polished flint axehead and other prehistoric worked flints, Brecks Farm (Blakeney, poorly located)

1937 or before. Stray Find.
The Norwich Castle Museum holds several prehistoric flint objects that were found by C. D. Borrer in Blakeney and donated to the museum in 1937. These are as described by (S1) as follows:
"Large flint implement" (NWHCM : 1937.124). Listed in (S2) as a large Neolithic flint axe roughout.
"Flint axe and 2 other flint implements" (NWHCM : 1937.144). Listed in (S2) as a partly-polished Neolithic flint axe and two other implements of unspecified type.
According to (S1) one or more of these objects was reported in the local press (S3). A note added to (S1) also suggests that at least one of these flints may be Upper Palaeolithic, although it is unclear to which object this is referring (possibly the large axehead roughout?).

All of these objects are recorded - both by (S1) and the museum's records - as having been found on "Harcourt Farm". This provenance is not immediately clear as none of the farms in this area have this name. However, in a letter to the Eastern Daily Press that was published in 1953 (S4) Borrer describes having found a large Neolithic axe that he picked up on "Breck Farm at Blakeney". In the 1970s the land around Brecks Farm (TG 024 414; formerly Brakehouse Barn) formed part of the holdings of Church Farm, Wiveton. At this time the farmer was a Mr Harcourt, and it is therefore likely that the original provenance given by Borrer was a reference to the landholder, rather than the name of the farm. Mr Harcourt is known to have collected a significant number of Neolithic axeheads from the lands of Church Farm. These are catalogued in (S5), which also includes descriptions of both of the axeheads found by Borrer. Mr Harcourt was clearly aware of Borrer's finds as he provided an exact provenance for the large roughout (NHER 15637).
P. Watkins (HES), 6 July 2014.

Pre 1975. Stray Find.
As noted above Mr Harcourt of Church Farm, Wiveton collected a large number of Neolithic polished and flaked axeheads on the land of Church Farm. At least some of these were almost certainly recovered from the fields that lay around Brecks Farm. See NHER 60094 and (S5) for full details.
P. Watkins (HES), 6 July 2014.