Monument record 0173700000 - MILL ROAD, STOKENCHURCH

14-15 URNS FOUND BY LABOURERS DIGGING HOUSE FOUNDATIONS. SOME ABOUT 15CM BELOW GROUND & SOME LOWER. 2 LARGER SET IN MIDDLE WITH REST PLACED IRREGULARLY AROUND THEM. CONTAINED BLACK MOULD OR ASHES AND SMALL BONES (DESC. OF URNS & SITE)(B1).
SOUNDS LIKE LATE BA URNFIELD (B2-3).
FURTHER FINDS DETAILS (B4).

On May 25 1738, fourteen or fifteen urns were uncovered during the digging of the foundations of a house "on the east side of the square plat that encompasses the windmill, there but a few years before erected". Lying just below the surface, the urns were of a coarse, gritty ware, either red or brown in colour and of varying sizes. They had wide mouths with indented rims and small globular bellies, each of them containing black mould or ashes and several small bones (a).

The description of the urns sounds like that of a late Bronze Age or early Iron Age urn-field. The windmill, if it be the same as that now standing (SU 7529 9626, OS 6" 1900) is on the SW side of the village, by the side of the road leading from Wood Farm to Wormsley Lodge.

The windmill, sited by Manning, probably is the same as that at which the urns were discovered, as a windmill at Stokenchurch was erected in 1736 ('but a few years' before the find) and blown down in 1926' - English Windmills (D Smith) (B1)

No further siting information and location of finds not ascertained. The area SU 7529 9626 is now occupied by approach roads to the M40. No further finds are known to Davies (a). (B6)