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Lower to Middle Paleolithic flint scraper found in Windmill Field

Historical records of medieval to post-medieval windmill

Saxon pottery excavated in Windmill Field, Hitcham, in the nineteenth century

Seventeenth to eighteenth century records of windmill

Bronze Age or Saxon houses excavated in Windmill Field, Hitcham, in the nineteenth century

Windmill known from eighteenth and nineteenth century maps, aerial photographs and field-name evidence, visible as an earthwork in 1940s; modern land use is woodland

Site of post-mill recorded in sixteenth and seventeenth century documents, mill mound recorded in earthwork survey. It had a diameter of 30 metres, and was 1.6 metres high. There is no evidence of an encircling ditch at the foot of the slope.

Prehistoric artefacts, a Saxon settlement and medieval windmill in Windmill Field, Hitcham

Sixteenth century record of windmill

Possible site of a former windmill, indicated by place-name evidence only - Slight earthwork depression, thought to be a windmill mound.