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A new mill is referred to at this approximate location in a document in 1560 (S1).

Rom pottery (? late C2-C3) found in back garden of Plot 6, Mill Lane and lesser concentration into field to N (S1).

Bridge depicted on Hodskinson's map of 1783 (S1), crossing River Gipping at Baylham Mill.

Former water mill, post mill and smock mill site.

Open trestle post mill, said to have been moved from Mill Hill, Hunston (HUN 002) in the C18, it ceased to work in 1924 and was demolished in 1930 due to its proximity to a sandpit.

Small 12 sided smockmill, built in 1774 by Thomas Butcher, a local millwright.

September 1992: Archaeological evaluation of site revealed a section of town ditch, thought to have surrounded the late Saxon and early Medieval town.

Hitcham Tower Mill.

Metal detector finds: coins of Henry III and James I, ampulla, buckle and PMed key.

Post Mill with open trestle first mapped (cited location approximate) by Kirby in 1736, then by Bowen in 1755.