Ulcombe

Ulcombe is a village near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name has evolved from 'Ullas-coomb', 'coomb' meaning 'a deep little wooded valley with Ulla as a personal name. There is no connection to owls! The original deserted Medieval village site lies to the east of the parish church in a valley. There is also a water-mill below this site, probably of early origins. It stands below the Greensand Way.

There is much evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork, undertaken under the direction of Neil Aldridge, for prehistoric and later occupation. A number of Palaeolithic hand-axes have been found to the east of Great Tong Bank, and are the result of solifluction over the last 70,000 years from an earlier river system.
Lithic implements from the Mesolithic, Bronze age and Neolithic periods show that the landscape was being used by early settlers.The Iron Age is the period when the local deposits of iron ore were being smelted and this continued into the Roman occupation of the 1st-3rd century AD.
Near Jubilee Corner an Iron Age cremation cemetery was excavated along with an iron smelting site. A later Roman occupation site lay to the north, when excavated, two timber buildings, one of sill-beam construction, were recorded.

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