extract from ‘Berkshire’ by Ian Yarrow
‘There are various ways of spelling this name, of which Cwichelmeslaew, the burial-place of Cwichelm, is the most difficult to spell and pronounce. Scutchamer is believed by some to be a corruption of Scotchman’s Knob, while others see in it a reference to Captain Scutchamer, a gentlemen killed in the Civil Wars. The “Knob” in its grove may have been a barrow, but nothing has been found inside it that will settle the matter, though some Iron Age pottery discovered in the surrounding ditch may indicate its age. Birinus, the missionary, preached from here in the seventh century, and shire moots sat on it.‘