Index to South Midlands Archaeology 1-37
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B479 74/29
B4031 Finmere Diversion 99/31-5, 33-4
Backwell, Sarah (fl. 1779, of Broughton, Bucks) 85/50
Bacon, John (artist) 81/90
Badbury Camp, Oxon 80/144; 81/106; 83/128-9
Badby, Nhants
  charter of 944 89/107
  Saxon cemetery 77/4; 80/44
  St Mary's Church 96/30
badges, medieval: Bradwell Abbey 82/69; London Cheapside 99/9
badger bones, prehistoric; Radley 98/47
Bagendon, Glos 71/6
Baginton, near Coventry, Warks 91/33
Bagley Wood, Berks 87/107
Bailey family of Bradwell, Milton Keynes 91/56
  Revd Kitelee Chandos Bailey 91/49, 56
bakehouses
  Roman; Swalcliffe Lea 07/34, 35, 37, 38
  medieval: Brackley 00/37, 38; Bradwell Abbey 74/33; 04/30; Marston
      Mortaine 05/10; see also under Grove Priory
  post-medieval: Ashdown House 00/49; 03/71, 73; Chastleton (village)
      05/54; Easton-on-the-Hill 06/26; Stratton 92/9
Baker, Cicely 82/64
Baker, Rev. Robert Sibley (fl. 1876, Rector of Hargrave) 77/5; 80/43
baker's bat 91/122
balance, C5/6; Watchfield 84/122
Baldock, Herts 95/28
  Late Iron Age pottery and metalwork 04/47
Baldwin de Bereford (fl. 1349) 07/44, 46
Baldwin de Ver (fl. 1279) 79/97
Ball, Terry 92/30, 31
Ball, Thomas (fl. 1671, of Bolnhurst) 89/10
Ballard & Son Ltd, of Abingdon 04/75
balls, leather-covered string; Oxford 86/129
Balscote, Oxon; Manor Farm, C17/19 farm buildings 99/69
Bampton, Oxon 98/47-9, 48-53
  Bampton Project (1989-92) 92/55-62
  Bronze Age ring ditches
    churchyard 98/47, 49, 48-51
    The Deanery 92/55, 57
    SP 342004 92/56-7
  Iron Age 91/101
    Calais Farm 87/80; 88/73
    9 Talbot Fields 94/37
  Roman
    Calais Farm 87/80; 88/73
    cemetery, The Beam 86/94
    Knaps Farm 88/73-4; 89/47, 48, 49
    Meadow Farm 81/104; 01/91-2
    9 Talbot Fields 94/37
  Saxon
    The Beam 87/80; 88/73
    Calais Farm 87/80; 88/73
    church, Saxon/medieval 92/56, 59, 60
    churchyard 89/58; 92/55, 58; 98/47, 50
    Folly House (sunken-featured building) 92/56
    minster 86/87, 88, 89; 88/89, 90, 92; 98/49; 03/73-4; 07/26
    possible cremation cemeteries 92/56-7
    royal vill 86/87, 89
    St Andrew's chapel 86/87
    St Mary's churchyard 03/73-4
    Thatched Cottage (sunken-featured building) 98/49, 53-4
  medieval
    Calais Farm 87/80; 88/73
    canal 98/47-9, 48-9, 52
    castle 86/88, 89; 88/89, 90, 91, 93
    church 92/56, 60
    churchyard 92/55, 58
    Deanery 86/88, 91; 88/89, 90, 91, 92; 92/55
    defences 86/89, 90
    d'Oilly manor house 92/56
    late medieval houses 92/57, 59, 62
    Market Square 06/35
    minster 86/89; 88/89
    monastic buildings 92/55, 56
    St Andrew's chapel 86/87, 94
    St Mary's churchyard 03/73-4
    Thatched Cottage 92/59, 62
    vicarages 86/91
  post-medieval
    Ampney Orchard; pottery 94/37
    Cheyne Lane; C19/20 gravel quarrying 99/74
    The Grange; C19 dumping 99/39
    Market Square 06/35; C18 garden 03/60
    SU 33250031; pill-box 80/98, 99
  sites
    Bampton Aston 92/61
    'The Beam' 86/87, 88, 94; 87/80; 88/73; 92/57
    Calais Farm 87/80; 88/73
    church and churchyard 89/58; 92/55, 56, 58-60
    churchyard 89/58
    Cromwell House, Cheapside 98/85
    Deanery 86/88, 91; 88/89, 90, 91, 92; 92/55, 56-9
    Folly House 92/56
    Ham Court 86/88, 89; 88/89, 91, 93
    Knapps Farm 88/73-4; 89/47, 48, 49
    Knapps Farm House, Bridge Street 92/57, 59, 62
    Lime Tree House 97/54
    Meadow Farm 81/104
    New Vicarage 86/94
    The Old Forge, Broad Street, 92/59
    Recreation Ground, new Sports Pavilion 99/74
    Thatched Cottage 92/59, 62; 98/49, 53-4
    The Weald 88/73-4
Bampton Hundred Rolls (1279) 85/85
Banbury, Oxon
  prehistoric 85/93; 05/61-4, 63
    Grimsbury Manor, Grimsbury Green 02/41
  Neolithic
    Crouch Hill 98/70
    Flood Alleviation Scheme 04/69
    Hardwick 04/69; 05/62
    Horton General Hospital 05/64
    Manor Road, Old Grimsbury 99/75
    St Mary's Church 05/64
  Bronze Age
    Crouch Hill 98/70
    Hanbury Fields Farm 98/70
    Hennef Way 03/60
    St John's Hospital, South Bar 05/64
  Iron Age; Manor Park 03/60
  Roman 05/61-2, 63, 64
    Broughton Road 05/64
    castle outer bailey 74/21
    Flood Alleviation Scheme 04/69
    Grimsbury Manor, Grimsbury Green 02/41
    Hardwick Farm, Southern Road 01/41
    High Street 05/64
    Pike Farm 05/62, 64
    Wykham villa 05/64
  Saxon 05/63, 64
    Castle site 05/64
    Manor Park 03/60
    manorial sites 05/64
    Market Place 05/64
    settlement pattern 05/64
  Saxo-Norman
    Castle Precincts 73/28; 99/40, 41, 42
    Grimsbury House area 85/93
  medieval 94/37, 38; 99/40, 41, 42
    Calthorpe Manor 78/70
    Calthorpe Street 88/74; 89/49
    castle 73/28; 74/21; 75/34, 42, 43; 83/103, 114-15; 99/40, 41, 42
    Castle Street 73/28
    Cherwell Centre 99/74-5
    Cornhill 73/28
    Cuttle Mill 99/40, 42
    Dashwood Road 01/40-1
    Factory Street 73/28
    Grimsbury House 85/93
    Grimsbury Manor, Grimsbury Green (DMV) 02/41
    Hardwick Farm, Southern Road 97/46; 01/41
    Hanwell Fields 01/42
    Hennef Way 03/60
    High Street 82/140
    hollow ways, odd features beside 02/52
    Inner Relief Road 91/99-100
    Manor Park 03/60
    Manor Road, Old Grimsbury 99/75
    Marlborough Road/Newland Road corner 03/60
    monastic hospital 77/36
    new town 75/42; 88/144; 91/99-100
    Old Grimsbury DMV 99/75; 02/41; 03/60
    pottery 82/32; 88/74
  post-medieval 99/40, 41, 42
    Bridge Street and Mill Lane 99/40, 41, 42
    castle area 73/28; 75/43
    Cemetery chapels, Southam Road 79/92
    Cherwell Centre 99/74-5
    Dashwood Road 01/40-1
    Hardwick Farm, Southern Road 01/41
    Hanwell Fields 01/42
    High Street 02/53
    Industrial Archaeology of the Oxford Canal Corridor 02/38
    Malthouse Walk 05/67
    Marlborough Road/Newland Road corner 03/60
    Mawles Warehouse, George Street 79/92
    pottery manufacture 80/100
  C17
    Crouch Hill 98/70
    Horsefair 00/46
    Manor Road, Old Grimsbury 99/75
    West Street 98/70
  C19; Cherwell Wharf 03/74
  Fine Lady tradition 05/62
  Giants Cave Good Friday fair 05/62
  other sites
    canal and river-side 99/40, 41, 42; 03/74
    Echo Park 93/69
    Hanwell Fields 02/40, 67
    Noral Way 07/25
    Southam Road 96/55; 97/54-5
    Thorpe Park, Thorpe Way 02/53
    Tooley's Boatyard 99/40, 42
    Tudor Hall School, Wykham Park 93/69; 96/55; 02/53
  see also Calthorpe; Crouch Hill; Drayton; Easington; Grimsbury; Hardwick;
      Neithrop; Pinhill; Wykham
Banbury, Buckingham and Bletchley Railway 01/19
Banbury Booster 876F pipeline, Oxon; Neolithic/early Bronze Age 06/35-9, 37
Banbury Hill, Oxon; Roman pottery scatter 83/122
Bancroft, Milton Keynes, Bucks (see also Loughton Valley)
  mausoleum
    Bronze Age 85/29, 41-3; 86/44, 48; 87/45
    Belgic 84/17; 85/40; 86/45-6, 47, 48; 00/12
    Iron Age 84/22, 25-6; 85/43-4; 86/44-5, 46-7, 48; 87/45; 88/45
    Roman: C1 cemetery 85/29, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40; C4-5 burials 84/22, 25;
        corn dryer 84/26; drainage 84/24; 85/44; mausoleum 83/45; 84/15,
        21, 22, 23, 24; 86/48; shrine 84/21, 22, 23, 25, (possible votive
        deposits) 83/45; stone causeway 83/46-7
    Saxon 86/47, 48, 49; 90/29
    metal detectors 87/41
  villa (formerly Bradwell villa) 74/33; 76/41; 77/79, 80, 81-3, 84, 85;
      79/62, 67, 68-70, 71-6; 84/16-18, 19, 20-1; 85/, 30-8; 86/49-50, 51,
      52-3; 87/37, 43, 44, 45, 46; 91/47, 48
    C1-2: aisled house 76/41; 79/73; 84/17, 19; ditches and pits 77/41;
        84/17; 85/33
    C2-3 house 84/17-18, 19, 20-1
    C4 alterations 84/18, 19, 20-1, 23
    bath suites 79/67, 68-70, 74-5; 84/17, 19, 20, 23
    cemeteries 84/25; 85/38
    coins 76/41; 77/83, 85; 82/82; 87/42
    conservation of finds 80/81; 87/48
    fire 77/82, 85
    fishpond 84/20, 23
    garden 76/41; 77/80, 83; 79/67, 68, 71; 83/52-3; 84/20
    house 77/80, 82; 78/46; 79/68-70, 71-6; 84/16-18, 19, 20-1
    hypocausts 79/72, 73, 74; 84/17, 19, 20
    industrial activity 85/37; 86/50, 51
    interpretation 78/43; 83/43-4; 90/18
    iron chest 77/80, 82-3; 80/81
    marble cockerel 74/33; 77/83; 79/71
    mosaics 74/33; 75/14; 77/79, 80, 81, 83; 79/71-2, 73-4, 78; 84/16, 20,
        23
    octagonal shrine 84/21
    opus signinum 79/74, 75; 84/20
    outbuildings 77/80, 82-3; 78/46; 85/29, 30, 31, 32-8; 86/43
    paved areas 86/50, 51, 52
    porch 79/67, 68-70, 71
    pottery 77/82, 85, 95
    robbing of stone, medieval 84/21
    settlement continuity 89/20
    shrine 79/67, 68, 69, 71
    stone tiles 75/14
    sub-Roman and post-Roman occupation 75/14; 77/81, 84, 85
    wall paintings 84/17
    water supply 79/75
    waterlogged deposits, C1 and C2-4 81/69, 76
    and Wymbush farmstead 80/64
'banjo' enclosures see under: Alchester; Kiddington; Spelsbury; Standlake;
    Stantonbury
bank (financial institution), Oxford 00/68
banks (see also linear features; ramparts)
  Iron Age: Maiden Bower 07/6, 6; Oxford (settlement enclosure) 07/27, 28,
      29, 30, 31, 32
  Roman: Drayton Park Farm (round farmstead) 98/65; see also under
      Marcham/Frilford
  Saxon; Bicester 07/64
  medieval: Brackley 07/16; Northampton (clay) 96/34; West Cotton (stone)
      91/69
  post-medieval; Bradenham (Tudor park boundary) 07/12; Hargrave 98/37
  undated: Abingdon 07/25; Rotherfield Peppard (post-Roman) 07/51-2, 51
Bannaventa (Whilton Lodge, Nhants) 72/9; 88/64; 89/42; 00/36
Baptist Church; Towcester, C19 05/41
Barantyn family see Barentin
Barbardiston, Robert (fl. 1671, of Ickwell Bury, Northill) 87/26
Barby, Nhants; village earthworks 89/23, 24
Barby Hill, Nhants; Roman remains 96/30-1
Barentin (Barantyn) family and Chalgrove 81/150; 83/117, 119
Barford St John, Oxon
  church of St John 99/75
  'double' settlement pattern 80/110
  field name survey 85/71
  village earthworks 72/28
Barford St Michael, Oxon
  churchyard 94/38
  'double' settlement pattern 80/110
  field name survey 85/71
  fishponds 72/30
  High Street 07/39
  Manor Farm; Neolithic/Bronze Age, medieval and post-medieval 01/53, 55
  The Manor House, medieval moat and C17 house 01/55; 02/52-3
  medieval village; extent 81/114
  post-medieval pottery manufacture 80/110
  The Potteries, High Street 06/44
  St Michael's church; Norman or earlier mound 01/55
bark container, prehistoric; Yarnton 99/85
Barkham, Wokingham; bounds 87/103
barley: Abingdon (late Iron Age/Roman) 99/31; Ashbury (Roman) 94/55; Barton
    Court Farm (Iron Age/Roman) 76/65; Finmere (late Iron Age/Roman) 99/32;
    Lavendon (late Bronze/early Iron Age) 94/15; Little Wittenham (early
    Iron Age) 05/72, 77; Potterspury (Iron Age/Roman) 98/33
Barnack, Welland Valley, Nhants 77/26; 81/41
Barney family of Lewknor (smiths) 80/131
barns 81/77
  Roman: Amersham 85/25; Bancroft 85/35; Halstock 85/35; Harringworth
      74/10; Oakley, Nhants 79/51; Stanwick 91/76, 77, 78; Wakerley 75/16;
      West Dean 85/35; Wymbush 85/21, 22
  medieval: Astwick 91/25; Banbury 99/75; Barnwell Castle 86/83; Barton
      91/25; Bedford, Newnham Priory 91/22; Biggleswade 99/1; Bradwell
      Abbey 81/74-5; 04/30; Bradwell Bury 76/50, 51, 52, 53; Chalgrove
      78/110; conversions in Conservation Areas 91/23, 25; Cuddesdon 73/22;
      Cumnor 85/95; Drayton St Leonard 02/54; Elstow 77/18; Great Linford
      77/91; Grove Priory 75/22; Henley 84/105; Irthlingborough 02/29, 30;
      Letcombe Bassett 82/103, 105, 106; Lewknor 80/129; Lyveden 73/21;
      74/13; Minster Lovell 97/59; Missenden Abbey 84/10; Olney 03/34;
      Oxford 74/22; 95/59; Shillington 91/25; Steeple Barton 89/56;
      Streatleybury Farm 91/25; Swalcliffe 91/109; 95/69; West Cotton
      88/58, 59; see also under: Cardington; Cogges; Great Coxwell;
      Harwell; Kelmscott; Manuden; Minster Lovell;
      Northmoor (Rectory Farm); Shippon; Shipton under Wychwood; Simpson;
      Souldern; Stanton St John; Sutton Courtenay; Swalcliffe; Tadmarton
  post-medieval: Alvescot Manor Farm 81/91; Charney Bassett 78/91;
      Chartridge 04/23; Daventry 01/35-6; East Hendred 84/87, 88; Ewelme
      05/68; Eynsham 79/89, 91, 92; Fingest 04/22; Glendon 04/36; Great
      Gaddesden 80/41; Hanslope 05/12; Harwell 04/73-7, 74-6; Horton-cum-
      Studley 96/67; Kelmscott 02/55; Kensworth 02/5; Letcombe Bassett
      82/103, 105, 106; Longwick-cum-Ilmer 03/28; Mears Ashby 97/44;
      Medmenham 01/22; Milton Keynes Village 03/23; Newport Pagnell 07/13;
      North Marston 03/24; Radley 05/84-6, 85-9; Ridgmont 94/8-9; Rothwell
      07/21; Shiplake 99/73; Steeple Aston 03/63; Tadmarton 99/70;
      Tempsford 85/5; 86/15; Tholey Hall Farm 85/56; Waterperry House
      88/135; Woodstock 99/71; see also under: Appleton; Blewbury; Cholsey;
      Eaton; Harwell; Northmoor (Manor Farm); Shillingford; Sydenham;
      Taynton; Warborough
  undated: Brigstock 03/47; Guilsborough (cob) 02/29; Haddenham 05/30
Barns, Rev Thomas (fl 1882) 74/3
Barnwell, Nhants 91/59; 96/31
  Castle 81/19-20; 86/79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84
  Manor House 86/79, 81; 94/1
  St Andrews Church 03/47
  thatched buildings 96/43
Barons' Revolt (1264-6) 86/81
barrage balloon moorings, WWII; Luton Hoo, Hyde 07/7-8
Barre, William de la (fl. 1268, of South Stoke) 89/60
barrel, C18; Woughton on the Green 87/39
Barrington, Cambs; Saxon cemeteries B and C 80/44, 47; 86/3
Barrow Hills, Abingdon/Radley, Oxon (c SU 51359815) 82/115, 181, 182, 183;
    84/111-20; 85/102-7; 86/106-11
  Neolithic 82/181, 182, 183; 84/111, 112, 113-17; 85/102, 104; 86/107,
      108, 109
  Beaker period 86/108, 109-10
  Bronze Age 77/56, 70; 82/181, 182, 183; 84/117-18; 85/103, 104, 105;
      86/108, 110-11
  Roman 84/119-20; 85/104, 106; 86/111
  Saxon 82/182; 84/114-15, 117, 120; 85/106-7; 86/111
  aerial photography 77/57; 84/116-17
  C19 circular plantation (supposed henge) 82/183, 181; 84/116-17
  Dry Piece; cropmark 81/160
  publications 87/94-5
barrows (see also ring ditches)
  and chalk combes 90/8
  factors affecting survival 84/48, 50
  Roman burials in 90/11
  Saxon burials in 77/77
  Neolithic
    long; Abingdon Common 98/84; Barrow Hills 84/112, 113-15; Chilterns
        76/6; Galley Hill 76/6; Rainsborough (possibly inauthentic) 97/39;
        see also under: Ascott-under-Wychwood; Cornbury Park;
        Cranbourne Chase; Drayton; Dunstable; Holcot; Letcombe Regis;
        Luton; Lyneham; Pegsdon; Princes Risborough; Royston; Stanwick;
        Swinbrook
    oval 84/115; Barrow Hills 86/107, 108, 109; Princes Risborough 04/27
    rectangular; Grendon 88/65
    round, Neolithic/Bronze Age transition; Barrow Hills 84/115-16;
        Chilterns 76/6; Dorchester 84/115; Dunstable 86/6; 87/4; Goldington
        Bury Farm 88/9; Ouse Valley 95/7, 9; Royston 76/6
    turf; Maxey, Welland Valley 84/115
  Bronze Age
    bell; Ascot 74/7-8; Bledlow Ridge 76/6
    bowl; Shipton under Wychwood 84/49, 50, 52
    pond; Barrow Hills 86/108, 110-11
    round: Abingdon 98/84; Alfred's Castle area 01/82, 83, 86; Ashridge
        04/24; Bampton 98/47, 49-51; Barrow Hills 84/117-18; 85/103, 104,
        105; Bedford, Neolithic henge possibly reused as 06/4, 4; Bicester
        97/45; 07/64; Biddenham 02/5; Calverton 04/24; 07/12; Dorchester
        82/146; Dorney 97/25, 26, 30-1, 30, iii; 98/76; Dunstable Downs
        93/29, 30; Eynsham 02/54; Frilford/Garford/Marcham 98/23; 99/17,
        19, 19-20, 20; 01/25; Gatehampton Farm, Goring 06/51, 51; Gravelly
        Guy 87/97, 98; Great Tew 79/96; Grendon 81/22-3; 88/65; Marlow
        (Early Bronze Age cemetery) 04/17-19, 18, 20-21; Milton Keynes area
        72/26; Northampton 03/52; 07/19, 19; Oundle 93/40; Pitstone Hill
        04/24; Princes Risborough 04/27; Rowbarrow, Brakelands Farm 00/56;
        Thorpe Mandeville 93/40; White Horse Hill 97/68; 06/50; 07/59; see
        also under: Dunstable; Eye, Nhants; Goring; Irthlingborough;
        Lower Radley; Oxford; Rollright Stones; Shakenoak Farm; Warmington;
        West Cotton; Willington; Wolverton; Wytham
    unspecified: Bedford Southern Bypass 95/7, 9; Dorney 96/23, 25, 29;
        Dunstable 93/2, 19-20, 24; Gatehampton Farm 92/75; Ouse Valley
        95/7, 9; Oxford 95/60; South Stoke 02/43
  undated: Abingdon 78/117; 91/111, 112-13; Ashbury 78/101, 102, 103;
      Bicester 07/64; Bradenham 07/12; Brize Norton 91/101; Burcot,
      Dorchester 73/6; Chipping Norton 91/80; Drayton 75/34; East Challow
      03/59; Finmere 91/79; Gatehampton Farm 92/75; Oxford, Port Meadow
      91/101; Oxfordshire Cotswolds, round 84/48, 49, 50-8; Passenham
      91/64-5; Radley Barrow 87/96; Raunds 86/85; Rollright Stones 84/121;
      Saunderton 82/22; Stanwick 91/76; (SU 61038538) 74/29; Wakerley Great
      Wood 96/42; West Cotton 91/69; see also under: Chadlington;
      Chastleton; Chesterton; Childrey; Chilson; Churchill; Cornbury;
      Crawley; Deddington; Enstone; Fawler; Fritwell; Hailey; Holcot;
      Hook Norton; Ivinghoe Beacon; Kiddington; Kidlington; Leafield;
      Letcombe Bassett; Letcombe Regis; Little Tew; Lockinge; Lyneham;
      Maple Hill; Mixbury; New Yatt; Orton Longville; Over Norton; Ramsden;
      Sarsden; Shipton under Wychwood; Sibford Gower; Spelsbury;
      Swalcliffe; Swanbourne; Swinbrook and Widford; Tadmarton; Tubney;
      Uffington; Wolverton; Woodford; Woolstone; Wootton; Wychwood Forest
Barry, Sir Charles (1795-1860, architect) 95/32
Barry, John (fl. 1544, of Hampton Gay) 00/62
Bartlow Hills, Essex; Roman glass 92/16
Barton, Oxon see under Oxford
Barton Abbey, Oxon; Hoar Stone 91/82
Barton-in-the-Clay, Beds 82/17, 20; 87/4; 90/2; 97/15, 15
  Barton Hill Farm 81/2, 3, 4, 5; 93/26, 27; 95/21, 22
  Barton Mill 91/25
  The Bury, Iron Age to post-medieval 99/1
  by-pass; RB and medieval finds 90/12-13
  The Rectory, Church Road; prehistoric, and Saxon to post-medieval 05/5
  ring ditches 90/8
Barton Court Farm, Radley, Oxon
  Neolithic 77/65; 78/106, 107
  Iron Age 73/26, 27; 75/41; 78/106, 107; 79/35
  Roman villa 73/26, 27; 76/62, 63, 64; 77/64, 65, 66, 67; 78/106, 107,
      108; 81/132, 134, 158; 83/152; 84/120; 93/66; agriculture 75/39, 41;
      76/63, 64-5; 77/65; corn dryers 75/39; 77/65, 67; 78/106, 108
  Saxon 73/26, 27; 76/65; 77/67; 78/107, 108; 81/158
  medieval and post-medieval 78/107, 108
  organic remains 73/26; 76/62, 63, 64-5; 78/106; 81/158; 83/151, 152
  post-excavation work 78/98; 79/111; 80/139; 81/100, 146, 158
Barton Hartshorn, Bucks 87/105
Barton Hill Farm, Beds 81/2, 3, 4, 5; 93/26, 27; 95/21, 22
Barton Seagrave, Nhants 92/34
  Barton Seagrave Hall 06/25
  moats 74/25-6; 76/23, 24, 25; 03/51
  Polwell Lane 06/31
  St Botolph's Church 88/60
  Saxon cemetery see under Burton Latimer
  village earthworks 74/25, 26
Basildon, Oxon 96/iv
basketry (see also: wattle; wickerwork)
  C3-4, Claydon Pike 84/96
  C19 reed beds for, Cholsey 03/74-5
Baskerville, Sir Thomas, of Bayworth 04/54
Basmead Manor, Beds 87/29, 30; 88/25, 26
Bassett, Francis, of Evenley Hall (fl. 1735) 03/47
Bassett-Lowke, Joseph (fl. 1917, of Northampton) 07/18
bastardy 98/94
Bath, Avon; C12 pottery 86/115
bath-houses and bath suites
  Roman: Alchester 99/63, 64; 00/74, 78, 77, 79; 02/93; Bancroft see under
      Bancroft (villa); Gatehampton Farm, Goring 06/51, 52-3, 52, 53, 54;
      North Leigh 91/82; Northampton 00/40, 41; Piddington 86/73; 93/53,
      56-7; 95/iii; 04/51, 53, 54; Rushton 00/37; Stanford-in-the-Vale
      88/87; Stantonbury villa 81/64-5; 82/79, 80, 81; 83/49, 50, 51-2;
      Thenford 73/17; Vindonissa 02/93; Wollaston 85/64; Wootton Hill Farm
      74/22; 80/22
  Turkish, Tew Park 79/100
Battams family of Bradwell, Milton Keynes 91/55-6
Baulking, Oxon 77/52
  C1 occupation 77/33, 34
  Uffington Brick and Tile Co 80/101
  village earthworks 77/48
Bayeux, bishop of: and Bolnhurst 87/25; 89/9, 10-13
  see also Odo
Bayllol family and Harwell Middle Farm 88/139
Bayworth, Oxon; Manor Farm, medieval and post-medieval house and gardens
    04/54-5, 55
Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leics; late Bronze Age hoard 87/15
Beacon Hill, Oxon; late or sub-Roman cemetery 73/37, 38
Beaconsfield, Bucks
  St Mary and All Saints Church 06/18
  ridge and furrow 79/19-20
Beadlow, Beds
  Beadlow Manor 90/14, 16
  Top Farm, medieval features 07/3
beads
  amber
    Bronze Age: Abingdon 77/63; Dorney 97/30
    Iron Age; Radley 83/142
    Saxon: Berinsfield 76/68; Dinton 92/20; Headington (necklace) 04/70;
        Kempston 91/31; Stanford-in-the-Vale 77/34; Watchfield 84/122
    medieval: Grove Priory 79/42; Henley 84/106
  amethyst, Saxon: Kempston Church End 92/8; Tattenhoe 93/33
  bone; Bronze Age, Abingdon 77/63
  bronze spacer, Saxon; Cambridge 80/45
  clay; Barrow Hills 86/111
  crystal; Brighthampton 91/31
  faience; Roman, Bancroft 85/38
  glass
    Bronze Age: Cholsey 86/96; Radwell 74/7; 76/15
    Roman; Bancroft 85/38, 40; Denham 02/14-15; Kempston/Biddenham 07/1;
        Marcham/Frilford 04/91; Ruxox 92/6; Wigmore Valley Park 98/15
    Saxon: Barrow Hills 82/182; Berinsfield 76/68; Briar Hill 76/34; Dinton
        92/20; Ducklington 75/41; Grove Priory 85/16; Kempston 91/31; 92/8;
        Long Wittenham 91/31; Oundle 00/40; Tattenhoe 93/33; Upton 90/52;
        Yarnton 91/89, 90
    medieval; Bradwell Abbey 83/61
    undated; Wraysbury 76/77; 77/15
  ivory; Long Wittenham 91/31
  jet
    Bronze Age: Abingdon 77/63; Radwell 74/7
    Roman: Denham 02/14-15; Ruxox 92/6
  lignite; Bronze Age, Abingdon 77/63
  paste melon, Roman; Abingdon 97/50
  pottery, Saxon; Kempston 91/31
  terracotta; Long Wittenham 91/31
  unspecified
    Roman; Dunstable 78/7
    Saxon: Berinsfield 75/41; Burton Latimer 80/45; Cambridge 80/45;
        Harwell 77/15; Holdenby 80/45; Kempston 77/6; 86/10; Luton 80/45
beakers see under glass; pottery
beam engine; Great Tew 79/102
beam footing, Roman; Dorchester 93/70
beam-slots see slots
bean, celtic; Abingdon 76/65
bear, brown; Lower Palaeolithic, Stanton Harcourt 97/ii
bearing stone for potter's wheel, medieval; Lyveden 71/20
Beauchamp family of Castlethorpe 94/17
Beauchamp family of Ditchley; and Bloxham 80/107
Beaulieu Abbey, Beds 92/18
Beaumont, Robert de (d. 1190, 2nd Earl of Leicester) 92/41
Beaumont Castle, Mixbury, Oxon 79/83
Beauvais Abbey; settlement at Weedon Lois 75/28
beavers
  Neolithic/early Bronze Age skeleton; Dorney 96/26; 97/111
  late Bronze/early Iron Age dams; Oxford 01/45
  Iron Age teeth; Mingies Ditch 78/114
  prehistoric timbers gnawed by 98/79, 81, 82, 83
Becanford, battle of (571) 90/81
Beche family of Applehanger 89/59
Beckley, Oxon
  Beckley Palace moated site 93/69
  Beckley Park 73/22-3, 24, 25
  Pound Cottage, High Road, medieval pits 03/60
  Walled Garden, High Street 93/69
Beckley and Stowood, Oxon
  Closes Field, Ot Moor, post-medieval field divisions 07/25
  Sidlings Copse 81/80
Becks Land South, Beds; Gallo-Belgic, Saxon and post-medieval 03/3
Bede (673-735, scholar) 00/58
Bedford (see also Kempston)
  prehistoric
    Russell Avenue 01/7-9, 8
  Neolithic
    Cambridge Road (henge) 06/4-5, 4
    Goldington Bury Farm 88/7, 8-10, 11
  Neolithic/Bronze Age
    Biddenham Loop 97/2-5, 3
    ritual complex east of 94/6
  Bronze Age
    Cambridge Road 06/4-5, 4
    Cutler Hammer sportsground 00/1
  Iron Age
    adjacent to Bunyan Centre, settlement and ritual complex 96/0, 1, 2
    Cambridge Road 06/4-5, 4
  Iron Age/Roman
    Biddenham Loop 97/2-5, 3
    Cambridge Road 06/4-5, 4
    cemetery, pottery from Roman 85/10
    Cutler Hammer sportsground 00/1
    Eastcotts Roman settlement 06/4-5
    Elstow/Harrowden area 98/5, 6
    Newnham 73/17-18; 74/9; 75/17; 76/17; 77/43
    Norse Road 94/6; 97/5-8, 6-7; 98/5
    Southern Bypass 98/5, 6
  Saxon
    Cambridge Road 06/4-5, 4
    Castle site 71/15; 81/6; 00/90
    cemeteries 85/10
    coin of Alfred 87/8
    Danish invasion 86/28
    Elstow/Harrowden area 98/5, 6
    High Street 96/1
    Howard Chapel, St Mary's Street 97/2
    King's Ditch 91/5
    Lime Street 90/12
    monastery, C7-8 87/7
    Newnham 76/17
    Russell Avenue area, weapon burials 01/7
    Ray's Close 03/1-2, 8-9, 8
    St Cuthbert's Street 98/1-2
    St John's Street 85/16, 18
    St Mary's Church 03/2
    St Paul's Square 98/1, 2, 3-4
    Southern Bypass 98/5, 6
    strap end, copper alloy, niello inlaid 87/8
  Saxo-Norman 77/43-4; 92/17
    Howard Chapel 02/5
    Peacocks Yard/Salvation Army sites 78/14-15
    Ray's Close 03/1-2, 8-9, 8
    St John's Street 75/24; 77/17; 85/16, 18
    St Mary's Church 03/2
    Silver Street 85/16; 87/9
  medieval 87/4; 92/17
    Anglers Inn 73/28
    boundary ditch 78/14-15
    bridge, packhorse 87/3
    bridge abutment 72/23
    C14 decline 82/15
    Cardington Road 98/2, 5
    Castle 71/15; 72/23; 73/28; 77/43; 78/27, 36; 83/3; 86/28; 87/7; siege,
        1224 73/28; 77/43; 87/7, 8; 88/14; destruction 91/21
    Castle Hill 73/28
    Castle Mound 03/1
    Cauldwell Priory 92/18
    Cauldwell Street 74/21; 78/28
    Duck Mill Lane 85/16; 86/28
    High Street 96/1
    iron working 87/8
    Kempston Road 04/1
    Kings Ditch 72/23; 77/43; 85/18
    lime kiln 73/28; 74/21; 77/43; 03/1
    meat consumption 82/19
    Midland Road 74/22; 75/24; 77/44; 80/2; (Liberal Club, TL 048498) 80/2,
        3-4; 86/28
    Mill Street 72/23; 78/36; 97/9
    moated sites 90/2
    Newnham Priory 72/18; 77/43; 83/3; 88/14-15; 91/20, 21-2; 92/18; 98/19;
        (fishponds) 86/18, 19, 20; 90/12
    parish survey 88/7
    Peacocks Yard and Salvation Army sites 78/14-15
    pottery 82/19
    Ray's Close 03/1-2, 8-9, 8
    rescue archaeology 77/43-4; 83/2-3
    River Street 98/2
    Riverside Square 07/7
    Rose Yard 73/28
    Saffron Ditch 78/14-15; 80/2, 3-4
    St Cuthbert's Street 93/4, 5-6, 7; 98/1-2
    St John's Hospital 77/17
    St John's Street 75/24; 77/17, 44; 78/14, 36
    St Leonard's leper hospital 97/8
    St Mary's Street 72/23; 73/28; 77/44; 97/2
    St Paul's Church 88/14, (churchyard) 87/7-8
    St Paul's Square 86/25; 87/7-9; 98/1, 2, 3-4
    St Peter de Dunstable; cemetery 74/21-2
    shops 87/8
    Silver Street 85/16; 87/9
    urban origins 82/15
  post-medieval
    C19-20 growth 93/32
    Castle Close 89/2
    Foster Hill Road; garden terraces 87/6
    Horne Lane 07/7
    Howard Chapel, Mill Street 97/9
    Midland Road Station 82/59
    Newnham Priory 91/20, 21-2; 92/18
    Riverside Square 07/7
    St Cuthbert's Street 85/5; 93/5-6, 7; 98/1-2
    St Paul's Square 97/9; 98/1, 2, 3-4
    Town Hall extension 86/25
  in Extensive Urban Survey for Bedfordshire 01/3, 4
  new architecture 91/26
  St Johns Area Relief Scheme 97/8
  St Mary's Church Archaeology centre 91/3, 4, 5-6, 8
  St Paul's Church 91/21
  St Peter de Dunstable church 91/5
  Stephenson Lower School 03/16
  synthetic study, Hassall and Baker 1974 01/3-4
  Town Centre Improvement Scheme 98/2
Bedford, Dukes of 90/13-14
Bedford, John Russell, 1st Earl of (1486?-1555) 88/60; 92/18
Bedford Estate cottages 85/6
Bedford Estates map (1762) 93/25
Bedford Southern Bypass 93/7, 9, 10-12; 95/i, 1, 2-11, 3
  Bumpy Lane; Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, medieval 95/3, 4, 10
  Bunyan's Farm; Iron Age features 95/i, 3, 4
  Cardington Neolithic/Bronze Age ceremonial complex 83/9; 90/9-11; 91/8,
      9, 10-11; 92/6, 7
  Cardington Cross; late Iron Age/Roman activity 95/7, 10
  Eastcotts; Mesolithic, Neolithic, Iron Age, Roman 95/3, 7, 8, 10
  Harrowden; Iron Age finds, Roman settlement, shrunken medieval village
      95/3, 7, 10
  Manor Farm; Iron Age features, mid-Saxon settlement 93/9, 10; 95/i, 3, 4
  Octagon Farm; Neolithic/Bronze Age ritual landscape, early Iron Age field
      system 95/3, 7, 9, 10
  Peartree Farm; Roman farmstead 93/10, 12; 95/2, 3, 4, 5, 10
  TL 095500, north of Cardington/Cople 90/4, 5
  Village Farm; late Neolithic/early Bronze Age, Iron Age, Saxon, Saxo-
      Norman, medieval 95/3, 4, 6, 10
Bedford Western Bypass 94/5; 07/1-3, 1-3
  TL 0147 4739; prehistoric flints, Roman cremation, possible shrine,
      cultivation; Saxo-Norman occupation; medieval settlement; post-
      medieval cultivation 07/2-3, 3
  TL 0163 4768; prehistoric flints, late Iron Age, Roman and Saxon
      occupation, medieval strip fields 07/1-2, 2
  TL 0192 4797; prehistoric flints, Iron Age and Roman farmsteads, Roman
      cemeteries and pottery kiln 07/1, 1
Bedfordshire
  Bridges of Bedfordshire, A Simco and Peter McKeague; review 98/93
  County Archaeology Service organization 99/1
  Extensive Urban Survey 01/3-4
Bedfordshire Archaeology, Vol.23; review 00/90-1
Bedgrove, Aylesbury, Bucks
  Bedgrove Farm 81/13
  Jansel Square 95/24
Beerchurch, Essex; Roman glass 92/15
bees, honey; Iron Age, Mingies Ditch 82/178
Beesley, Alfred; History of Banbury (1841) 99/53; 05/61
beetles
  dung: Aphodius: Alchester 76/67; Mingies Ditch 78/114; Odell 77/10;
      Onthophagus; Odell 77/10; unspecified: Oxford 96/60; Yarnton 99/85
  great silver (Hydrophilus piceus); Alchester 76/67
  Phyllopertha horticola; Mingies Ditch 78/114
  woodworm (Anobium punctatum) 81/158; 82/180
  unspecified; Odell 77/10; Stanton Harcourt (Lower Palaeolithic) 97/ii;
      Wellingborough (medieval) 93/53
Begbroke, Oxon
  Begbroke Rising Main 00/46
  Begbroke to Yarnton Mains Replacement; Roman, Saxon and post-medieval
      02/39
  Coach House, 25 Spring Hill Road 05/48
  St Michael's Church 86/94-5
Behrtwulf, King of Mercia 91/85
Bell, Robert Anning 81/90
bell cage; Sundon 82/60
bell towers: Abingdon 90/77, 78; Charney Bassett 91/101; Marcham 83/132;
    Oxford, Christ Church 86/102; Pembridge 90/77
Belle Tout, Sussex; well or shaft 00/88
bell-founders' pits: Lane End 82/22; Thurleigh 72/18-19
bells
  animal: Dorney (Saxon) 98/30; Fringford (medieval) 98/86
  church, mounted on porch, Whitchurch Hill 84/44, 45
  crotal, medieval; Grafton Regis 92/33
  harness, C17/18 bronze, Simpson 82/82
  hawking, bronze medieval, Chalgrove 81/152
  small Saxon bronze, Cogges Priory 81/81-2; 82/90
Belsize, Castor, Nhants; monastic grange 77/26
belt fittings (see also buckles)
  Neolithic; slider, jet or shale; Barrow Hills 84/114, 115; 86/107
  late Roman military: Dyke Hills, Dorchester 73/6; Shakenoak Farm 72/12,
      16
  Saxon: gold and silver, stylised animal ornament, Barton Court Farm
      75/41; with ring, Kempston 86/12
  medieval: chape, incised with figures, unprovenanced 75/5; plate, bronze,
      Lyveden 74/13
belts, leather
  Billington Hill (medieval) 99/7
  Oxford 71/23
Benares, Maharajah of (fl. 1863) 81/95
Benedictine order (see also Cogges (Priory); Elstow)
  Minster Lovell Priory 78/72
  Oxford houses 77/36, 37; Durham College 87/62
Benefield, Nhants
  Biggin Hall 91/59
  Lyveden Old Bield 91/59
  moat 76/24, 25
  Yokehill Fisheries, Roman and medieval 04/39
Benett, John (fl. 1453, bailiff of Thame) 90/62
Benson, Oxon 80/137; 84/37
  prehistoric; airfield site 88/74-5; 97/iv; St Helen's Avenue 00/79-80
  Neolithic pottery 06/36, 38
  late Iron Age/Roman; Mill Lane 77/56, 71; 78/98
  Roman: road 78/5, 6; St Helen's Avenue 00/79-80
  Saxon; St Helen's Avenue 00/79-80
  medieval 94/39; Fyfield Manor 83/115; 01/59; St Helen's Church 00/44;
      Watlington Road 94/39
  post-medieval: St Helen's Church 00/44
  Oxford Road; Little Chef 00/80
  RAF Benson 03/83
  Watlington Road 00/80
  White Hart Hotel, Castle Square 94/38-9
Benton, Leonard, potter, of Potterspury (fl. 04/1646) 04/43
Benty Grange, Derbys; Saxon helmet 98/38
Beornwald, St 86/87, 89
Beowulf 87/106
Berengar Le Moyne 86/81
Bergh Apton, Norfolk; Saxon brooch 80/47
Bergkamen-Oberaden legionary fortress, Germany 04/81
Berinsfield, Oxon
  Mount Farm 79/111, 113, 114, 115; 82/179
    Neolithic 78/108; 79/113, 114
    Beaker period 78/108; 79/113
    Bronze Age, middle to late 79/113, 114
    Iron Age 79/114, 115
    Roman 76/67; 79/114, 115
    Saxon 78/110; 79/114, 115
    animal bones 81/157; 83/151
    organic samples 81/148, 157; 82/179; 83/151; 84/121
    post-excavation work 79/112; 80/139; 81/148; 82/117; 83/115-16
  new housing sites 04/69
  Wally Corner Saxon cemetery 75/34, 40, 41; 76/67, 68; 79/115; 81/148-50,
      151; 82/117, 170; 96/76
Berkshire Downs
  Bronze/Iron Age enclosures 99/51
  field systems 97/68
  linear ditches, late Bronze Age 01/80, 82-3, 86-7
  new sites 78/101, 102, 103-4
Bernard, Francis (fl. 1742-4); and Lewknor 77/39
Bernwood Forest, Bucks/Oxon 83/117; 85/72
Berry Grove, Windsor & Maidenhead; unsubstantiated villa site 71/26
Berryfields, Bucks; prehistoric to post-medieval 00/11
Beverley, James (fl. 1671, of Cainhoe Castle) 87/27
Bicester, Oxon
  Mesolithic flints; Slade Farm 97/45
  Bronze Age
    hoard 91/100
    Slade Farm settlement 97/45
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
  Iron Age
    Bicester Fields Farm 99/75-6
    Eastern Perimeter Road, Bicester Park 05/66, 67, 68
    Gavray Drive 06/35
    Oxford Road 99/76; 03/74
    Slade Farm settlement 97/45; 99/76
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
  Roman
    Bicester House Cottage 90/80
    Bicester Sewage Treatment Works 00/46
    Causeway 01/43
    Chapel Street 01/43
    Eastern Perimeter Road, Bicester Park 05/66, 67, 68
    'Happy Eater', Forte development 95/49
    King's End Farm settlement 78/117; 79/123, 124, 125; 80/138, 168-9;
        81/115; 91/107-9
    late Roman burials 78/117
    Middleton Stoney Road 03/74
    Oxford Road 03/74
    Skimmingdish Lane 01/67
    South Farm Development 89/49-50
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
  Saxon
    Causeway 01/43
    Chapel Street 00/47; 01/43
    Oxford Road 03/74
    Proctor's Yard 00/80
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
    town and church 01/79-80
  medieval 80/170
    Abbey fish-ponds 91/100
    Bicester House 84/99-100, 101; 90/80
    Bicester Library 96/55
    Bicester Sewage Treatment Works 00/46
    Causeway 81/115; 00/47; 01/43; 06/39
    Chapel Street 00/47; 01/43
    church of St Edburg 80/170; 85/114
    Hanover Gardens 87/80
    'Happy Eater', Forte development 95/49
    hollow way 84/99, 101
    King's End manor 84/99-100, 101; 90/80; 91/107; 06/39
    Lower Home Close 80/139, 169, 170; 81/115; 87/81
    manor of Nuns of Markyate 80/170; 84/99-100, 101; 87/80-1
    MOD Bicester 03/74
    Old Vicarage 90/67
    Priory of St Edburg 77/36, 37; 80/170; 82/140; 83/103, 116; 85/114;
        88/126; 90/67; 96/55
    Proctor's Yard 00/80
    quarries 80/170; 87/81
    Queens Avenue Housing Development 86/95; 87/80-1
    ridge and furrow 84/99, 101; 99/75
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
    Wesley Lane 06/39
  post-medieval
    Causeway 81/115, 157-8; 00/46-7; 01/43; 06/39
    Gavray Drive 06/35
    'Happy Eater', Forte development 95/49
    King's End 77/51
    land reclamation, C17 81/115
    London Road 78/71; 79/125; 07/26
    MOD Bicester 03/74
    Old Stables, Priory Lane 96/67
    Priory House 88/126-7, 128, 129
    Sewage Treatment Works 79/125
    Sheep Street 78/117
    SP 57100 22000 07/64
    Town Brook; C17-18 re-ordering 01/43
  Bure Place Car Park 26
  Bicester Retail Village 01/40
  Old Courthouse and Police Station, Church Street 99/39
  Graven Hill to Ambroseden replacement water pipeline and tank 05/87
  Launton Road 06/39
  St David's Barracks 39
  Skimmingdish Road 05/67
  Southwold County Primary School 94/54
  Telford Road 06/44
  Tesco supermarket site 91/100-1
Biddenham, Beds 83/9
  prehistoric: Biddenham Loop multi-period site 92/6; 96/10; 97/1, 2-5, 3;
      98/5; 05/4; Bromham Road multi-period site 05/5-6; 07/3; ring
      ditches, flint distribution and settlement pattern 77/23-5; Great
      Denham Village Medical Centre 05/4; TL 02/025 508, round barrows
      02/5-6
  Iron Age/Roman: Bromham Road 05/5-6; Gold Lane settlement 91/12, 13
  Roman sites to south 87/4, 6
  Saxo-Norman and medieval; Main Road 00/1
  medieval; church of St James 02/1; Great Denham Village Medical Centre
      05/4
  post-medieval; Bromham Road 00/4; TL 02/025 508, windmill 02/5-6
  Biddenham Loop, TL 022 484; undated large ditch 07/7
  Church End; earthwork survey 93/3
  Vicars Close 04/2
  see also Bedford Western Bypass
Biddlesden, Bucks
  Abbey House Farm Iron Age and Roman 95/29
  St Margaret's Church 93/31
Bidford-on-Avon, Warks; Saxon cemetery 91/33
Bidwell, Beds 97/13, 14; 99/12
  ridge and furrow 91/30
  Roman site 86/29, 30, 31-2, 33, 34, 35; 91/1, 28, 29; 94/2; 95/22
Bierton, Bucks 80/10, 12-13; 87/34
  Belgic settlement 76/15-16; 77/45; 80/12; 82/21; 89/14
  Roman 76/16; 80/12; 89/14; 05/16
  Saxon 77/45; 80/13; 05/16
  medieval/C16 80/13
  Bierton House, Aylesbury Road 05/16
  Church Farm 97/15-16
  St James' Church 98/21
  St Osyth's or Uptown Well 01/19
Biggleswade, Beds (see also Stratton) 82/15, 16, 20; 83/3; 86/18; 90/2
  Dunton Lane, early medieval expansion of Stratton DMV 02/1; 03/2
  Extensive Urban Survey for Bedfordshire 01/3
  Greene King Brewery 99/1
  medieval 94/6; 02/1; 03/2
  post-medieval; Shortmead Street 01/6
  Drill Hall Industrial Estate, Shortmead Street 03/10
  Oak Tree Farm 07/3-4
  St Andrew's School 91/25
Biggleswade Reinforcement Water Main 01/1; 02/5
billhook 91/121
Billington, Beds 82/6; 90/2; 00/6
  Billington Hill hillfort 99/7-9; 01/6-7, 7; 02/8: burning and slighting
      of defences 01/6, 7; inhumations 99/8-9; medieval buckle plate 99/7,
      9, 9; pottery 99/7, 8, 13; Roman feature 01/6, 7; Saxon acromegalic
      skull 99/8-9; medieval building 01/6-7, 7
  Choakes Yard; undated features 02/2
  Summerleys Farm, Mesolithic to post-medieval finds 01/9, 9-10
Binfield Brick and Tile Works, Oxon 73/45
Binfield Heath, Oxon; Elephant Well 84/44, 45, 46
Binsey, Oxon; pit alignment 77/59, 60
Bird family of Bradwell, Milton Keynes 91/56
birds
  in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age inhumation 90/10
  Roman; Alchester 92/45; Marcham/Frilford 04/88
  medieval; Thame 03/77-8; Wallingford 92/54
Birinus (fl. 635, bishop of Dorchester) 88/144; 01/79
Birmingham, W Midlands; Weoley Castle 83/76
Biscot, Beds see under Luton
Bishop of Leighton Buzzard (clay pipe maker) 92/10
Bishopstone, Bucks 00/11
  Roman pottery 88/36, 39
bison, Palaeolithic; Stanton Harcourt 97/ii
bits, medieval iron
  curb; Hanslope 02/15
  snaffle: Lyveden 71/20; Stotfold 95/16
  woodworking; Lyveden 74/13
Bitton Church, Glos; medieval tiles 81/83
Bixa, Hugh and Hilda de (fl. 1205, of Applehanger) 89/59
Black Bourton, Oxon
  Manor Farm 92/59, 62
  parish survey 84/47
  St Mary's churchyard, Saxon settlement and shrines 07/26
  west of St Mary's Church, middle Saxon 03/60-1
Black Death 82/41; 88/14-15; 90/58; 04/26
Black Prince, Edward 95/32
Blacklands, King's Sutton, Oxon 72/15; 82/43, 44
Blacklands Farm, Bolnhurst, Beds 89/10, 11, 12
Blackmore, Essex; priory church belfry 86/102
Blacknall family of Abingdon 89/45, 90-78
blacksmithing see metalworking
Blackstone family of Wallingford 79/19
  Sir William (lawyer) 79/19
Blackthorn, Nhants 73/29
Blackthorn, Oxon
  Elm Tree Farm, Station Road, late Saxon and medieval 02/67; 04/69; 05/48
  land adjacent to Royal Oak 95/49; 97/55
blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); Mingies Ditch 78/114
blade cores, flint: Abingdon (Mesolithic) 94/56; Sutton Wick (Neolithic)
    99/38, 39
blades and bladelets (see also knives)
  flint
    Mesolithic: Abingdon 95/72; 04/56; Caddington 95/20; Cardington 05/11;
        Chalton Manor Farm 03/16; Cholsey 01/43; Cogges 02/42; Denham
        02/14; Houghton Regis area 99/12; Marlow 01/19
    Neolithic: Banbury 01/42; Caddington 99/10; Cardington 05/11; Cholsey
        01/43; Lavendon 94/15; Sutton Wick 99/38, 39
    Bronze Age: Caddington 99/10; Harlington 94/8; Piddington 04/46
    undated: Chalton Cross Farm 96/7, 9, 9; Chil Brook 93/61; Drayton
        96/44; Eastcotts 93/7; Houghton Regis area 93/30; Piddington,
        93/53; Stoke Hammond 95/27; Streatley, Barton and Sundon 96/5;
        Uffington 07/57; Warmington 96/39; Yarnton, 93/82
  iron, Saxon: Stotfold 95/16; Towcester 93/42
Bladon, Oxon 82/140
  Bladon Round Castle 81/106; 88/94
Blakesley, Nhants; High Street, Kendall House, late and post-medieval 07/16
Blatherwycke Boundary Cross, Nhants 02/26; 04/35
Blatherwycke Hall, Nhants 06/25
Bledlow cum Saunderton, Bucks 88/27, 31
  Bledlow Ridge round barrows 76/6
  Cherrymead, Bledlow Road 05/16
Blenheim Park, Woodstock, Oxon
  Grim's Ditch 84/100, 102; 98/74
  High Lodge 99/70-1
  'King's Palace' 76/23
  Kitchen court 05/84
  North Lodge 07/42
  watermill 77/48
  former Woodstock Park 81/80; 82/114
Bletchingdon, Oxon 00/62
  Port Way 72/15
Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Bucks (see also Simpson)
  bellarmine jug 82/82
  Bletchley Park, (Government Code and Cypher School) 93/1, 34; 94/13-14;
      04/13, (Roman settlement) 74/33; 93/34; 94/14; 95/33
  Buckingham Road: medieval and post-medieval boundaries 07/8; Salvation
      Army Hall 03/21
  Denbigh Secondary School site 95/26
  maps 80/79; 81/74
  Newton Leys, Mesolithic to Bronze Age flints 96/10; Iron Age, Roman and
      medieval features 07/12
  Reckitts Colour Site 97/16
  Rectory Cottages 90/1
  Roman
    Bletchley Park see above
    ditch (MK 308) 76/44
    Newton Leys 07/12
    Sherwood Drive coin find 82/82
    Windmill Hill farmstead 72/15; 80/78
  St Mary's Church 85/55-7; 96/22-3
  Saxon sword stud 87/41
  Stoke Road: Saxon/medieval 06/7; canal footbridge 05/11
  Water Eaton Estate 81/74
  Water Hall 74/33
  Wilton Road 04/13
Bletsoe, Beds
  Castle 87/9-10, 27, 28, 29, 30; 90/2, 14; 94/3
  Castle Barns 06/5
  Castle Farm; garden earthworks 94/9
  hunting lodge 80/41
  Roman cemetery 71/9-10; 96/78
  Roman villa 95/2
  settlement pattern, C17 84/7
  St John family 93/32
  St Mary's Church 84/9; 93/32
Blewburton, Oxon; hillfort 73/7; 81/106, 107
Blewbury, Oxon
  Anglo-Saxon bounds 87/107
  Blewbury de-commissioning pipeline 07/22
  Church End House; medieval sherd 94/39
  Grim's Ditch at Churn and Woodway Farm 81/117
  late Bronze Age pottery 81/117
  lynchets, possible (SU 506833) 78/102, 104
  Neolithic pits, London Road 85/93-4
  ring ditch (SU 515831) 78/102, 104
  Turnpike House 84/77; (barns) 84/83, 84, 85, 86, 88
  vicarage; burials, possibly medieval 80/171
Blisworth, Nhants 76/28; 91/71
  Blisworth Tunnel 02/25
Blockley, Marion; Windows on the Past 92/28
Bloet, Robert (d. 1123, bishop of Lincoln) 91/104
Blome family, and Brightwell Baldwin 07/46
Blomfield, J. C. 88/126
Blore, Edward (1787-1879, architect) 93/31
Bloxham, Oxon 80/103, 104, 105, 106, 107-23
  church 80/113-14
  documentary history 80/107-8
  domestic buildings 80/115-18
  industry 80/110, 119-20; 81/95
  land to rear of St Mary's Church 00/80
  Old School and Manor Hotel 95/49
  plan elements 80/110-13, 118
  public buildings 80/113-15
  Roman: cemetery 80/105; 81/142; roads 82/43, 44, 45
  village economy and field system 80/108-9
Bloxham Grove, Oxon
  late Neolithic flints 98/70
  Roman farmstead 98/65-6
Blundell, Sir George (fl. 1671, of Cardington) 87/27
Blunham, Beds
  bridge 88/6; 89/1
  Manor House 82/60, 61
Blunsdon, Wilts; Farmoor to Blunsdon Thames Water pipeline 03/57
boar, wild
  early Iron Age; Little Wittenham 05/71
  Roman; Wigginton (tusks) 03/82
  medieval; Kislingbury (tusks) 04/32
Boars Hill, Oxon
  Lincombe Lane 93/77
  Roman pottery kiln 02/39, 39
Boarstall, Bucks (see also under pottery)
  Boarstall Tower 98/20, 22; 99/14, 15, 16; 00/13-17, 14-16; 02/17; gardens
      99/16; 00/17; 02/17
  medieval pottery scatters 77/44
  Roman hearth and tegulae 90/17
  undated ditch 90/17
boathouse, possible; Bedford 07/7
boats
  Roman; Zwammerdam, Netherlands 74/5
  medieval; Caldecotte 83/44, 46-7
bobbin, Roman wooden; Bedford 06/4
Bockhampton DMV, W Berks 72/2
Boddington hillfort, Wendover, Bucks 76/7; 92/21; 97/16
Bodicote, Oxon 79/94
  Roman roads 82/43, 44, 45
Bodkin, F. E. (fl. 1907, of Thames Valley and Goring Water and Gas Co Ltd)
    82/51
Boece, Hector (1465?-1536, historian) 91/32
Bolingbroke, Earls of 87/27, 29; 90/13
Bolnhurst, Beds 79/17; 82/17, 18-19; 87/24-5, 30; 89/9-13; 90/2, 3
  church 82/19
bomb craters, WWII; Rotherfield Peppard 07/51, 51, 52
bone, animal (see also individual species and animal burials, deliberate;
    skulls)
  OAU work 80/139; 81/157-8; 82/118, 176-7; 83/154-6
  prehistoric: Chipping Norton 05/68; Grendon 75/14; Peep O Day Lane,
      Abingdon 92/72; Radley 98/47; Sandy 99/4; Willington 96/5
  Pleistocene; Marsworth 78/2
  Lower Palaeolithic; Stanton Harcourt 97/ii
  Mesolithic: Braywick 73/13; Dorney 96/23, 25, 26; Wawcott 75/9; 76/11
  Neolithic: Ashbury 94/36; Barrow Hills 85/102, 104; 86/109; Barton Court
      Farm 78/106; Dorchester 83/151; Dorney 97/27, 31; 98/75, 77; 05/27;
      Drayton 95/51; Waulud's Bank, Leagrave 72/5
  Neolithic/Bronze Age; Barrow Hills 86/109; Berinsfield 81/157; 83/151;
      Dorney 95/31; Goldington 90/10; Oxford 77/72; Roxton 73/14;
      Willington 91/12; Yarnton 93/82; 97/34
  late Bronze Age; Cassington 06/45
  late Bronze/early Iron Age; Abingdon 77/63, 65; Clifton Hampden 92/46;
      Cowley, Oxford 96/59; Eynsham 92/47; Uffington 03/78; Yarnton
      (possible ritual deposits) 96/63; 99/85
  Iron Age: Abingdon 76/64; 77/63, 65; 96/54; 02/38; Alfred's Castle 99/51;
      00/84, 85, 89, (deliberate deposits) 00/85; 01/83, 85; Appleford
      76/64, 65, 67; Aylesbury 82/22; 91/39; 01/15; Barton Court Farm
      73/26; 76/64; Bedford 97/5; 06/4, 4; Berinsfield 81/157; 83/151;
      Bicester 99/76; Bierton 76/16; Chalton 94/8; Cogges 01/90-1; Dorney
      97/29; 98/29; Drayton 97/45; Earls Barton 80/24; 02/28;
      Elstow/Harrowden 98/5; Farmoor 76/69; 77/69; Gatehampton Farm 89/51;
      Great Barford 06/6; Harling Road 99/10; Isham Bypass 05/35-6;
      Kempston 98/8; Lavendon 94/15; Little Wittenham 05/69, 71, 72, 77;
      Marcham/Frilford 02/76; 03/86; Marston Moretaine 01/5; Mingies Ditch
      78/114; Northampton 06/28; Radley 93/85; 98/47; Rothwell 05/33;
      Salford, Beds 91/15; 02/3-4; Thrupp 92/63; 99/30; Uffington 97/66;
      07/54, 56, 57, 59; Witney 94/32
  late Iron Age (burnt); Milton Keynes 00/12
  Roman: Abingdon 98/84; Alchester 92/45; Appleford 76/64, 65, 67; Asthall
      93/69; Aylesbury 01/15; Bancroft 85/40; Barton Bypass 90/12; Barton
      Court Farm 76/64-5; Berinsfield 81/157; 83/151; Biddenham 07/1;
      Bierton 76/16; Bloxham 98/66; Chalgrave 92/10; Chalton 94/8; 02/7;
      Crowmarsh (in human burials) 96/75; Dorchester 83/151; 94/54; 02/68;
      Dunstable 74/30; 89/6; 91/26; 04/5; Frilford 82/152; Gatehampton
      95/75; Goldington 90/10; Harling Road 99/10; Hemington 06/26;
      Houghton Regis 01/10; Kempston 98/8; 07/1; Little Wittenham 05/74;
      Luton 00/5; Marcham/Frilford 03/86; 04/86, 88; 05/97, 103; 06/61, 63,
      69; Marston Moretaine 01/5; Middle Aston 98/66; Middleton Cheney
      98/66; Milton 98/66; Milton Keynes 74/34; Newport Pagnell 07/13;
      North Newington 98/65; Nuneham Courtenay, 92/49; Peartree Farm 95/4;
      Radley 75/16; 93/85; Rothwell 05/33; Ruxox 92/6; Salford, Beds 02/4;
      Sandy 90/11; 99/4; Shefford 02/4; Swalcliffe Lea 98/66-7, 67-9;
      99/56; 01/49, 50, 51, 53; Syresham 02/26; Uffington Castle 97/66;
      Wendlebury 84/38; Wigginton 03/82; Wigmore Valley Park 98/15
  Saxon: Abingdon 01/58; Bampton (used as building chocks) 98/49; Barton
      Court Farm 76/65; Black Bourton 03/61; Churchill 03/83; Dorney 98/30;
      Dunstable 04/5; Eynsham 73/18; Finedon Bridge (Viking) 77/15; Harrold
      99/2; Isham Bypass 05/35-6; Pennyland 82/78; Polebrook 03/44;
      Shakenoak 75/12; Silsoe 01/3; Stratton 96/2; 97/2; 98/7; Tempsford
      94/10; Wraysbury 76/77
  medieval: Abingdon 90/91, 93; 94/30; 99/74; 01/67; Aylesbury 82/23;
      Bedford 02/5; Biggleswade 00/1; Blackthorn, Oxon 02/67; Chalgrove
      81/157; Colmworth 06/3; Dunstable 91/28; 04/5; 07/6; Eaton Bray 05/5;
      Eynsham Abbey 92/47; High Wycombe 90/32; Kislingbury 04/32; Limbury
      92/12; Little Wittenham 05/74; Lyveden 74/13; Middleton Stoney 83/33;
      Northampton 98/44; Oundle 03/54; Oxford 80/153, 154; 00/48; Silsoe
      01/3; Somerton 99/43; Tempsford 94/10; Thame Park 03/77-8;
      Wallingford 92/54; 98/89; Wantage 02/69; Witney 01/89; Wraysbury
      76/77; Wykham 88/114, 115
  post-medieval: Abingdon 90/91, 93; 94/30; Alfred's Castle 00/87; Ambury
      Close Farm 93/61; Billington Hill 99/7; Cardington 91/11; Chalgrove
      81/157; Chastleton House 97/47; Dorney 96/29; 97/29; 98/80; Dunstable
      92/10; 04/5; Faringdon 03/75; Little Rollright 00/63; Marlow 99/14;
      Marston Moretaine 98/10; Milton 95/53; Northampton (tanning waste)
      90/40; Old Amersham 02/22; Oxford 80/153, 154; 00/66; 01/60, 63;
      Radley 98/47; Sandy 99/4; Stanbridge 97/13; Sutton Wick 99/38
  undated; Banbury 01/42; Cholsey 83/123-4; Northampton 04/37; Oxford
      02/69; Radley 02/67; Weldon 04/44; Wigginton 02/66
bone, human (see also burials; cemeteries; charnel pits; churchyards;
    cremations; inhumations)
  prehistoric, burnt (pyre site); Denham 01/17
  Iron Age; Abingdon 02/38; Alfred's Castle 00/84, 87; Angelinos Pumping
      Station to Ardley Reservoir Mains Reinforcement (disarticulated)
      06/35; Edworth (fragments) 01/1; Thrupp 92/63
  Roman disarticulated neonate bones; Abingdon Pipeline 04/58
  Saxon; radiocarbon dated, Bampton 92/55
  medieval disarticulated; Clattercote Priory 99/42
  post-medieval; Oxford 01/63
  undated; Reading 01/64
bone objects (see also: antler implements; awls; beads; bracelets;
    chess pieces; combs; counters; dice; discs; flutes; gaming pieces;
    leather working; musical instruments; needles; pendants; pins; plaque;
    points; spindle whorls; spoons; thread beater; toggles; toothbrushes;
    tweezers; whistles)
  late Acheulian, Lower Ouse Valley 97/iii
  Neolithic; Dorney 01/27
  Iron Age: Abingdon 90/73; 01/56; Alfred's Castle 00/84, 85, 89; 01/84;
      Drayton (polished sheep metatarsal) 97/45; Little Wittenham 05/72;
      Thrupp (inscribed item) 73/14
  Roman: Ashley 88/66; Piddington 04/54; Ruxox Farm 72/20
  early/middle Saxon; Black Bourton 07/26
  late Saxon domestic; Stratton 98/7
  medieval tools; Lyveden 71/20
  tubular fitting, beast's head, C11; Chalgrave 87/11
Bonyon's End, Elstow, Beds 87/20, 21
book mount, medieval copper alloy 92/33
book reviews see reviews
books, medieval; Golden Cross, Oxford 87/60-1
boots
  Roman hobnail: Cardington 90/10; Stanton Harcourt 79/133
  C18-19; Stoke Albany 94/27
Bordseye, Thomas (fl. 1782, Oxfordshire carpenter) 84/62
borers, flint: Aston Tirrold 82/86-7; Brixworth 76/12, 13; Jordans 79/3, 5
Borough Hill, Daventry, Nhants; hillfort 91/60; 93/46; 97/43; 00/37-8
Borlase family of Bockmer House 01/22
borrow pits 95/1
Bos; Wawcott 76/11
  Primigenius; Marsworth 78/2
Bosley, W J and Son, of Hill Farm, Little Wittenham 03/79
Bosley (Saxon settlement, Nhants) 81/36
Bosworth, J. 87/102
Boteler, William, of Biddenham (fl. C15) 02/1
Bottle Dump Corner Saxon cemetery, Bucks 92/2; 93/33; 97/79
bottles see pilgrim flasks and under glass
Boughton, Nhants
  Boughton Wood 80/48
  Buckton Fields, prehistoric, Roman and World War 00/II, 36
  parkland 97/43
boulder, large; Little Marlow Church 97/20
Boulton family of Great Tew 79/100, 102
  Mary Anne 79/100
  Matthew Robinson 79/97
boundaries and boundary features (see also banks; enclosures;
    field systems; linear features; and under ditches; earthworks; parks;
    ranch; walls; woodlands)
  prehistoric: Chipping Norton (field) 05/68; Dray's Ditches 99/6; Drayton
      01/59; possible extensive Midlands system 78/26; tribal 98/74-5;
      99/68
  late Bronze Age: Arlesey 3, 4; Bicester 97/45; Stone 00/12
  Iron Age: Arlesey 3, 4; Bedford 95/10; 97/8; Bicester 97/45; Crick 00/36;
      Piddington 04/47; Warmington 93/52; Westcroft (field) 03/35, 36;
      Wollaston (pit alignments superseded by ditches) 95/44, 45
  late Iron Age/early Roman; Kempston 01/1-2
  Roman: Arlesey 3, 4; Bedford 97/8; Drayton 01/59; Irchester (road serving
      as) 95/47; Raunds 96/36, 36; Willington 01/5
  Saxon: Banbury (field, late) 03/60; C10 bounds 87/102-7 passim; Drayton
      01/59; Elstow 04/6; Higham Ferrers 96/43; Kingston Bagpuize with
      Southmoor (parish) 92/49; Linslade (estate) 96/11; Raunds (property,
      late) 03/55; Walton, Aylesbury 95/26; Weedon 95/41
  medieval: Banbury (field, early) 03/60; Bicester (property) 06/39;
      Deanshanger 01/36; Drayton (tenement) 01/68; Glympton (walls) 95/52;
      Hampton Gay 00/63; Higham Ferrers 96/43; 03/50-1; Lewknor 72/28;
      Olney 03/30-1; 04/25; Oxford 04/64; Raunds 03/55; Warmington 04/44;
      Witney 01/46; 03/64
  post-medieval: Abingdon 96/51; 04/58; Didcot West (field) 03/57;
      Northampton 06/29; Olney 04/25; Rockingham 96/42; Sywell 01/33; Wing
      05/14; Witney 99/44; 01/46; 03/64
  inhumations on 99/67
  parish; Hughenden Park 03/32
  wander 92/9
Bourchier, Thomas, Cardinal (1404?-1486) 87/65
Bourn, Cambs; settlement pattern 87/21
Bourne, John (fl. 1671, of Bolnhurst) 89/10
Bourne End, Bucks; Bourne End Marina, Wharf Lane 04/13
Bourne End to Handy Cross Pipeline, Bucks 06/11
Bourton, near Buckingham, Bucks 80/10
Bourton Grounds, Thornborough, Bucks; Iron Age/Roman settlement 93/34
Bow Brickhill, Bucks (see also Caldecotte; Magiovinium) 79/60, 61, 62
  All Saints' church 93/31
  Belvedere Nurseries, Roman and post-medieval 05/20
  Crossroads Farm 07/15
Bow Brickworks, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxon 80/101
Bowles, Rev John (fl. 1772, of Great Coxwell) 79/87
Bowling Green Farm, Faringdon, Oxon; Roman 75/54; 89/54, 55; 95/51
bowls (see also under: glass; pewter)
  bronze
    Roman; Claydon Pike 82/168; 83/102
    Saxon hanging; Wollaston 97/iv, 35; 98/38
    medieval; Cogges 81/82
  wooden
    Bronze Age; Yarnton 99/85
    Roman: Alchester 02/85; Northmoor 84/109
    C14-16; Stratton 02/1
boxes (see also casket; chests)
  Roman
    metal, ornamental; Swalcliffe Lea 06/44
    wooden; Crowmarsh 96/75; Dorney 96/28, 29; Wendover (holding cremation)
        01/12
  Saxon, lid of wooden; Wantage 95/iii
Boxworth, Cambs; settlement pattern 87/21
Bozeat, Nhants 90/54; 97/35
  Bozeat Quarry; Roman enclosures, kilns and burials 02/26-7
  Bury Yard manorial site 79/46
  by-pass 89/24
  charcoal burning 82/28
  field system 73/32, 33
Bozedown Camp, Whitchurch, Oxon 79/83
Bozedown Estate, Goring Heath, Oxon; field gates 88/96, 97-8, 99, 100
bracelets
  antler and bone; Denham 02/14
  copper alloy
    Ewart Park type; Taplow 00/23
    Roman: Alchester 92/46; Denham 02/14; Ducklington 98/86; Dunstable
        77/13; 78/7; Dyke Hills, Dorchester 73/6; Kempston/Biddenham: 07/1;
        Marcham/Frilford 02/73; Round Hill 05/62; Stantonbury 83/51;
        Swalcliffe Lea 99/56
    Saxon, Briar Hill 76/34
  gold, Bronze Age; Milton Keynes 91/40
  jet and shale, Roman; Dunstable 78/7
  not specified, Roman; Dunstable 77/13; Swalcliffe Lea 06/44
  shale, Roman; Cardington 90/11
bracken, Iron Age 91/95
Brackley, Nhants 74/31; 91/59; 95/44
  Bronze Age spearhead 93/42
  Iron Age
    Castle Street 83/25
    Egerton House 92/36
    Oxford Road 95/46
  Roman 94/28, 29
    Egerton House 92/36
    mosaics in area 92/32, 33
    St Peter's churchyard 94/29
    villa 94/22
    Welbeck, Pebble Lane 04/39
  Saxon 83/25
    Egerton House 92/36
    St Peter's churchyard 94/27-9, 28
    Welbeck, Pebble Lane 04/39
  medieval
    Brackley Park 90/33
    Bronnley Soapworks 97/35
    castle 82/31-2; 83/25-6; 92/41-2
    Castle Close 82/31-2
    Castle Lane 83/23, 25-6
    College Place:: 07/16
    Egerton House 92/36
    The Elms 97/35; 00/28, 29
    High Street 01/35
    Hospital of St John 82/31
    Magpie Lane 95/46
    Manor Road 00/36-7
    Market House Courtyard 07/16
    Market Place/Manor Road 90/33
    Oxford Road 95/46
    St Leonard's leper hospital 97/35
    St Peter's churchyard 94/27-9, 28
    Station Goods Yard 90/33
    Welbeck, Pebble Lane 04/39
    Winchester House School 04/35-6
  post-medieval
    College Place:: 07/16
    Evenley Hall 03/47
    High Street 01/35
    Manor Road 00/36-7
    Market House Courtyard 07/16
    St Peter's churchyard 94/27-9, 28
    Welbeck, Pebble Lane 04/39
    Winchester House School 04/35-6
  undated
    Lime Cottage 04/39
    Market Place 07/17
    Northampton Road 04/32
  metal detectorists' finds 92/33
  road bypass scheme 92/31
  St Peter's Church 96/76; churchyard 94/27, 28, 29; 03/56
Brackley Gate Lodge, Tusmore Park, Oxon 99/69-70
Brackmills, Nhants 96/34
  Brackmills Extension and Employment Sites 91/64, 65; 97/44-5
  Salthouse Road 97/39
bracteat, Saxon; Oxford, St Giles 72/16
Bradden, Nhants 84/35
Bradenham, Bucks
  Bradenham Manor and gardens 98/22; 00/17; 01/20-1l; 04/21; 06/17
  Grim's Ditch 83/14
  Park Wood: medieval homestead 81/12; 82/21; medieval and later lynchets
      and earthworks 07/11-12
  RAF High Wycombe 02/10; 05/33
  Smalldean Farm Cottage, 16th-century 06/17
  The White House 96/19
Bradfield, W Berks; St Andrew's church 93/32
Bradger's Hill, Luton, Beds 85/10, 12; 89/9
Bradwell, Milton Keynes, Bucks (see also Heelands; New Bradwell)
  Abbey 92/18; 96/11; 04/11, 28-30
    'Astronomer's Hut' 04/30
    bakehouse 74/33
    bakehouse range 04/30
    barns: cruck (C14) 81/74-5; 97/80; 04/30; stone 04/30
    Brabazon's survey 04/28, 29
    C19 building 82/66
    cell to north of large rectangular building 04/28
    chapel 73/36; 79/43
    City Discovery Centre site 04/29
    coffin, Purbeck marble 73/36
    destruction 82/68; 04/29-30
    development plans 83/60-1; 84/28; 88/40
    documentary research 76/5
    dovecote 04/29
    estate in C17-18 04/30
    experimental kiln 79/78-80
    fishponds, post-medieval 82/66
    floor tiles 82/66, 69
    geophysical survey 04/28-9
    gifts of land from Meinfelin or Hamo, Norman nobles 83/53
    head, C14 stone 83/58, 62
    hollow way 04/29
    inner courtyard next to house 04/30
    'King's Chamber' 04/29
    large rectangular building with internal subdivisions to west of
        standing chapel 04/28
    layout of monastic buildings questioned 04/29
    lead cames 82/66, 68, 69
    paddock to west of farmhouse 04/29
    pilgrim badge 82/69
    pilgrim flask, C14 lead 83/62; 84/28
    pit, post-medieval mortar mixing 83/60
    possible robbing of Bancroft Roman villa for stone 84/21
    priory church 73/36; 76/46, 53; 82/65-6, 67, 68-9; 83/43, 57-8, 59,
        60-2; 97/79-80; 04/28-9
    rectangular building south of church site 04/28
    Roman settlement 72/14
    seal matrix 90/20; 91/47
    Spiral Room 04/30
    wall paintings 97/79
    window glass 76/53; 82/66, 68, 69, 84; 83/42, 58, 61, 62; 84/28; 86/61,
        62; 87/37
  Abbey Farm 82/83; 97/79-80
  Bradwell Bury 76/46
    C11-13 76/48, 49, 51
    C13-15 75/21; 76/50, 51
    C16-19 76/51, 52, 53
    documentary research 76/57
    Moat House 76/52, 53, 57
    Saxon, late 75/19, 21
  central area; medieval material 83/45
  Cooks Farm 76/57
  lead ampullae 87/42
  manorial sites 76/57
  maps 77/96; 81/74
  medieval field system 79/61
  Middle School; Roman site 79/59
  motte, C12 72/26; 77/92, 93
  Neolithic pits 81/67-8, 76
  parish survey 80/78-9
  St Lawrence's Churchyard survey 91/48-57
  Roman villa see Bancroft (villa)
  Vicarage Road 04/11
Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex 86/89
Brafield-on-the-Green, Nhants; Billing Road, C18 cottage 07/17
Brakelands Farm, Oxon
  Round Hill Roman site 98/67, 69
  Rowbarrow Field, prehistoric and Roman 84/49, 56-7; 00/56, 57; 01/55
Brakspear, W.H. (fl. 1868, of Henley-on-Thames) 01/70
Bramingham, Beds 89/8
  Great Bramingham Farm 88/26;l 91/25
  Little Bramingham 87/24, 29
Brampton Ash, Brampton Wood, Nhants; ditched earthwork enclosure 96/41-2
Brande, Emma (fl. 1224, of Applehanger) 89/59
Brandon, Charles (d. 1545, Duke of Suffolk) 77/39
Branigan, Keith; Latimer (book reviewed) 72/34
Brasier, William (fl. 1728, cartographer) 74/24
brass skimmer 91/122
brasses, church memorial 94/3
Braughing, Herts 76/7
Bray, Lord (d. 1539, of Park House, Eaton Bray) 88/26
Bray, Windsor & Maidenhead; Roman cemetery 72/12, 13
  bustum burials 04/17
Braybrooke, Nhants 76/25; 82/52
  Castle 89/24; 93/44
  Firs Farm, medieval features 00/37
  Old Rectory, C17-20 36
Brayes Manor, Tempsford, Beds 94/10, 12; 00/7, 8
Braywick, Windsor & Maidenhead; Mesolithic flint industry 73/12-13
Breachwood Green, Herts 81/19
bread
  early Neolithic; Yarnton 00/69-70
  late Bronze/early Iron Age; Lavendon 94/15
Breauté, Falkes de (d. 1226) 72/23; 77/43; 87/7; 94/17; 03/17
Brefeld, Elizabeth (C15, of Cockayne Hatley Manor) 88/25
Brett family of Watlington Park 04/55
breweries, brew-houses and brewing: Abingdon 99/71; 02/53; 04/55; Alchester
    (Roman) 03/102; Ashdown House 00/49; 03/71, 73; Banbury 99/75; Bedford
    (C19) 07/7; Biggleswade 99/1; Chastleton House 94/1; 95/65, 76, 77;
    96/50-1; Garsington Manor 02/54-5; Henley-on-Thames (C16 malthouse)
    02/68; Marlow 00/13; Mongewell 93/60; Oxford 99/72; Oxfordshire brewing
    and malting 81/96; 82/113; Stowe Landscape Gardens 06/16; Wooburn
    99/22; Woodstock 99/40
Briar Hill, Hardingstone, Nhants
  Neolithic; possible causewayed enclosure 78/39; 74/22; 77/8; 76/33-5;
      79/55
  Bronze Age 79/7
  Iron Age 74/22; 76/34; 77/8; 79/7
  Roman 77/8
  Saxon 76/34
brick making (see also kilns (brick)): Abingdon 72/22; Bedfordshire 80/2;
    Binfield Brick and Tile Works 73/45; Bloxham 80/110, 119; Bucks, C19-20
    81/13-14; Caldecotte, C18 81/70; Claydon 81/13; Deddington 81/93;
    Hargrave 98/37; Lattin Down 80/101; Lockinge Kiln Farm 80/101;
    Nettlebed 79/93-4; Oxon 79/93; 80/100-1; 81/96, 101; Shiplake Row
    75/29, 30; Slough 81/13; Stewartby 82/59; Tews 79/102; Tingewick, C16
    81/13; Vale of White Horse 80/100, 101; Weekley 93/49; Winslow Hall
    81/14; Woodcote 06/41-2
brick structures
  apsidal; Chicksands Priory 97/8
  churches 93/30-3
  houses: C14-18 88/26; 94/2-4; 99/72; C19 'one up, one down', Wavendon
      03/24
brick-cased timber-framed building; Duncombe Farm, Ashridge 02/17
brickearth extraction; Caddington 99/10, 11
Brickgate, Beds; bridge 89/1
Brickleworth, Oxon 87/65
bricks (see also brick making; brick structures)
  'belgic'; Aylesbury, Walton 95/25
  Roman: Dunstable (in medieval kiln construction) 99/9; Shefford 02/4;
      05/3
  medieval glazed; Penn 92/27
  late medieval/Tudor: Brightwell Baldwin 07/48, 49; Brill 06/13
  C16/17; Tattenhoe 02/22
brickwork, surface treatment of
  Roman, plastering and picking out with red paint; Marcham/Frilford 03/89,
      90, 90
  C18-19 ruddling and pencilling; Hughenden Manor 03/32
Bridgeman, Sarah; plan of Stowe landscape gardens (1739) 98/23
Bridges, J.; history of Nhants 79/22; 80/53; 02/34
bridges
  Bronze/Iron Age timber: Dorney 96/iii, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29; 97/iii, 25,
      26, 31, 32, 33-4; 98/81, 82, 83; Yarnton 93/84
  Roman see under: Asthall; Fencott and Murcott; Merton; Otmoor;
      Stantonbury; Great Barford; Henley; Heyford; Oxford; Radcot; Sutton;
      Wallingford; Wheatley
  Saxon; Oxford 92/50
  medieval: Arlesey 89/1; Banbury; C14 stone 91/100; Bloxham 80/110;
      Ditchford 89/1; Great Barford 91/7; Kislingbury 04/32; Newbridge
      81/93, 94; Oxford Grandpont 92/50; 02/58; Oxfordshire 80/83; 81/93,
      94, 95; 82/114; Radcot 80/99; Sutton, Beds 87/3, 21; 88/6; 89/1;
      Turvey 92/5; Wallingford 82/110, 111, 112-13; 04/98; see also under:
      Abingdon; Bromham; Chalgrove; Chislehampton; Elstow
  post-medieval: Broom; Lockgate Bridge 93/3; Didcot-Oxon railway line over
      Thames 74/8-9; Kirby Hall 92/37; Oxford (swing-) 95/68; Somerton
      98/64; Waterperry House 88/135; Woburn Park 92/5; see also under:
      Abingdon; Cardington; Chicksands; Harrold; Hinwick; Newbridge;
      Radwell; Stoke Poges; Wheatley; Whitchurch, Oxon
  undated: Wigginton 04/77; see also under: Blunham; Girtford; Oundle;
      Stagsden
  review; Bridges of Bedfordshire, A. Simco and P. McKeague 98/93
Brighthampton, Oxon 79/32
  Saxon cemetery 72/20; 81/150; 86/3; 91/31, 32
Brightwell Baldwin, Oxon 78/75; 07/44-51
  Blooms field 07/45-51, 46, 47, 50
  Brightwell Park 07/44, 45
  Cadwell Farm and DMV 76/37; 77/77; 07/45
  geophysical survey 07/45, 47
  possible Roman settlement 07/45
  Whitehouse Farm 07/44, 50
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxon 75/47; 89/63
Brigstock, Nhants
  Neolithic 83/15-16
  Bronze Age site 83/15-16
  Iron Age: enclosure 79/52; 80/23; 83/15, 16, 18; pits 96/31
  Roman 82/26, 27; 83/16
  Saxon 83/16; 99/24
  medieval: charcoal burning 82/30; 83/16, 18; park 74/24, 26; 80/23, 48;
      83/15-16, 17, 18, 19
  Brigstock Camp; pillbox 00/37
  Brigstock Manor 03/48
  Hall Hill: undated well 02/27; C18 barn 03/47
  Latham Road 99/24
  market cross 93/44
  Old Camp; iron-smelting 93/45
  sunken road from Stoke Doyle 75/28
Brill, Bucks 85/72
  Chapmans Lane 07/10
  ha-ha 91/39
  Highland Close; undated features 02/20
  kilns (see also under pottery)
    medieval 91/39
    C15, Temple Street 84/11; 88/27, 30; 89/14
    C17, Windmill Street 75/21
    C19, Tram Hill 76/27
  The Lawns 02/20
  Sports and Social Club, north-west of All Saints' Church 06/13
  28 Temple Street, medieval and post-medieval 05/32
  Windmill Street; medieval or Tudor quarrying 06/13
Brimpton, W Berks; C10 charter 87/107
Brington, Nhants 82/52
Brinklow, Milton Keynes, Bucks; late Iron Age features 96/11
briquetage, Droitwich 82/170: 83/129; Bicester 99/76; Claydon Pike 81/145;
    82/170; Mingies Ditch 83/129; Northmoor 86/106; Uffington 03/78; 07/55,
    57, 60
Bristol, Avon
  Carmelite monastery 81/83
  Dominican priory 80/155
  slipwares 81/156
British Brick Society 93/30-1
Brittlewell, Nhants; flints 75/10, 11
Britwell, Oxon 78/75
Brixworth, Nhants 91/59
  later Mesolithic; Kidway and Whaddon Field 78/2, 3, 4
  Neolithic 76/11-12, 13
  Bronze Age; Upper Park 75/10, 11; 76/11-12, 13
  Roman 90/33, 34
    bypass site (SP 74986914), C2-4 90/33, 34
    (SP 774699) 73/32
    (SP 743710) 73/32
    villas (SP 747718) 73/32, (SP 756712) 72/9-10, (pottery) 72/34
  Saxon 90/34
    All Saints church 72/18; 82/33-4; 83/21, 22, 23, 24; 96/31
    bypass site (SP 751698) 90/33, 34
    cemeteries 73/20, 32; 75/11; 77/4; 78/12; 80/44, 45, 46; 88/68
    pits (SP 747712) 73/20
    temporary occupation of Roman villa 72/10
  medieval
    field system 72/32
    High Nook; quarry 97/43
    large building 73/20
    village earthworks 73/32
    Wolfage Manor 73/32
    woodland and charcoal burning 82/30
  post-medieval; turf mounds 73/32
Brize Norton, Oxon 91/101
  ford, Norton Ditch 80/171
Brockhall, Nhants 82/52
  Brockhall Park 06/25
  Jacobean house 01/35
Brogborough, Beds 91/25
Bromham, Beds
  Iron Age
    by-pass 87/9; (SP 997507) 00/4
    Bromham Reinforcement Water Main 01/1
  Roman; by-pass 83/8, 9; (SP 997507) 00/4
  medieval 90/2
    bridge 85/13; 86/23; 87/3; 88/5, 6; 89/1; 90/3; 00/4
    church; Wydeville/Dyve brass 88/24
    greens 87/22
    Hall 85/21, 22; 87/28, 29; 88/25, 26; 90/13
    watermill 82/59; 02/2
  St Owen's Church 99/1
Bromsall, Thomas (fl. 1703, of Roxton) 89/10
Bromswold, Nhants 82/30
bronze see copper alloy
bronzes see statuettes
brooches
  Iron Age
    Belgic: Bierton; bronze 80/12; Mountwood, Chesham 73/17; Nauheim
        derivative, Thrupp Farm 81/135, 136
    fibula, bronze; Earls Barton 80/24
    La Tène: Clapham, La Tène 3 71/10; Cowlam, Humberside 73/7; Gravelly
        Guy, (early, iron) 85/108, (middle, bronze) 85/108; Ravensburgh
        Castle, Hexton, La Tène Ib 73/14; Salford Quarry (late) 91/15
    penannular copper alloy; Ecton 93/47
  Roman
    copper alloy: Abingdon 73/23; 95/iii; 99/29, 30; Alchester 00/75;
        Alfred's Castle 99/47; Ascot under Wychwood 90/58; Asthall 82/139;
        Bancroft 85/38, 40, (disc-) 85/38; Bidwell (bow) 86/32; Brackley
        (Colchester type) 92/32; Clapham 71/10; Dorney (trumpet) 97/29;
        East Shefford (disc-) 78/13; Gatehampton Farm, Goring (head-stud)
        06/54, 54; Marcham/Frilford 04/91; 06/69; Milton Keynes (early)
        03/30; Oundle 97/39; Shefford 03/5; Simpson 82/82; Stanford-in-the-
        Vale 93/80; Stotfold 98/13; Swalcliffe Lea 06/44; Wendlebury 84/38;
        Wigmore Valley Park 98/15
    enamelled: Abingdon 80/167; 81/113, 114; Quinton 75/19; Radley 81/132,
        134; Wigginton 05/87
    glass inlaid: Caldecotte 79/78; Quinton 75/19
    iron: Asthall 93/68, 69; Aylesbury 01/15; 02/12; Bancroft 85/38, 40;
        Stotfold 95/16
    unspecified: Bromham 83/8, 9; Claydon Pike 82/168; Desborough Castle
        (penannular) 88/29; Elstow 02/3; Evenley 94/27; Hardwick with
        Yelford (fibula) 81/127; Higham Ferrers 03/56; Horton-cum-Studley
        (dolphin) 03/71; Lechlade (trumpet-) 83/112; Marcham/Frilford
        (fibula with embossed decoration) 02/73, (zoomorphic) 05/103;
        Milton Keynes 07/9; Mingies Ditch 79/117; Old Stratford/Passenham
        area 87/42; Quinton 75/19; Round Hill 05/61; Stantonbury (pin)
        81/65; Swalcliffe Lea (fibulae) 01/51; Titchmarsh 89/40, 41;
        Wilcote 01/42
  Saxon 91/33
    annular 80/47; Kempston 86/7, 8; Nassington 91/31
    applied 82/13; Dinton 92/20; Dorchester 73/6; Duston 77/14
    circular; Swalcliffe Lea 01/51
    cruciform 80/47; Brixworth 78/12; Burton Latimer 80/45, 46; Cambridge
        80/45; Dorchester 86/5; Dyke Hills, Dorchester 73/6; East Shefford
        78/13; florid 80/47, (Churchover) 80/46; (Duston) 77/14; Holdenby
        78/12; Kempston 80/47; 86/5, 6-7, 12, 13; Nassington 91/31; Nhants
        76/20; Saltburn, Cleveland 80/47; 86/7; Simpson 82/82; Toddington
        80/47
    disc 82/13; Abingdon 91/31; Berinsfield 75/41; 81/150; Dinton 92/20;
        Harwell 77/15; Headington 04/70; Kempston 86/7, 8; 91/31; Old
        Wolverton 85/60
    equal armed 82/13; Berinsfield 75/41; 81/150
    long cross; Grove Priory 85/16, 17
    miniature, gilt bronze; Berinsfield 76/68
    penannular: Abingdon 91/92; Kempston 86/7, 8
    saucer 80/47; Barton Court Farm 75/41; Berinsfield 75/41; 81/150;
        Brighthampton 72/20; 91/31; Dinton 92/20; Dorchester 73/6; Duston
        77/14; Holdenby 80/45; Kempston 86/7, 11, 12; Luton 80/45; Wantage
        95/iii
    small-long 80/47; Berinsfield 76/68; Brighthampton 72/20; Burton
        Latimer 80/45, 46; Cambridge 80/45; Dinton 92/20; Duston 77/14;
        Kempston 86/7, 8; Holdenby 91/31; Shakenoak Farm 71/12; 72/16
    square-headed, great 80/47; Berinsfield 76/68; 81/150; Dinton 92/20;
        Duston 77/14; Holdenby 80/45; Kempston 86/8; Lambourn Valley 78/13;
        Luton 80/45; Towcester 93/42, 43
    square-headed, small; Aylesbury 75/21
    swastika; Duston 77/14; Headington 04/70
    trefoil-headed; Naseby 80/50
    others: Brooke 80/47; 86/7; Cransley 76/20; Eynsham 72/20; Ivinghoe
        (jewelled) 82/22; Luton (imported bird-) 82/13; Milton (gold
        filigree) 72/16; Toddington 82/14; Wakerley 71/14; Winterbourne
        Gunner 86/8
  medieval
    bronze, Lyveden 72/18
    gold talismanic, Henley 84/106; 86/101
    iron ring, and lead, Lyveden 74/13
Brooke, Norfolk; Saxon brooches 80/47; 86/7
Brooks, John Thomas (fl. 1817-58, of Flitwick) 90/7
Brooks, Leonard Leslie (artist) 81/90
Broom, Beds
  Broom Grange; prehistoric and Romano-British field systems and settlement
      04/6
  Broom Quarry 01/1
  Lockgate Bridge 93/3
Broomfield, Essex; rich burial 76/20; 86/10
Broughton, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  Brooklands Farm 04/30; 06/14
  Broughton Farm; ridge and furrow 05/32
  Broughton Manor; Middle Iron Age and Roman 04/14
  Broughton Manor Farm; Late Bronze Age and Roman 04/14; Iron Age and Roman
      settlement 07/9
  landscape survey 85/50-1
  map, C19 81/74
  ridge and furrow 84/27
  Roman field system 79/58-9; 80/77; 81/76
  Stafford family and 85/53
Broughton, Nhants; St Andrew's church, C19 burials 03/48
Broughton, Oxon
  Castle site, prehistoric flints, Roman small site 05/59, 60, 61
  church; Wykeham memorial 88/24
  deserted medieval village 07/38
  Roman roads 82/43, 44, 45
Broughton Barn Quarry, Bucks; Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman 00/21; 01/22;
    02/19, 20; 03/30
Brounz family and Harwell Middle Farm 88/139
Brown family of Luton
  Daniel III 91/35
  Daniel IV 91/36
Brown, Lancelot 'Capability' 78/21; 99/70-1; 01/71; 03/3-4, 7-8, 77; 04/68
Browne, Sir Richard (d. 1669) 90/78
Browne, Alderman Thomas, of Woodstock (fl.1609) 95/64
Browne family of Arlesey 90/15
  Richard (fl. 1671) 87/28
Bruce family of Houghton House 90/15; 93/32
Bruern Abbey, Oxon 77/36, 37; 92/19
Bryer, William (fl. 1671, of Maidenhall, Luton) 87/26
Bryonia dioica (white bryony) 76/67
Buck brothers (fl. c. 1700, illustrators) 88/15
Buckeridge, Charles (fl. 1874, architect) 00/59, 60
buckets
  late Bronze Age wooden; Cassington 06/45
  Saxon: Berinsfield 75/41; Dinton 92/20; Ducklington 75/41; Eye and
      Dunsden, Oxon 89/50; Harwell 77/15; Kempston 86/7-8, 11; Watchfield
      84/122
Buckingham (see also Thornborough) 79/44, 45
  Castle House 01/19
  castle mound 03/33, 34-5
  Fingest, Chequers Public House 05/23
  Flood Alleviation Scheme 04/13
  Ford Street 04/13
  Grand Junction Hotel, medieval features 03/30
  High Street, Stratford House, medieval and later 03/33
  Hunter Street 75/24-5; 94/18
  Lenborough Road, 03/21; 04/8
  Manor Farm, middle Bronze Age cremation, medieval and post-medieval
      cultivation 07/14
  medieval 75/24-5; 94/18; 03/30, 33, 34-5; 04/26; 05/21-2, 21-2
  Mitre Street 01/26
  Mount Pleasant 96/10-11
  post-medieval pottery industry 80/11-12
  Potter Row 80/11-12
  Prebend end over the water 01/26
  Prebend House Lodge, palaeochannel and C18/19 02/10
  ring road 83/14
  St Peter and St Pauls Church, Church Hill 03/33, 34-5
  St Rumbold's Well; C17 conduit-house 01/19-20; 03/28-9
  Saxon 75/24-5; 79/12; 94/18
  Speed's maps 01/19, 26
  Station Terrace 01/12
  Stratford Road 04/26; 05/21-2, 21-2
Buckingham, Dukes of 80/49
Buckinghamshire
  County Archaeology Service organization 99/14; 01/16-17
  modernisation of SMR 01/16
  review; Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol37 98/93-4
Buckinghamshire Railway 95/68
Buckland, Oxon
  Church Cottages 96/55-6
  field system 77/58, 59; 81/77
  moated site 79/84
  Newton DMV 77/33, 34
Bucklebury, Oxon; stone head on church 91/118, 119
Buckler, J. C. (1770-1851); drawings 80/88, 115; 82/100; 83/74, 132;
    84/105; 85/82, 102; 87/58; 95/64
buckles
  Roman: Bancroft 77/84, 85; Brackley (zoomorphic) 92/32; Duston; loop and
      belt plate 77/14; East Shefford 78/13; Sandy 90/11; Stonesfield
      84/60; Walton, Aylesbury 95/ii
  late Roman Germanic military: Bicester 89/50; Dorchester 73/6
  Saxon
    copper alloy: Adwell Cop 73/37; Nassington (pendants and plate) 91/31;
        Stotfold 95/16; Tattenhoe 93/33; Watchfield 84/122
    iron: Berinsfield 76/68; Kempston 86/6, 12; Shipton under Wychwood
        77/77; Wollaston 97/iv; 98/38
    meerschaum; Kempston 86/8
  medieval
    copper alloy: Cogges 81/82; Fulmer 73/22; Lyveden 71/19-20; 72/18;
        74/13; Milton Keynes 85/60; Odell (plate) 88/16, 127; Southampton
        88/114; Westbury by Shenley 90/22; Wykham 88/114
    iron; Lyveden (harness) 71/20; 74/13
  medieval: Billington Hill 99/7, 9, 9; Fringford 98/86; Grafton Regis
      (plate) 92/33
  C16 copper alloy; Brackley 04/32
  C17; Banbury 98/70
Bucknell, Oxon
  field names 78/75
  St Peter's Church, Bainton Road 02/41
  Sewage Pumping Station 05/48
buckthorn
  Neolithic; Lavendon 94/15
  purging (Rhamus catharticus); Iron Age, Mingies Ditch 78/114
Budewell (Bidwell), Beds 86/34
Bugbrooke, Nhants; Iron Age/Roman enclosures, medieval ridge and furrow
    04/36
building debris
  Roman; Lavendon 94/15
  medieval; Abingdon 94/30
building materials (see also individual types)
  Roman: Amersham 04/7; Dorchester (ceramic) 02/68; Little Wittenham 05/77;
      Marcham/Frilford 04/86; 05/103; Monks Risborough 05/31; Walton,
      Aylesbury 95/25; Wooton 04/66
  medieval/post-medieval; Wallingford 95/63
  post-medieval: Ashton, Nhants 99/24; Newport Pagnell (ceramic) 02/11;
      Wooton 04/66
building recording, archaeological 95/64-5, 80-1
  Planning Policy Guidance (PPG) 95/, 15, 64, 65
buildings, historic; in Conservation Areas 91/23, 25-6
buildings of unspecified type (see also brick structures)
  Neolithic: Duston 76/35; Yarnton 97/62, 63, 64
  late Bronze/early Iron Age; Clapham (rectangular and sub-circular) 01/1
  Iron Age: Crick 76/28; Kempston 98/8, 9; Maidenhead 76/12; Piddington
      (small rectangular, c. AD43) 04/47; Shabbington 77/44; Shillington
      (timber) 94/6; Yarnton 91/89
  Iron Age/Roman: Alfred's Castle 00/82, 84, 85-6, 87, 89; Gayhurst
      (circular) 95/27; Thornborough 93/34
  Roman: Abingdon 71/21; 75/39; 91/109-10; 96/55; Ailsworth 77/26;
      Alchester 92/45-6; 01/77; Alfred's Castle 99/48-50, 49, 50, 53;
      Amersham 74/30; Appleford (timber) 94/33, 36; Ashton, Nhants (timber)
      93/45; Asthall 93/67-8; Aylesbury (timber) 95/25, 26; Bidwell 91/1;
      94/2; Bierton 80/12; Cosgrove 93/46; Duston (timber and stone) 76/35;
      Earls Barton (high status stone) 02/28; East Challow, Wantage
      (corridor type) 73/15; Frilsham 71/26; Gill Mill, Ducklington, timber
      91/96; Harrington Quarry (stone) 93/50; Haversham (stone-founded)
      04/25; Higham Ferrers 91/62; 02/32; Irchester 79/49; 82/32; 92/38;
      05/39; Irthlingborough 72/23; Kempston 98/8, 9; 07/2, 2; Kingston
      Bagpuize (stone) 76/73; Middle Aston (small rural) 98/66; Middleton
      Cheney (small rural) 98/66; Middleton Stoney 71/18; 72/10-12; 74/12;
      North Newington 98/65; Northampton 07/20, 20; Paston and Gunthorpe,
      Greater Peterborough 75/28; Quinton (stone) 76/21; 77/13; Radwell
      (tiled) 73/32-3; Ramsden (stone) 03/63; Raunds (stone) 96/36, 36;
      Shefford (stone, aisled) 03/5, 6; SP 8445 93/34; Stanford-in-the-Vale
      93/79; Stanwick (rectangular stone) 91/77, 78; Swalcliffe Lea 07/34,
      35, 36, 37, 38; Towcester 77/70, 71; 85/65; 91/73; 98/37; 07/21;
      Wakerley (agricultural) 73/17; Wantage 96/45, (timber-aisled, and
      stone) 94/31, (timber) 95/ii, (tower) 95/iii; Whilton Lodge
      (Bannaventa) 72/9; Winch Hill Farm, Luton 98/17, 18; Wollaston 94/23,
      24, (stone-founded) 95/44, 45; Woodford 72/23; Yarnton (agricultural)
      91/89
  Saxon: Abingdon (timber) 75/41; churches as first post-Roman stone
      buildings 01/79; Eynsham (timber) 91/104; Kempston 98/8, 9;
      Northampton 75/25; West Cotton (late Saxon timber) 89/36, 37, 38;
      Yarnton 91/89, 90
  late Saxon/Saxo-Norman: Cropredy (post-built) 94/39; Kempston/Biddenham
      07/2, 3; Kempston Manor 95/14; Middleton Stoney (stone) 74/12;
      Northampton 75/26; 95/41; Oxford (domestic) 75/43, 44
  medieval: Abingdon 00/79, 01/67; 05/48, (stone) 95/48; Ashton, Nhants
      (stone) 01/35; Aylesbury, King's Head 95/25; Banbury 91/100; 99/40,
      42; Bedford (stone) 93/5-6, 7; Bicester 06/39; Brackley 97/35;
      Brixworth (C13) 73/20; Churchill 91/82; Cumnor 77/71; Daventry
      (C12-13) 96/32, 33; Dunstable 93/16, 17-18; Egerton House, Brackley
      92/36; Eynsham Abbey 92/47; Fringford (stone) 98/86; Grafton Regis
      92/36-7; Hanslope 03/25-6, 26; Higham Ferrers 98/40; 03/50-1; 04/36,
      39, (possible squatter dwelling) 96/43; Irthlingborough 92/42;
      Kempston/Biddenham 07/2, 3; Loughton, Milton Keynes 00/32, 33;
      Marston Mortaine 05/10; Milcombe 05/51; Newbury 73/28; Northampton
      99/25; 01/36; 04/37; 06/29, (C14) 96/34, 35, (stone) 75/26, (stone-
      founded) 91/64; 95/41; Oxford 92/50; 94/44, 45; 95/57; 98/88; 99/39,
      80, 81; 00/81; 04/71; 05/51; 06/40, (cob walled) 95/59, 60, (panel
      walled) 95/59-60, (stone) 95/60; 02/43; Shenley Brook End (large,
      C11-12) 96/11, 12, 14, 14; Southwick 97/iv, 43; Standlake 00/80;
      Stanion (late) 94/23; Tempsford (clay and timber, and stone) 94/10;
      Thame 92/52; Warmington (Eaglethorpe village) 96/39; Weldon (stone)
      02/31-2; Weston Favell 73/29; Willington 01/11-12: Wilstead by-pass
      76/26
  post-medieval: Abingdon 96/51, 53, 55; 05/48; Ascott-under-Wychwood
      97/54; Banbury 99/42; Bedford 93/5-6, 7; Bicester 07/26; Caldecotte
      92/24-5; Chislehampton 07/26; Houghton Conquest 05/10; Kelmscott
      (Cotswold vernacular) 02/55; Kislingbury 04/32; Ludgershall (stone
      and brick) 01/30; Marlow 97/16, 17; Minster Lovell 96/57; 97/59;
      Newbury 73/28; Northampton 99/25; 03/46; 04/37; 05/35, 39; Oxford
      95/53, 60; 98/88; 99/80, 81; 00/81; 03/76; 04/71; 05/51; Potterspury
      04/42; Ramsden 03/63; Stanton Harcourt 05/52; Sulgrave Manor 99/29;
      Towcester 04/44; Warmington 92/41; 96/39; 04/44
  undated: Henley-on-Thames (chalk-footed) 94/43; Newnham Marina (timber)
      76/17; Silverstone (stone) 07/21
Bulkely, Robert (fl. 1529, of Tilwick) 84/4
bulla, lead, of Alexander IV; Grove Priory 76/23
Bullingdon, Oxon; flint core 76/16
  Bullingdon Hundred 01/63
Bulwick, Nhants 81/35
  Roman 73/17; 82/26
  Saxon iron smelting 01/38
  thatched buildings 96/43
bunkers, World War II 91/116
  Coleshill, Oxon 01/46
  Kingston Bagpuize 77/78
Bunyan, John (1628-88, author) 87/20
bur-reed (Sparganium erectum) 76/67
Burcot, Oxon
  Abingdon Road 03/83
  Saxon cemetery 73/6
Burford, Oxon
  Bull Hotel 83/86, 87-8
  Bury Barns round barrow 84/49, 55
  church 04/69; graveyard 77/56; memorials 88/25
  Church Lane; Saxon, medieval, post-medieval 00/80
  Garnes Brewery 81/90
  High Street: 50-52 90/80; 82, Old Bank House 06/39; 'Uptons', C16 wall
      paintings 83/88, 89, 90
  174 The Hill; medieval 02/41
  Lawrence Lane, Church Cottage 03/74
  medieval 77/36; 88/25; 90/80; 00/45, 80; 02/41
  Muffety Cottage, Tanners Lane; medieval 02/41
  Old Ropery; medieval and post-medieval 00/45; 02/41
  Rose Cottage, Church Lane; undated trenches 02/53
  the Tolsey 01/64
burgage plots: Eynsham 05/49-50; Thame 05/105-6
Burghfield, W Berks; Knight's Farm 76/15, 33
Burghley, Nhants 87/26; 90/14; 91/37
Burgoyne family of Sutton, Beds 82/18
burhs (Anglo-Saxon) 80/49
  Buckingham double- 96/10-11
  Oxford 05/83
  Wallingford 02/43
  Whittlebury, possible 02/23
burial mound, princely Saxon; Taplow 99/23; 00/22, 25, 27
burial ring, possible Neolithic; Ivinghoe Beacon 01/21, 21
burials see: animal burials; barrows; burial mound; cemeteries; cremations;
    inhumations; memorials; mortuary enclosures; vaults
burin, Mesolithic flint; Abingdon 01/56
Burn, J. S.; 'A History of Henley-on-Thames' (1861) 83/74
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (1833-98) 80/114
Burnham, Bucks
  Burnham Abbey 84/13-14; 86/65-6
  cattle pound 97/16
  Dropmore House Italian Garden 07/14
  Dropmore Park, post-medieval features 07/9-10
  Redwood 01/30
Burnham, William (fl. 1711, of Watlington) 86/124
burnt areas, late Neolithic/Bronze Age; Dorney 95/29, 31; 96/26
burnt deposits (see also carbonised material; clay, burnt; flint, burnt)
  prehistoric: Elstow 02/3; Gatehampton Farm 92/75; Peep O Day Lane,
      Abingdon 92/73
  Neolithic/Bronze Age: Cippenham, Slough 98/83; Dorney 95/30, 31; 98/77,
      78, 80, 82, 83; Reading Business Park 98/83; Willington 92/5;
      Yarnton-Cassington 94/51; 96/63; 98/83, 90
  late Bronze/early Iron Age; Eynsham 92/47
  Iron Age limestone and daub; Woodeaton 92/53
  Iron Age/RB transition; Milton Keynes 02/11
  Roman; Elstow 02/3
Burnt Walls, Daventry, Nhants 94/22; 95/46
Burr family (brewers, of Luton) 77/32
Burroway, Oxon
  Bronze Age tumuli 82/130
  Iron Age hillfort 81/103, 106, 107; 82/130
Burton Latimer, Nhants 91/71
  Mesolithic, Neolithic and medieval 00/36
  Iron Age 98/31
  Saxon cemetery (c. TL 892764) 88/68, 69, 70; discovery 76/20; 77/4; grave
      goods 76/20; 79/10-11; 80/42-3, 44, 45; possible size 79/10-11;
      80/45; 88/68
  Polwell Lane, C19 quarry railway 05/37
Burwell, Cambs; Saxon cemetery 80/44
Bury Hill, Oxon; hillfort 81/106
Bury St Edmunds, Abbey of; land in Clipston 79/22
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 91/32
Busby, Dr Richard (1606-95); and manor of Willen 81/74
Busby Deeds 81/72, 74
Buscot, Oxon
  Buscot Park Orangery 01/46, 47
  -Faringdon pipeline 93/59
  Manor Farm 95/69
  Neolithic 81/103; 83/156
  post-glacial flora 79/125
  Roman pottery 77/35
  village earthworks 77/33, 35
  waterwheel pump house, C19 93/59
Bushmead Priory, Staploe, Beds 92/19
  agricultural area adjacent 79/39-40
  Gery family of 87/27; 90/15
  guardianship site 85/19; 86/16
  isolated site 87/30
bustum burials, Roman
  Denham 15, 16, 17; 06/11-12, 12
  Didcot West 03/57
Buswell family of Clipston 79/26
butchery marks
  Roman 90/11
  undated; Wigginton 02/66
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of (1713-92) 91/35
Butser Hill, Hants 85/43
Butterfield, William (1814-1900, architect) 81/45; 83/80, 82
Butterfield Green, Beds; medieval settlement 93/27, 28
buttons
  Bronze Age jet; Warmington 96/39
  C17 pottery; Potterspury 04/43
  Georgian metal; Tylers Green and Penn 05/16
  C19 wooden; Stadhampton 86/122
  undated copper alloy, unusual; Brightwell Baldwin 07/50, 50
buttress trench, medieval; Dunstable 91/26, 27
Byfield, Nhants; Roman iron smelting furnace 89/43
Byng, Hon John 90/15
byre, possible Roman, Bancroft 85/35
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