M1 93/3, 12-13, 34, 50; 94/7-9, 14, 27; 95/2, 26-7; 96/7, 11; 03/52
Widening Scheme, Junctions 10-13 07/7
M1-A1 link 74/32; 76/27; 84/35; 85/63-4; 90/38, 39, 40; 91/71, 72; 92/3,
31; 93/42, 50
M4 71/25-6
Taplow Diversion; Neolithic to post-medieval site 98/26, 28-31
M25 92/2; 93/34; 94/15
M40 71/28; 72/33; 73/37, 38-9; 74/32; 90/17; 91/102; 98/20; 03/33-4
Junction 4, Handy Cross 04/17
Oxford to Birmingham extension 75/34; 80/186; 83/132; 86/102; 89/28-9,
49; 90/81; 95/63
maces, stone 72/5; 79/55
Mesolithic pebble; Dorney 98/79
machine excavation 95/73; 96/67; 02/19
machinery, C18-20 industrial 73/44-5
agricultural; Wildings factory, Wallingford 79/18
beam-engines, Great Tew 79/102
milling: Caldecotte 81/50, 52; Hanwell (multi-purpose) 82/89; Stotford
Mill 86/16
pole lathe; Stoke Row 74/29
McKeague, P., and A. Simco; Bridges of Bedfordshire (review) 98/93
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 07/18
Mackney, Oxon; Roman road 81/47, 48
Maddle Farm, Berkshire Downs; Roman villa 99/51; 01/86
Madmarston hillfort, Oxon 78/63, 64, 65; 98/70
C4 re-use 99/60
magic; C17/18 'Witch Bottle', Loughton 95/26
Magiovinium Roman town, Bow Brickhill, Bucks 98/94
A5 diversion and 73/44; 78/37, 38; 79/58
burials 91/40, 41
and Caldecotte possible religious site 83/49
coin forger's hoard 91/40, 41-2, 42, 47
extent 91/39
extra-mural area 92/3, 20
fort 77/98; 87/34
metal detectorists' finds 87/40; 91/40-3, 42
pottery 81/75; 91/41, 42; 98/94
pre-conquest levels 77/98
River Ouzel, finds from 80/76-7
road to Duston 04/47
southern suburb 88/27, 29-30
Magnetic Dating sampling; Alfred's Castle 01/82
magnetometry 94/22, 23, 50; Alchester Roman base 99/63; Alfred's Castle
99/44, 47; 01/80, 82; Bampton 98/47-8, 52; Broom 04/6; Cotton Henge,
Raunds 91/69, 70; Daventry 95/i; Fineshade 01/39; Gayhurst 95/27;
Headington Bypass, Oxford 95/55; Irthlingborough 95/40;
Marcham/Frilford 02/70, 71; 03/88; Nuneham Courtenay 93/72, 73, 74;
95/53, 54; Raunds area 91/65, 67; Segsbury Camp 97/69, 71, 73; 98/54;
Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes 04/25; Sibbertoft 03/55; Stoke Hammond
95/27; Uffington Castle 97/66; Wallingford 03/112; 04/97; Wollaston
97/42, 42
Maiden Bower causewayed camp, Sewell, Beds 71/4; 76/5-6; 93/29, 30; 05/9;
07/6, 6
Maiden Castle, Dorset; late Roman temple 05/105
Maidenhead
Belgic; Robin Hoods Arbour 71/6
Neolithic; Cannon Hill 76/12, 33
Roman; Cox Green villa 71/11
Berry Hill Icehouse 99/21
Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Scheme 92/27; 98/26, 28-31,
85; 00/21-2
Maidford, Nhants; St Peter and St Paul's church 04/41
Maidwell, Nhants 76/27, 29, 30, 31; 93/47-8
church 76/31
medieval village 76/29
manor 76/31
Mainz, Germany; Kriegergrab, Greiffenklaustrasse grave 76/2; 86/5
Malchair, J.B. (C18 illustrator) 93/75; 95/64
Mallory, Simon (fl. 1549, of Northampton) 74/25
Mallows Cotton DMV, Raunds, Nhants 88/49; 89/42; 92/39; 93/44; 97/43
malthouses
medieval: Brackley 00/37, 38; Irthlingborough 92/42; 02/29, 30; Raunds
88/57, 58, 59; Warmington 96/39; West Cotton 92/42
post-medieval; Biggleswade 99/1; Henley-on-Thames 01/69; 02/68
malting; Oxfordshire project 81/96
malting ovens (see also corn dryers)
Roman; Earls Barton (T-shaped) 02/28; Northampton (T-shaped) 07/20, 20;
Piddington 04/54
middle Saxon; Higham Ferrers 02/32, 33
medieval; Olney 04/25
mammoths: Denham 06/11; Stanton Harcourt 97/ii; Sutton Courtenay 82/162
Mancetter, Warks 72/34; 81/75
manganese staining; Dorney 95/31
Manger, Uffington, Oxon 91/97
mangonel shots; Bedford Castle 73/28
manhole covers 97/77, 78
manicure set, bronze; Quinton 76/21
Manor Farm, Bedford Southern Bypass 93/9, 10
manor houses and manorial sites (see also manors, royal; moated sites)
on Roman villa sites 98/62
see also under: Ashton, Nhants; Bampton; Barford St Michael; Banbury;
Bayworth; Boarstall (Tower); Bozeat; Bradenham; Bradwell (Bury);
Brixworth; Cardington; Chalgrave; Chalgrove; Charlbury;
Chislehampton; Clapham; Cogges; Cople; Curbridge; Deenethorpe;
Drayton St Leonard; Eggington-with-Clipstone; Ewelme; Eynsham;
Great Linford; Great Tew; Greys Court; Hampton Gay; Hedgerley;
Helmdon; Irthlingborough; Kelmscott; Kempston; Kidlington; Lewknor;
Lidlington; Maidwell; Marholm; Marston Moretaine; Middleton Stoney;
Minster Lovell; Newington; Paulerspury; Princes Risborough; Quinton;
Radley; Raunds; Ravensden; Rotherfield; Shillington; Simpson;
Stratton; Sulgrave; Swalcliffe; Tattenhoe; Temple Cowley; Tempsford;
Titchmarsh; Warmington; Weedon Lois and Weston; West Cotton;
Westoning; Willington; Witney; Wollaston; Yelvertoft
manors, royal see: Corby; Gretton;
Grove Priory and Royal Manor of Leighton; Towcester
Manshead Archaeological Society publications 00/90
mansions see country houses
Manuden, Essex; hall and aisled barn 81/19
manuring patterns 91/87, 111
maple, common (Acer campestre) 78/114; 82/178
Maple Hill round barrow, Oxon 84/49, 50, 55
Mapledurham, Oxon 79/38-9
church of St Margaret; door hinges 81/42, 44, 45
field system 79/38; 80/102
flint-working sites 88/103
Golf Course, prehistoric finds 92/54-5
Mapledurham House 94/3
tiles 80/101
marble
coffin of Purbeck, Bradwell Abbey 73/36
Roman statuette of cockerel, Bancroft 77/83
marbles, clay; Chastleton House 96/50
March, Mr (fl. 1793, of Henley-on-Thames) 01/70
Marcham, Oxon
bypass (A415) 06/47-8
church of All Saints 83/132
field-names survey 81/77
hillfort see under Marcham/Frilford
Hitch Copse 89/52
human jawbone, unstratified 81/128
Kiln Copse and Old Clay Pit 80/101
Pizzey's Moor 87/101
The Priory 77/48
Roman road 87/101; see also under Marcham/Frilford
Marcham/Frilford, Oxon; Noah's Ark area, multi-period site 77/58, 59;
80/143-4; 81/99, 107, 108, 109; 02/69-83; 03/84-91; 04/84-94, 85, 87-9
stone axe 76/16
Neolithic 79/126, 127; 80/143
Bronze Age 79/126, 127; 80/143
cremation 02/78-9, 80, 81
large enclosure, occupation and burials 02/71, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
Iron Age 79/126, 127, 128; 80/143; 81/136; 83/127-8
enclosures, pits and ditches, dispersed occupation 02/71, 73, 75, 76,
77, 78, 80, 80; 03/84-6, 88; 04/88, 93
pits with structured deposits 04/84, 85, 86, 93
wood from watery area 04/92, 93
Iron Age-Roman continuity 04/86, 93-4
Roman religious centre 03/86-91; 04/85, 86-94, 87-9; 05/94-105; 06/55-71;
07/61-4, 62
associated landscape research see East Hanney
buildings between temenos and arena 07/61, 62, 63
cemetery 80/143; 82/150, 151; 02/70, 82
Christianity 04/90, 91, 93-4; 06/70-1
chronology 06/70
circular structure/arena 82/116, 150, 151, 152, 153; 83/127-8; 02/70,
71-2, 73, 74; 04/91-3, 93-4; 05/100, 101-5; 06/55, 63-7, 63, 66-8,
69-70; 07/61-2, 62
bank 02/70, 71, 72, 73, 74; 05/100, 101-2, 105; 06/55, 63-4, 63,
65-6, 69, 70; 07/62
burials in bank 05/100, 101, 102, 105; 06/63, 64
complex nature 06/69
drainage network 04/91, 92, 92-3; 05/100, 102-3, 104, 105; 06/65-6,
66, 67, 70; 07/61
earlier structure possibly incorporated 06/69-70
eastern entrance 02/70, 71, 72; 03/86, 88-91, 90-1; 05/100, 101, 105;
06/63, 63, 70
interior 05/100, 102-3, 105; 07/61
northern wall and plinth 05/100, 104; 06/63, 66-7, 68, 69
relationship with large rectilinear building 05/98, 99-100, 100,
104-5; 06/55, 61-2, 62
sand deposits 05/102, 103
southern box-like feature 02/70, 71, 73, 74; 05/100, 104, 105; 06/63,
65-6, 67, 70
sub-surface circular wet area 06/70
walls 05/100, 101, 103-4, 105; 06/63-4, 63, 66-7, 68, 70; 07/61
western cardinal point 06/69
western entrance and pathway 07/61-2, 62
wooden stake in centre 05/100, 102, 105
cobbled and gravel surfaces 05/104; 06/57, 69, 61-2, 61, 62, 69
earlier timber phase 07/63
geomorphological sampling 05/104
geophysical survey 05/95
gravel surface, possible road 02/79-80, 82, 83
hearths 05/98, 99; 06/57, 58, 59, 60, 69
Iron Age phase 06/70
industrial activity 06/57, 60-1, 69; 07/63
large rectilinear building (Trench 2) 02/71, 73, 75, 76; 03/86, 87, 88;
04/88, 89, 90-1, 93; 05/98, 99-101, 104-5; 06/55, 61, 70-1
area to east 06/55, 61-2, 62
extra-mural cobbling, and relationship with circular structure 05/98,
99-100, 100, 104-5; 06/55, 61-2, 62
finds distribution 05/98, 99, 101, 104
late C4 phase 06/61, 70-1; 07/61, 63
metalworking furnace 02/79
micromorphological sampling 05/104
midden deposits: over Iron Age occupation 03/86; over Roman floor level
05/97
occupation of Bronze Age enclosure 02/77, 78, 79, 81
oyster shells 06/61, 61
palaeochannel south of circular structure 05/95, 104
pathway to temple area 07/62, 62, 63
plastered square, possible altar foundation 07/63
possible shrine (Trench 22) 05/98-9; 07/61, 62, 63
previous structures and use 06/60, 60, 69-70
radiocarbon dating 05/102, 105
recutting of Bronze Age enclosure ditch 02/77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 82
religion 04/90, 91, 93-4; 06/62, 63, 64-5, 69, 70; coins as votive
offerings 05/104-5
ritual structure south-west of arena (Trench 07/24) 07/61, 62, 62
small town 79/127, 128; 80/143; 81/108, 107, 109; 82/150, 151; 87/101
soil resistivity tomography 06/69, 70
south part of Trendles Field (Trench 07/21) 07/61, 62, 63
stone groups, foci for ritual deposition 07/62
temenos and temple complex 80/143; 82/152; 83/127-8; 88/77; 05/95-101,
96-8, 104-5; 06/55-61, 58-61; 07/61, 62, 62-3
buildings abutting wall, inside precinct 06/59, 60, 69
buildings abutting wall, outside precinct: north of entrance (Trench
15) 06/57, 58, 69; 07/62, 63; south of entrance (Trench 18)
03/86, 88; 04/86, 87-8, 88, 93, (Trench 32) 07/62, 63; 05/95, 96,
97-8, 104; 06/57, 59-61, 60-1, 69, (north building) 05/98, 99,
104; 06/55, 57, 59-60, 60-1, 69, 70, (pre-building structure)
06/60, 60, 70, (south building) 06/59, 61, 69
date of temple 06/70
entrance area 05/95, 104; 06/55, 57, 58, 69; 07/61, 62, 62, 63
wall 03/86, 88, 89; 05/95; 06/55, 59, 60, 69, 70; 07/61, 62, 62, 63
well-made building (Trench 23) 05/100, 100, 105; 06/61-2, 62
Trenches (as of 2007): 1 06/55, 56, 63-5, 63; 2 06/55, 61-2, 62, 70-1;
9 06/55, 56, 63, 65-6, 66, 67; 07/61, 62, 63; 15 06/55, 56, 57, 58;
07/61, 62, 62, 63; 17 06/55, 56, 63, 66-7, 68; 18 06/57, 59-61,
60-1; 21 07/61, 62, 63; 22 05/98-9; 07/61, 62, 63; 23 05/100, 100,
105; 06/61-2, 62; 24 06/55, 56, 61-2, 62; 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 25
06/55, 56, 61, 61; 26 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 27 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 28
07/61, 62, 62, 63; 29 07/61-2, 62, 63; 30 07/61, 62; 31 07/61, 62,
62, 63; 32 07/61, 62, 62, 63
votive offerings 06/54, 63, 64-5, 69, 70
villa 79/128; 80/143
waterlogged timber 05/100, 102, 103, 105
Saxon 79/127, 128; 80/143; 81/150; 02/70, 76, 82
brooches 86/8
cemetery 80/143; 82/150, 151; 02/70, 82; 06/71
continuity from Roman era 73/8; 81/150
possible sunken-floored buildings 02/82
medieval 80/143; 04/93; 05/104
post-medieval 80/144
digital data capture and 3D modelling 02/78
field name, 'trendles' 06/71
geophysical survey 02/70, 71
previous excavations 02/70
radio-carbon dating 04/88, 92, 93
Ridgeway and Vale Project 04/84-94, 85, 87-9
River Ock, prehistoric to medieval deposits on banks of 05/104
undated burial of child 02/79
waterlogged deposits 04/92, 93
Marden, Wilts; henge monument 76/6
Margaret de Clare, Countess of Cornwall 81/9
Marholm, Nhants; manor 77/27
market cross; Brigstock 93/44
market place, Danish type; Banbury 05/64
Markyate, Herts
Nuns of 84/99-100; 86/95; 87/81
street village 87/21
Marlow, Bucks
All Saints' church 93/31
Archaeological Society; formation 01/18
Ferry Nab, Ferry Lane, Medmenham; medieval 05/32
Flood Alleviation Scheme, Pound Lane; early prehistoric/Neolithic
activity 06/18
Low Ground Farm; Mesolithic to Roman finds 01/18-19, 18, 19
Marlow Brewery, post-medieval 99/14
Spittal Street, post-medieval 04/13
SU840855, west of Marlow; barrow cemetery and possible settlement
04/17-19, 18, 20-21
Wethered's Brewery, medieval and post-medieval 00/13
Whitbread Brewery 97/16, 17; 00/13
Widmere Chapel, C13 02/21
MARS (Monuments at Risk Survey) 95/ii, 1-2
Marsh Baldon, Oxon
medieval; St Peter's church 86/101-2
post-medieval pottery manufacture 80/100
Marsh Lane, Bucks; prehistoric sites 92/27; 00/22
Marsom, Thomas, of Luton 91/36, 37
Marston, Oxon 85/71
church of St Nicholas, medieval finds 78/118
ring ditch 77/59, 60
spearhead, late Bronze Age 77/60
Marston Moretaine, Beds 87/30; 90/2, 3
Beancroft Road 97/2
Bedford Road, medieval and later 98/10
Church End Lower School, Saxo-Norman hall, late/post-medieval sawpit 99/2
churchyard of St Mary the Virgin 03/4
Lower Shelton Road; Iron Age, medieval and post-medieval 05/10
Manor Road area, moat 04/1
Woburn Road, Iron Age, Saxon and medieval 00/4; 01/5
Marston St Lawrence, Nhants
Costow DMV 82/52
flint scrapers 76/16
Saxon cemetery 77/4; 80/44; 88/68, 69, 70
Marston Trussell, Nhants 75/46
iron gates 94/24
Marston Vale, Beds 93/3; 95/2
Marston Vale Cycle Path 03/4
Marsworth Quarry, Bucks; Pleistocene mammal bones 78/2; 79/2; 81/12
Martin, John (fl. 1432, of Henley) 83/74
martingale, Roman; Lechlade 83/112
Mary I, Queen of England; Catholic revival 87/63
Mary of Woodstock, Princess of England 81/9; 82/10
Mason, Luke, of Bolnhurst 89/10
masons' marks: Chastleton House 97/47, 48; New College, Oxford 96/67-8
Matilda, Queen of England: and Bampton Minster 86/89; and Wallingford
03/107; 04/94, 98, 101
Matthews, H. G. Ltd, Bellingdon 81/13
matting, Roman; Bancroft 79/73
mattock, Mesolithic antler; Dorney 98/79
Maud of Lancaster (Lady of Grove, 1338-61) 81/9; 82/10
Mauduit family of Castlethorpe 94/17
Maulden, Beds 90/2, 5
Maulden Firs enclosure 93/26, 27, 28
St Mary's church 93/32
Mausoleum 91/25
Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, Oxon 87/96; 06/69-70
Mauretania, Roman garrison in 01/75
mausolea
Roman: Great Houghton 97/39; Lullingstone 84/23; see also under Bancroft
post-medieval: Flitton, Grey family 85/6; 88/26; 93/32; High Wycombe
99/21; Maulden 91/25
Maxey, Nhants
Mesolithic flints 78/2
turf barrow 84/115
Maxey family of Bolnhurst 89/12
May, Hugh 96/68
May Hill Sandstone saddle quern; Bicester 99/76
Meadle, Bucks; Ivy Cottage, undated and post-medieval features 02/21
meadow rue (Thalictrum flavum) 76/65
Meareway, Oxon 82/120
Mears Ashby, Nhants 84/35; 92/38
Vicarage Barn 97/44
meat in early Saxon grave; Piddington 04/51
medallion, Georgian; Oxford 04/61
Medbourne, Milton Keynes, Bucks 03/22
medicine (see also hospitals)
Roman copper alloy implements; Marcham/Frilford 06/60
Medmenham, Bucks
Abbey 94/16; 00/12-13; 01/20
Danesfield Camp hillfort 83/14; 91/40; 92/26-7; Neolithic activity 92/27
Danesfield House Hotel 92/27; 98/25
Ferry Nab, Ferry Lane; medieval 05/32
Lodge Farm, C16/17 buildings 01/22
RAF Medmenham, Upper Wittington; Iron Age, medieval, post-medieval 99/21;
02/19-20
meerschaum buckle, C6; Kempston 86/8
Megaloceros; Marsworth 78/2
Meinfelin (Norman baron) 83/53, 55
Melchbourne, Beds
Church End; manorial earthwork 86/21, 22
great houses 87/27, 28, 29, 30; 90/13, 14
Hillands End House 98/10
Park Farm 98/10
Melophagus ovinus 81/158
memorials
C12/13 headstone and grave marker; Great Linford 81/56, 58
C15, Bedfordshire 88/24-6; 90/16
C18/20, Middleton Stoney 76/8-10
meningitis, Roman; Irchester 07/17
Mentmore, Bucks
Crafton; Garden Cottage, Stud Cottage, and 2 Crafton 06/8
Mentmore Towers 07/14
St Mary's Church and churchyard 98/21; 02/16-17
Meppershall, Beds
Chapel Farm 78/24
High Street, Roman, Saxon, medieval and post-medieval 02/5; 03/9, 9; 07/4
Manor, and settlement pattern 87/30; 90/2
Roman villa 91/16
St Thomas' Chapel 78/37
mercenaries, Germanic see auxiliaries, Roman
Mercer, Thomas (C18, of Bradwell) 76/53
Mercers, Worshipful Company of; 'fair maiden' symbol 04/43
Mercia, kingdom of; royal charter 91/85
mercury sulphide (cinnabar); Roman pigment 86/74
Mere Dyke 86/61, 62, 63
Mere End Down, Oxon; field system 90/72
Merton, Oxon (see also Alchester)
Neolithic site 91/85
Bronze Age
ring ditches 90/72, 81
spearhead 79/7
Bronze and Iron Age site (SP 571170) 91/85, 102
Roman 83/133; road and bridge 89/52; 90/81; 91/85
Saxon; Manor House Nursing Home 05/51
medieval
Manor House Nursing Home 05/51
monastic camera 77/36
settlement 72/28; 83/133
post-medieval
Manor House Nursing Home, garden features 00/45, 45
West End Farm 84/106
field name survey 84/47
metal detectorists 95/iii, 2, 49; 96/41, 71; 97/11-12, 39; 98/70; 00/80;
01/12, 21; 03/23, 35
Milton Keynes area 81/67; 82/81-2, 82-3; 85/32; 86/53; 87/38, 40-3;
89/14-15; 90/17; 91/40-1, 42-3
Nhants 92/31; 93/42, 50; 94/24, 27; 98/38; 99/24; 03/42; 04/38, 46
Oxon 04/54
policies towards 75/3; 79/45; 81/78; 82/22; 83/130; 90/20; 92/20, 31;
94/55; 95/ii, 25
metal objects (see also individual types)
early Iron Age; Alfred's Castle 01/84
Roman: Calverton 04/25; Marcham/Frilford 03/88; 04/86; Piddington 04/47;
Potterspury 98/35; Towcester 07/21; trade routes from Rhineland
04/47; Whittlewood 01/31
Saxon; Stratton 98/7
medieval: Elton Estate 07/16; Fringford 98/86; Williamscot 98/70
post-medieval: Bicester 95/49; Elton Estate 07/16; Harwell 95/52
metalworking (see also copper alloy working; forges; furnaces; hearths;
iron working; lead working; slag)
late Bronze Age; Wallingford 81/103
Iron Age: Abingdon 90/73; Bicester 99/75, 76; Briar Hill 79/7; Gravelly
Guy 85/108; Kings Sutton 05/33; Segsbury Camp 97/72, 76;
Wellingborough 99/23; Woburn 05/9
Roman: Alfred's Castle 00/87; Ashley 71/9; Ashton, Nhants 83/18; Chalton
Cross 00/5; Corby 07/15; Grendon Underwood 07/9; large furnaces
89/43; Laxton 00/39; Newport Pagnell 07/13; Oxford 00/48; Piddington
81/33, 35; 05/42-3; Rotherfield Peppard 07/51; Swalcliffe Lea 99/54,
55, 57-8, 58, 59; 00/54-5; 01/51, 53; 02/50, 52; 07/37; Syresham
02/26
Saxon: Bray 72/12, 13; Northampton 79/11
medieval: Duddington (possibly earlier) 07/16; Heath and Reach 07/6;
Potton 07/4; Thomas of Leighton 07/6
undated; Wakerley 05/35
Metcalfe family of Netherbury Manor, Great Barford 82/18
Methodism, Primitive; C19 chapel, Great Missenden 06/8
mica schist, Central Norwegian; finds at Lyveden 71/20; 74/13
Micheldever, Hants 83/134
microfiche reports 81/146
microliths: Abingdon 73/40; Avington 73/12; Banbury 01/42; Braywick
(Horsham Point) 73/12; Briar Hill 76/34; Caldecotte 80/77; Chesham
83/10, 12, 13; 90/18; Chess Valley 76/76; Drayton 83/147; Hants,
central 75/10, 11; Holyport 72/3, 4; Houghton Regis 98/18-19; Jordans
79/3, 5; Little Wittenham 05/69; Piddington 93/53; Radley 02/38;
Stanford-in-the-Vale 77/8; Sutton Courtenay 98/85; Sutton Wick 99/38,
39; Thrupp 73/14; 74/6; Wawcott 71/3; 72/5; 73/12; 74/6; 75/9; 76/11;
Yarnton, 93/82
micromorphological sampling; Marcham/Frilford 05/104
midden deposits
burnt flint in prehistoric 91/39
Neolithic: Dorney 97/iii, 30, 30, 31, 34; 98/28, 75, 77, 83; 01/30;
Maidenhead-Windsor Flood Alleviation Scheme 98/83
Bronze Age; Marsh Lane East 92/27
Bronze/Iron Age; Aylesbury-Chalgrove gas pipeline 00/79
early Iron Age; Little Wittenham 05/77
Roman: Marcham/Frilford 03/86; 05/97; Oxford 00/81; Syresham 02/26
Saxon; Gatehampton Farm 92/75
medieval: Blackthorn, Oxon 02/67; Collyweston 07/16; Harlington 02/3;
Thrupp 99/30
post-medieval; Chastleton House 96/50; 97/47; Collyweston 07/16
Middle Aston, Oxon
former Fired Earth site 02/56
Grange Farm Roman site 98/66; 99/60
Middle Houghton, Nhants
Iron Age/Roman; possible defended settlement 04/45-6
medieval ridge and furrow 04/45, 46
Walworth Cottage 04/45
Middlesex; medieval pottery manufacture 90/32
Middleton, Milton Keynes, Bucks; fishponds 04/23
Middleton Cheney, Nhants
All Saints Church 03/52
bypass scheme 92/31
metal detectorists 92/3
Purston Crossroads Roman site 98/66
reputed Civil War battlefield 91/62
Middleton Stoney, Oxon 93/1 (see also Aves Ditch)
Iron Age 78/10, 11
Roman
farmstead 71/18; 72/10, 11, 12; 73/22; 74/12; 78/10, 11; 83/32-3
road; Portway 77/11, 12
Saxon defended enclosure 78/10, 11; 83/32-3
medieval
castle 71/17-18; 72/10, 11, 12; 73/22; 74/12; 75/23; 83/32-3, 153
cross 82/108
environmental samples 83/153
manor house, C13 78/10
C18/19; Middleton Park (ice-house) 80/33, 35, 36, 37, (Ionic portico)
82/108
churchyard survey, All Saints church 76/8-10
Park Farm 01/70
Milcombe, Oxon 80/105
Old Chapel, medieval and C19 51
C18 dovecote 96/67
Mildenhall, Suffolk; Holywell Row Saxon cemetery 80/47
Miles Crispin (fl. 1086, lord of Lewknor and Wallingford) 80/126; 81/81;
03/107
milestone; Stanton St John 78/85
military bases, Roman see forts (Roman)
military equipment, Roman: Alchester 00/73, 75, 76; 03/98; Claydon Pike
83/102, 110; 84/96, 98; Higham Ferrers 03/56; Lechlade 83/112
Saxon mercenaries' type: Bicester 89/50; Dorchester 73/5, 6; 86/4, 5;
Shakenoak Farm 71/12; 72/16
Mill Cotton, Nhants 75/47; 88/49
Millbrook, Beds 84/7
millet, Roman; Alchester 02/86
Millow, near Dunton, Beds; DMV 82/17; 93/3
mills (see also: fulling (mills); watermills; windmills)
C18/19 machinery; Coleshill Mill 06/42
paper, C18, later used for corn; Longwick-cum-Ilmer 03/28
post 81/76
pug; Leafield 72/30
tower; Quainton 81/14
unspecified; High Wycombe 04/22; Oxford 07/41; Wolverton 80/80
Millstone Grit
Iron Age rubbers, Kiddington 82/154, 155
Roman corn-grinding wheels, Clapham 72/12
millstones (see also grinding stones; querns)
Roman; Dorney 05/27; Newport Pagnell 07/13
Millthorpe, Nhants 75/28
Millward family of Bradwell, Milton Keynes 91/56
Milton, John (1608-74, poet) 78/77
Milton, Oxon
Chestnuts, School Lane, Saxon and Saxo-Norman 05/51
High Street 92/49
Manor Farm, Adderbury Ridgeway Roman site 98/66
Milton Cottage 95/53
Milton Park, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon 01/41
Saxon brooch 72/16
Milton Bryan, Beds 90/2
Milton Common, Oxon
Camp Common Ground Roman site 72/12, 14, 33; 73/37
fishpond 72/30
Milton Common Pipeline 97/46
Milton Ernest, Beds 82/20; 90/2, 12
Radwell Road, medieval or earlier oven or kiln 06/3
Milton Keynes area, Bucks 72/23, 24-5, 26
Palaeolithic 72/23, 24
Neolithic 72/24, 26; axes 81/76
Bronze Age 72/24, 26; 76/14; 03/29-30
Iron Age 72/24, 26; 94/20-1; 00/12; Nova 07/12-13
Belgic 72/24, 26; Dansteed Way 78/42; Standing Way 79/59
Roman 72/24, 26; 83/42-3; 03/35; Dansteed Way 78/42; hoard 03/30; Nova
07/12-13; roads 78/49, 50, 51-2; Standing Way 79/59
Saxon 72/25, 26; 03/35
medieval 72/25, 26; 03/29-30; ridge and furrow 80/80; 84/27; 07/12-13;
villages 95/10
coins 82/81-2
documents 77/96; 79/60-1; 82/83; 84/27
earthwork survey 76/55
ecological study 78/60
exhibitions 79/57; 81/49; 82/65; 83/43; 84/15
geophysical survey 07/12-13
Heritage Map, updating of 02/11
metal detectorists see separate entry
pottery: Roman 81/75-6; medieval 86/63
schools liaison 79/59-60; 80/81; 82/65; 84/15
timber trackway 72/26
see also: A5 (Milton Keynes diversion); Bancroft; Bletchley; Bradwell;
Brinklow; Broughton; Caldecotte; Crownhill; Denbigh; Downhead Park;
Downs Barn; Emerson Valley; Fenny Stratford; Furzton; Great Linford;
Hazeley; Heelands; Kent's Hill; Kiln Farm; Knowlhill; Linford Wood;
Loughton; Loughton Valley; Medbourne; Middleton;
Milton Keynes Village; Monkston Park; New Bradwell; Oakgrove;
Oakhill; Old Wolverton; Oldbrook; Oxley Park; Pennyland;
Secklow Hundred mound; Shenley; Simpson; Snelshall; Stacey Bushes;
Stantonbury; Stony Stratford; Tattenhoe; Walton; Water Eaton;
Watling Street (at Milton Keynes); Wavendon Gate;
Westbury by Shenley DMV; Westcroft; Willen; Wolverton; Woolstone;
Woughton on the Green; Wymbush
Milton Keynes Village, Bucks
flints 72/8; 80/77
Beaker burial 72/8
Bronze Age 72/8; 76/41
Iron Age 72/8, 26; 74/34; 75/12; 76/41; 77/95; 86/63; 88/45
Roman 74/34; 84/26
Saxon 75/6, 12; 76/41; 77/95; 84/27; 93/33-4; 94/18
medieval village 79/60, 61; 80/76; 81/70; 84/27; 85/53, 54
Bird's Cottage 94/1; 04/30
church of All Saints 84/26, 27
documents 77/96; 79/60-1
gravel pits: Hartigan's 75/12; 76/41, 42; (SP 88653905) 75/12; 77/95;
84/27; 85/53; 86/63
Manor Farm Barns, The Manor Barn, C18/19 03/23
Willen Road 97/20; 04/30
Milton Loch crannog, Kirkcudbright 97/31
Milton Malsor, Nhants
bypass 91/71
Saxon cemetery 77/4
Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxon 83/63; 84/47
school 77/51
mineral extraction, control of 97/iii, 42
mineralised remains, Saxon straw and textiles; Tattenhoe 93/33
mines see chalk mining; flint mines; ironstone quarrying
Minety, Wilts; C12 pottery 86/115
Mingies Ditch, Hardwick with Yelford, Oxon 78/97, 112, 113, 114; 79/109,
111, 115, 116, 117; 80/139; 83/101, 129; 91/95
alluviation 82/180-1
animal bones 81/157; 82/176-7
bath-shaped features, Iron Age 78/113, 114; 79/117
briquetage 83/129
environmental samples 78/114; 81/103, 154, 159; 82/178, 180-1; 83/153
Iron Age enclosure 83/101, 103, 129
Iron Age pastoral farming 85/108
Neolithic 81/103
post-excavation work 81/154; 82/117; 79/122; 83/129
Minn (photographer); work in Oxford 95/64
minster complexes, Saxon: Bampton 92/55-62; Eynsham Abbey 92/46; small
sunken featured buildings in 98/49
Minster Lovell, Oxon
barn 78/72; 97/59
dovecote 78/72, 73
Hall 78/70, 72; 94/2; 96/57
Manor Farm 78/72; 97/59
modern village 72/30
priory 77/36; 78/72
village earthworks 72/30
mint, medieval; Wallingford 03/107
Minton Hollins & Co, Stoke-on-Trent 93/59
mirror case, medieval; Grafton Regis 92/33
mirrors
La Tène; Dorton 78/38; 82/21
Roman; Wavendon Gate 89/19
medieval; Quinton 76/21
Misbourne river, Bucks 02/10
Misbourne Viaduct, M25, Bucks 85/24; 92/2
Missenden Abbey, Bucks 84/10; 85/26-8; 86/39-40; 87/33; 92/18, 21; 07/9
fire (1985) 86/36, 39-40
fishpond 84/11
roofs 85/26
Mixbury, Oxon
Barrow Hill round barrow 84/48, 49, 50, 55
Beaumont Castle earthwork 79/83
medieval fishpond 88/82
moat, post-medieval canalisation of medieval castle, Oxford 05/83
moated sites: Alderton Mount 01/39; Althorp 91/37, 38; Astwell 76/28;
Banbury 99/40, 42; Barford St John 72/28; Barford St Michael 01/55;
Beckley 73/23, 24; 93/69; Bedfordshire 82/17; 83/4; 87/23-4, 25, 30;
90/2, 3, 5; Bletsoe 94/9; Bolnhurst 79/17; 82/19; 90/2; Cadwell 76/37;
Caldecotte 79/64, 67; 91/44; 92/21; Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes 05/18;
Caswell 78/75; Cranfield 87/25; Flitten 76/26-7; High Lodge 83/127;
Holton 78/67, 69; 94/43; Houghton Conquest 05/10; Loughton 76/54, 55;
Marston Trussell 75/46; Milton Keynes Village 84/27; 85/54; Newport
Pagnell 05/13; Northamptonshire 74/25-6; Oakley, Bucks 88/32-3, 34;
Oxford 77/71-2; 92/50; Ravensden 86/20; Rycote House 01/71; Shenington
78/67; Shenley 72/26; 96/11, 12; Somerton 74/16, 17; South Weston
75/32; Stadhampton 94/48; Stanton St John 78/77; Stratton 91/19, 21;
93/3; 95/16, 17; Wheatley 05/53; Woughton on the Green 86/59; Yelford
Manor 84/76-7; see also under: Ardley; Ashton, Nhants; Barton Seagrave;
Beaumont Castle; Benefield; Bradwell (Bury); Buckland; Cambridgeshire;
Cassington; Chalgrove; Charney Bassett; Checkendon; Chil Brook;
Cholsey; Clapham; Clattercote; Cogges; Cople; Cumnor (Dean Court);
Cutteslowe; Drayton Old Park; Ducklington; Elstow; Eye;
Eynesbury Hardwick; Eynsham; Finstock; Gannocks Castle; Goring Heath;
Great Linford; Great Woolstone; Great Barford; Hedgerley;
Higham Ferrers; Kettering; Keysoe; Kidlington; Kingham; Lewknor;
Lilley Farm; Little Woolstone; Little Kimble; Luton; Marston Moretaine;
Newton Purcell; Pulloxhill; Quinton; Ringstead; Roxton; Ruxox Farm;
Sandy; Simpson; Slipton Lodge; Someries Castle; Stagsden; Standlake;
Stanford-in-the-Vale; Staploe; Stotfold; Streatley; Studham; Swyncombe;
Tattenhoe; Tempsford; Thame; Thorpe Lubenham; Thorpe Waterville;
Thurleigh; Titchmarsh; Toddington; Uphoe Manor Farm; Walgrave;
Water Eaton; Westbury by Shenley; Willen; Willington; Wingrave; Witney;
Wythemail; Wootton, Beds
Model Farm, Oxon; Grim's Ditch 84/100, 102
modelling, digital 3D 02/78
Moggerhanger, Beds 80/46; 90/2
Park House 91/25
mole-drainage and survival of sites 79/39-40
molluscs (see also: mussels; oyster shells; snails): Abingdon 93/64;
Alchester 76/65, 67; 99/62; Bancroft 81/69; Barton Court Farm 76/64,
65; Bicester 01/43; Claydon Pike 83/152; Dorney 95/31; Drayton cursus
82/180-1; 83/154; Irthlingborough 92/42; Marcham/Frilford (Roman
marine) 04/86, 88; Mongewell 93/60; Oxford 93/76; 96/60; Piddington
(Roman marine) 04/47; Radley 93/85; Stanton Harcourt 97/ii; Thrupp
92/63; Yarnton 96/67
monastic sites (see also: camerae; Dissolution; granges; hospitals; and
individual orders)
Anglo-Saxon minsters, siting of 92/55
Bedfordshire 77/43; 82/16-17, 20; 83/3
country houses developed from 92/17-19
Oxfordshire 77/36, 37
see also under: Abingdon; Bampton; Bedford; Bicester; Bradwell; Bristol;
Burnham Abbey; Bushmead Priory; Canons Ashby; Chicksands;
Cirencester; Clattercote; Cogges; Cottesbrooke; Deerhurst Priory;
Dorchester; Dunstable; Easton Neston; Elstow Abbey; Elvendon; Ely;
Eye; Eynsham; Fineshade Abbey; Goring; Grove Priory; Harrold;
Lechlade; Littlemore; Medmenham; Minster Lovell; Missenden Abbey;
Northampton; Norton Priory; Notley Abbey; Oxford; Ravenstone;
Reading; Sandford; Snelshall Priory; Stoke Goldington;
Thame (Thame Park); Wallingford; Warden Abbey; Weedon;
Westminster Abbey; Willen; Willington
Monckton, Hon John (fl. 1770, of Fineshade Abbey) 88/60
Mongewell, Oxon
Neolithic 89/52-3
Bronze Age 89/52-3
Iron Age 75/34, 37
medieval; deserted village 88/82
Grim's Ditch 75/34, 37; 91/80, 81; 93/59-60; 98/74-5; 99/65, 68; (SU
612882) 88/82; (SU 616879) 71/7; (SU 61708795) 74/29; (SU 620878)
71/7
Ice House Hill; flint and pottery scatter 93/60
Mongewell Farm; ice-house 74/29
Mongewell House; gardens 88/82
undated burials 71/7; 74/29
monkeys
C20 grave, Henley 84/40, 41
medieval sculpture; Quinton 75/21; 76/21, 22
Monks Risborough, Bucks 97/79
St Dunstan's Church 03/36; 05/31
Monkston, Nhants; Chetwode Avenue 00/9
Monkston Park, Milton Keynes, Bucks
Iron Age 02/10; 03/29-30;
Roman 02/10; 03/29-30
ridge and furrow 03/29-30
monoliths (see also Rollright Stones; Stanton Harcourt (Devil's Quoits)):
Barton Abbey 91/82; Enstone 91/82; Over Norton 91/82
Monoux, Humphrey (fl. 1666, of Wootton, Beds) 87/27
Montacute, Sir William de (fl. 1318, of Cassington) 74/14
Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron 86/16; 91/3, 6
Montague, Sir Edward (fl. 1540, of Boughton) 86/81, 83
Montague, Ralph, 1st Duke of Montague 86/81, 83
Monuments at Risk Survey (MARS) 95/ii, 1-2
Monuments Protection Programme 90/3, 5; 92/21, 29
Moore, Richard (fl. 1541, of Colmworth and Bolnhurst) 89/12
Mordaunt, Sir John (d. 1510, of Turvey) 88/24, 26
Morland, Mr (fl.1753-66, schoolmaster of Witney) 91/94
Morley family of Lewknor 80/126
Morris, Roger (C18 architect) 91/38
Morris, William (1834-96) 80/114; 87/102; 94/1
mortar
Roman: Marcham/Frilford (with footprint) 05/101; Shefford 05/3
middle Saxon daub consisting of; Eynsham 91/104
medieval 73/22; 76/51; 80/29; 87/52; 01/20
post-medieval; Brackley 92/36
mortar mixers, Saxon: Eynsham 91/104, 106; Northampton 75/25; 81/31;
Wallingford 05/66
mortars
Roman, fragments; Hemington 06/26
medieval stone; Lyveden 71/20
C17 Purbeck marble; Abingdon 97/50
Morton, Earl of (fl. 1110) 81/36
Morton Pinkney, Nhants 75/29
mortuary enclosures
possible Neolithic; Tansor 96/iv, 37, 38
Iron Age; Bedford 06/4, 4
mosaics, Roman (see also tesserae and under Bancroft (villa)): Ashley
71/8-9; Brackley 92/32, 33; Bradwell, Wolverton 74/33; in extensions to
existing rooms 05/59; Fawler 87/88-9; Gatehampton Farm, Goring 06/53,
54, 54; 07/43, 43, 44; Piddington 81/33, 35; 86/73, 74; 04/46, 53;
Saltire Group 05/59; Stanion 03/55; Stanwick 91/77, 78; Stowe 99/17;
Swalcliffe Lea 99/54, 55, 56, 57; 00/53, 54, 55; 01/50, 51, 53; 05/54,
55-8, 59; Thenford 72/10; 73/17; Westbury by Shenley 91/45; Widford
90/82, 83; Wigginton 05/87; Winterton 72/10
mottes see castles, mottes and ringworks
moulds
late Bronze Age, for casting rings; Cassington 06/45
Iron Age igneous rock; Little Wittenham 05/69
Roman clay; Sandy 92/6
Moulsford, Oxon
church door hinges 82/45, 46, 47
flint-working site, Moulsford Down 88/102
J. Souster's notes 84/47
Roman road 81/47, 48
Well Barn House, Well Barn Estate 06/40
Moulsoe, Bucks 84/27; 85/50, 51-2
medieval village 85/51
Moulsoe Buildings Farm 96/11
Moulton, Northampton
Bronze Age 72/14
Belgic 73/29
Roman 72/14; 75/26
medieval 74/24-5
Moulton Park 74/24-5; (SP 777648) 73/29
Thorplands Farm 72/14
mounds (see also: barrows; cairns)
burnt 93/30; Chalfont St Giles 86/36; 87/34; Yarnton/Cassington 93/82;
94/51
elongated; Old Grimsbury 94/37, 38
garden; New College, Oxford 94/46-7
pillow: Ashdown Park 91/80; Blenheim Park 81/80; Fotheringhay 76/25;
Titchmarsh 76/25; Walton, Aylesbury 74/12; Wing Park 94/14
Saxo-Norman artificial; Barford St Michael 01/55
truncated; Little Tew 91/82
turf see Secklow Hundred mound and under West Cotton
other: Brixworth, of grass and ant-hills 73/32; Great Chesterton 74/12;
Higham Ferrers 92/38; Shutlanger 92/35; Simpson 79/76-7; Tansor
Crossroads 92/39; Tilsworth, early fortified site 73/43; Upton,
possible prehistoric 90/52-3; Wellingborough 02/35-6
Mount Pleasant, Dorset 73/13; 76/6
Mountjoy, Earl of Newport (fl. 1472) 74/25
Mowsbury Hill see under Ravensden
Moxhill Farm, Beds; late Iron Age/Roman features 02/5
Mucking, Essex 97/55
muck-rake 91/122
Murcott, Oxon; Field Road 98/73
Murcott DMV, Nhants 78/22
Mursley, Bucks 81/13-14; 00/11
Main Street, Saxon and post-medieval 06/16
Manor Farm, Main Street 04/8
North Salden Farm, C16-17 palace of Sir John Fortescue 04/7
Winslow Zone Main Trunk Renewal Pipeline, prehistoric ditches 01/12-13
Muscott DMV, Nhants 82/52; 94/27
musical instruments (see also: flutes; Jew's Harp)
part of C12/13 bone; Raunds 82/37
musket balls: Banbury 98/70; Beaumont Castle 79/83; Bradwell Abbey 88/45;
Lyveden 74/13
mussels
Abingdon 90/91, 93
Gatehampton Farm, Goring (Roman) 06/52
zebra (Dreissena polymorpha); Oxford 82/179
Mycetaea hirta 81/158
Mylne, Robert (1734-1811, architect) 90/58