Vale and Ridgway Project see Marcham/Frilford
Valence family, Earls of Pembroke 86/89; 88/91
Valerius Geminus, Lucius; tombstone, Alchester 05/91, 91, 93-4
Valkenburg Roman fortress 03/92
valley forts, Iron Age see Cherbury Camp; Dyke Hills; and under Witney
Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726, architect) 98/23
Vanden Broome, Cornelius; plan of Newport Pagnell 04/31
Varney family of Middleton Stoney 76/10
vaults (see also cellars; crypt)
  C12, Frewin Hall, Oxford 82/160
  C18 stone; Stowe gardens 96/16, 17
  post-medieval church and churchyard: Appleton 04/68; Bletchley 85/56;
      Churchill 87/81; Culworth 92/32; Geddington 91/60; High Wycombe
      95/32; 99/21; Iffley 95/57; Oxford 95/59; 98/87; 01/60; 02/59; West
      Hanney 91//102; Yielden 00/3
  undated; Renhold 03/4
Vaux family of Whipsnade 93/31
Vegetius, Renatus Flavius; Epitoma rei militaris 00/76
Ventris, Sir Francis (C16, of Campton Manor) 94/3
Ver, Baldwin de (fl. 1279) 79/97
Verdun family of Bloxham 80/107
Verney family of Abingdon
  Sir Edmund (1616-49) 89/46
  Sir Ralph (1613-96) 89/46; 90/78
Verney family of Claydon House 95/36; 97/23
Verulamium, Herts
  late Belgic pottery 71/6
  lion-headed key 95/28
  Roman coins minted at 82/82
  Roman buildings 82/152; 05/105
  territorium boundary 95/10
Vespasian, Roman emperor 01/73; 04/83; 05/93-4
vetch, Roman 76/65
Viburnum opulus (guelder rose) 78/114
vicarage, medieval; Abingdon 03/73; 04/67
Viexmont, Claude de; Brevis institutio de salutari poenitentia peccatoris
    (1586) 87/60
Vikings see Danes
villa house; Alfred's Castle 01/85-6, 87, 88, 89
villa regalis, possible; Dorney 98/30
village settlement patterns 82/17-19, 21; 91/19, 21; 02/23
  Banbury area 05/64
  'double' villages 80/110
  Saxon primary and daughter 77/25
  street villages 86/59; 87/20-1, 24, 25
  see also: ends; greens
villages, deserted and shrunken medieval see Adwell; Alcot; Ardington Wick;
    Ardley; Asham; Asterleigh; Aston Tirrold; Astrop; Astwell and Falcutt;
    Attington; Banbury; Barby; Barford St John; Barton Seagrave; Baulking;
    Bockhampton; Brixworth; Broughton; Buscot; Cadwell; Cainhoe Castle;
    Caldecotte; Canons Ashby; Cassington; Caswell; Chilson; Cholsey;
    Churchill; Clanfield; Clattercote; Coat; Cogges; Cokethorpe; Compton;
    Copcourt; Costow; Cottesbrooke; Cotton; Cranford; Crick; Cutteslowe;
    Doddington; Eaglethorpe; East End; Easton Neston; Ecton;
    Eggington-with-Clipstone; Elkington; Farthinghoe; Filgrave; Finstock;
    Foscott; Fulbrook; Fulmer; Fulwell; Gainfield; Garsington;
    Gatehampton Farm; Glendon; Glympton; Great Houghton; Great Linford;
    Great Woolstone; Halse; Hampton Gay; Hampton Poyle; Hannington;
    Hanslope; Hanwell; Hardmead; Hardwick, Oxon; Harrowden; Hartwell;
    Helmdon; Hogshaw; Holcot; Horton-cum-Studley; Hound Tor; Hyde, The;
    Ilbury; Kelmarsh; Kingham; Latchford; Ledall in Waterperry; Ledwell;
    Lewknor; Lidstone; Little Creaton; Little Houghton; Littlecote;
    Littleworth; Longcot; Loughton; Lower Dornford;
    Lyveden, Potters or Great; Lyveden Parva; Maidwell; Mallows Cotton;
    Marholm; Melchbourne; Merton; Millow; Milton Keynes;
    Milton Keynes Village; Minster Lovell; Mongewell; Morton Pinkney;
    Moulsoe; Murcott; Muscott; Naseby; Newbold; Newton; Newton Bromswold;
    Newton Purcell; Nobold; North Leigh; North Weston;
    Northampton (Upton DMV); Nuneham Courtenay; Old; Old Grimsbury;
    Orton Longville; Over Worton; Perio; Preston Deanery; Puttes; Puxley;
    Radcot; Radstone; Roade; Rothersthorpe; Rycote Magna and Parva; Santon;
    Saxinton; Seacourt; Slape Copse; Somerford; Somerton; Soulbury;
    South Weston; Spratton; Stanford-on-Avon; Stanton St John; Stanwick;
    Steeple Barton; Stocking Green; Stoke Doyle; Stoke Lyne; Stoke Row;
    Stowford; Stratton; Stuchbury; Sugarswell; Sulby; Sulgrave; Sutton;
    Swalcliffe; Sydenham; Tackley; Tadmarton; Tathall End; Tattenhoe;
    Tetsworth; Thomley; Thorpe; Thrupp House Cottages;
    Thurleigh (Scald End); Tilgarsley; Tilwick; Toot Baldon; Topples;
    Tulwick; Tusmore; Upper Boddington; Walcot; Walton, Milton Keynes;
    Water Eaton; Weedon Lois and Weston; West Cotton; Westbury by Shenley;
    Whiston; Whitehill; Wicklesham; Widmer End; Wilcote; Winwick;
    Wolverton; Woodcroft; Woodperry; Woolstone; Woughton on the Green;
    Wretchwick; Wykham; Yarnton; Yelvertoft
villages, Roman
  Ouse Valley 97/iv
  Stanford-in-the-Vale 93/79-80
  Swalcliffe Lea 98/66-7, 67-9; 99/58-9
villas, Roman 83/43; Alfred's Castle (villa house) 01/85-6, 87, 88, 89;
    Amersham 84/13; 85/25-6; Ashley 71/8-9; Barnack 81/41; Bicester 79/125;
    89/49-50; Bledlow-cum-Saunderton 88/31; Castor 77/26; Chesterton
    00/71-2; Cosgrove 93/46; Cumnor 78/17; Deddington 93/70; Didcot West
    03/57; early manorial estates on sites of 98/62; Goring 89/51; Great
    Addington 72/23; Great Tew 79/96; Kempston Church End 92/7-8; 93/13;
    Kidlington 75/31; Maidwell 76/29; Newnham, Bedford 74/9; Oxfordshire
    (SU 540919) 89/62, 63; RDX 114 94/7; Steeple Aston 00/56-7; 01/55;
    Sutton Courtenay (not located) 03/77; Thenford 72/10; 73/17; in Vale of
    White Horse 97/68; Weekley 89/42-3; Welton 80/48; Wollaston 97/iv
    Wootton Fields, Northampton 03/53, 04/34-5
  see also under: Ascott-under-Wychwood; Asthall; Aynho; Bancroft;
      Barton Court Farm; Bletsoe; Brackley; Bradwell; Berry Grove;
      Brixworth; Charlbury; Chilson; Chipping Warden; Churchill;
      Deanshanger; Ducklington; East Hanney; Easton Neston; Foxcote;
      Fringford; Gatehampton Farm; Gayton; Hambleden; Harpsden;
      High Wycombe; Hunsbury; Inglesham; Islip; Ivinghoe; Latimer;
      Lechlade; Little Weldon; Lockleys I; Maddle Farm; Maidenhead;
      Marcham/Frilford; Meppershall; North Leigh; North Wraxall;
      Northampton; Penns Mead; Piddington; Ramsden; Raunds;
      Rollright Stones; Ringstead; Ruxox Farm; Shakenoak Farm; Shardloes;
      Stanford-in-the-Vale; Stanion; Stanton Low; Stantonbury; Stanwick;
      Starveall Farm; Stonesfield; Swalcliffe; Tackley; Totternhoe;
      Wantage; Weldon; Wigginton; Wood Burcote; Woodford; Woolstone;
      Wykham; Wymbush
Villiers family of Middleton Stoney 76/10
Vincent, Abbot of Abingdon (1121-1130) 99/71
Vindolanda, Northumbria; Roman gaming counters 03/103
Vindonissa (Windisch, Switzerland); timber bath house 02/93
vineyards, Roman: Oxley Park 03/35; Wollaston 96/39-41, 40, 41; 97/iv; 06/1
viridarium; Hanslope 94/17
visitation of heralds (Bedfordshire, 1669) 87/26
viticulture see vineyards
Viward (C11, Lord of Addingrove Manor) 88/33
votive deposits (see also special deposits)
  Iron Age; Abingdon 73/23; Bedford 96/2
  Roman: Bancroft 84/23; mid-Bucks, late Roman pewter 96/16; Higham Ferrers
      03/56; Marcham/Frilford 03/89, 90, 91; 03/89, 90, 91; 04/91, 93;
      06/63, 64-5, 69, 70, (manufacture of objects for) 06/60, 69; Milton
      Keynes Village 74/34; Swalcliffe 02/50, 50; Wavendon Gate 90/27
voussoirs see under tiles