Index to South Midlands Archaeology 1-37
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Waddesdon, Bucks
  axe hoard 87/16
  Roman settlement 77/44; 00/11
  Waddesdon Manor; C19 garden features 05/19; 06/16
Wade family of Clipston 79/26
Wade-Gery family of Bushmead Priory 90/15
Wadenhoe, Nhants 75/28; 90/53; 96/41
Wakefield Lodge Estate, Nhants; medieval copse system 02/22-3
Wakerley, Nhants
  early Bronze Age 71/14
  Iron Age settlement 73/14; 74/8; 75/16
  Roman 73/17; 74/8; 75/16
  Saxon: C6 cemetery 71/14; 88/64, 68, 70; C7 burials 75/16
  shaft furnace 71/14
  SP 946 980, prehistoric to medieval scatters, furnace residues 05/35
  SP 9500 9750, iron smelting, between Iron Age and early medieval 06/24,
      24
  Wakerley Great Wood; earthworks 96/41, 42
  Wakerley Manor 96/41, 42
wala (Anglo-Saxon) 87/106
Walcot DMV, Charlbury, Oxon 82/120, 123, 124, 125
'wale' 87/106
Waldridge, Bucks; Waldridge Manor, Owlswick Road, Ford 04/31
Wales, Prince of; C14 lord of Clipston 79/22
Walgrave, Nhants 90/55; 95/44
  moated site 74/26; 92/30; 93/43, 49; 97/43
Walkendorf, Erik (fl. 1520, Norwegian archbishop) 91/32
wall paintings, Roman; Piddington 04/51
Wallbury Camp, Essex 76/7-8
Waller, Thomas, of Luton 91/36
Wallingford, Oxon
  late Bronze Age eyot settlement 81/103; 83/100, 148, 154; 86/95-6;
      87/99-100; 91/1
  Iron Age 76/75
  Roman 83/149
    Benson airfield, cemetery 97/iv
  Saxon 73/18; 03/107
    'bridgehead' to burgh 04/98, 101, 101
    burh defences 05/53, 89
    Castle Street 02/69
    cemetery 81/150; 03/106, 112
    Goldsmith's Lane 83/102, 148
    St Georges Road 02/43; 05/53
    St Martin's Street 80/138, 185; 81/140, 142, 143; 83/149; 89/57
    St Rumbold's church 83/102, 148
    Wood Street 85/110
  late Saxon 91/93
    St Martin's churchyard 05/66
    town planning 03/105, 107, 109
  medieval 03/107-9
    areas abandoned in C13 53, 89
    bridge 82/110, 111, 112-13; 04/95, 96, 97, 98
    Bullcroft Park 98/89; 04/94, 96, 101
    castle 73/18; 76/61, 75; 77/3, 37, 52, 55; 79/18; 87/99; 90/85-6;
        03/105-6, 107, 109, 111, 112; 04/94-5, 95
    Castle Street 80/138, 184; 02/69; 03/63
    Cemetery Bends; medieval pit 94/55
    Church Lane 05/89
    Croft Road, cultivation 98/89
    defences 02/43; 03/105, 106, 107, 109, 109-10, 112; 03/105, 106, 107,
        109, 109-10, 112; 04/94-5, 95, 96, 96, 101
    Domesday Book record 03/107
    fish bones 81/157
    Frenchmen's dwellings (1086) 03/107, 109
    Goldsmith's Lane 83/105, 148-9
    High Street 83/149; 85/116; 02/61-2; 04/66; 05/88
    Market Place 78/121; 79/19; 80/185; 00/81
    New Road 75/27, 35; 79/136
    Priory of Holy Trinity 77/36; 82/112; 83/149; 98/89; 02/61-2; 03/107,
        109, 112; 04/94, 101
    quay, riverside 04/96-7, 98
    Queen's Arbour 04/95, 95, 96-7, 101
    Riverside Meadows 95, 96, 98, 101, 101-3
    St Georges Road 02/43
    St Martin's churchyard 05/66
    St Martin's Street 80/185; 00/81; 04/66
    St Mary's Street 80/185; 83/150
    St Michael's Church, site of, and cemetery 75/27, 35; 79/136
    St Nicholas' College 77/37; 87/99
    St Peters Church 75/35; 04/96
    St Rumbold's church 83/105, 148-9
    siege castle, possible 03/107, 112; 04/98, 101, 102-3
    street plan 80/184
    Thames Street 75/27, 35; 79/136; 05/53
  post-medieval
    bridge works 82/111, 112-13
    Castle Street 03/63
    Church Lane 05/89
    Civil War period 81/88; 82/112; 03/107, 112
    C19 pits, Milbrook development 76/75
    Goldsmiths Lane 00/82
    High Street and St Martin's Street 04/66
    Market Place 00/81
    Reading Road 81/88
    Thames Street 05/53
    Wilder's agricultural machinery firm 79/18
    Wood Street; air raid shelter 94/49
    World War I features 04/96, 97-8, 101-2
  undated graves; church of St John the Evangelist 00/69
  Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project 03/105-13
    2002 field season 03/109-12
    2003 field season 03/112; 04/94-102, 95-103, 94-102, 95-103
    Bridge Villa International Camping and Caravan park, Crowmarsh Gifford
        04/73
    Bullcroft 03/106, 107, 109, 109-10, 112; 04/94, 96, 101
    castle 03/105-6, 107, 109, 111, 112; 04/94-5, 95
    Castle Meadows 03/106, 108, 111, 112; 04/95, 95, 95-6, 96-7, 101;
    'Castle Priory' 04/101
    Civil War period 03/107, 112
    defences 03/105, 106, 107, 109, 109-10, 112; 04/94-5, 95, 96, 96, 101
    Domesday Book record 03/107
    Frenchmen's dwellings (1086) 03/107, 109
    geophysical survey 04/94, 95-7, 98, 98, 100, 101, 102-3
    historical context 03/107-9
    Kinecroft 03/106, 107, 112; 04/95, 96, 97-8, 99-100, 101
    King's Meadow 04/95-6
    north gate 03/105-6, 108
    Queen's Arbour 04/95, 95, 96-7, 101
    questions and directions for project 03/106-7
    Riverside Meadows 95, 96, 98, 101, 101-3
    site and previous archaeology 03/105-6
    topographical (Total Station) survey 04/94, 96
    town planning, Saxon/Norman 03/105, 107, 109
  sites
    Bridge House Old People's Home 82/163
    by-pass 93/59-60; Grim's Ditch, Mongewell 88/82; Whitecross Farm
        81/103; 83/148; 86/95-6; 87/99-100
    Castle Lane House 90/85-6
    Church of St Mary the More 96/62
    Croft Road 05/89
    Didcot-Wallingford road 92/54
    Goldsmith's Lane 80/184, 185; 81/140; 83/105, 148-9
    Harris Garage 92/54
    High Street 05/88
    Institute of Hydrology 99/84
    The Keep, 50, High Street 93/80
    Lamb Garage, Castle Street 02/69
    Market Place 07/33
    Milbrook development site 76/75
    New Road 75/27
    Reading Road 81/88
    Riverside Park, Crowmarsh Gifford 06/41
    St Georges Road 03/64
    St Johns Road 03/59; 05/89
    St Martin's Street 80/138, 185; 81/140, 142, 143; 83/149; 89/57
    Town Hall 95/62-3
    Wallingford Lower School 97/61
    Wilder's agricultural machinery firm 79/18
wall-paintings see under painted decoration
wallpapers; Chastleton House 95/80
walls (see also defences and under painted decoration; plaster)
  Roman: Chipping Warden 92/36; Earls Barton 02/28; Haversham 02/11;
      Irchester (boundary) 92/38; Kempston Church End 92/8; Piddington
      (villa boundary) 04/51, 53; Swalcliffe Lea 03/68; Towcester 91/73;
      00/40; 05/41
  Saxon; Wallingford 02/69
  medieval: Abingdon 04/67; Deddington 80/84; Eynsham (monastic) 91/107,
      108; Greys Court (curtain) 02/55; Hedgerley 02/16; Higham Ferrers
      (boundary) 04/36; Kirtlington 05/87; Kislingbury 04/32; Marlow 05/32;
      Newport Pagnell 03/24; Northampton 04/37; Oxford 00/81, (revetment)
      04/71; Pavenham 02/3; Stanford-in-the-Vale 05/52; Wallingford 02/69;
      Warmington 04/44; Welford, Nhants (boundary) 04/34; Wendlebury 00/80;
      West Cotton (boundary) 91/69; Yardley Gobion 92/35; 04/45
  post-medieval: Abingdon 96/51; 04/67; Aston le Walls 04/39; Banbury
      (boundary) 91/100; Barton Seagrave (incorporating medieval
      architectural fragments) 92/34; Boarstall Tower (garden) 00/17;
      Brackley (boundary) 04/36; Bradenham Manor (wall plates) 01/21;
      Chastleton House (garden) 96/50; Dunstable 92/9-10; Fritwell 05/50;
      Grey's Court 96/51; Haversham 02/11; Horley 05/64-5, 66; Newport
      Pagnell 03/24; Oxford 04/62, 62; Rockingham (parkland boundary)
      96/42; Stanford-in-the-Vale 05/52; Stony Stratford (boundary) 01/16;
      Thrapston 02/31; Towcester 02/31; Warmington 04/44; Witney 03/58
  undated: Grafton Regis 92/33; Old Wolverton 04/12
  crinkle-crankle; Pangbourne 84/42, 43
walrus ivory 91/32
Walter family of Churchill; vault 87/81
Walton, Aylesbury, Bucks see under Aylesbury
Walton, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  church of St Michael 77/91; 78/20, 43; 79/61
  coins, silver hammered 87/42
  documents 79/60, 61
  landscape survey 85/52
  Roman 87/42; (SP 90133672) 81/69; (SP 887367) 73/36; 80/82
  shrunken village 73/36
  Walton Hall, Roman and medieval 91/43; 01/13
Walton Grounds, Oxon; Aves Ditch 74/10, 11
Wanborough (Durocornovium), Wilts 89/63
Wandon Green, Herts 87/23
Wantage, Oxon
  Roman 73/15-16; 94/31; 95/ii-iii; 96/45; 97/46; 98/89-90; 99/43
  Saxon 94/31; 95/ii-iii; 99/43, 44; 07/33
  Belmont Park 76/75
  buildings survey 75/49
  cropmark sites (SU 399868, 401873) 78/102, 103, 104
  Grove Road, medieval 02/69
  Denchworth Road 73/15-16; 96/45; 97/46; 99/43
  Fawler Copse, Kingston Lisle 99/84
  Mably Way 96/62; 98/89-90
  Market Place; C16/17 02/62
  Mill Street 73/15-16; 94/31; 96/45; 97/46; 99/43
  The Pantiles, Portway 05/84
  Stockholm Way 99/43
  St Mary's School, Newbury Street; Saxon to early post-medieval features
      07/33
  St Peter and St Paul churchyard 99/84
  The Vicarage 85/110, 112
  Wantage Wharf, C19 07/42
Warborough, Oxon
  barn roof, Warborough Green 84/88
  C4 cemetery 76/72
  Plough Cairn 84/40, 41-2
Warden Abbey, Beds 77/43; 79/44
  documentary archive 84/7
  fishponds 79/44
  gardens 79/44
  as house after Dissolution 87/9, 27, 29; 92/19
  isolated site 87/30
  tiled pavements 75/22; 77/43; 79/44; 80/2, 6, 7-8, 9-10; 82/11-12; 83/3;
      85/18-119; 87/9
  and Tilwick 84/4
Warden Park, Beds 90/16
Wardswood Lane, Beds; Iron Age pottery 93/27
warehouses, C19; Banbury 79/92; 91/100; Great Linford 05/12
Wareville, Ralph de (fl. 1234, canon of Lincoln) 85/79
Wargrave, Wokingham; St Mary's church 93/32
Warkton, Nhants
  Northamptonshire Survey 80/48
  Pipe Lane, medieval 07/21
  St Edmund's church 97/42; 98/38
Warmark, Beds; Saxon cemetery 82/13
Warmington, Nhants
  barrows 79/51; 93/51
  early Bronze Age burial 96/39
  Iron Age boundary features 93/52, 52
  Roman settlement 96/39
  Saxon 92/40, 40; 93/51, 52, 52; 98/38; 99/26; 04/44
  medieval
    Burystead 92/40, 40; 93/52, 52; 96/36
    Chapel Street 99/26
    Church Street 04/44
    Eaglethorpe village 92/39-41, 41; 93/51, 52; 96/39; 97/43
    Manor House 98/38; 99/26
    mill 92/40, 41
  Bypass 93/51-2, 52
  Church Street 04/44
  Elton Estate, proposed agricultural reservoir 03/40
Warpsgrove, Oxon
  (SU 651983) 77/77
  monastic house 77/36, 37
Warren, John (C16 abbot of Thame) 87/73
Warren Villas Quarry, Upper Caldecote, Beds 91/1
  geological layers and palaeochannels 95/7; 98/11
  Neolithic pottery and possible ditch 91/18, 19
  Iron Age/Roman occupation 91/18, 19; 94/6, 7; 95/16; Roman kiln 92/7
  Saxon and Saxo-Norman occupation 95/16, 18
  waterlogged material 90/11-12; 91/19
  publications 97/1
warrens: Aylesbury 74/12; Bloxham 80/105, 109; Long Buckby 78/22; Northill
    89/2; Streatley, Beds 80/3; Titchmarsh 78/23; Whiston 78/23
Wars, World see World War-related features
Warwick, Ela, countess of (fl. 1279) 83/65
Wasperton, Warks
  Neolithic; Grooved Ware 06/39
  Iron Age 79/110; 80/137, 164, 165, 166
Watchfield, Oxon 84/122-3
  Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, medieval 02/39-40
water basin, early Roman industrial; Alchester 02/85, 86, 87, 88
water courses
  Iron Age; Wellingborough 99/23
  Roman; Ducklington 99/76; Rotherfield Peppard 07/51-2, 51
water crowfoot (Ranunculus s. Batrachium) 76/67, 69
Water Eaton, Milton Keynes, Bucks; Iron Age settlement 97/19
Water Eaton, Oxon (see also Gosford and Water Eaton)
  DMV 84/59, 60, 62
  estate map (1718) 81/74
  moat 72/30
  subsidy assessments, C14 and C16 84/62
  Water Eaton House; garden pavilions 88/132
Water End, Beds; late Iron Age to post-medieval 05/10
water gate, C17; Kirby Hall 92/37
water holes (see also water pits; well pits; wells)
  multi-period; Drayton 01/59
  Bronze Age: Abingdon 98/84; Biddenham 97/4; Cassington 06/45; Dorney
      97/27; 98/80; Radley, 01/26; Oxon 93/77; Sutton Courtenay 99/84;
      03/77; Yarnton 98/90; 99/85
  Iron Age: Abingdon 95/48, 49; Radley 93/77
  Roman: Bicester 99/76; Dorney 00/21
  Saxon: Abingdon 95/48, 49; Barton Court Farm 77/67; Dorney 97/27; 05/27;
      Yarnton 91/92
  medieval; Oxford 77/70
  post-medieval; Witney 99/84-5
water management
  medieval; Oxford Castle moat 92/50
  post-medieval; Aylesbury 07/8; Kirby Hall gardens 92/37; West Wycombe
      Park 07/11
water meadows, C19; Chenies 98/20
water mills: Banbury 99/40, 42; Barford St Michael 81/114; Barton 91/25;
    Bedfordshire 82/19, 21; 84/7-8; Buckinghamshire 83/14; Coleshill, Oxon
    06/42; Deddington 87/83; Duns Tew 83/64, 65; Great Tew 79/102; Hanwell
    82/89; High Wycombe 93/35; 94/2, 18-19; Holcot 75/29; Little Woolstone
    99/20-1; Maidwell 76/29, 30; Milton Keynes area 81/72; 82/84; 99/20-1;
    Oxford 94/45; 98/87; Somerton 98/63-4; 99/61; Stanford-in-the-Vale
    (Roman) 88/87; Stanton St John 78/83; Stanwick (Roman) 91/76; Stoke
    Bruerne 91/72; Stotfold 86/16; 91/25; Stratton (paddles, C14-16) 02/1;
    Warmington 92/40, 41; see also under: Bromham; Caldecotte;
    Charney Bassett; Cogges; Cuxham; Stanton Low; West Cotton;
    Woodstock Park; Woughton on the Green; Yelvertoft
water pits (see also water holes; well pits)
  late Bronze/early Iron Age: Kempston 06/1; Luton 06/2
  Iron Age: Luton 06/2; Salford, Beds 02/3-4; 03/4-5
  Roman: Denham 02/13, 14, 15; Luton 06/2; Oundle 00/40, 42; Piddington
      93/53, 58; Wilstead 02/4
  Saxon and medieval; Biggleswade 00/1
water shrew remains, Roman; Gatehampton Farm, Goring 06/53
water supplies
  Roman: Bancroft villa 79/75; Piddington 04/51; Towcester 85/65; see also
      under Alchester
  medieval: Aylesbury 79/12; Cholsey 93/69
  post-medieval; Chesham 01/17
  C17; Buckingham 01/19
  C18 garden; Stowe 01/22, 23, 24; 05/19
  C19; Coleshill Walled Garden 00/50
  C20; Mapledurham 79/38-9
watercress beds; Ewelme 02/94
waterlogged remains (see also boats; invertebrates, waterlogged; ladders;
    leather; plant remains; timber and timber structures, waterlogged;
    seeds; trees, prehistoric waterlogged; wattle; wells; wheels)
  late Ice Age to present; Iver 92/2
  post-glacial; Buscot Lock 79/125
  prehistoric; Marcham/Frilford 04/92, 93
  Mesolithic: Braywick 73/13; Dorney 95/30, 31
  Neolithic/Bronze Age; Yarnton 92/54
  Bronze Age: Cholsey 83/154; 86/95-6; 87/99-100; Radley 93/77; Wytham
      81/158; Yarnton 93/84
  Iron Age: Abingdon 95/48; Buscot Lock 79/125; Claydon Pike 83/152;
      Drayton cursus 82/180-1; 83/153; Farmoor 80/139; 81/159; 82/180, 181;
      Mingies Ditch 78/112-14; 81/103, 154, 159; 82/178, 180-1; 83/153;
      Oakgrove 90/24; Oxford 82/180, 181; Radley 93/77; Salford, Beds 02/4;
      Stanton Harcourt 83/144-5, 154; Wellingborough 92/44; Westbury by
      Shenley 91/45
  Iron Age/Roman: Farmoor 75/35, 38, 39; 76/62; 77/69; 82/180-1; Northmoor
      84/109; 85/98, 100; 86/106; Warren Villas 90/11-12
  Roman: Abingdon 77/65; 90/74; Alchester 76/65, 67; 02/84-5, 86, 90;
      03/98, 102; 04/81, 82, 83, 84, (threat of falling water table) 04/84;
      Appleford 74/9; 81/158; Aston, Bampton and Shifford 90/86; Barton
      Court Farm 76/64; 77/65, 66; 81/158; 83/152; Berinsfield 82/179;
      Bidwell 86/29; Claydon Pike 81/157; 82/166, 178-9, 180; 83/152;
      Ducklington 91/95; Farmoor 80/139; 81/159; 82/180, 181; Fencott and
      Murcott 81/121, 122, 123; 82/148, 150; Mingies Ditch 81/159; Oxford
      82/180; 83/153; 95/55, 56; Shakenoak Farm 74/9; Standlake 87/97;
      Sutton Courtenay 74/10; Swalcliffe 78/119; Wavendon Gate 90/27, 91/1;
      Wellingborough 92/44; Westbury by Shenley 91/45
  Saxon: Barton Court Farm 81/158; Berinsfield 78/110; Mingies Ditch
      81/159; Oxford 72/34; 83/153; Pennyland 82/76-8; Wallingford 92/54;
      Wellingborough 92/44
  medieval: Abingdon 90/78; 97/50; 02/67; Banbury 99/40, 42; Bedford 85/16;
      98/5; Bicester 81/159; Caldecotte 81/50; 82/44, 46-7, 70, 83;
      Chalgrove 83/152; Clophill 74/14; Grove Priory 81/6; Haynes 95/11,
      13; Irthlingborough 92/42; Lyveden 72/17; Marcham/Frilford 04/93;
      Middleton Stoney 83/153; Oxford 72/34; 76/72; 78/17; 80/158; 81/158;
      83/138, 139, 140; 88/86; 95/56, 59; Stantonbury 85/26-7; Stratton
      02/1; Thame 74/16; Wallingford 92/54; Wellingborough 92/44; 93/53;
      West Cotton 88/60; Willington 74/14
  post-medieval: Abingdon 02/67; Buckingham 94/18; Caldecotte 92/25;
      Marston Moretaine 99/2; Oxford 82/179; 04/61; Thorplands, Northampton
      72/21; Woughton on the Green 87/39
  undated: A40 dualling 93/63; Crowmarsh 03/83; Dodford (recent) 92/32;
      Oxfordshire 80/139; 81/158-9; 82/118, 178-81; 83/152-4; Radley
      83/141, 142; Stratton 02/1
Watermead, near Aylesbury, Bucks; Roman enclosure 95/28
Waterperry, Oxon
  Coach House 98/90
  church of St Mary 88/132, 133
  Roman 90/58
  Waterperry House and gardens 88/132, 133, 134-6; 05/88
Waterstock, Oxon; Iron Age site 90/81
water-way, medieval artificial; Bampton 92/55
waterwheel, C19 overshot; Thorpe Mandeville 92/35
waterwheel pump house, C19; Buscot 93/59
Watford, Herts; late Bronze Age hoard 87/16, 17
Watford, Nhants
  field system structure 84/35
  Saxon site 79/21
Watford Gap, Nhants 97/43
Watkins, Charles (fl. 1774, of Clipston) 79/26
Watkins Farm, Oxon 91/95
Watling Street 93/29, 30; 95/37; 96/31; 97/13, 43, 44
  near Crick 06/25
  at Fenny Stratford 01/13
  at Hockliffe 87/21
  at Kilsby 79/9
  at Magiovinium 88/29
  at Markyate 87/21
  at Milton Keynes 86/49; 05/13
  at Towcester 77/70, 89-/41; 90/51; 04/38
Watlington, Oxon (see also Shirburn)
  Brook Street 03/64; 04/55
  Chapel Street 77/48
  Glebe Farm; solid thatch 80/95; 82/106; 84/84
  High Street 84/73, 74-5, 75-6; 85/81
  St Leonard's church 91/107; 02/62
  Watlington House Stables, Christmas Common, C19 stable block 06/32
  Watlington Park; building assessment 04/55
Watlington Way, and Lewknor 80/124
wattle
  and daub see daub
  fences, Saxon; Oxford 72/34
  pit and well linings, Saxon; Barton Court Farm 77/67
  waterfront, Saxon; Oxford 78/17; 80/158; 83/138, 139, 140; 95/56, 59
Wattle Bank see Aves Ditch
Watts, Martin (millwright) 06/42
Waulud's Bank, Leagrave, Beds 72/5; 76/6; 86/25; 91/31
Waunton, Sir Thomas (d. c.1450, of Basmead Manor) 88/25, 26
Wavendon, Bucks
  Cross End 04/12
  Fen Farm; C19-20 house and farm buildings 06/10
  The Old Farm, Walton End; Roman and medieval linear features 06/10
  Rose Cottage, Walton Road 03/24
Wavendon Gate, Milton Keynes, Bucks 89/18-20, 21; 90/19, 20, 24-9; 92/2
  Iron Age 89/19; 90/24, 25, 26, 27
    kilns 90/26, 28
    roundhouses 90/24, 26, 27;
  Roman 90/26, 27-8; 91/43
    cemeteries 89/19-20; 90/28
    enclosure 89/19-20; 90/27
    waterlogged deposits, including wheel symbol 90/27, 28; 91/1
  Saxon occupation 89/20; 90/29
  metal detecting 90/20
Wawcott, W Berks; Mesolithic sites
  III (SU 400679) 71/2-3; 72/5; 73/12
  XXIII 72/5; 76/11
  XXIX (SU 414676) 73/12
  XXX (SU 413676) 73/12; 74/6; 75/9
way (Anglo-Saxon, 'road') 81/40
Wayland's Smithy, Oxon 97/68, 70
Waynflete, William of (1395?-1486, Bishop of Winchester) 83/78
weatherboarding
  Roman; Wavendon Gate 90/27; 91/1
  C15; Harwell 88/139, 140, 142
Weathercock Hill, W Berks 99/44, 51
  late Bronze Age settlement 00/88, 89; 01/87, 89
Weaveley farmstead, Tackley, Oxon 73/37
weaving equipment (see also loom-weights; shag weaving; spindle whorls)
  Iron Age: Abingdon 73/23; 75/37; Long Crendon 85/24
  Roman weaving tablet; Sandy 90/11
  Saxon: Flitwick 96/5; Shakenoak Farm 71/12; 72/16; Wavendon Gate 90/29;
      West Cotton 90/46; Wollaston 04/34; Yarnton 96/62
wedge, flint; Uffington 79/82
Weedon, near Aylesbury, Bucks 82/22; 95/28
Weedon Bec, Nhants
  Church Street 95/41
  prehistoric settlement 05/41
Weedon Lois and Weston, Nhants
  flood defences 03/39
  manor 75/28
  priory cell 75/28; 90/53
Weekley, Nhants 80/48
  late Bronze/early Iron Age 71/4
  Iron Age/Roman: pottery 72/34; 89/43; settlement 71/7-8; 77/9; 78/4;
      79/51; 89/42-3
  pre-ridge and furrow inhumations 93/50
  Boughton Estate 93/49
  C18-19 brickmaking 93/49
Weekley-Geddington, Oxon; late Iron Age enclosure 72/8
weights (see also: fishing weights; loom-weights)
  Bronze/Iron Age bun shaped 'loom' or thatch; Burghfield 76/15
  Roman lead; Towcester 07/21
  Saxon lead; Briar Hill 76/34
  medieval fish-trap: Bucks 80/77; 82/85; Warren Villas Quarry 91/19
  C19 lead, Stadhampton 86/122
  undated fish-trap; Irchester 91/62
weir, medieval limestone; Oxford 05/84
Welbeck Abbey, Notts 92/18
Weldon, Nhants
  Bronze Age 71/4
  Iron Age 77/9
  Roman villa, Little Weldon 96/39
  Chapel Road, Saxon, medieval and C19 00/42; 01/38; 04/44; 05/33
  Church Street, medieval 91/73
  Deene End, medieval 02/31-2
  Hatton Estate Map (1587) 02/32
Welford, Nhants 81/35
  prehistoric 82/56, 57, 58, 59
  Roman pit, Chambers Row 01/38
  Shoulder of Mutton, medieval and later 02/32; 04/34
  St Mary's church, medieval or C19 masonry 05/42
Welford, W Berks; Tullock Farm 03/81
well hook, Roman; Barton Court Farm 76/64
well houses (see also conduit-house)
  Roman; Barton Court Farm 78/108
  medieval; Bedford 77/17
  C19; St Osyth's or Uptown Well, Bierton 01/19
well pale 91/122, 123
well pits (see also water holes; water pits; wells)
  early Iron Age; Bedford 06/4, 4
  medieval; Northampton 06/28-9
Welland Valley, Nhants; prehistoric 81/40-1
Welles family of High Wycombe 95/32
Wellhead, Beds 93/29-30
Wellingborough, Nhants
  central area redevelopment 75/46-7
  Croyland Park; mounds 02/35-6
  Ditchford Pit; Roman road 92/44; 93/53; 95/47
  land north of Niort Way 97/44
  palaeoenvironment 95/44
  Redhill Farm 97/42
  River Nene; guillotine lock gates 02/29
  Sheep Street 02/32
  Stanwell Spinney; mid Iron Age 88/63
  West Street Methodist Chapel 01/38
  Wilby Way, Bronze and Iron Age 97/35; 98/31-2; 99/23
wells (see also water holes; water pits; well hook; well houses; well pale;
    well pits)
  Neolithic/Bronze Age; Yarnton 97/62
  Bronze Age; Dorney 97/iii, 31
  Iron Age: Alfred's Castle 00/88; Bancroft 86/45; Corby 07/15; Kempston
      05/3, 4; Oakgrove 90/24, 25; Odell 77/9; Salford Quarry 91/15; Thrupp
      92/63; Wollaston 97/iv
  Iron Age/Roman: Dorney 98/77, 78; Kempston 98/8, 9; Willington Quarry
      03/7
  Roman 91/1; Abingdon 75/37; 90/74, 76; Alchester 92/46; 03/95; 04/81;
      Appleford 81/158; Asthall 93/67, 68; Barton Court Farm 76/62, 63, 64;
      77/64, 65, 66; 81/158; 83/152; Bedford 06/5; Bicester 05/66, 67;
      Bowling Green Farm 89/54; Claydon Pike 81/146; 82/178-9; 84/94;
      Denham 15, 16, 17; Dorney 01/29; Ducklington 75/41; 00/61; Dunstable
      74/30; 89/6; 93/18; Earls Barton (stone-lined) 02/28; Eye and
      Dunsden, Oxon 84/122; 89/50; Farmoor 75/39; 87/97; Gravelly Guy
      86/114; Headington Bypass, Oxford 95/55, 56; Higham Ferrers 02/32;
      Kempston 93/13; 07/2, 2; Kidlington 80/177; Marcham/Frilford 07/63;
      Newnham, Bedford 73/17; 74/9; Oakgrove 90/24; Odell 77/10; 78/9;
      Oundle 00/40, 42; Oxford 82/180; 83/153; 95/55, 56; Piddington 96/iv;
      04/51, 53; Quinton 77/13; Stagsden 92/2; Standlake 87/97; Stanford-
      in-the-Vale 90/82; 93/79; Sutton Courtenay 74/10; Swalcliffe 78/119;
      Towcester 77/71; Upton 01/37; Wantage 95/ii, iii; Weekley 77/9;
      Willington 01/5; Wilstead 02/4; Wollaston 94/23, 24; Wykham 88/112
  Romano-Celtic; St Anns', Caversham 91/118, 120
  Saxon: Aldwincle 72/17; Barton Court Farm 77/67; 78/108; Berinsfield
      78/110; Dorchester (stone-lined) 02/44; Dorney 97/27; 98/30; Eynsham
      73/18; 91/104; Kempston 98/8, 9; Odell 76/16-17; 77/10; Oxford 00/64;
      Pennyland 82/76, 77, 78; Polebrook 03/44; Stratton 97/2; 98/5;
      Wolverton 05/20, 20
  medieval: Abingdon 90/90; 99/74; 04/67; Aylesbury 95/24; Bedford 78/14;
      87/8; 98/2; Bedford Southern Bypass 95/4, 6; Boarstall Tower 00/17;
      Brackley 00/37, 38; 01/35; Claydon Pike 84/98; Daventry 05/37, 38;
      Dunstable 87/12; Grove Priory 77/20; 84/9; Luton 89/9; Lyveden 73/21;
      Olney 03/30-1; 04/25; Oxford 95/70; 00/66, 66; 04/60, 61, 61, 62, 63;
      06/48; Pavenham 02/3; Stratton 93/3; Wallingford 81/140, 143; Wykham
      88/113
  post-medieval: Abingdon 94/56; 96/51, 53; 98/85; 04/67; Aylesbury 94/16;
      95/24; Banbury 91/100; Bayworth 04/54; Bicester 07/26; Binfield Heath
      84/44, 45, 46; Boarstall Tower 00/17; Chicksands Priory 98/12; Cogges
      Priory 81/82; Crowsley Park House (donkey well) 99/73; Dunstable
      93/19; 04/6; 05/8; Kempston 06/5; Lechlade 03/75; Luton 81/9; Marlow
      97/16, 17; 00/13; Milton Keynes 06/16; Northampton 06/29; Olney
      04/25; Oxford 81/54; 94/45; 04/62, 63; 06/49; Reading 01/64; Somerton
      98/64; Stoke Row 81/95; 84/44; Thorplands, Northampton 72/21;
      Towcester 91/73; 03/56
  undated: Abingdon 72/22; Ardley 07/25; Aylesbury 95/ii; Brackley 04/39;
      Brigstock 02/27; Bromham Mill 02/2; Burford 06/39; Cowley 83/91;
      Dunstable 02/9; Haversham, Milton Keynes (stone-built) 05/18;
      Potterspury (stone-built) 05/42; Radley 83/141, 142; Steventon
      (brick-lined) 02/60; Towcester 92/35; Wantage 73/15-16; Yardley
      Gobion 92/35
Welney, Norfolk 91/32
Welton, Nhants 80/48
Welwyn, Herts; Welch's Farm 76/7
Wendlebury, Oxon 91/102 (see also Alchester)
  Church Lane, Iron Age and medieval 00/80
  M40 route 83/132
  Roman; Faccenda Chicken Farm 84/35, 36, 37-8; (SP 57602045) 87/100
Wendover, Bucks 75/45
  Boddington hillfort 76/7
  Hampden Road 97/16
  Little Hampden Close, medieval and post-medieval 05/31
  Roman cremation burial 01/12
  South Street, medieval and post-medieval 03/34; 04/28
Wenlock, John, Baron Wenlock (d. 1471, of Someries Castle) 87/28; 88/26;
    90/14; 93/32; 94/3
Weoley Castle, Birmingham 83/76
Werrington, Peterborough, Cambs; Bronze Age ring ditches 75/28
Wessex
  Dorchester as Saxon political and administrative centre 73/5
  Iron Age pottery 73/7
  'ranch boundaries' 83/112
  Wessex Hillforts Geophysical Survey Project 98/54; 99/44
West Adderbury, Oxon 84/47
West Challow, Oxon
  granary, Coppice Leaze 76/37
  stone head 91/117
West Cotton, Nhants 86/85; 88/49, 51-60; 89/35-42; 90/46-51; 91/8
  late Neolithic/early Bronze Age ritual site 88/53, 54, 55-6; 90/53; 95/10
    long enclosure 88/53, 54; 89/36; 90/45; 91/99
    Long Mound 88/54, 55-6; 89/36; 90/45, 55
    small double ring ditch monument 90/45, 46
    timber platform by river Nene 90/45, 46
    round barrows 86/85; 88/53, 54, 55; 90/45, 46; 91/69
  Roman 89/36; 90/46
  early/mid Saxon 86/85; 88/56; 89/36; 90/46; 91/69, 78
  late Saxon and Saxo-Norman 88/56-7; 89/36, 37; 90/46, 47-9, 50, 51
    watermills 89/36, 37-9; 90/1, 47, 48, 50, 51
  medieval 86/85; 88/52, 57, 58, 59-60; 89/37-9, 40; 91/69; 92/42; 06/30
  publications 91/75; 92/36; 94/22
West Dean, W Sussex; Roman barn 85/35
West Haddon, Nhants
  bypass; SP 6284 7243, Roman rural settlement and earlier enclosures 06/30
  Northamptonshire Survey 80/48
  Roman, Saxon, medieval settlement 99/26
West Hagbourne, Oxon
  A34 extension, Hagbourne Hill 76/75
  field system, possible 78/102, 104
  Roman enclosure 99/42-3
West Hanney, Oxon
  church vaults 91/102
  field name survey 85/71
West Hendred, Oxon
  church; floor tiles 81/152
  cropmark sites 78/102, 104
West Wycombe, Bucks
  Church Street 00/19
  Copperfields 07/15
  High Street 00/19, 20; 01/22, 25
  hillfort 01/22, 30
  Little Fillington Wood (C13/14 buildings) 72/10
  No.24 96/19
  Old Vicarage 96/19, 21, 22, 22
  ring ditch 72/10
  Roman cemetery 79/45; 82/21
  St Lawrence's church 01/30
  sawmill, C18 99/16-17
  West Wycombe Park 00/19; 04/22; 07/11
Westall, P. (fl. 1939, of Letchworth Museum) 02/1
Westbury by Brackley DMV, Bucks/Nhants border 90/21
Westbury by Shenley DMV, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  Iron Age/Roman 89/15; 90/21, 29; 91/44, 45
  Saxon cemetery 93/33
  medieval 81/71, 72; 86/54, 55, 56; 87/37, 38, 47; 88/40; 89/14, 15, 16;
      90/21-2; 91/1, 44, 45, 46
    moated site 89/15; 90/21; 91/44, 45, 46
    tofts 85/29, 45, 46-7, 48-50; 86/54, 55
    windmill 84/27
  C15-16 86/54; 90/22
  publication strategy 91/47
Westcot, Oxon; monastic site 77/36
Westcott, Bucks; 7 Lower Green 02/21
Westcott Barton, Oxon
  church of St Edward the Confessor 78/121
  enclosures 80/85
  field name survey 76/40; 84/47
  ring ditch 84/49, 57
Westcroft, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  Cranborne Avenue 04/12
  Iron Age farm 94/20-1; 03/35, 36
Westminster Abbey, London
  and Bloxham 80/107
  Chapter House; rose window 81/83
  Muniments Room; Busby Deeds 81/72, 74
Weston, Nhants see under Weedon Lois
Weston-on-the-Green, Oxon
  Manor Farm 94/49
  Oxford Court 02/62, 64
Weston Turville, Bucks; motte 86/36, 41-2; 88/27; 89/14
Weston Underwood, Bucks
  Chase Pales 04/25
  Church Farm; C18 farm buildings 06/10
  geophysical survey 04/25
  Limestone Barn, Cross Lane 03/31
  multiperiod site 95/28
  Pevers Cottage, Pevers Lane 06/21
  Roman key 95/28-9
  Weston House, C16-18 04/26; 06/17
  White's Close 04/25
Westoning, Beds 90/2
  Westoning Manor 98/13, 15
Westwell, Oxon 79/94
wetlands 91/1
Wexham, Bucks
  All Souls' Farm Quarry, Bronze Age and Roman 05/32
  Langley Park House, post-medieval layers 04/31
Whaddon, Bucks 80/82; 82/85
  Lowndes Arms, undated box framed building 06/10
  Stearthill Farm, medieval or post-medieval 04/26
  Vicarage Road 03/24
  Whaddon Chase; gold staters 82/82
  see also Snelshall Priory
wharfs
  C19 canal; Wantage 07/42
  undated timber; Abingdon 74/21
Wharram Percy, N Yorks 82/90
wheat (see also grain; spelt wheat)
  late Bronze/early Iron Age, Lavendon 94/15
  Iron Age: Barton Court Farm 76/65; Cardington 91/11; Little Wittenham
      05/72; Potterspury 98/33; Rollright 84/121
  Roman: Abingdon 99/31; Barton Court Farm 76/65; Oxford 82/180;
      Potterspury 98/33; Warren Villas Quarry 91/1; Yarnton 91/89
  Saxon; Oxford 82/180
Wheatfield family of Lewknor 77/39; 80/126
Wheathampstead, Herts; Devil's Dyke 76/7
Wheatley, Oxon
  flint implements 76/16
  'The George', High Street 81/89-90
  M40 Service Area 95/63
  Roman cemetery, Castle Hill 87/100; 92/3
  Holton House (Wheatley Park School), C17-18 moat 05/53
  Wheatley Old Bridge 81/95
wheels, Roman
  symbol of Taranis; Wavendon Gate 90/27, 28; 91/1
  waterlogged fragment; Ducklington 00/61
  wheelwrighting; Swalcliffe Lea 99/59
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer (1890-1976) 87/4
Whellan; History of Northamptonshire (1874) 86/73
whetstones (see also hones)
  Iron Age; Stotfold 95/14
  Roman: Abingdon 96/55; Charlbury 82/122
  Saxon; Grove Priory 85/16
  medieval; mica schist, Lyveden 74/13; Wykham 88/114
Whilton Lodge, Nhants; Roman town of Bannaventa 72/9; 88/64; 89/42; 00/36
Whin Sill stone axe; Thrupp 82/124
Whipsnade, Beds 87/24
  church of St Mary Magdalene 93/31
  Whipsnade Common; undated triple bank earthwork 06/3-4, 3
  Whipsnade Heath 97/11, 12
  Whipsnade Zoo 00/5, 6
whistle, post-medieval bone; Buckingham 05/22
Whiston, Nhants 78/23
Whitbread family of Southill 90/15
Whitbread, Henry (fl, 1671, of Cardington) 87/27
Whitbread, Samuel (1758-1815) 76/26; 87/27; 93/31
Whitbread's Brewery; and Brewer's Hall Farm, Great Barford 82/18
Whitchurch, Bucks 76/33
  Manor Farmhouse, Oving Road 04/24
Whitchurch, Oxon
  Acheulian handaxes (Binditch Camp, Swanston Field) 87/77, 78
  late Neolithic/early Bronze Age flint working sites 88/101-2
  Bozedown Camp hillfort 79/83; 89/57
  church of St Mary; door hinges 81/42, 43, 44; stone head 91/117
  Hardwick House 87/28
  toll bridge; public notice 82/49
  Victorian letterbox 84/40, 41
Whitchurch Hill, nr. Pangbourne, Oxon 93/88
  church of St John; bell 84/44, 45
  flint-working sites 88/101-2
  Hill Bottom Reservoir; public notice 82/50
Whitchurch Turn, Ladygrove, Oxon; ironwork stag 84/45, 46
White, John (fl. 1585-90, Fellow of New College, Oxford, founder of
    Massachusetts) 78/77, 82
White, John; shoe factory, Rushden 01/38
White, Sir Thomas (1495-1567, founder of St John's College, Oxford) 01/64
white bryony (Bryonia dioica) 76/67
White Company 93/41
White family of Lewknor 80/126, 131, 132
White Horse, Vale of the see East Hanney; Marcham/Frilford
White Horse Hill, Oxon 90/79, 80; 91/96-7; 95/62; 97/64-9, 70; 98/54, 62;
    01/89; 06/50
  barrows 97/68; 06/50
  enclosure to west of hillfort 97/64, 65, 67, 68, 69
  hillfort see Uffington Castle
  Iron Age valley settlement and White Horse 07/56, 59, 60
  linear feature 97/64, 65, 68
  long mound 97/68
  ritual activity 97/68, 69
  Saxon burial in prehistoric barrow 07/59
  White Horse 81/99, 111-12; 95/62; 97/68, 76
Whitehill DMV, Oxon 78/66, 67
Whitehill Farm, Streatley, Beds 93/26, 27, 28
Whitehouse Farm, Oxon 71/26
Whiteleaf Hill see under Princes Risborough
Whitfield, Nhants
  Brackley Hatch, early Roman 01/34
  Whitfield Turn, Roman 02/26
Whittlebury, Nhants
  Saxon/medieval settlement pattern 02/23
  Whittlebury House 92/35
Whittlebury Forest, Nhants 75/12
Whittlewood Forest, Bucks and Nhants 82/28, 29, 30; 97/36
  Whittlewood Project, medieval settlements and landscapes 01/31-2; 02/22-3
Whitton family of Lewknor 80/126
Whytchurche, William (d. 1572, of Bolnhurst) 89/10
Wicken, Nhants
  fieldwalking 02/23
  Iron Age gullies 94/27
  Old Rectory 03/39, 40; 04/31-2
wickerwork, structural
  Iron Age/Roman ditch linings; Willington Quarry 03/7
  Roman; Bidwell 86/29, 34
  Saxon well lining: Barton Court Farm 77/67; 78/108; Odell 76/16-17
Wickham Bushes, Easthampstead, Bracknell Forest 73/15
Wickhams Field, Reading 97/27
Wicklesham DMV, Oxon 79/84
Widbrook Common, Cookham, Windsor & Maidenhead 00/22
Wideville, William (medieval; and Thornby) 81/37
  see also Wydevylle
Widford, Oxon 90/82, 83
Widmer End, Bucks 74/32
Wigginton, Oxon; Roman villa 87/100-1; 04/77-8; 05/87
  search for pre-villa occupation 02/65-6; 03/82
Wight, Isle of; Romans and 05/93-4
Wigmore Valley Park, Beds; Iron Age and Roman 98/15
Wilcote, Oxon (see also Shakenoak Farm)
  Claudian pottery 05/44
  DMV 76/37, 38, 75; 77/56, 59, 60; 78/121
  Wilcote/NW Oxon Supply Improvement Pipeline, Roman roadside settlement
      01/41-2
  Wilcote Grange Farm 06/40
Wilden, Beds 90/2
  Butterfly Park, High Farm, prehistoric and medieval 98/15
Wilder, James, and Son, of Reading 02/65
Wilder of Wallingford (ironfounders) 79/19; 81/95
Wilkes, John, MP (C18, of Aylesbury) 86/38; 95/25
Willen, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  Roman ditch 74/33
  Saxon pottery 74/33
  medieval: field system 79/61; moat 73/36; 74/33; 76/57; Priory 81/72, 74
  C17; church of St Mary Magdalene 93/31
  documentary history 81/72, 74
William I, King of England 01/71; 03/107
William de Chesney (fl. mid-C12); and Deddington Castle 83/35
William de Lyencourt (fl. 1297, Prior of Grove, Beds) 82/8
William de Valence (d. 1296, titular Earl of Pembroke) 88/91
William son of Symon (fl. c. 1290, of Naseby) 80/52
Williams, H. (fl. 1828, builder, at Middleton Park) 80/35, 37
Williams, John (1582-1650, Bishop of Lincoln, Archbishop of York) 87/55
Williams, John, Baron Williams of Thame (1500?-1559) 77/39; 80/126; 94/3
Williams, William (illustrator, fl. 1732) 94/47
Williams family of Lewknor 80/126
Williams family of Middleton Stoney 76/10
Williamscot, Oxon; Kalabergo's Hill
  Roman 99/60
  medieval 98/70
Willingham Fen, Cambs; Roman eagle figurines 81/138
Willington, Beds 91/21; 97/1, 77, 79
  prehistoric square enclosure with inhumation 89/3, 4; 90/10, 11
  Mesolithic to Bronze Age finds 96/5
  Neolithic/Bronze Age ditches and ring ditches, Dog Farm 92/5
  Neolithic to late Iron Age ceremonial site, Willington Quarry 91/11-12;
      95/10; 01/4-5
  Bronze Age double ring ditch 84/9; 85/13-14; 86/28
  Iron Age 84/9; 85/8, 14, 18; 86/28
  late Iron Age/Roman farmstead and burials, Willington Quarry North 03/5-7
  Roman 84/9; 85/14; 01/5
  Danish Camp; early medieval buildings 01/11-12
  Danish Docks moated site 74/13-14; 78/36; 82/17; 83/2; 90/2; 98/15
  medieval: meat consumption 82/19; stone from Newnham Priory 88/15
  C16; Willington Manor 87/9, 28, 29, 30; 88/26; 90/16; 93/32; 94/3
  Chapel Lane 98/15
  church of St Lawrence 93/32
  Dog Farm 92/5; 98/19
Willis, Browne (1682-1760, antiquary) 76/53; 93/31; 94/13; 95/28
Willis, Professor Robert (1800-75) 95/64
Willoughby, Mr (fl. 1760, of Rycote House) 01/71
Wilshamstead, Beds see Wilstead
Wilson, Milton Keynes, Bucks; medieval 77/95
Wilstead (formerly Wilshamstead), Beds 90/2
  Duck End Farm 91/23, 25
  Luton Road, Iron Age/Roman and medieval 02/4
  Nortons Closes 76/26
Wilts and Berks Canal 07/26-7
Wiltshire, Edmund, Earl of (d. 1499) 89/10
Winch Hill Farm, Luton, Beds; Roman buildings 95/22; 98/17, 18
Winchcombe, Richard (fl. 1418, mason) 80/114
Winchelsea, E Sussex; vaulted stone cellars 83/69
Winchester, Hants
  bishops see Witney (bishop's palace)
  C12 pottery 86/115
  Castle Hall 79/85
  Harwell manor owned by see of 04/75
  Roman glass 92/15
wind dial, New College, Oxford 94/47
windbreak for prehistoric pyre site; Denham 01/17
Winde, William (fl. 1665, architect) 95/32
windmills and windmill mounds: Aylesbury 06/13; Biddenham 02/5; Bolnhurst
    89/13; Buckinghamshire 80/11; Canons Ashby 75/29; Crick 76/28; 77/29;
    Drayton 97/45; Maidwell 76/29; Princes Risborough (medieval post-built)
    04/27; Radston 74/27; Wadenhoe 75/28; Weedon Lois and Weston 75/28;
    Yelvertoft 77/27; see also under: Clipston; Draughton; Farthinghoe;
    Great Linford; Holcot; Idbury; Lacey Green; Loughton; Naseby;
    North Leigh; Old; Penn; Roade; Tansor; Westbury by Shenley
window sills, Roman; Piddington 93/53
windows (see also glass, window)
  Roman, lead from; Upton 77/27
  Romanesque; Bampton 92/55, 58
  medieval; East Hendred 87/52, 53, 87; Long Wittenham 01/64
  C15-16 timber; Golden Cross, Oxford 87/57, 58
  C16-18: Garsington Manor (carpentry) 02/54; Prebendal House, Shipton
      under Wychwood 87/66
Windsor, Andrew, 1st Lord 06/17
Windsor, College of; and Grove Priory 82/10
Windsor Castle; Penn tiles 92/3
wine, Roman flavouring with celery 03/98
wine bottles, C18; Cogges 91/94
wine strainer, late Iron Age/Roman provincial; Alchester 03/98
Winford, Somerset; Old Rectory 84/105
Wing, Bucks
  Ascott House gardens 94/14
  All Saints Church, C15 tower 02/17, 22
  bypass 94/14-15
  Church Street, post-medieval 02/16; 03/24; 05/14
  Iron Age or Roman cropmark 00/11
  Mill Cottages 94/15
  parish survey 82/22
  Victorian School site; Saxo-Norman cemetery, early medieval occupation
      98/23; 00/21
  Waterloo Farm ring ditch 94/14
  Westpark Farm 94/14-15
  Winslow Zone Main Trunk Renewal Pipeline 02/12
Wing, J.T. (fl. 1845, architect) 00/2
Wingfield, Beds
  Iron Age site 92/11, 12
  Roman site 91/28, 29; 92/11, 12
  medieval potsherds 91/30
  and Theedway 82/5
Wingrave, Bucks; Parsonage Farm moat 94/18
Winlow family of Lewknor 80/126
  Richard (fl. 1698) 77/39
Winslow, Bucks
  High Street, post-medieval 04/7, 23, 23
  Horn Street, undated features 06/11
  Rosemary Cottage, Shipton, post-medieval 04/23
  St Lawrence Church 03/24
  Winslow Hall; C18 brick kiln 81/14
Winslow Zone Main Trunk Renewal Pipeline, Bucks (Mursley-Wing) 00/11;
    01/12-13; 02/12
Winter, Miss E.H. (fl. 1908, of Long Wittenham) 01/65
Winterbourne Gunner, Wilts; C6 brooches 86/8
Winterbrook, Oxon see under Cholsey
Winterslow, Wilts; Roman temple and theatre 82/152
Winterton, Lincs; Ceres mosaic 72/10
Winton, Francis (fl. 1671, of Leighton Buzzard) 87/27
Winwick, Nhants; Saxon, medieval, post-medieval 99/26
wire, Roman bronze; Round Hill 05/61, 62
withy-tie, Roman wooden; Dorney 00/21
Witney, Oxon (see also Cogges)
  Neolithic; Downs Road 99/44
  Bronze Age; Downs Road 94/31-2; 02/40
  Iron Age
    possible lowland fort 82/163
    pottery 01/45, 91
    settlements 94/32; 95/63-4
  Roman
    Burwell Farm Estate 82/163
    Cogges Hill Road 01/45; 05/53
  Saxon 81/104; 87/103
  medieval 83/103
    bishop's palace 75/49; 85/85, 113-14, 115; 86/115-16, 117; 87/94;
        89/57; 90/86; 91/79; 92/52-3; 93/80
    Church Green 03/58
    Cogges Hill Road 01/45; 05/53
    extent of urban core 95/63, 70
    High Street 01/46; 03/58, 64
    Market Square 80/139, 185-6; 82/163; 83/150; 01/89-90
    Marriott's Close 07/38
    Mount Mills manorial farm 91/95
    New Town (1208-9) 75/49; 83/150; 90/86
    park 85/85
    St Mary's Cottage 03/78
  post-medieval
    Church Green 02/64
    granaries (Burwell Farm) 78/75, (59 Woodgreen) 80/95
    High Street 03/58; 06/50
    Downs Road 99/44
    land west of Witney Way 99/84-5
    Market Square 01/89-90
    Park Farm 85/85-6; 89/57-8
    workhouse 77/51
  sites: by-pass 76/66; 01/91; Cassington Gas Main 89/57; Central Town
      Scheme 82/86; Conservation Area 81/78; Cotswold Business Park 93/88;
      The Crofts 02/69; Dark Lane/Puck Lane, land between 03/64; Deer Park
      Road 94/32; Downs Road 94/31-2; 99/44; 02/40; East Witney Development
      Areas 01/40; High Street 95/70; 01/46; Kingsfield Crescent 95/63;
      Meadow View, Cogges 98/90; North-East of Witney Development Area
      97/46; North-East Witney Sewer Requisition 02/40; Oakfield Lodge,
      Langdale Gate, Church Green 01/71; Shores Green Interchange (A40)
      07/38; The Weavers 93/80-1; West Witney Community Site 95/63-4;
      Wychwood ware 97/54
Witney-Eynsham-Cassington dualling, A40 93/60-1, 62-3
Witney to North Leigh Thames Water pipeline 03/58-9
Wittenham Clumps, Oxon see Little Wittenham (Hill Farm); Sinodun Camp
Wittering, Nhants; Mesolithic flints 78/2
Woburn, Beds 82/20; 85/6
  Extensive Urban Survey for Bedfordshire 01/3
  medieval woodbanks 95/2
  Russell family 93/32
  Woburn Abbey and gardens 86/26; 87/26, 28, 29, 30; 90/13-14, 15, 16;
      91/26, 34, 37; 92/5, 18; 94/16
  Woburn Safari Park, middle Iron Age 05/9
Woburn Sand Ridge 97/10
Woburn Sands, Bucks; Danesborough hillfort 76/5; 83/49
Wogan family of Wiston, Dyfed; and Bradwell Abbey 76/57
Wokingham 76/32, 33
wolf skulls, Roman; Piddington 04/53
Wollaston, Nhants
  Mesolithic flint scatter 78/2
  Neolithic pits and flints 90/53; 94/23; 95/44; 97/iv
  Bronze Age clearance 95/44; 97/iv
  Iron Age settlement 89/41; 97/iv
    Pioneer Aggregates Quarry site 91/73, 74, 75; 94/23, 24; 95/44, 45;
        96/41; 97/42, 42
  Roman settlement
    Pioneer Aggregates Quarry site 94/23, 24; 97/iv, 42, (vineyard)
        96/39-41, 40, 41; 97/iv; 06/1
    SP 913624 72/14
    SP 90276251 85/64-5
  Saxon settlement 95/44; 00/43; 01/33-4; 02/25; 04/34
    high status burial 97/iv, 35; 98/38-9, 39
  medieval
    Dando Close 04/34
    Hall Manor 79/49, 50
    Pioneer Aggregates Quarry; trackway 95/44, 45
    quarries to south 01/33-4
    Scott Bader site 99/26
  post-medieval
    Scott Bader site 99/26
    Wollaston Hall 92/35
  London Road 03/39
  Pioneer Aggregates Quarry 94/21, 23, 24, 27; 95/41, 44, 45; 96/39-41, 40,
      41
Wolsey, Thomas (1475?-1530, Cardinal, Archbishop of York) 92/18; 06/41
Wolstonian stage 97/iii
Wolvercote, Oxon
  field system 80/87; 85/71
  Wolvercote First School, First Turn, medieval and later agriculture 02/43
Wolverton, Milton Keynes, Bucks (see also: Bancroft; Stacey Bushes;
    Old Wolverton)
  barrows 72/26
  Belgic/Roman; Greenleys 79/58
  Roman 90/20; 03/34; 05/19; see also Bancroft (villa)
  Saxon 90/20; Wolverton Mill 92/20-1; 93/33; 05/19, 20
  medieval village 72/26; 80/79, 80; 05/20, 20
  C17-18, Manor Farm 01/13, 14
  C19; McConnell Drive, site of 1841 railway station 00/11
  C19/20; Wolverton Velodrome, C19 structures and early football grandstand
      07/15
  Church Street 06/11
  geophysical survey 81/68
  maps 80/79; 81/74
  Stacey Hill Collection 82/59
  Wolverton College 01/13
  Wolverton Mill: Heathway, Featherstone Road 06/11; multi-period remains
      03/34; 04/26; 05/19-20, 20
  Wolverton Mound as probably geological feature 81/65-6
  Wolverton Velodrome 07/15
Wooburn, Bucks; Royal Stag Works 99/22
wood see timber, carbonised; timber and timber structures, waterlogged;
    wooden objects
Wood, Anthony (1632-95, antiquary) 77/37; 79/97; 80/157; 88/91; 91/104,
    109; 95/64; 03/76
Wood and Law's maps of Northampton 98/42, 45
Wood Burcote, near Towcester, Nhants; Roman villa 75/17
Wood Corner Roman farmstead see under Heelands
woodcock bones; Wallingford 92/54
Woodcote, Oxon 74/29; 82/51
  Chiltern Queens Coach Depot, Long Toll 06/41-2
  stone head 91/116, 117, 118
Woodcroft DMV, Etton, Nhants 77/27
Woodeaton, Oxon 85/71
  Aves Ditch 74/10, 11
  flints 76/16
  Roman temple 81/114, 138
  Temple Hill, early Iron Age occupation 92/53
wooden objects and structures (see also: bell towers; bowls; boxes;
    bridges; buckets; coffins; combs; cruck buildings; discs; gateways;
    ladders; locks, canal; piles; planks; platforms; post built structures;
    posts; revetments; shovel; spoons; stool; tablets; timber, carbonised;
    timber and timber-framed buildings;
    timber and timber structures, waterlogged; toys; trackways; trough;
    water holes; wheels; window sills; and under painted decoration)
  early Iron Age chips, Bedford 06/4, 4
  ecclesiastical carving: Great Linford 81/58; North Leigh 76/37
  overdoor panels, C17 88/146
  prehistoric waterlogged objects: Bedford 06/4, 4; Cassington 06/45;
      Marcham/Frilford 04/93
  stakes in peat levels, Braywick 73/13
  unidentified Bronze Age; Yarnton-Cassington 98/90, 92; 99/85
Woodford, Nhants 92/35
  barrows 72/23
  Iron Age 90/53-4
  Roman: (SP 963762) 72/23; villa (SP 988774) 90/53
  medieval field system 72/23
  Rectory Lane 03/56; medieval pit 01/32
Woodham, Bucks; Iron Age site 78/38
woodlands (see also clearance; coppices)
  prehistoric earthworks 80/48
  Roman; Whittlewood Forest 02/23
  Saxon 87/103
    regeneration after Roman exploitation 85/72
    terms for boundaries 87/102-10
  medieval
    boundaries 73/37; 74/29; 77/27; 80/48; 87/102-10; 90/17; 01/34
    charcoal burning and iron working 76/28, 29; 82/28, 29, 30-1; 01/38-9
    clearance 76/29; 77/26, (see also assarts)
    detached coppices 82/55
    earthwork features 95/2; 97/43; 06/30
    royal forests 82/30; 83/117
    Whittlewood Project 01/31-2; 02/22-3
  post-medieval
    earthworks: Ashridge Estate 04/24; Bradenham 07/11-12; Church Brampton
        02/25
    Whittlewood Forest 02/22-3
  pre-enclosure management; Studham 00/5
  sequence 91/1
  undated earthwork enclosures; Tylers Green and Penn 05/14, 15, 16
  woods: Ailsworth 77/26; Astwell 76/28; B479 74/29; Bedfordshire 82/19;
      Bloxham 80/109; Kings Cliffe 77/27; Mapledurham 79/38; Milton Keynes
      78/60; Pilton 76/29; Shabbington Wood 90/17; Stanton St John 78/79;
      Sutton, Nhants 77/27; Wakerley Great Wood 96/41, 42; Woburn 95/2;
      Wootton Wood 73/37; see also: Rockingham Forest; Salcey Forest;
      Whittlebury Forest; Whittlewood; Wychwood Forest
Woodley, Wokingham; Mesolithic and Neolithic finds, London River Diversion
    73/13
Woodnewton, Nhants; Orchard Lane, C19/20 cottages 03/56
Woodperry, Stanton St John, Oxon
  assart farmstead 83/68
  medieval chess piece 00/8
  village survey 78/77, 78, 82
  Woodperry Garden Tower 02/64
Woods, P. J.; Excavations at Brixworth, Northants, 1965-1970 (reviewed)
    72/34
Woodside Farm, Beds; Neolithic/Bronze Age flints, medieval and post-
    medieval scatters 01/10, 11
Woodstock, Oxon (see also Slape Copse)
  Blenheim Palace; Kitchen court 05/84
  Blenheim Park: former Woodstock Park 81/80; 82/114; Grim's Ditch 84/100,
      102; 98/74; High Lodge 99/70-1; 'King's Palace' 76/23; North Lodge
      07/42; watermill 77/48
  Bypass 93/81
  Fletcher's House 91/85; 95/64; 99/40
  Manor Farm outbuildings 99/71
  monastic hospitals 77/36
  Oxford Road, Punchbowl Inn 05/89
  Oxford School of Drama; Roman and post-medieval 07/42
  Praunce's Place 99/71
  street plan 95/64
Woodstone, Hunts; Saxon cemetery 76/20; 88/69
Woodward, Frank 77/52; 79/81
woodworking
  Bronze Age debris; Yarnton 99/85
  Iron Age tools; Wellingborough 99/23
woodworm beetle (Anobium punctatum) 81/158; 82/180
Woodyer, H. (fl. 1858, architect) 81/43
wool trade, C13-14; Brackley 83/25
wool-processing, early Iron Age; Alfred's Castle 00/89
Woolstone, Milton Keynes, Bucks see Great and Little Woolstone
Woolstone, near Faringdon, Oxon
  cropmark sites 78/102, 103
  flints 79/7
  Manor Farm, prehistoric and medieval features 06/42
  Roman villa; Saxon occupation 07/59
  shrunken village 75/47
Wooton, Oxon; water main reline, Roman settlement, prehistoric and post-
    medieval material 04/66
Wootton, Beds
  Keeley Farm 95/1
  late Iron Age/Roman enclosure, medieval moat 00/4
  settlement pattern 82/17, 22, 27, 28
  Wootton House and gardens 91/25
Wootton, John 91/38
Wootton, Nhants see under Northampton
Wootton, Oxon
  prehistoric
    Callow Hill earthworks 99/65
    Copping Knoll round barrow 84/48, 49, 50, 52
    Ludwell Farm ring ditch 84/49, 57
  Saxon grubenhaus 75/19
  medieval
    Hordley possible mill site 75/47
    Lower Dornford DMV 72/30, 31
    Wootton Wood enclosure banks 73/37
  St Mary's church 93/81
  Yew Tree Cottage, Old Boars Hill 81/88
Wootton Fields Roman villa, Northampton 03/53
  Saxon antler pendant 04/34-5, 35
Wor Barrow, Cranbourne Chase 84/115
Worcester; C12 pottery 86/115
Worcestre, William (1415-82, chronicler) 71/22
workbench, wooden, C14-16; Stratton 02/1
workbox, Saxon; Cransley 76/20
workhouses: Oundle 75/47; Witney 77/51
  see also under Northampton; Thame
workshops
  middle Iron Age; Yarnton 91/89
  Roman military; Alchester 02/84, 85, 86-9, 87; Piddington 04/53
  medieval tile-making; Tylers Green, Penn 04/10, 11
World War-related features (see also air-raid shelters; hospitals;
    pillboxes; trenches)
  Aylesbury 97/19
  Boughton 00/36
  Coleshill, Oxon (bunkers) 01/46; 05/54
  Government Code and Cipher School see under Bletchley
  Luton Hoo House 06/6-7; 07/7-8
  memorials 93/3
  Northampton 07/18
  Rotherfield Peppard 07/51, 51, 52
  Thurleigh Airfield 98/13
  Wallingford (air raid shelter) 94/49
  World War II Defence Sites Survey 95/1
  see also under Shortstown
worm-sorting 94/37
Worminghall, Bucks 75/45
  Thomley Hall Farm, Roman and medieval 05/87
Wormleighton, Warks 91/37
worms, eggs of parasitic; Roman, Gatehampton Farm, Goring 06/52
Worsham, Oxon 93/67-9; 99/89
Worton, Oxon 93/61
  Over Worton round barrow 84/49, 50, 52
  late Bronze/Iron Age settlement 91/87, 89; 93/62, 63, 84; 96/63
  Roman village and field system 91/89-90; 94/49, 51; 96/63; 98/92
  Saxon settlement 91/87, 89, 90, 90, 92; 94/51-2; 97/55, 56-8
    cemetery east of Rectory Farm site 91/89
  Rectory Farm site 91/86-92, 86-91; 93/62, 63, 84; 98/92
Wotton Underwood, Bucks; Roman site 77/44
Woughton on the Green, Milton Keynes, Bucks
  late Iron Age/Roman settlement 74/34; 76/44, 45, 46; 78/43-4, 45, 46
  medieval village 72/26; 73/36; 74/33; 85/59; 86/59-60; 87/39
    possible watermill 80/80
  C18: barrel 87/39; inclosure 77/96
  documentary research 76/59; 77/96; 80/79; 81/74
  earthwork interpretation 83/53
  Pinkard Court 04/11
Wray, Edward, of Moor Court, Lewknor 77/39
Wraysbury, Windsor & Maidenhead
  church 77/15
  Manor Farm multi-period site 76/77; 77/15
Wrest Park, Beds 85/6; 86/26, 29; 87/26; 90/13, 14, 16; 91/37; 93/32; 94/3;
    98/12, (see also Grey family of Wrest Park)
  C18/19 pictures 87/28; 89/7, 8
  gardens 89/3, 7-8; 90/12; 91/23, 24; 03/7-8
  and settlement pattern 87/30
Wrestlingworth, Beds; Wrestlingworth Lower School, Saxon 03/8
Wretchwick DMV, Ambrosden, Oxon 78/67; 89/46-7
writing tablets, Roman: Alchester 02/84, 86; Wavendon Gate 90/27; 91/1
  wooden case for; Bicester 05/66, 68
Wroxeter, Shropshire
  annexe to Roman fort 00/76; 02/92
  Roman glass 92/15
  Roman mosaic 05/59
Wroxhale family of South Stoke 89/61
Wroxton, Oxon 77/56; 84/47
  abbey 77/36, 37; 92/18, 19
  Barn Lodge 81/142; 82/164
  human bones in barn 80/186
  ice-house 80/35
  Roman cemetery 80/186; 81/142
Wulfhere, King of Mercia 91/94
Wyatt, James (1746-1813, architect) 85/82-3
Wyatt, James (fl. 1865, of Kempston) 77/5, 6-7; 80/43, 44
Wychwood Forest, Oxon 86/111-12, (see also: Cornbury and Wychwood;
    Slape Copse)
  barrows 84/48
  Grim's Ditch 84/100
  hedges 84/47
Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe, Bucks 95/29
Wydeville, Thomas (d. 1435, of Bromham) 88/24, 25, 26
Wydevylle family, overlords of Thornby 81/36
Wyght, Walter de, yeoman (C14; keeper of Brigstock Park) 74/24
Wykeham, Sir Thomas (d. 1470, of Broughton, Oxon) 88/24
Wykeham, Sir Thomas (fl. 1418, and Bloxham) 80/107
Wykeham, William of (1324-1404, bishop of Winchester) 83/80
Wykham, Oxon 05/63
  prehistoric 05/62
  Roman: house or small villa 88/112, 114; 05/64; pottery scatter 98/70;
      roads 82/43, 44, 45
  Saxon 88/115
  medieval village 88/112-15, 116; 98/70
  Wykham Park Farm 98/70
Wylde-Clerke family of Houghton Conquest 90/15
Wylie family of Bradwell, Milton Keynes 91/56
Wymbush, Milton Keynes, Bucks; Roman farmstead 76/44; 80/60-1, 62-3, 64;
    82/81; 89/14, 21, 22
Wymington, Beds
  Curteys family 90/16
  High Street 06/3
  late Bronze Age hoard, Manor Farm 76/14; 87/15, 16, 17
  St Lawrence School, Saxo-Norman or early medieval 04/2
wyrttruma and wyrtwala (Anglo-Saxon) 87/102-10
Wytham, Oxon
  Bronze Age barrow, King's Weir 81/103, 158
  cropmark sites, University Field Station 77/59, 60
  Seacourt DMV 88/88
  Wytham Abbey House and Park 88/130-2
  Wytham Hill early Iron Age settlement 93/77
Wythemail Park Farm, Nhants; medieval site 74/26
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