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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; 09/13
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 Hill, Oxon (see also Swalcliffe)
  hillfort 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, Nhants 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);
      Brightwell Baldwin (Cadwell); Brixworth; Cardington; Chalgrave;
      Chalgrove; Charlbury; Chesham Bois; Chislehampton; Clapham; Cogges;
      Cople; Curbridge; Deenethorpe; Drayton St Leonard;
      Eggington-with-Clipstone; Ewelme; Eynsham; Great Linford; Great Tew;
      Greys Court; Hampton Gay; Hedgerley; Helmdon;
      High Wycombe (Bassetsbury Manor); Irthlingborough; Kelmscott;
      Kempston; Kidlington; Lewknor; Lidlington; Maidwell; Marholm;
      Marston Moretaine; Middleton Stoney; Minster Lovell; Newington;
      Paulerspury; Preston Capes; Princes Risborough; Quinton; Radley;
      Raunds; Ravensden; Rotherfield; Shillington; Simpson; Stratton;
      Sulgrave; Swalcliffe; Taplow; Tattenhoe; Temple Cowley; Tempsford;
      Titchmarsh; Warmington, Nhants; 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
  Mill Road 08/48
  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;
    09/45-55
  stone axe 76/16
  Mesolithic blades and blade cores 08/74
  Neolithic 79/126, 127; 80/143; 09/46
  Bronze Age 79/126, 127; 80/143; 09/46
    cremation 02/78-9, 80, 81
    large enclosure, occupation and burials 02/71, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
    ring ditch 09/47, 48
  Iron Age 79/126, 127, 128; 80/143; 81/136; 83/127-8
    barrel-shaped, ditched enclosure (MFNA08 Trenches 1-3) 09/46-52,46-51,
        55; activity pre-dating 09/47-8
    eastern end of Trendles Field (MFP07 Trench 1) 08/68, 69, 70; 09/46,
        46, 54, 54, 55
    enclosures, pits and ditches, dispersed occupation 02/71, 73, 75, 76,
        77, 78, 80, 80; 03/84-6, 88; 04/88, 93
    pits 08/74; 09/48; with structured deposits 04/84, 85, 86, 93; with
        Roman shrine adjacent 08/74, 75, 76; 09/46, 53, 54
    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; 08/68-76; 09/46, 52-5
    associated landscape research see Cherbury Camp; East Hanney
    between temenos and arena 07/61, 62, 63; 08/68, 72, 73, 74-6, 74, 75
    cemetery 80/143; 82/150, 151; 02/70, 82
    Christianity 04/90, 91, 93-4; 06/70-1
    chronology 06/70
    circular structure/arena/semi-amphitheatre 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; 08/68, 69, 72
      bank 02/70, 71, 72, 73, 74; 05/100, 101-2, 105; 06/55, 63-4, 63,
          65-6, 69, 70; 07/62; 08/68, 72
      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; 08/68, 72-4, 74; 09/46, 53-4
      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; 08/68
      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; 08/68, 69, 71, 72; 09/46,
          52-3, 52
      wooden stake in centre 05/100, 102, 105
    cobbled and gravel surfaces 05/104; 06/57, 69, 61-2, 61, 62, 69
    continuity of significant locations 02/77, 78, 79, 81; 04/86, 93-4;
        08/76
    earlier prehistoric features 09/48
    earlier timber phase 07/63
    early Roman activity, pre-temple 09/46-7, 51-2
    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; 08/74, 74
    large pit (Trench 14) 09/46, 51, 52
    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 03/86; 05/97; 08/72
    oyster shells 06/61, 61
    palaeochannel 05/95, 104; 08/68, 72-4, 74
    pathway to temple area 07/62, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 70, 70, 71, 72, 74
    plastered square, possible altar foundation 07/63
    shrines: Trench 22 05/98-9; 07/61, 62, 63; Trench 36 09/46, 53, 54
    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 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; 08/72, 73
    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; 08/69, 70, 70-2
      buildings abutting wall 03/86, 88; 04/86, 87-8, 88, 93; 05/95, 96,
          97-8, 99, 104; 06/55, 57, 58, 59-61, 60-1, 69, 70; 07/62, 63;
          08/69, 70, 70-1
      date of temple 06/70; 09/51
      entrance and pathway 05/95, 104; 06/55, 57, 58, 69; 07/61, 62, 62,
          63; 08/68, 69, 70, 70-2
      interior 08/69, 72
      north-eastern corner 08/47
      possible southern entrance 09/51, 51
      relationship to barrel-shaped enclosure 09/47, 51
      wall 03/86, 88, 89; 05/95; 06/55, 59, 60, 69, 70; 07/61, 62, 62, 63;
          08/69, 72
  waterlogged layers, potential for 08/72, 76
    well-made building (Trench 23) 05/100, 100, 105; 06/61-2, 62
    Trenches
      1 06/55, 56, 63-5, 63
      2 06/55, 61-2, 62, 70-1; 08/74
      8 08/69; 8b 08/68, 72-4
      9 06/55, 56, 63, 65-6, 66, 67; 07/61, 62, 63; 08/68, 70; 09/55
      12 09/48
      14 08/68, 69, 72, 76; 09/46, 46, 48, 51, 52
      15 06/55, 56, 57, 58; 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 70, 70-1
      17 06/55, 56, 63, 66-7, 68
      18 06/57, 59-61, 60-1; 08/69
      21 07/61, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 72-4; 09/46, 46, 53-4
      22 05/98-9; 07/61, 62, 63; 08/74; 08/74
      23 05/100, 100, 105; 06/61-2, 62
      24 06/55, 56, 61-2, 62; 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 72, 73
      25 06/55, 56, 61, 61; 08/69, 70
      26 07/61, 62, 62, 63
      27 07/61, 62, 62, 63
      28 07/61, 62, 62, 63
      29 07/61-2, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 70, 71, 72; 09/46, 46, 52-3, 52
      30 07/61, 62; 08/72
      31 07/61, 62, 62, 63
      32 07/61, 62, 62, 63; 08/68, 69, 70, 70-1
      33 08/68, 69, 72-4, 74; 09/46, 46, 53-4, 55
      34 08/68, 69, 74
      35 08/68, 69, 74
      36 08/68, 69, 74, 75, 76; 09/46, 46, 53, 54, 55
      37 08/68, 69, 72
    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; 05/95; 09/46, 47
  Noah's Ark Inn garden 09/46-52, 46-51
  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
  High Street; post-medieval occupation 23
  Low Ground Farm; Mesolithic to Roman finds 01/18-19, 18, 19
  Marlow Brewery, post-medieval 99/14
  Pullingshill Wood; World War I training trenches 08/18, 18-19
  St Peter's Church; C19 gravel pits 08/30
  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: castle at Radcot 09/66-7; 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
  New Road 08/4
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 06/8; No.2 06/8; 08/22
  Crafton Stud Farm 08/23
  Mentmore Towers 07/14; 08/35
  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
  Iron Age/Roman; Grendon Underwood 08/27
  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; smithies)
  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; Newport Pagnell 09/17, 17; 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; Marcham/Frilford 08/74; Newport Pagnell 07/13;
      09/17, 17; 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;
      Milton Malsor 09/27; 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; Leighton Buzzard 09/12-13; 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
  Iron Age; Little Wittenham 05/77; Marcham/Frilford 09/54, 54
  Roman: Marcham/Frilford 03/86; 05/97; 08/72; Oxford 00/81; Syresham 02/26
  Saxon; Gatehampton Farm 92/75
  late Saxon/medieval; Stanford in the Vale 09/33
  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
  Walton Road; C19 cottage and barn 09/16
Middleton, Nhants; SP 8605 8890, former road or trackway 08/41
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
    Villiers Park 08/51
  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
militia building, C19 hexagonal; Bedford 09/8
Mill Cotton, Nhants 75/47; 88/49
Mill End Roman villa, Hambleden valley, Bucks 09/19-20
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: Fotheringhay 08/40; 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
  Mock Beggar Close (historical area) 09/10
  Radwell Road: medieval or earlier oven or kiln 06/3; Strawberry Tree 08/5
  Twinwoods Business Park, land adjacent to; middle/late Iron Age
      settlement, medieval and later features 09/10
  Twinwoods Technology Park 09/10
Milton Heights, Oxon
  SU 485 907; Roman enclosures 08/48
  SU 480 909-SU 480-912; Iron Age roundhouses and pits, Roman paddocks
      08/48
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; Brooklands 09/23; 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; 09/23; 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
  Glebe Farm; medieval ridge and furrow 08/30-1
  Heritage Map, updating of 02/11
  Magna Park (SP 919 389); Bronze Age pit with loomweights, late Iron Age
      and Roman settlement 08/31, 32, 33
  Magna Park (SP 9140 3860); middle Iron Age pottery, late Iron Age/early
      Roman settlement enclosure 08/31, 31
  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; Emberton; 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
  SP 73200 54800; late Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval
      fieldwalking finds 09/27
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; Brightwell
    Baldwin 08/82-5, 83-4; 09/57, 58-9, 58; Broughton 08/29; Cadwell 76/37;
    Caldecotte 79/64, 67; 91/44; 92/21; Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes 05/18;
    Caswell 78/75; Cranfield 87/25; Eaton Bray, 08/16; Flitten 76/26-7;
    Fotheringhay 08/47; 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; Old Warden 09/10;
    Oxford 77/71-2; 92/50; Ravensden 86/20; Rycote House 01/71; Sharnbrook
    09/14; 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; Stoke
    Hammond and Linslade Western Bypass (C19 moat-like feature) 08/34;
    Stoke Mandeville 09/21; 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
Moffatt, Beryl, of Brightwell Baldwin 08/83, 85
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
  St Gall Plan 09/32
  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); Towcester; 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
  SU 586 837, late Iron Age 08/48
  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
  Iron Age 08/42
  Belgic 73/29
  Roman 72/14; 75/26
  medieval 74/24-5
  Moulton Park 74/24-5; (SP 777648) 73/29
  Pitsford Road 08/42
  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
Moxhill to Sandy water main, Beds; possible Roman road 08/16-17
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;
    Leighton Buzzard 08/8; 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