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rabbit warrens see warrens
Rackham, Sussex; late Neolithic flint industry 82/87
radar, ground-penetrating 93/74; 99/40, 44, 51
Radcot, Oxon
  C14 bridge 80/99
  fishponds 89/54
  The Garrison; later prehistoric material, late Roman ditches, medieval
      moated castle complex, Civil War Royalist enclosure 09/66-7
Radenore, Oxon (now Pyreton) 87/105
radiocarbon dating: Abingdon 93/65; 94/33; Bampton 92/55; Bedford Southern
    Bypass 93/7; Burton Latimer 00/36; Corby 98/33; 07/15; Dorney 98/80;
    05/29; fall-out ash from site fires renders impossible 92/3;
    Irthlingborough 96/33; Marcham/Frilford 03/88; 04/88, 92, 93; 05/102,
    105; Northampton 03/52; Oundle (Saxon antler pendant) 04/35; Oxford
    01/45; 07/31, 32; Radley 93/77; Rockingham Forest, iron smelting survey
    01/38-9; Stanwick Quarry 03/55; Tansor 96/37; Upton 08/46;
    Wellingborough 93/53; Wootton, Nhants (Saxon antler pendant) 04/35;
    Yarnton 93/84; 97/62, (early Neolithic bread) 00/69-70
Radley, Oxon (see also: Barrow Hills; Barton Court Farm; Drayton;
    Thrupp Farm)
  Palaeolithic 81/119, 120, 121
  Mesolithic 74/6; Pumney Farm 02/38
  Neolithic
    Abingdon Peripheral Road 81/132, 134, 159-60
    Daisy Bank 81/132, 134
    Lower Farm 82/182, 183
    pottery 06/36, 38
    Pumney Farm 02/38
    see also under Thrupp Farm
  Beaker burial, Tuckwell's Pit 80/138, 182, 183; 81/137, 159; 82/182, 183
  late Bronze/early Iron Age; Goose Acre Farm 93/76-7, 85, 86
  Iron Age
    (SU 5145097185) 98/46-7
    Pumney Farm 02/67
    Tuckwell's Pit 83/142
    see also under Thrupp Farm
  Roman
    Eight Acre Field field system 92/51
    Ford's Field ditches 81/132, 134
    Goose Acre Farm 93/85, 86; 94/48
    Peachcroft Farm native farm 75/14, 15, 16
    Pumney Farm 02/67
  medieval manorial site 89/95-6
  post-medieval: field names 80/102
    Lower Radley, Nos 82-4 87/95-6
    Peach Croft Barn, C18 timber-framed barn 05/84-6, 85-9
    Pumney Farm 02/67
    Stonhouse Crescent 05/52
  sites: Abingdon Peripheral Road 81/132, 134, 159-60
    cropmarks (SP 526004) 77/59, 60
    Gooseacre/Badgers Copse, undated pit 00/80
    Radley Barrow 87/96
    SU 516971, geophysical survey 07/60
    Tuckwell's Pit: Beaker burial 80/138, 182, 183; 81/137, 159; 82/182,
        183; Iron Age occupation 83/142; 94/49, 51; undated timber lined
        well 83/141-2
Radnage, Bucks
  Bennett End Farm, Bennett End 03/28
  Roman glass 92/15
  St Mary the Virgin churchyard 04/7
Radstone, Nhants
  St Lawrence's Church 96/36; 99/25-6
  Shortgrove Wood 90/42
  village survey 74/27
Radwell, Beds
  Neolithic 73/32
  Bronze Age 74/7; 76/15; 86/28
  undated ring ditch 84/9-10
  early Iron Age 74/7
  Belgic cemetery 73/32
  Roman farm 73/32, 34
  C19 bridge 86/23
railways (see also tramway): Arlesey 06/5; Banbury, Buckingham and
    Bletchley 01/19; Bedford, Midland Road Station 82/59; Blisworth, horse-
    drawn 76/28; Bloxham, Great Western 80/120; Burton Latimer, quarry rail
    track 05/37; Didcot, Steam Centre 82/60; Great Cransley, mineral 08/41;
    High Speed Rail Link to Channel Tunnel 92/2; New Bradwell, railway
    cottages 73/45; Oundle, C19 buildings 09/30; signal boxes, Midland
    Railway 82/59; Thames bridge, Didcot-Oxford line 74/8-9; Warden Abbey,
    dump track 79/44; Wolverton railway works town 09/15
Rainsborough Camp, Nhants 73/7; 97/39
  flints and Roman pottery 99/24
rake, red deer antler; West Cotton 88/53
Ralegh family of Clipston 79/26
ram, bronze statuette of; Fenny Stratford 91/41, 42
ramparts
  Bedford castle 96/1
  hillforts 00/87: continuous concentric ditches inside 09/69; Ivinghoe
      Beacon 01/21, 21; Segsbury Camp 98/60, 60, 62; see also under
      Alfred's Castle
  late Saxon/early medieval: Alderton Mount ringwork 01/39-40; see also
      under Oxford (Saxon, defences)
  Northampton town (clay) 96/34
  Roman: with stakes protruding 01/73, 73; town, Dorchester-on-Thames 07/27
Rams Hill, Oxon; hillfort 73/7, 13; 81/106; 97/68, 69, 70, 76; 98/54, 62;
    00/87, 88-9; 01/89
  flint knapping site to NW 79/82
  possible rural shrine 74/8
Ramsden, Oxon
  Brize Lodge barrows 84/48, 49, 50, 51; possible second 86/111-12
  Brize Lodge Iron Age/Roman site 81/138; 86/112; 03/63
  Grim's Ditch 84/100
Ramsey Abbey, Cambs 86/81, 83
ranch boundaries: Danesborough hillfort 76/5; Wessex 83/112
Randall's Farm Education Centre, Beds 95/2
range, kitchen; Chastleton 94/1
Ranunculus s. Batrachium (water crowfoot) 76/67, 69
rapier, Bronze Age; Faringdon 09/61
Raunds, Nhants 88/49
  barrow cemetery 86/85
  prehistoric; Cotton Henge 91/69, 70
  Iron Age: Scalley Farm settlement 91/66-7, 68, 69; Warth Park pit
      alignment 05/40; 06/30
  Roman: A45 improvement, Middle Sands Field, settlement 96/36, 36; Scalley
      Farm 91/66-7; Wellington Road 05/35
  early/middle Saxon 89/34; Langham Road 85/66; 86/85; 88/48, 51; 91/69,
      71; 06/30; Manor House 92/39; Marshall's Road, inhumation burial
      01/37, 37; Park Road, possible cemetery 90/42-3; Rotton Row 03/55;
      RPC Containers 01/37; Scalley Farm 91/67, 69; see also under Furnells
      below
  late Saxon: Burystead 88/50-1; Langham Road 91/69, 71; Manor House 92/39;
      near Market Square 89/34-5; 90/43; Rotton Row 03/55; RPC Containers
      01/37; see also churches, graveyard, and under Furnells, below
  medieval 89/35; 90/43; 91/71; High Street 03/54; Manor House 92/39;
      Rotton Row 93/49; 03/55; Warth Park 01/37; see also Burystead Manor
      and Furnells below
  sites
    Berrister Cottage 95/41
    Brick Kiln Road see Furnells below
    Brook Street 90/43
    Burystead Manor 82/38; 83/26, 31; 86/85; 88/48-9, 50-1; 90/43
    churches, Saxon 79/53-4; 80/28-9, 30; 82/35, 36; 86/85; 88/51; 89/42
    Furnells manor 79/53-4; 83/26, 27, 28; middle Saxon 81/29, 30, 31;
        82/34, 35, 36; 83/26, 27; 06/30; C9 Anglo-Scandinavian farm 06/30;
        late Saxon 82/35, 36, 38; 83/26, 27, 28; 84/30, 32, 33; 06/30;
        C12-14 manor house 83/26, 27, 28; 84/30-1, 32, 33; 88/51; 06/30;
        C14-15 manor house 82/34, 35, 38; 83/27, 28; Manor outbuildings
        81/26-7, 28, 29; 88/57; 90/49; post-excavation work 85/65, 66;
        90/54
    graveyard, Saxon 78/14; 79/53; 80/29, 30; 81/29, 30; 86/85; 88/51;
        89/42; 90/42-3, 55
    Hill Street 97/39
    Langham Road 85/66; 86/85; 88/48, 51; 91/69, 71; 93/49
    London Road 96/36
    Manor House, Manor Street 92/39
    Market Square 89/34-5; 90/43
    Marshall's Road 01/37, 37
    Midland Road 88/48-9
    Park Road 90/42-3
    quarrying 88/51; 90/43
    Rotton Row 93/49
    RPC Containers 01/37
    Scalley Farm 91/66-7, 68, 69
    Thorpe End 96/36; 01/37
    Warth Park 01/37; 05/40
    Wellington Road 05/35; 06/24
  small finds: part of musical instrument, C12/13 82/37; pewter ring, C13
      82/37; pottery, (Lyveden-Stanion aquamanile) 83/28, 29, 30-1,
      (sequence) 84/30-1
Raunds Area Project 85/65-6; 86/85-6; 88/47-8, 49, 50-60; 89/33, 34-8, 39,
    42, 43; 90/42-3, 44, 46, 55; 91/65-71, 75; 93/41, 45; 94/21-2; 06/29-30
  area and aims 88/48, 49
  fieldwalking method 01/31
  publications 08/43; 09/30
  see also: Denford; Hargrave; Mallows Cotton; Raunds; Stanwick; Ringstead;
      West Cotton
Raunds to Newton Bromswold pipeline, Nhants 07/18, 18
raven bones, early Iron Age; Little Wittenham 05/71
Ravenna, Italy; mosaics 04/70
Ravensburgh Castle hillfort, Hexton, Herts 73/14; 76/7-8; 95/22; 05/9
Ravensden, Beds
  All Saints' church 82/19; 93/32; 00/3
  Mowsbury Hill Iron Age/medieval manorial site 86/20, 21, 22; 90/2, 5
  Tilwick deserted hamlet 83/9; 84/2, 3, 4, 5, 6-7
Ravensden-Wilden Reinforcement Main, Beds 08/5
Ravenstone, Bucks
  causewayed ring ditch 79/4, 6, 7, 44, 45; 81/11
  Old Forge; C19 forge 06/9; 08/24
  Priory 85/24; 93/35
  water main renewal 02/11
  Whilom Wheatsheaf 04/31
Ray family of Fenlake Barns 87/29
Raynsford, Richard, of Northampton (fl. C17) 02/35
razors: Bicester 97/45; Ellesborough 86/36; Watford, Herts, late Bronze Age
    87/16
Reade, Mary, of Checkendon 76/32
Reade family of Ipsden
  Edward Anderton (b. 1807) 81/95; 84/39, 42
  John Thurloe (d. 1827) 84/39, 40
Reading
  Abbey church 72/19; 73/23; 74/16
  Ackerman's Wire Works 73/45
  Business Park, burnt mounds 98/83
  Greyfriars Church 01/64
  Iron Age enclosed settlements 98/83
  medieval site near Abbey 76/33
  Saxon cemetery 78/13
  University 86/106
  Viking burial 77/15
real tennis court; Oxford 91/93-4
reclamation of land, C15; Oxford 95/59
reconstructions: Devil's Quoits 89/56; Iron Age roundhouses 79/137, 138;
    90/18, 24; kiln 90/18, 24
Records of Buckinghamshire: Vol 36 97/79-80; Vol 37 98/93-4
recusancy 93/31
'Red Stop Line' (World War pillboxes) 90/89, 89
reeds, harvesting of: Cholsey 03/74-5; Oxford 83/140
reindeer, Palaeolithic; Cassington 97/ii
religion (see also: churches; monastic sites; ritual sites and activity;
    shrines; temples)
  Iron Age/Romano-British/Christian continuity; Marcham/Frilford 04/93-4
  late Roman pagan 05/104-5
reliquary, figure of saint from Limoges; Chalgrove 81/153
remote sensing 91/10
Renhold, Beds 82/18; 85/9; 90/2, 14; 98/11
  All Saints' church, medieval 03/4
  Church End, The Old Vicarage; medieval post-pits 09/10
Renshaw, Arthur, of Watlington Park 04/55
Repton, Derbyshire; Viking fortress 08/13-14, 13, 15
Repton, Humphry (1752-1818, landscape gardener) 79/97, 100
reredos, C15; All Souls College, Oxford 85/100, 102
rescue archaeology; policies 72/2; 74/2; 75/34; 76/1, 3-4, 5
resident archaeologist, role of 91/15, 16
resistivity surveys: Alchester 98/71; 99/62, 63, 64, 65; 01/72; 03/104;
    Alfred's Castle 01/46, 80; Bayworth 04/54-5, 55; Boarstall Tower 99/16;
    Chastleton House 95/76; Dunstable 93/19; 04/4; Hanslope 02/15;
    Hardingstone, Northampton 04/37; Marlow 01/18; 04/17-19, 18, 20-21;
    Polebrook 03/41, 43, 44; Rycote House 01/71; Simpson 93/36, 37-9; Thame
    Park 02/60; Totternhoe Castle 02/9; Uffington Castle 97/67; Wallingford
    03/109, 112; 04/94
resources, technical, for amateur groups 04/77, 78
Rethune (fl. 811, abbot of Abingdon) 78/88
revetments, timber
  prehistoric: Dorney 98/80, 82; Yarnton 93/84, 85
  Iron Age hillfort; Segsbury Camp 98/60, 62
  Roman; Stanwick 94/23
  medieval: Castlethorpe, 94/17; Oxford 95/56
  post-medieval: High Wycombe 94/18; Iffley Lock 99/89
reviews
  Bedfordshire Archaeology: Vol 22 97/77, 79; Vol.23 00/90-1
  Bridges of Bedfordshire (A. Simco and P. McKeague) 98/93
  Chiltern Archaeology: Recent Work. A Handbook for the Next Decade (ed.
      Robin Holgate) 96/77-8
  A Late Roman Cemetery at Bletsoe (Michael Dawson) 96/77
  Records of Buckinghamshire Vol 36 97/79-80; Vol 37 98/93-4
  Windows on the Past (Marion Blockley) 92/28
revolt, peasants' (409 BC) 76/19; 77/14
Rewley Abbey see under Oxford
Rhamus catharticus (purging buckthorn) 78/114
Rhinanthus cf minor (yellow rattle) 76/65
rhinoceros, woolly; Sutton Courtenay 82/162
ribbon development, Roman; Sandy 06/3
Rich, Reginald (of Abingdon, father of St Edmund) 97/53
Richard III, King of England; livery collars 88/24
Richard, earl of Cornwall (fl. 1227) 93/69; 03/107
Richard the Shepherd (fl. 1306, of Somerford) 83/65
Richard Siward (fl.1233) 93/69
Richardson, Sir Albert (1880-1964, architect) 90/13; 01/38
Richborough, Kent; Roman temple and theatre 82/152
Richmond, Ian 02/66
rick-places: Brixworth 73/32; Naseby 80/50
ridge and furrow ploughing (see also headlands) 78/110; 89/54; A4146 Stoke
    Hammond and Linslade Western Bypass 09/22; Abingdon 98/84-5, 84;
    Ailsworth 77/26; Akeley 07/15; Alchester 01/77, 79; Aldwincle 72/8;
    Aylesbury 95/33; 98/20; Banbury 93/69; 01/42; Barford 94/38; Barton
    Court Farm 78/108; Beachampton 08/20; Bedford Southern Bypass 95/4;
    Bicester 07/64; Billington 01/9-10; Blisworth 76/28; Bloxham 80/108;
    Bow Brickhill 79/62; 91/44; 92/22, 23, 24; Brigstock 83/17, 18;
    Broughton, Bucks 05/32; 08/21; Broughton, Nhants 08/41; Buckingham
    01/20; Bugbrooke 04/36; Burton Latimer 00/36; Caddington 02/7;
    Cassington 93/63; 06/45; Castle Ashby 78/21; Castlethorpe 94/17; 00/9,
    10; Chastleton House 95/76; Chipping Norton 91/80; Church Brampton
    76/28; Clipston 79/21; Coat 82/43; Corby 07/15; Cottesbrooke 74/27;
    Cottingham 08/41; Cranford 74/27; Culworth 92/42; Dalscote 08/36;
    Daventry 00/39; 02/34; Deenethorpe 97/43; Didcot 03/57; 09/34;
    Doddington 76/29; Drayton 01/44; Duns Tew 83/64, 65; Dunstable 98/19;
    Duxford Farm 03/57; Eye, Nhants 78/21; Faringdon 89/58; Fernham 04/70;
    Finmere Quarry 07/38; Foscote (Abthorpe) 04/40; Fringford 98/86;
    Fritwell 08/61; Grafton Regis 92/37; Great Barford 06/6; Great Cransley
    08/41; Gretton 08/41; Grove Priory 78/15; Hampton Gay 00/63; Hannington
    08/41; Hannington to Empingham Pipeline 08/41; Hanslope 09/24;
    Hardwick, Bucks 76/33; Harpole 04/36; Hatch 07/4; Helmdon 74/27; Ilbury
    81/116, 118; Kempston 09/7, 7; Kings Cliffe 77/27; Launton 06/40;
    Leighton-Linslade bypass 91/15; Little Houghton 74/27; Littleworth
    77/58, 59; Loughton, Milton Keynes 00/32, 32; 08/30-1; Ludgershall
    05/17; 07/11; magnetometer representation 93/73, 74; Marcham/Frilford
    80/144; Marston Moretaine 00/4; 01/5; Middle Houghton 04/45, 46; Milton
    Ernest 09/10; Milton Keynes 80/80; 84/27; 03/30; 05/33; 06/18, 19;
    07/13; Moulsoe 84/27; Mursley 00/11; Naseby 80/50; Newport Pagnell
    02/11; 06/9; 07/13; 09/17; Newton Bromswold 73/20; Newton Longville
    80/80; Northampton 76/35; 04/37, 38; 06/29; 07/19, 20; Northamptonshire
    93/43, 44-5; 94/24; 97/42, 43; Nuneham Courtenay 92/49; 93/74; 95/53,
    54; Old Grimsbury 94/37, 38; Old Wolverton 83/54, 56; Oxford 92/51;
    96/60; 03/62, 75; Penn 05/31; Polebrook 03/43; Preston Capes 04/43;
    Radley 05/52; Raunds 01/37; Rockingham 00/35; 08/41; Rothersthorpe
    78/22; Rothwell 07/21; 08/41; Rushden to Higham Ferrers bypass 04/35;
    Rushton 08/41; Shenley 99/22; 01/13; Shifford 90/86, 88; Shipton under
    Wychwood 78/119; Singleborough to Great Horwood pipeline 02/11;
    Stanbridge 97/13-14; Standlake 04/73; Stanton St John 78/78, 84;
    Stanwick 91/78; Stewartby 99/6; Stewkley 06/10; Stoke Hammond Bypass
    03/25; Stowe 96/17; 02/19; Streatley, Beds 93/28; 96/7; Sulgrave 78/22;
    Sywell 01/33; Tattenhoe 91/46, 47; 05/19; Terrick 08/30; 09/25; Thame
    08/78, 78; Thenford 73/17; Thorpe Mandeville to Greatworth Pipeline
    08/44; Tilsworth 96/10; Tilwick 84/2, 3, 6; Toot Baldon 72/28;
    Totternhoe 93/30; Towcester 04/32; Upper Heyford 08/65; Upton 90/51,
    52; Wadenhoe 75/28; Wakefield Lodge Estate 02/23; Walgrave 08/41;
    Wallingford 03/109; 09/63; Walton Hall 91/43; Watchfield 02/39-40;
    Weedon Lois and Weston 75/28; Weekley 93/49; Whaddon 04/26; White Horse
    Hill 06/50; Wilden 98/15; Wilshamstead 09/11; Wing 94/14; Wingfield
    97/13; Witney 01/45; Wollaston 79/49; 95/44; Wolvercote 80/87;
    Wolverton 08/26; Woodstock 08/65; Wytham 77/59, 60; Yarnton 77/59, 60;
    see also under: Ashton, Nhants; Beaconsfield; Bicester; Bidwell;
    Broughton; Caldecotte; Canons Ashby; Chesham; Crick; Eggington;
    Eynsham; Hardingstone; Kilsby; Milton Keynes area; Morton Pinkney;
    Onley; Overend Green; Oving; Pitchcott; Pondwood Farm; Roade; Simpson;
    Stanton Harcourt; Sutton; Whitehouse Farm; Yelvertoft
Ridgeway 77/52, 78; 81/78; 97/70
  colluvium study 97/76
  date 97/68
  pre-hillfort enclosures 97/76
  Ridgeway Hillforts Project 98/54-63, 55-61; 01/22, 80-9, 81
    see also Segsbury Camp; Uffington Castle; White Horse Hill
  Ridgeway and Vale Project see Marcham/Frilford
Ridgmont, Beds 90/2
  prehistoric flints 94/7-8
  medieval/post-medieval farm 94/8-9
  Segenhoe Church 78/17-18; 93/31
Rievaulx Abbey, Yorks; medieval chess piece 00/8
Rimpton, Somerset; bounds of 81/938; 87/104
ring ditches 76/11; 77/23-5 (see also: barrows; roundhouses)
  Neolithic: Barrow Hills 86/107, 108, 109; Caddington 90/9-11; Dorchester
      84/115-16; Radley 81/137; Radwell 73/32; Stanton Harcourt 80/138;
      Thrupp 77/75; 82/181, 183; West Cotton 90/45, 46
  Neolithic/Bronze Age: Bedford (complex) 96/0, 1-2; Bedford Southern
      Bypass 91/8, 9, 10-11; 92/6; 95/4, 6; 93/7, 10; Biddenham Loop 08/3;
      Olney Bypass 96/15; Willington Quarry 91/11-12; Yarnton 92/53; 93/82,
      83, 84; 94/51
  Beaker: Barrow Hills 86/109-10; Berinsfield 79/113; Biddenham 77/23;
      Irchester 96/33; Milton Keynes 72/8; Radley 80/138; 82/182, 183; West
      Cotton (double) 91/69
  Bronze Age: A43 Corby Link Road 06/25; Abingdon 77/61, 62, 63; 82/181,
      183; 92/73, (Corporation Farm) 72/22; 73/40, 41; 82/181, 183; (SU
      477969-475963) 73/26; Bampton 92/55, 57; Bedford 00/1, (segmented,
      with crouched inhumation) 06/4, 4; Berinsfield 78/108, 110; 79/113;
      Biddenham Loop 97/4; Biggleswade 00/1; Caddington 90/9-11; Chapel
      Brampton 75/11; Crowmarsh Gifford 09/40; Culham 08/47; Denham 04/14,
      15, 16, 17; Dorchester 82/146; Dorney 98/77, 78, 83, (large triple)
      92/26; 01/26, 28; Duxford Farm 03/57; Earls Barton Quarry 06/26, 27;
      Elstow 04/6; Eynsham 73/20; 02/54; Gravelly Guy 83/145; Grendon 78/4;
      75/12, 14; 81/22-3; Marcham/Frilford 80/143; 09/47, 48; Milton Keynes
      72/8; 76/14; Newport Pagnell 06/8; 09/16-17, 17; Northampton 00/39;
      09/28; Ouse Valley 76/14-15; Oxford (Port Meadow) 81/103; 82/129,
      131, (Sackler Library) 00/69, (South Parks Road) 83/100; 95/60,
      (University Parks) 77/59, 60; Radwell 74/7; 76/15; re-used for square
      ritual enclosures 92/56-7; Salford Quarry 90/9; Stanton Harcourt
      81/139, 141; 83/100; Taplow 98/28; Thames flood plain 81/103;
      Uffington Castle 97/67; Wytham 77/59, 60; 81/103; see also under:
      Cogges; Dunstable; Lechlade; Marston; Merton; North Stoke; Roxton;
      Tadpole Bridge; Werrington; West Cotton; Willington
  late Bronze/early Iron Age: Alfred's Castle area 01/82; Aylesbury-
      Chalgrove gas pipeline 00/28; Eynsham 92/47; Finmere 01/41
  Iron Age: Bicester 07/64; Crick 95/i, 37-8, 38, 39; East Challow 03/59;
      Finmere 94/32; Furzton 91/1; Hartwell, Bucks 97/18, 18; Hatford
      04/70; Higham Ferrers 91/61, 62; Kilsby 94/27; Milton Heights 08/48;
      Pitsford Quarry (small, in enclosure) 03/54, 54; Raunds 91/67;
      Rothersthorpe 95/41, 42-3; Standlake 07/42; Stotfold 95/14, 15; Upper
      Heyford 08/65; Westcroft 03/35, 36
  Roman: East Challow 03/59; Fenny Stratford 00/29, 31; Grendon Underwood
      08/27; South Leigh 08/64
  undated: Aldwincle 72/8, 14; Ashbury 78/102, 103; Barnack 77/26; 81/41;
      Barton le Clay 90/8; Barton 95/21; Boughton 00/36; Burghfield 76/15;
      Elstow/Harrowden 98/5, 6; 03/16; Eynsham 93/61; Finmere (possible
      barrows) 91/79; Gravelly Guy 86/112; Hailey 80/84; Harrold 99/2, 3;
      Hartigan's Pit, Newport Pagnell 94/14; 95/27; Irthlingborough 95/40;
      Linslade Bypass 96/11; Lockinge 78/102, 104; Marsh Lane East 92/27;
      Nuneham Courtenay 93/73, 74; 95/53, 54; Poolgate Mead 75/29;
      Rollright Stones 82/136-7; Shiplake 75/29, 30; Shrivenham 78/101,
      102; Stanton Harcourt 80/182, 184; Stanwick 04/38; 05/40-1;
      Swalcliffe 06/42, 44; Tansor Crossroads 92/39; Thame 08/52;
      Titchmarsh 78/22; Tubney (penannular, possible barrow) 08/65;
      Warmington, Nhants 92/40; Welford, Nhants 82/56, 57; White Horse Hill
      06/50; Willington 92/5; Wing 94/14; Witney 97/46; Yarnton 97/64; see
      also under: Aston Tirrold; Aston Upthorpe; Blewbury; Cardington;
      Childrey; Cople; Curbridge; Letcombe Bassett; Letcombe Regis;
      Radwell; Ravenstone; Rousham; Simpson; South Hinksey; Standlake;
      Sutton Courtenay; West Wycombe; Westcott Barton; Wootton
rings, finger
  Beaker period; copper/bronze; Barrow Hills 86/110
  Bronze Age; copper alloy; Cholsey 86/96
  Iron Age
    bone, in child burial; Abingdon 01/56
    coiled copper alloy; Stotfold 95/14
    iron; Danesfield Camp 92/27
  Roman
    copper alloy: Bletsoe 71/9; Brakelands Farm (blue enamel) 98/67, 69;
        Chalton 94/8; Chesham 73/17; Gatehampton Farm, Goring (with glass
        bezel) 06/52; Kempston/Biddenham 07/1; Marcham/Frilford 06/63;
        Quinton 76/21; Shefford 03/5; Swalcliffe Lea 99/56
    glass; Marcham/Frilford 08/72
    jet; Denham 02/14
    silver; Sandy 90/11
    unspecified: Dorchester 73/6; Dorney 97/31; Dunstable 77/13; Evenley
        94/27; Gatehampton 95/75; Goring 96/iv; Higham Ferrers 03/56;
        Latimer (penannular) 71/12; Marcham/Frilford 04/91
  Saxon
    copper alloy; Kempston 86/4-5
    ivory; Kempston 82/13
    silver: Cransley 76/20; Ducklington 75/41
  medieval
    copper alloy: Easton Maudit 73/21; Lyveden 74/13
    gold and sapphire; Blackfriars, Oxford 73/31
    iron; Lyveden 71/20
    pewter; Raunds 82/37
    silver-gilt; Bradwell Abbey 83/61-2
    unspecified; Lyveden 72/18
  C16; Brackley 91/59
rings, Roman iron oval split; Wigginton 03/82
Ringstead, Nhants 88/49
  late Bronze/early Iron Age pit alignment 78/4
  Roman villa 72/14
  Mill Cotton moated site 75/47
ringworks
  Bronze Age; Thrapston 08/44
  Iron Age: Brigstock 83/15; Hailey Wood; with sarsen 73/37, 38
  Saxon; Thrapston 78/18, 19
  Norman see under castles, mottes and ringworks
  undated; Holcot 05/42
Riseley, Beds 84/7; 90/2
  All Saints Church 85/6, 7-8
Risinghurst and Sandhills, Oxon; Thornhill Park and Ride Car Park, Bronze
    Age and post-medieval 02/43
ritual sites and activity, prehistoric (see also barrows; cursus monuments;
    henges; special deposits; shrines; temples): Ashbury 94/36; Bedford
    94/6; 96/0, 1-2; Biddenham Loop 97/4-5; 09/3; Crick 95/i, 37; Crouch
    Hill and Giants Cave 98/70; Eastcotts 93/7, 10; Faringdon 00/62;
    Goldington Bury Farm, Bedford 88/7, 8-10, 11; Hardwick with Yelford
    83/130; Milton Keynes 00/12; Ouse valley 95/4, 7, 9, 10; Oxford 07/31;
    Ridgeway hillforts 97/68, 72, 73, 76; River Nene 90/52-3; Stotfold
    95/14; Upton 90/52-3; Wellingborough 98/32; West Cotton 88/53, 54,
    55-6; 90/45, 46, 53; Yarnton 93/82; 00/70; see also under Cardington;
    Dorney; Willington Quarry; Yarnton
river management, possible; Oxford 96/60
river valleys 97/ii-iv
road blocks, war-time 91/116
Roade, Nhants 75/29
roads (see also trackways)
  Roman (see also: aggeres; Akeman Street; Ardley Green Way; Ermine Street;
      Icknield Way; Port Way; Watling Street): A338 02/79; Ailsworth 77/26;
      Alcester-Towcester 04/22; Aldwincle 72/8, 14; Ashton, Nhants 93/45;
      Aves Ditch shown not to be 98/73; Bannaventa to Watling Street 00/36;
      Barton, Oxford 95/53; as boundary, near Irchester 95/47; break in
      agger, Irchester 95/47; Brightwell 89/63; Brightwell Baldwin 08/84,
      85; 09/57, 59, 59; Brize Norton (possible) 91/101; Bromham 00/4;
      Buckingham 73/17; Caddington 02/7; Chess Valley 79/21; Cholsey 93/69;
      Corby 98/33; Crowmarsh 96/71; Ducklington 89/50; 91/1, 95, 96; Duston
      76/35; East Hanney to Brightwell 89/61, 62, 63; Edworth 99/1; Finmere
      99/35; Frilford 08/49; Higham Ferrers 03/56; Hundred meeting places
      and 75/17; 78/49, 50, 51-2; Kempston Church End 07/2, 2; Kidlington
      to Kirtlington not found 97/64; Kirtlington 09/36; Little Stanion
      (Leicester-Godmanchester) 08/36; Magiovinium to Duston 04/47;
      Marcham/Frilford 82/150, 151; 02/79-80, 83; Moxon to Sandy water main
      08/16-17; Ot Moor 98/73; Oxford 95/55; Oxfordshire Corallian ridge
      77/78; place names as evidence of 74/12; planning methods 82/45;
      Potterspury 98/34; ribbon settlement along 89/50; Road 164 72/15;
      Roads 160, 166 73/18, 19; Sandy 90/11; 91/16, 17; Segsbury Camp
      98/55, 60; Silchester-Cirencester 72/26; 76/18-19; Silverstone
      01/34-5; South Leigh 08/64; Stanford-in-the-Vale 88/87; 89/54;
      Stanion 96/37; Stowe 96/18, 18, 19; 04/22; Swalcliffe Lea 07/34-7,
      35, 36, 38; Thornborough 73/17; 74/32; 92/2; Upton 77/27; Wantage
      95/ii; Wellingborough 95/47; Whilton Lodge (Watling Street) 08/46;
      Wollaston 97/iv; 98/38-9; see also under: Alchester; Ardley; Aynho;
      Broughton; Chesterton; Chestertonfields Farm; Claydon Pike;
      Dorchester; Fencott; Fritwell; Kidlington; Marcham; Merton;
      Milton Keynes; Newbury; Sandford; Sinodun Hills; Swalcliffe;
      Towcester
  Saxon and medieval: Newbury 75/25; Oxford 71/23
  medieval: Abingdon 91/113; Dunstable 97/11; Kidlington (limestone paved)
      96/68; Long Buckby 03/51; Northamptonshire 93/44; Thame 08/77, 77,
      81; Towcester 98/31; West Cotton 91/69
    sunken: A43 (SP 62304100) 94/23; Ardley 05/67; Ashridge 04/24; Banbury
        97/46; 02/52; Bicester 84/99, 101; Biggleswade 03/2; Billington
        Hill 99/7; Bradwell Abbey 04/29; Caddington 90/6, 7; Caldecotte
        92/22, 23, 24; Caldecotte 91/44; Castlethorpe 00/9, 10; Charlbury-
        Leafield 82/123, 125; Clay Coton 92/36; Cumnor 76/73; Daventry
        94/27; Doddington 76/28-9; Epwell 01/55; Eynsham 92/48; Hampton Gay
        00/63; Hanslope 03/26-7; Harlington 02/3; Harpsden Court 75/30, 31;
        Ilbury 81/116, 118, 119; Kensworth 97/11; Kings Sutton 92/34;
        Ledwell 98/65; Lewknor 72/20; Lilley 93/27, 28; Little Houghton
        74/27; Long Buckby 78/22; Lyveden 74/13; Maidwell 76/29;
        Mapledurham 79/38; Morton Pinkney 75/29; Old 76/29; Old Grimsbury
        94/37, 38; Paulerspury 74/27; Pitstone 03/21; Princes Risborough
        01/20; Rockingham 92/35; Sandford-on-Thames 81/109, 110, 111;
        Shenley Church End, Milton Keynes 99/21; Silverstone 01/35; Skimpot
        88/6; Souldern 91/101; South Weston 75/32; Stoke Doyle 75/28;
        Streatley and Luton 93/27, 28; Sutton, Nhants 77/27; Tathall End
        94/14; Tattenhoe 89/17, 18; 91/46, 47; Thomley 86/118; Titchmarsh
        78/23; Upper Boddington 03/37; Wallingford 09/65, 65; West Hendred
        78/102, 104; Westbury by Shenley 91/44, 45; Woughton on the Green
        86/60
  post-medieval: Drayton (C18/19) 96/44; Fotheringhay 97/44; Lillingstone
      Lovell 04/30
  turnpike: Bedford-St Neots, at Great Barford 82/18; Bloxham 80/111-112,
      120; Great Tew 79/102; Henley-Abingdon-Oxford 88/147, 150; Stanton St
      John 78/85
  modern 91/15, 16, 79, see also individual numbers
  undated:Crick (on line of Watling Street) 06/25; Milton Keynes
      (limestone) 06/18; Stewkley (cobbled) 01/20
roadside settlement, Roman; Sandy 06/3; South Leigh 08/64; Whilton Lodge
    08/46
robber trenches: Eynsham Abbey 94/40, 41; Fringford Manor 97/58; Oxford
    94/45; 99/80, 81, 82-3
Robert de Lacy (exiled 1100); and Stanton St John 78/77
Robert d'Oilly (d. 1091 or 1092); and Grandpont, Oxford 81/129; 82/108, 109
Robert de Waudari 03/17-19, 18, 19, 20
Robert Fitz Alegod (fl. 1085, of Thornby) 81/36
Robert of Lorraine (d. 1095, bishop of Hereford) 88/91
Roberts, Thomas, of Oxford (C18 plasterworker) 07/34
Robin Hoods Arbour, Maidenhead; Belgic site 71/6
Robinson, Sir Thomas (C18 architect) 97/23
Robus, C. H. and Henry J. (fl. 1907, of Thames Valley and Goring Water and
    Gas Co Ltd) 82/51
Rockingham, Nhants
  Castle 86/79; 93/41; garden 94/22, 23; parkland 96/41, 42
  earthwork enclosure and hollow-way 92/35
  Roman and Saxon pottery 92/34
  SP 872 921, ditches, pit, ridge and furrow 08/41
  The Cottons, prehistoric and medieval 00/35
Rockingham Forest, Nhants
  assarts 85/72
  Brigstock deer parks and 83/16
  charcoal burning 76/28; 82/28, 29, 30; 01/38-9
  Drayton Old Park 74/25
  Grafton Park 74/24
  iron smelting survey 01/38-9
  reversion of Roman agricultural land to woodland, Saxon era 85/72
  Stoke Doyle and 75/28
Rocque, John (fl. 1761, cartographer) 77/34; 79/93; 82/89, 130; 89/7, 61;
    91/97, 98
rod(u) (Anglo-Saxon) 87/103
rods, metal
  Roman; Crowmarsh 96/75
  Saxon; Wollaston 98/38
Roedgen, Germany; Roman granary 03/95
Rogationtide perambulations 87/106-7
Roger de Bray (fl. 1201, of Walton, Milton Keynes) 79/61
Roger of Comenore (fl.1265) 91/92, 93
Roger d'Ivri (fl. 1085, lord of Westbury) 90/21
Roger of Somery (C13, of Great Tew) 79/97
Rokys family of Charney Bassett 78/88
Rolles family and Lewknor 80/126
Rollright, Oxon (see also: Great Rollright; Little Rollright;
    Rollright Stones)
  enclosure to west of Mill Barn 75/31
  Flick Quarry 09/45
Rollright Stones, Oxon 82/115, 134-5, 136-7, 138; 83/100, 142, 143, 144;
    84/120-1; 87/96
  Mesolithic occupation 83/100, 144
  Neolithic cairn (long mound) 83/100, 142, 144; 84/121
  Neolithic pottery 06/36
  barrows 82/136-7; 83/100, 142, 144; 84/121; 85/116
  Bronze Age flint 00/56
  Iron Age occupation 83/100, 142, 144
  Roman villa oriented on 02/52
  Saxon cemetery 82/136-7
  flint implements 82/135, 138
  hollow beside King Stone 82/134-5
  Kings Men Stone Circle 88/81-2
  plan 82/136-7
  post-glacial woodland snails 85/116
  visitors 83/105
  Whispering Knights chambered tomb 82/136-7; 84/121
Roman Catholic chapel, Somerton 74/16
Roman conquest of Britain 01/73, 75
Romania; Oxford Archaeological Unit exchange 83/105
roofs (see also tiles (roof))
  medieval: Abingdon, Lion Hotel; crown post 88/118, 119; 99/72; Chicksands
      Priory 86/16; Cogges 85/79; Eggington 82/60, 62; Oxford, (Brasenose
      College) 77/75, (college kitchens) 82/91, 92, 93; 83/74-81; solid
      thatch 80/95; 82/106, 107; 84/84
  C13: Marlow 02/21; Oxford, (Cathedral) 87/91, (Merton College) 83/30, 81,
      82; Thame 87/75
  C14: Hitchin 81/15; Leighton Buzzard 81/15; Oxford, New College 82/93;
      83/80, 81; Radstone 99/25-6; Thame 85/79, 80; Thorpe Waterville 81/15
  C15: Chalgrove 85/73; Great Linford 81/60; Greys Court 07/34; Harwell
      77/48; Missenden Abbey 85/26; Oxford, (Magdalen College) 85/82-3,
      (New College) 99/72; Shippon 80/93, 94; Stonor Park 95/68, 69
  C16: Chipping Norton 84/64, 65; Garsington Manor 02/54; Greys Court
      07/34; Oxford, Christchurch College 83/74, 75; Willington, dovecote
      98/19
  C17: Ashdown House 03/71; Bradenham Manor 98/22; 01/20-1; Charlbury
      09/56-7; Garsington Manor 02/54; Henley-on-Thames 01/69, 70;
      Kelmscott 02/55; Missenden Abbey 85/26; Oxford, (Lincoln College)
      87/55-6, 61, (Wadham College) 86/129
  C18: Amersham 01/30; Ashdown House 03/71; Brafield-on-the-Green 07/17;
      Cokethorpe Park 86/125, 126; East Hendred 84/88; Eynsham 86/128;
      Greys Court 07/34; Missenden Abbey 85/26; Stowe; Rotunda 98/23, 24,
      25, 26
  C18-19: curving inner principals 84/85, 86, 88; 96/67; iron reinforced
      joints 96/69; Oxford (Radcliffe Camera dome) 86/130, 131; 95/67
  C19: glass and iron, Oxford 99/73; paper-covered, Oxford 99/70
  undated: Ashbury 82/94, 96; Longcot 81/101; Newnham, Nhants 79/18
rope making; Bloxham 80/110
Roper and Cole's map of Northampton (1807) 98/42
Roque's map of Berkshire (1761) 96/51
rose, guelder (Viburnum opulus) 78/114
Rotherfield Greys, Oxon 78/75
  Greys Court 94/2, 3
  manor 84/70
Rotherfield Peppard, Oxon; Springwoods, Roman, medieval and post-medieval
    features 07/51-2, 51
Rotherham, John (fl. 1671, of Luton) 87/26
Rotherham family of Someries Castle 87/28
  Thomas (1423-1500, bishop of Lincoln, archbishop of York) 87/28
Rothersthorpe, Nhants
  Iron Age settlement 95/41, 42-3
  Roman field system 96/37
  medieval village 78/22; 01/32
  Danesfield Farm, medieval gully 02/25
  field survey 82/52, 53, 54-6
Rothschild family 99/16; 06/16; 08/7
Rothwell, Nhants (see also A6)
  early Saxon cemetery 76/20; 79/10-11; 80/44, 45, 46; 88/68, 69, 70
  Jubilee Street 07/21
  'The Old Nunnery', Desborough Road 88/39-40
  Old Shoe Factory, Gordon Street; C19 factory, Iron Age/Roman and medieval
      remains 05/33, 35
  Sandy Hills Farm, Iron Age enclosure 01/38
  SP 807 816, north of Rothwell; Iron Age settlement, medieval and later
      agriculture 07/21
  SP 8412 7980, ridge and furrow 08/41
  Wales Street 97/39
Rotton family of High Wycombe 95/32
Rough Castle, Antonine Wall 04/83
Round Hill, Oxon; Roman settlement 99/53, 59, 60; 00/57, 57; 98/67, 69;
    05/61, 62
roundhouses (see also ring ditches)
  Bronze Age 73/7; Abingdon 95/48; Aylesbury 95/ii, 25, 26; Benson
      00/79-80; Bicester 97/45; Cassington 06/45; Fenny Stratford 00/28;
      Rams Hill 74/8; Uffington 03/78
  Iron Age: Abingdon 95/48; 01/56, 58; 04/56, 57; Alchester 03/104;
      Alfred's Castle 00/84, 82-4, 88; 01/84, 85, 85; Banbury 01/42; 05/62,
      63, 64; Berinsfield 79/115; Bicester 97/45; 99/75; Biddenham Loop
      97/4; 09/2, 4; Bierton 77/45; 80/12; Cassington area 93/61, 62, 63;
      Cherbury Camp 09/68, 68, 69; Clapham 88/11, 12; Claydon Pike 82/164,
      167, 169; Crick 95/i, 37, 38; Culworth 93/46; Danesfield Camp,
      Medmenham 92/27; Daventry 08/37; Denham 02/13, 14, 15; Dunstable
      03/11-13, 11, 12; East Hanney 07/24, 24; Edworth 99/1; 01/1; Elstow
      77/18; Farmoor 77/69; Fenny Stratford 00/28; Finmere 01/41; Flitwick
      94/12; 96/2, 4; Geddington 78/4; Great Barford 06/6; Great Denham
      08/1, 1; Great Houghton 97/39; Grendon 75/14; Harrington Quarry
      93/50; Higham Ferrers 96/43; Irthlingborough 02/29; Kempston 01/2;
      Kilsby 07/16; King's Heath, Northampton 91/64, 66; Kings Sutton
      05/33, 34; large and small groupings 73/7; Linslade Bypass 97/9;
      Little Wittenham 05/77, 80-1, 79, 82; 06/47, 47; Long Dole, Crick
      96/31; Luton 06/2; Magiovinium 88/29; Maiden Bower 07/6, 6; Milton
      Heights 08/48; Milton Keynes 74/34; 06/14, 15, 19; 07/9, 12; 08/31,
      32; Northampton 90/42; 00/40, 41; 07/19, 19; Northmoor 85/98; Oakley,
      Nhants 78/4; Odell 76/16; Oundle 00/40, 42; Pennyland 80/66, 67-8;
      82/74, 75; Piddington 93/53; 04/47; Pitsford 02/31; 03/54, 54;
      Potterspury 98/33, 35; Raunds 91/67; Rothersthorpe 95/41, 42-3;
      Salford Quarry 90/9; 91/13, 14, 15; Segsbury Camp 97/69, 72-3, 72,
      76; 98/55, 56, 56; Shenley Brook End 96/14; Silverstone 02/25, 26;
      Stagsden 92/6, 7; 99/4, 5; Stoke Hammond Bypass 03/25, 25; 08/34;
      Stotfold 98/13, 14; 03/17; Thrupp 92/63; Towcester Vale 08/45;
      Uffington 03/78; 07/55, 55, 59-60; Upton 01/33; Wallingford 09/66;
      Water Eaton, Bucks 97/19; Wavendon Gate 90/24, 26, 27; Wellingborough
      98/32; Witney 94/32; Wollaston 95/44, 45; Woodeaton 92/53; Yarnton
      91/87, 89; 96/63
  late Iron Age/Roman: Ouse Valley 97/iii; Stagsden 99/4, 5; Wollaston
      72/14
  Roman: Bradwell, Milton Keynes 78/46, 47, 48-9; Deddington 71/9; Edworth
      99/1; Fenny Stratford (stone-footed) 00/29; Frilford 08/53, 53, 55;
      Great Barford 06/5, 6; Irchester 94/22; 05/39; Kempston 01/2;
      Moulton, Northampton 75/26-7; Northmoor 08/62; Odell 76/16; Overstone
      73/29; Quinton 75/17, 18, 19; Shakenoak Farm 74/9; Stanwick (stone)
      91/77, 78; Swalcliffe Lea 00/52, 55; 01/51, 53; Towcester (workshop)
      75/27, 64; Whilton Lodge (Bannaventa) 72/9; Wilstead 02/4
  experimental 79/137, 138; 90/18, 24
Roundmoor Ditch, Bucks 00/22
Rousham, Oxon; ring ditches 84/49, 57
routes, Late Iron Age trading 04/47
Rowbarrow, Brakelands Farm, Oxon 84/49, 56-7; 00/56, 57; 01/55
Rowstock, Oxon; Rowstock Cottage, C19 cob building 05/84
Roxton, Beds
  Neolithic 75/12
  Bronze Age ring ditches 73/13, 14; 74/6; 75/12, 13; 76/14; 77/23, 42;
      78/27, 36; 81/5
  Iron Age 76/14
  Roman 74/6
  Manor 94/3
  moated site, Palace Yard Wood 82/3; 88/6; 90/2, 3
royal estates and centres (see also: Adderbury; Bloxham; manors, royal;
    parks, medieval)
  Bedfordshire 01/3
  Fawsley Hall 88/60
  Wallingford 03/105
  woodlands 82/30
Royal Observer Corps 91/116
Royston, Herts
  barrows 76/6
  King Street 85/21
  parish church 92/18
rubbing stones
  Iron Age; Thrupp 92/63, 64, 65
  C12/13; Sutton, Oxon 73/22
  undated; Abingdon 92/72
ruddling and pencilling 03/32
ruins, artificial; Stowe 96/16, 18
Runnymede, Surrey 86/96
Rupert, count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Bavaria 91/37; 93/75
rush light holder, medieval iron; Lyveden 71/20
Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Nhants
  A6 Bypass 97/39; Iron Age/Roman and medieval 04/35
  Boundary Avenue 79/54
  Higham Park Road, Higham Park Farm House 09/31
  John White Shoe Factory 01/38
  Westwood Biogas Plant; Roman field system 09/26
Rushey Weir, Oxon; Saxon occupation 81/104
Rushton, Nhants
  gardens 93/41
  late Iron Age ditches 71/5
  Roman bath house, Christian font/tank 00/37
  SP 8530 8480 to SP 8408 8075; prehistoric, Roman and medieval 08/41
  Triangular Lodge 08/43
Russell, John, 1st Earl of Bedford (1486?-1555) 88/60; 92/18
Russell, Robert (d. 1616, vicar of St Thomas, Oxford) 87/60
Russell family of Woburn 93/32
Ruxox Farm, Beds 72/20
  Ampthill Roman town 92/5-6
Rycote, Oxon
  Chapel of St Michael 96/60-1
  Rycote Magna DMV 87/89; 88/80
  Rycote Park 94/2, 3
  Rycote Parva DMV 87/89; 88/80
Rycote House, Thame, Oxon; medieval and Tudor house foundations 01/71
ryde, rydding (Anglo-Saxon) 87/103
rye, medieval; Abingdon 97/50