INDEX 
Berula erecta (Lesser Water-parsnip), 262 
Berwick St James: Bakes, 97; Big Pasture, 
97; Lamb Down, 97; Langford Down, 
97; Langford Hill, 97; Night Pasture, 
97; Rag Bake, 97; Well Down, 95, 97, 98; 
Well House, 97; Yardfield, 97 
Berwick St John, Church Street, 302 
Betula spp. (birches), 137, 231 
Betula pendula (Silver Birch), 16 
Betula pubescens (Downy Birch), 16 
Betulaceae (birches), 20 
Bevan’s Quarry (Gloucestershire), 123 
Biam[/n]s, William, 57, 60 
Bible, 2 
Bignoniaceae (bignonias), 22, 24 
Binckes, Almon, 57 
biodiversity, field margins, 95 
birch trees, 16, 20, 137, 231 
bird watching, 252 
birds, 269-70, 271; migratory, 269 
Birks, H. J. B., 135 
Bishops Cannings: Easton Down Long 
Barrow, 70, 71; Horton Down, 302 
Bishopstrow, clothiers, 39, 42, 47, 48, 59, 61 
bivalves, 32 
black canker, 18, 19 
black pines, 16 
blackberry, 183 
Blackburn, Elizabeth, 2, 4, 6 
Blackdon, William, 40, 48, 54; accounts, 57, 
58, 59, 60; cloth mark, 60 
Blackmoor Vale, 146, 184 
blackthorn trees, 17, 175 
blades, flint, 161, 163, 164—5, 166 
Blagdon, John, 39, 47 
blue-green algae, 17 
bluebells, 263 
Blunsdon St Andrew, Groundwell Ridge, 
302 
Board of Agriculture, 82 
boars, 132, 170 
Boehme, Jacob (1575-1624), 102 
Boer Wars (1899-1902), 275 
Boessneck, J., 128 
bogs, 265 
Bolton, Herbert (d. 1936), 276, 282 
bone: 
animal, 140, 183, 185, 187, 200, 244 
(prehistoric, 308; Neolithic, 150-1, 153, 
154, 166, 167-71; Late Neolithic, 220, 
221, 222, 223, 226-8; Late Neolithic/ 
Early Bronze Age, 155; Bronze Age, 
118; Middle Bronze Age, 109, 115, 128— 
33; Late Bronze Age, 238; Iron Age, 
188; Romano-British, 237; ageing, 128; 
analysis, 128-9; erosion, 167; meta- 
carpals, 130, 167; phalanges, 167, 170, 
227; taphonomy, 128, 132-3; tibias, 131, 
132, 133, 227); burnt, 108, 128, 134, 151, 
180, 275; disarticulated, 223, 303; 
fossilized, 275; human (Neolithic, 63; 
Middle Bronze Age, 133-5; Early 
Anglo-Saxon, 89, 90; analysis, 133; 
burnt, 64; crania, 115, 125, 133, 140; 
femurs, 89, 90, 115, 125, 134, 140, 306; 
lumbar vertebrae, 90; metacarpals, 89, 
133; pelvic bone, 89; thoracic vertebrae, 
89, 90); mammals, 167; radiocarbon 
dating, 89, 90, 150-1, 186, see also cattle 
bones; pig bones; sheep/goat bones; 
teeth 
bone nodules, 90 
bone objects, 244 
bonfires, 9 
book clubs, 2 
book collecting, 1-2, 11 
book collections, sale, 2—3 
book sales, 2—3 
book societies, 2 
Book of Trades, The (1818), 2 
bookplates, 200 
books, 5; subscribers, 2 
booksellers, 3; sheet music, 6 
bookshops, 1, 2 
Boreal, 231, 233 
boreholes, 228 
Bos primigenius (aurochs), 170 
Botanical Magazine, 3 
botanists, 4, 25 
botany: studies, 5, see also flowers; plants; 
trees 
boundaries, 308; Romano-British, 93; 
Middle/Late Saxon, 302; field, 140, 220, 
307; hundred, 91, 92, 93, 302; parish, 92, 
203, 302; ranch, 241 
Bourne, River, 92 
Bournemouth (Dorset), 123, 295 
bowling greens, 10 
bowls: Neolithic, 126; Early Neolithic, 
157-8; Middle Bronze Age, 109; Iron 
Age, 124; Early Iron Age, 125; Early/ 
Middle Iron Age, 189; carinated, 157-8, 
189, 238; wooden, 107, 109, 126, 138, 140 
Bowood, 5 
boxing, 10 
Boyton: Barrow Hill, 63; Corton, 63, 70, 72, 
73, 74; Corton Long Barrow, 63-77; 
Tenant Field, 63 
Braaid (Isle of Man), 203 
Brabant, Dr, 11 
Brabant family, 8 
bracken, 71, 233, 263; spores, 135, 177 
Bradford-on-Avon: Barton Grange Farm, 
211-17, 302-3; fossils, 26; geology, 211; 
Great Tithe Barn, 211, 216; West Barn, 
211-17, 302-3 
Bradley, R. J., 140, 241 
Brailsford, John William (1918-88), 277, 
281, 282 
Braithwaite, William, 103 
brambles, 261, 270 
BRAS (Bristol and Region Archaeological 
Services), 306 
Bratton, Bratton Hill, 298 
Bray (Windsor and Maidenhead), 123 
Brede, John, 37, 39 
Brett, Colin, paper on Thomas Kytson and 
Wiltshire clothmen (1529-39), 35-62 
breweries, 279 
brewers, 4, 5, 43-4, 53 
brewing, 55n 
bribes, 49-50 
brickearth, 2 
bricks, 216, 304; hand-made, 215 
Bridges, Robert, 40, 48; accounts, 56, 57 
Bristol, 5, 6, 87n, 276; Back Street, 80; 
Baker’s Yard, 80; coach roads, 83, 85; 
Henbury Camp, 276; motorways, 206; 
Orchard Street, 80, see also Clifton; 
Henbury 
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 276, 
282, 284n, 288 
Bristol Fournal, 80 
Bristol and Region Archaeological Services 
(BRAS), 306 
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 
254 
British Magazine, 11 
British Mineralogy, 4 
British Museum, 31; and Passmore, 275, 
276, 281, 282, 284n, 288-9; radiocarbon 
dating, 154 
British Numismatic Society, 273 
British Trust for Ornithology, Common 
Bird Census, 269 
Brittany (France), 207 
Britton, John (1771-1857), 202, 204; 
Beauties of Wiltshire (1800), 2 
Brixton Deverill, Cold Kitchen Hill, 146 
Briza media (Quaking Grass), 265 
Broad Chalke, Blick’s Yard, 303 
Broad Hinton, 93, 198 
Broad Town: Broad Town Field, 92; 
inhumation, 89-94; Little Town, 92; 
311 
Thornhill Lane, 93 
Broad Town Archaeological 
(BTAP), 89 
Broad Town—Broad Hinton Road, 93 
broadcloths, 43, 55n; exports, 37-40, 46-7, 
48-9; prices, 42-3; purchases, 37—40, 
50-4; sales, 39; sources, 37 
Broadway (Worcestershire), 298 
Bromham, 4; clothiers, 40 
Bromus secalinus (Rye-brome), 192 
bronze objects: figurines, 297; plaques, 
296-7 
Broome Heath (Norfolk), 159 
Browne, Harry, 57, 58 
Bruce, Robert (1274-1329), 250 
Brutton, William, 2,5 
Bryn Gwyddon, identification, 86 
bryophytes, 135, 271 
bryozoa, 121, 123 
BTAP (Broad Town 
Project), 89 
Buckingham, Duke of, 35 
Buckland, William (1784-1856), Reliquiae 
Diluvianae (1823), 27, 33-4n 
Budge, Sir Ernest A. Wallis (1857-1934), 
282 
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de 
(1707-88), lV’Histoire Naturelle (1749- 
1804), 2 
builders, 7, 30 
building materials: medieval, 304; post- 
medieval, 304; 19th century, 304; timber 
framing, 304, 307, see also bricks; chalk 
blocks; tiles 
buildings: Roman, 200, 275, 302, 303; 
Romano-British, 92; 2medieval, 211-17; 
medieval, 303, 304, 305, 307; post- 
medieval, 305, 307; 17th century, 306; 
18th century, 303, 306; 19th century, 
306; Georgian, 304; lacustrine, 203; 
listed, 211, 304, 308; post-built, 301, see 
also barns; farmhouses; houses; round- 
houses; villas; walls 
Bulford, Bulford Down, 234 
bull baiting, 10 
Bulla fontanalis (mollusc), 27, 33n 
Bumbargym, Anthony, 50 
Burbage, 258 
Burford (Oxfordshire), 55n 
Burgh Castle (Norfolk), 277 
burials see cemeteries; cremation burials; 
inhumations 
Burl, Aubrey, paper on A. D. Passmore, 
197-210 
Burnham, B. C., 284n 
Burrough, Thomas, 3 
Bury Hill (West Sussex), 185 
Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), 35 
butchery, 167, 169, 170; Late Neolithic, 
227; Middle Bronze Age, 129, 130, 131, 
132; marks, 167, 170 
Buteo buteo (Buzzard), 269 
butterflies, 266-8 
buzzards, 269 
Byams, William, 60 
Bybrook Developments, 307 
Byng, John, 5th Viscount ‘Torrington 
(1743-1813), 11 
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of 
Rochdale (1788-1824), Don Juan (1819- 
24), 2 
Project 
Archaeological 
CA see Cotswold Archaeology (CA) 
cabinetmakers, 274 
cabinets, 3 
Caerleon (Gwent), 277 
cairns, 80, 83; flint, 66 
Cairo (Egypt), 275 
Calais (France), ships, 45, 52, 59 
calcicoles, 255, 265 
calcifuges, 255, 265 
calcite, 157 
