INDEX 
Poterium sangutsorba (Salad Burnet), 177 
Potterne, 189; Furzehill, 10; Hartmoor, 4 
pottery, 200; ?prehistoric, 154; prehistoric, 
220, 308; late prehistoric, 300-1; 
Neolithic, 74, 151, 153, 179, 223-4, 242; 
Early Neolithic, 148, 151, 154, 155-60, 
185, 224; Late Neolithic, 221, 222; Late 
Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, 305; 
Beaker, 301, 305; Bronze Age, 237; 
Middle Bronze Age, 108, 109, 112, 115, 
116, 118, 119, 121-3, 140; 2?Late Bronze 
Age, 237-8; Late Bronze Age, 189, 237, 
245; Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age, 
189; Iron Age, 108, 116, 119, 123-4, 237, 
300; Early Iron Age, 125, 188, 189; 
Early/Middle Iron Age, 188-91, 306; 
Middle Iron Age, 188, 189; Middle/Late 
Iron Age, 90, 92; Late Iron Age, 92; Late 
Iron Age/Early Romano-British, 155, 
157, 159, 307; Roman, 220, 228, 232, 
237; ?Romano-British, 154, 275, 306; 
Romano-British, 90, 92, 188, 237, 300, 
303; Saxon, 108; medieval, 108, 119, 124, 
301, 304, 306, 307; post-medieval, 119, 
124, 307; modern, 229; analysis, 119-21; 
Black Burnished ware, 238; ‘British’, 
203; chaff-tempered, 93; Chelsea ware, 
282; coarse flint-tempered ware, 122; 
coarsewares, 238; Collared Beakers, 180; 
collections, 282; Decorated Style, 159; 
Deverel-Rimbury type, 107, 120, 121-3, 
138, 140; Durrington Walls sub-style, 
224; fine flint-tempered ware, 122-3; 
fine micaceous ware, 188;  flint- 
tempered wares, 122, 123, 188, 237; 
fossil shell-tempered ware, 121; 
gabbroic, 151, 157, 158, 159, 160, 185; 
Grey Wares, 188; grog and fossil shell- 
tempered ware, 122; grog-tempered 
ware, 121-2, 124, 183, 188; Grooved 
Ware, 221, 223-4, 226, 227-8, 244, 245, 
301; Hembury type, 158, 159; New 
Forest ware, 238; Oxfordshire ware, 238; 
Peterborough ware, 154, 155, 157, 159, 
164, 186, 301 (Mortlake-style, 151, 159, 
186); petrological analyses, 155, 157; 
pitting, 189; Samian, 200, 238, 275; 
sandy wares, 188; shell and limestone- 
tempered ware, 121, 188; shelly wares, 
121, 123-4, 157; slipwares, 189; South- 
Western Style, 158, 159, 185; trumpet 
lugs, 158, 159; Windmill Hill type, 148, 
159, see also beakers; bowls; jars; jugs; 
tiles; urns 
Pottery Record Numbers (PRNs), 159 
pounders, sarsen, 166 
Powell, John, 58 
Powell, Mr, 99 
Powell, Nathaniel, 101 
Powell, Richard, 58 
Prehistoric Society, 274, 276 
Presbyterianism, 102 
Preshute: tennis courts, 23; White Horse, 
16 
Preston (Gloucestershire), 108 
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804), 5 
primroses, 263 
Primula vulgaris (Primrose), 263 
printers, 6 
prints, collections, 2-3, 11 
PRNs (Pottery Record Numbers), 159 
processions, 9 
Protestants, 294 
proto-saucepan pots, Early/Middle Iron 
Age, 189 
Prunella modularis (Dunnock), 270 
Prunus spp. (plum/cherry/sloe), 173 
charcoal, 174, 175 
Prunus avium (Wild Cherry), 16, 17, 18; 
girth, 24 
Prunus  cerasifera 
Plum), 24 
‘Pissardii’? (Pissard’s 
Prunus x fruticans (Plum), 17 
Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel), 17 
Prunus lusitanica (Portugal Laurel), 17, 18 
Prunus serrulata ‘Kanzan’ (Pink Japanese 
Cherry), 18, 24 
Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn), 17, 178 
Prunus spinosa var. microcarpa (Small- 
seeded Sloe), 178 
Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken), 71, 177, 233, 
263 
pterodactyls, 200 
Puilinus pectinicornis (wood borer), 269 
public lectures, 5 
publications, 2 
Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), 78, 81, 
86; Elegies of Llyware Hen (1792), 85 
pugilism, 10 
Pullen, William, 278 
punting, 249 
Pupilla muscorum (snail), 71, 171, 183, 191, 
238, 239 
Purbeck Beds, 145, 157, 305 
Puritans, 102 
Pusey (Oxfordshire), 284n 
Pyarde, Christopher, 38n 
Pyarde, Katherine, 38n, 40, 49 
Pymmells (agents), 50, 54 
Pyramids (Egypt), 79 
Pyrochroa coccinez (cardinal beetle), 269 
Pyrochroa serraticornis (cardinal beetle), 269 
Quakerism, 101, 102 
Quakers, 100, 104n 
quarries: post-medieval, 302; abandoned, 
146, 187-93; evaluations, 303; gravel, 
275, 301, 304; stone, 80, 83, 85 
quartz, 122, 124, 157, 224 
quartzite, 125 
quatrefoils, 304 
Quercus spp. (oaks), 137, 176, 231, 268 
Quercus borealis (American Red Oak), 23 
Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak), 18; diseases, 
19 
Quercus petraea x robur see Quercus x rosacea 
(Hybrid Native Oak) 
Quercus robur (English Oak), 16, 19, 262, 
265; diseases, 18; girth, 23 
Quercus robur ‘Fastigiata’ (Poplar Oak), 23, 
24 
Quercus x rosacea (Hybrid Native Oak), 18; 
diseases, 19 
Quercus rubra (American Red Oak), 23 
Quercusia quercus (Purple Hairstreak), 268 
querns: saddle, 166, 188; sarsen, 152, 166, 
188 
Quick, John, 102 
quinces, 18 
quinine, 32 
quoins, 211, 216 
rabbits, 270 
Rack, Bernard, 282 
radicals, 99 
radiocarbon dating, 89, 90, 154—5, 184, 231; 
bone, 150-1, 153, 186, 244; charcoal, 
242; Latton Lands, 138-9 
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory (New 
Zealand), 138 
Radmund, John, 39, 47 
railways, 32, 306 
rainforests, 17 
Rallus aquaticus (Water Rail), 269 
Ramsay, A., 298-9 
Ranscombe Camp (East Sussex), 175 
Ranters, 102 
Ranunculaceae (buttercups/crowfoots), 298 
Ranunculus spp. (buttercups), 137, 177 
rattles, watchmen’s, 275 
Rawlings, Christopher, 58 
Rawlings, John, 57 
Rawlings, Mick, report on investigation of 
the Whitesheet Down environs, 144-96 
321 
Rawlins, George, 40, 48, 60 
Rawlins, John, 40, 48; accounts, 57, 58, 59 
RCHME (Royal Commission on the 
Historical Monuments of England), 66, 
67, 68, 297 
RDB (Red Data Book), 269, 271, 298 
Read, Hercules, 275, 276, 282 
Reading (Berks), theatres, 7 
Reading Museum Service, 290 
reading (books), 1-2 
recipe books, 9 
recreations, 10-11 
Red Data Book (RDB), 269, 271, 298 
red deer see deer 
Rede, Richard, 45, 56, 57 
reeds, 137, 269 
Reeve, Henry, 102 
Reeve, John (1608-58), 99, 100, 101; in 
DNB, 101; and Muggleton, 102-3, 104 
Reeve, John Henry, 102 
Reeve, John, and Muggleton, Lodowick, A 
Transcendental Spiritual Treatise upon 
Several Heavenly Doctrines (1651/2), 99, 
101, 104n, 105n 
Reeve, Walter, 102, 103 
Reeve, William, 101, 102 
Reeve, William (1757-1815), Don Juan 
(1787), 7 
Reeve family, 102, 103, 104 
Reevites, 102 
Reevonians, 102 
refuse disposal, 226 
Regan, Charles Tate (1878-1943), 253 
Regulus regulus (Goldcrest), 270 
Reiss, Richard, 205 
religious sites, 302 
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69), 
3 
Remenham (Wokingham), 158 
rendzinas, 175, 187, 219; humic, 68, 70, 76 
reservoirs, 219, 220, 221 
Revelation, Book of, 102 
revolutionary politics, 79 
Reynolds, Andrew, 91, 92 
Reynolds, John, 39, 42, 50; accounts, 47-9 
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-92), 3 
Rhagonycha translucida (beetle), 269 
Rhamnaceae (buckthorns), 22 
Rhine, River, 36 
ridge and furrow, 147, 307; medieval, 107, 
119, 124, 140, 141; post-medieval, 107, 
119, 124, 141 
Ridgeway, 280 
Rinyo-Clacton culture, 226 
rituals: and animal bone, 227-8; funerary, 
134, 135 
river crossings, 93 
rivers, 258 
Rivet, Albert Lionel Frederick (1915-93), 
284n 
Rivington’s Annual Register, 2 
Roach—Rudd hybrids, 253 
roads: Roman, 108, 277, 304, 308; 
turnpikes, 83, 87n, see also coach roads; 
trackways 
Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), 250 
Robertson, Ian Gow (1910-83), 282 
Robins, John (fl. 1650-2), 102 
Robinson, Paul, 283; note on Minerva 
plaque from Charlton Down, 296-7 
roebucks, 244 
Rollright Stones (Oxfordshire), 208 
Roman Conquest, 80 
Roman Empire, 87n 
Rome (Italy), 87n 
Rosaceae (roses and fruit trees), 17-18, 21— 
Rose, Charles, 4 
Roughground Farm (Gloucestershire), 133 
roundhouses, 207-8; Middle Bronze Age, 
111, 772, 139; Celtic, 203; post-built, 
107, 108 
