INDEX 
Valeriana dioica (Marsh Valerian), 261, 262 
Valeriana officinalis (Common Valerian), 
231, 261, 262 
Valloma spp. (snails), 71, 127 
Vallonia costata (snail), 171, 174, 238 
Vallonia excentrica (snail), 191, 238 
van Acland, Henry, 50 
van Clett, John, 50 
van Inmersell, William, 54 
van Rotyngham, Garard, 50 
van Wellick, Ayrt, 50 
Vanellus vanellus (Lapwing), 269 
Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral), 268 
vases, Etruscan, 3 
Vaugham, John, 38-40, 42, 47, 50 
vegetation history, Avon Valley, 228-34 
Venables, Bernard (1907-2001), 249-54; 
biographical notes, 249; Mr Crabtree 
Goes Fishing (1949), 249, 250; paintings, 
252, 253, 254 
venison, 53 
Venison Feast (Devizes), 8 
Ventriculites benettiae (sponge), 33n 
Venus (planet), 198 
Vera Jeans Nature Reserve (Pewsey), 255- 
72; Big Forty, 257, 258, 263, 270; fauna, 
266-71; habitats, 257-66; historical 
background, 255-7; Ida Gandy Pond, 
257, 258, 266; surveys, 271-2 
Verlucio, 303 
Veronica anagallis-aquatica (Blue Water- 
speedwell), 263 
Veronica anagallis-aquatica x catenata (Pink 
Water-speedwell Hybrid), 263 
Veronica beccabunga (Brooklime), 263 
Veronica persica (Field Speedwell), 98 
Vertigo moulinsiana (Desmoulin’s Whorl- 
snail), 262, 271 
Vertigo pusilla (snail), 70 
Vertigo pygmaea (snail), 171, 183 
Vespa crabro (Hornet), 271 
vessels: closed, 157-8, 159; South-Western 
Style, 158 
vetches, 178, 179 
Viburnum opulus (Guelder-rose), 262 
Vicia spp. (vetches), 178 
Vicia sativa ssp nigra (Common Vetch), 178 
Victoria Mistory of Wiltshire, archaeological 
gazetteer, 279 
villas, Roman, 302 
Viola arvensis (Field Pansy), 97 
violin makers, 6 
violins, 6 
viols, 6 
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro ) (70-19 
BC), 3 
virginals, 6 
Vitrea contracta (mollusc), 183 
Vitrea crystallina (mollusc), 183 
volcanic rocks, 185 
voles, 270; bones, 167, 180, 238 
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694— 
1778), 2 
voluntary associations, 1 
Von Den Driesch, A., 128 
Vulpes vulpes (Fox), 271 
Wace, Alan John Baynard (1879-1957), 282 
Wainwright, Geoffrey John (1937— ), 224, 
226, 245 
Walberswick[?] (Suffolk), ships, 60 
Walden, H. G., 238 
Wales, 276, see also Aberystwyth; Anglesey; 
Caerleon; Conwy; Graig Lwyd 
Walesse, John, 40 
Walgrave, Richard, 59 
Walker, William, 30 
Walles, John, 49 
Wallingford (Oxfordshire), 126 
Wallis, Frederick S., 282 
walls, 212-15, 216, 305; medieval, 304; 
limestone, 306 
Waltire, Mr., 5 
Wanborough, 300; Callas House, 276, 277, 
278, 282; Durocornovium, 277, 284n; 
Nythe Farm, 277 
WANHM see Wiltshire Archaeological and 
Natural History Magazine (WANHM) 
WANHS see Wiltshire Archaeological and 
Natural History Society (WANHS) 
Wansdyke, 200 
Wardour, Vale of, 145 
warehouses, 35 
Warminster, 33n, 37, 189; Battlesbury, 63; 
clothiers, 39, 40, 47, 53, 56, 59, 60, 61; 
fossils, 26; King Barrow, 72, 73, 74; long 
barrows, 72, 73; Oxendean Bottom, 72 
Warminster School, 307 
Warner, Richard (1763-1857), History of 
Bath (1801), 10 
Warton (Lancashire), 35 
wasps, 266; nests, 271 
Wasshington, Thomas, 36, 42, 43, 52; 
accounts, 50, 54 
waste, industrial, 226 
watches, 3 
watching briefs, 107, 108, 145 
water meadows, 15, 257, 258; 18th century, 
255; 19th century, 307; ditches, 220; 
floated, 255; nutrients, 259 
water mills, 255 
water pipelines, 145, 219 
water worship theory, 206 
watercolours, 85, 252 
watercress beds, 257 
waterholes: Middle Bronze Age, 107-41; 
dating, 138-9; location, 134-5; pollen 
samples, 135, 137, 138 
waterlilies, 138 
Watkin, B., 30 
Watkins, Alfred (1855-1935), Early British 
Trackways, Moats, Camps, and Sites 
(1922), 199-200 
Watkins Farm (Oxfordshire), 134 
Watkins Gray International LLP 308 
Watkins, Mr, 80 
Wattes, Thomas, 45 
Wayland’s Smithy (Oxfordshire), 69, 71, 
200, 280 
Waylen, William, 9 
weavers, 54 
weavers marks, 51 
weaving, 42, 51, see also spinning 
weeds: arable, 95-8, 232; seed production, 
95; seeds, 178-9, 192 
weevils, 269 
weights: clay, 126; stone, 125 
Wellesley, William Pole Tylney Long, 4th 
Earl of Mornington and 2nd Baron 
Maryborough (1788-1857), 27-8, 29, 
34n 
Wellington (New Zealand), 27 
Wells, R., 275 
wells: Roman, 276, 301; undated, 303 
Welsh (language), 82, 203 
Welsh bards, 79 
Welsh societies, 82 
Weobley (Herefordshire), 38n 
Wessex: barrows, 69, 71, 208; causewayed 
enclosures, 154; colluvial deposits, 234; 
downlands, 241; earthworks, 185; hut- 
circles, 208; inhumations, 92, 93; 
linears, 235; pottery, 123; settlements, 
140; stone circles, 207 
Wessex Archaeology, 90; archaeological 
mitigation, 300-1; evaluations, 300, 303, 
304, 305, 307-8; excavations, 219; 
recording system, 155; watching briefs, 
219, 305 
Wessex Linear Ditch Project, 220, 237, 245 
Wessex Water, 145 
Wessex Water Construction Ltd., 219 
West Berkshire see Great Shefford; 
325 
Hungerford; Lambourn; Newbury 
West Country, wrestling, 10 
West Indies, 29 
West, John, 40, 48; accounts, 56, 57; cloth 
mark, 61 
West Knoyle, pilgrim badges, 293-4 
West Lavington, 297; Strawberry Hill, 242 
West Overton: “The Lacket’, 25], 252, 253; 
Lockeridge, 252; Piggledene, 83; West 
Woods, 252 
West Sussex see Bury Hill; Chichester; 
Cock Hill; Tilgate Forest 
West Tisbury, Pythouse, 25, 27, 34n 
Westbury, 37; Beggars Knoll, 307; By-pass 
(proposed), 307; clothiers, 38—40, 42, 43, 
48, 50-1, 56, 58, 59, 61; cricket matches, 
10; Edward Street, 307; Kendrick’s 
Garage, 307; Madbrook Farm, 307; 
Maristow Street, 307; pilgrim badges, 
293, 294; Storridge Farm, 307; West 
End, 307 
Westwood, Iford, clothiers, 40, 56 
wet flushes, 255, 258, 262, 265 
wetlands, 15, 16, 19, 24 
Weymouth (Dorset), 32; fossils, 26; ships, 
57, 58 
whaling, 249 
wheat, grains, 192 
wheel-ruts, 223 
Wheeler, Thomas, 6 
wheelwrights, 4 
Whichcord and Gamble (builders), 7 
Whipsnade (Bedfordshire), 277 
Whitacker, Geoffrey (of Tinhead), 52 
Whitacker, Geoffrey (of Westbury), 39, 45, 
48, 52,54 
White, Gilbert (1720-93), The Natural 
History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), 
4 
white horses, 16, 280 
White, Robert, 57 
whitebeams, 18, 175 
Whitehawk Camp (East Sussex), 186 
Whitehead, P F, 298 
whites (cloth) see broadcloths 
Whitesheet Down: archaeological develop- 
ment, 186-7; archaeology, 146-87; 
geology, 145; investigations, 144-96; 
Mere Down, 179-80; Mere Down 
Linear, 145, 182-4; Whitesheet Hill, 
145-79, 184-7, 192; Whitesheet Hill 
Linear, 145, 180-2; Whitesheet Quarry, 
187-93 
Whittle, Alasdair W. R., 157, 164 
WHM see Wiltshire Heritage Museum 
(WHM) 
Wight, Isle of, 232 
wild plants see weeds 
Wild TC2000 Total 
equipment), 146 
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, 249 
wildfowling, 249 
Williams, D., 191 
Williams, David, 155 
Williams, Edward see Morganwg, Iolo 
(1746-1826) 
Williamson, Barry, note on the Arundell’s 
London estate, 294-5 
Williamson, Elizabeth, 296-7 
Williamson, George, 100 
willow scab, 17, 18, 19 
willows, 15, 16, 17, 261, 262, 266; diseases, 
18-19, 24; hybrids, 24 
wills, 10 
Willson, M. W., 279 
Wilsford cum Lake, Wilsford Shaft, 243 
Wilton, Edward, 296-7 
Wilton, 275; clothiers, 39 
Wilton Abbey, St Edith’s shrine, 293, 294 
Wiltshire: antiquarians, 99; clothiers, 35— 
62; cricket matches, 10; flintwork, 273 
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