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43The Sites & Monuments record has been brought up to date and copies ofrecord cards have been given to the County Museum at Aylesbury.In addition, all the pre-excavation, excavation, and post-excavationrecords have been assimilated into a logical records system.Arrangements are in hand for all the Unit's records to be microfilmed bythe N.M.R.EXCAVATIONA further area of the Iron Age/Romano-British site at Woughton wasexcavated from June to December by John Barnbrook.At the Bradwell Roman Villa several problems were solved by a monthswork carried out in May prior to an Open Weekend at the site. The future ofthe site is still uncertain, at the time of writing the Development Corporationhas just allocated additional funds for further work to be carried outin the current financial year. The objective is to recover the total extentof the site and to complete the plan of the main building. As a result ofthese further excavations the Corporation will decide whether to cover andpreserve the site or to consider its conservation and display.At Wood Corner, one mile to the west of the Bradwell Villa, a minorRoman site, thought to be that of an outlying farm on the Villa estate, wasexcavated by Roy Adkins from February to May. The site was found to be of afarmyard flanked by three circular buildings and a pond. Occupation of thesite commenced during the C2nd and it was probably the successor of the smallBelgic/Roman site reported above (see Fieldwork section), situated only200 yds. away. The site flourished during the C3rd and C4th and perhapslater; one of the best finds being a large sherd of the so-called Romano-Saxon pottery.The Secklow Mound, on the site of the Meeting Place of the SecklowHundred, came under the threat of landscaping and in June-July Roy Adkinscarried out a limited rescue excavation. This having confirmed the existenceof the mound, it is now no longer threatened but is to be re-instated andwill once more assume its rightful position, although now at the centre of acity not a Saxon Hundred.The final season's work at the Great Linford Village site was againcarried out by Bob Zeepvat. This year another medieval farm complex andadjacent buildings were uncovered. Beneath the yards and buildings was muchmore evidence of Saxo-Norman occupation in the form of numerous features,gullies and postholes. Final analysis has not been completed but it isunlikely that we will be able to reconstruct the plan of a Saxo-Norman buildingsince the later medieval occupation created so much disturbance.The excavation of the Windmill mound was extremely successful.Other minor work and watching briefs included Walton Church, where thearea of the floor in the tower became available after the removal of paving.Several burials were noted and the original W wall of the church, breached whenthe tower was added, was found to survive intact just below the floor level.WOUGHTONThe area along the N embankment of the V7 and H7 grid-roads roundaboutexcavated in 1974-75 (reported in CBA9, Newsletter 6), was re-examined andextended as far as the line of a high pressure water main (Area A), and a