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58POST EXCAVATIONRomanThe Bradwell Villa report has been completed for the work so far undertaken.It is intended to publish the site in full after the coming season'sexcavation.A comprehensive archive report for the Wood Corner site has been completedby Roy Adkins, who now awaits pottery and other specialist reports.The report on the trial excavation of a Roman site at Walton in 1972 hasbeen completed by D.C. Mynard and will be published in the next issue of theRecords of Bucks.MedievalNow that the Great Linford excavation is complete, the final report canbe commenced. It is anticipated that processing of all the finds and preparationof specialist reports will take at least a year.General PublicationWork is in hand on the monograph to be entitled 'The Archaeology ofMilton Keynes'. A meeting has recently been held with the RCHM and we envisagea joint publication. The work will consist of separate chapters onthe various Prehistoric, Roman and Early Saxon periods. The later periods willbe dealt with as individual parish studies. Bob Croft is currently workingon the medieval section and has supplied the following notes:The aim is to produce a monograph describing each known medieval villagewithin the Milton Keynes new city area. The study will attempt a microtopographicapproach to study each settlement within its total medieval environment,the basic information being presented on a parish or hamlet map at 1:5000scale. A detailed plan of each village and its earthworks will also beincluded where appropriate.The following headings briefly outline the main areas of the researchdirectives:-Earthwork SurveyA series of 17 medieval earthwork sites have been surveyed mainly at1:500 scale. These earthwork surveys will be used in the final report tosupplement the information shown on the 1:5000 maps. A copy of the earthworksurvey of Caldecotte (SP 891354) (MK18/19/85) is shown in Fig. 16. Thisvillage site is scheduled to be excavated by Milton Keynes DevelopmentCorporation starting in the spring of 1978 due to the threat of gravel extractionand the construction of Caldecotte balancing lake.Air PhotographsBoth vertical and oblique photographs from a number of sources have beenused in the investigation of all the known earthwork sites and have oftenproved useful in the interpretation of village layout within its surroundingfield system.Cartographic InvestigationFollowing on from the work done by Liz Baines on the tracings of some