Daneis, Dacorum: re-evaluating the Danish roots of west Hertfordshire
(2023)
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his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.
The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”: They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.
Meeting in the shadow of heroes? Personal names and assembly places (2019)
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Gateways, gates and gatu: liminal spaces at the centre of things (2017)
Book Chapter
Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
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Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.
Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization (2016)
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The *meres?te of northwest Shropshire (2015)
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Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England (2015)
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Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries A.D.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizin... Read More about Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England.
Old English s?ta and s?tan names (2015)
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Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England (2013)
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Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corp... Read More about Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England.
Fulham 878–79: a new consideration of Viking manoeuvres (2012)
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This paper uses evidence from a variety of disciplines in order to re-evaluate an apparently enigmatic event reported in several early sources – the landing of a Viking force at Fulham in 878. It examines the vocabulary of written accounts of their a... Read More about Fulham 878–79: a new consideration of Viking manoeuvres.
The toponymy of communal activity: Anglo-Saxon assembly sites and their functions
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The paper builds on earlier discussion of the multiple functions of medieval judicial assembly sites, providing a comprehensive evaluation of relevant English hundred-names, and making reference to associated microtoponymy. While religious, military,... Read More about The toponymy of communal activity: Anglo-Saxon assembly sites and their functions.