british and irish archaeological bibliography
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434 - 489; figs; refs; tables
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An overview and short series of articles concerning this award-winning project. Tithe maps and accompanying schedules (or apportionments) resulting from the Tithe Communication Act of 1836 along with a few enclosure maps for the county are the primary source of field-name data for the survey. Work on part one of the survey, undertaken between 1987 and 1993, involved: reducing and redrawing the original Tithe maps to a scale of 6ins:1 mile; copying field-names from the original schedules in the Hereford Record Office; checking each parish list, typing and checking the finished result; and finally booklet production to order. Part two involved recording field-names from other sources such as wills, deeds, sales documents and leases etc. Information on the field-name concerned, its date, source and location using tithe number are recorded. Analyses of chosen field-names was then undertaken by the survey group to demonstrate their potential value. Papers resulting from this include: 'The relevance of field-names to bell archaeology' by John C Eisel (437–41) including an appended note listing corresponding parishes, field numbers and field-names (440–1); 'Field-name survey in relation to lime-kilns in the Golden Valley' by Beryl Harding (442–5) includes a similar list giving parish, grid reference, field number, field-name and site evidence; 'Two field-names in the Royal Manor of Marden' by 'Jean ODonnell (446–8); 'Alternative agriculture' being any diversion from the standard production of cereals and meat and evinced in extant field-names, by F W Pexton (449–52); 'Field-names with possible Roman connections' by Ruth E Richardson (453–69); 'Field-names as a guide to the sites of deserted medieval settlements' by Rosamund E Skelton (470–2) includes a list detailing parish, grid reference, field number, field-name, and explanatory, though brief, comments for town field-name analysis and a shorter list giving parish, grid reference, field number, name of field with earthworks and settlement name for deserted medieval settlement sites with earthworks; 'Field-names as archaeological indicators of defensive sites' by Graham Sprackling & Ivor Lesser (473–9) also lists parish, grid reference, field number, field-name, possible castle sites not listed on the SMR (headed HWCM - Hereford & Worcester County Sites & Monuments Record primary record numbers) and brief details of site evidence; and finally 'An investigation of the Byefield, Bylet, Cinder, Forge & Furnace, Cae, Tref and Cover names for the county of Herefordshire' by the late Elizabeth Taylor (480–9) includes separate lists providing parish, grid reference, field number and field name with a river section for Byefield, river/brook for Bylet, site evidence for cinder, forge and furnace names, and acreage and notes sections for cae, tref and cover names. The closing paragraph on Castle Tump Field refers to the publication of the report and pottery report of this site (see 94/652). Holroyd, Isabel
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