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Recent Posts
- A large brass coin and a little research win
- Reflections on moated sites and more
- New work! New perspectives on the Guildown cemetery
- At long last! I’m back, and queer archaeology comes to Surrey just about in time for Pride Month
- New work: a Roman milestone (and other old stones) in north-west Surrey?
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Category Archives: Dorking
Three new books on aspects of medieval Surrey
A pleasing thing happened a few weeks ago – I was sent a new book by its author, in the hope that (1) it might be of interest to me and (2) I might publicise it via this blog. It’s never happened … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Books, Dorking, History, Pottery, Publishing, Surrey
Tagged Archaeology, Books, Ceramics, Dorking, Esher, History, medieval, pottery, Surrey, Surrey Archaeological Society
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Making progress on several fronts
“each age confronts the debris of its history, material and traditional, as a way of finding a home for itself.” Picture the scene; it’s Saturday morning and I’m on a bus to Waterloo, blissfully unaware that half of London had … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Being organised, Books, Dating, Domesday, Dorking, Guildford, History, Landscape, Place-Names, Pottery, Puttenham, Roman, Surrey, Topography
Tagged Dark Age Economics, History, Landscape, medieval, pottery, Puttenham, Surrey, Surrey Archaeological Society
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Being “productive” with place-names
I’d not even finished writing the piece that was the subject of my previous post when I began to formulate a new sidelight analysis to append to it. The basis of this was what I perceived to be a positive correlation between … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Chertsey, Coins, Dorking, Landscape, Lincolnshire, Place-Names, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Surrey, Trade
Tagged Coins, middel-tun, Milton, place-names, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Surrey
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Not for the first time… Coins and Surrey in the eighth and ninth centuries
Try as I might, I haven’t been able to put to one side my new-found fascination with the mid-Anglo-Saxon coins of Surrey. One issue in particular continued to play on my mind in the wake of finishing my first attempt … Continue reading
Posted in Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Charters, Chertsey, Coins, Domesday, Dorking, Guildford, History, Landscape, Leatherhead, Mercia, Numismatics, Shalford, Surrey, Sussex, Woking
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Archaeology, Coins, economics, History, Mercia, Minsters, Numismatics, Surrey
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