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A view of Farnham Royal's entry in 'Domesday Book' The village name 'Farnham' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'homestead where ferns grow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Ferneham.
Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon hall from c. 1000 AD at Wychurst, Kent. The most high-profile of Regia Anglorum's activities is the Wychurst Project. [4] On 3 acres (12,000 m 2) of freeheld land in Kent, the group built a full-scale replica of a defended manorial burgh and the flooded ring ditch and bank surmounted by 220 metres of palisade enclosing an acre of land.
In modern times, the term "Anglo-Saxons" is used by scholars to refer collectively to the Old English speaking groups in Britain. As a compound term, it has the advantage of covering the various English-speaking groups on the one hand, and to avoid possible misunderstandings from using the terms "Saxons" or "Angles" (English), both of which terms could be used either as collectives referring ...
Nottinghamshire Wapentakes in 1832. Nottinghamshire is a county that is situated in the East Midlands of England. The county has history within the Palaeolithic period, dating anywhere between 500,000 and 10,000 BCE, [1] as well as early Anglo-Saxon communities, dating to 600 CE. [2]
Confirmation of the use of Anglo-Saxons as foederati or federate troops has been seen as coming from burials of Anglo-Saxons wearing military equipment of a type issued to late Roman forces, which have been found both in late Roman contexts, such as the Roman cemeteries of Winchester and Colchester, and in purely 'Anglo-Saxon' rural cemeteries ...
Anglo-Saxon nunnery at Berkeley Castle (co-directors of the excavation Stuart Prior and Mark Horton) Bowl Hole Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated near Bamburgh Castle between 1998 and 2007 (commentatory by Sarah Groves) Eadgyth's tomb (commentary by Mark Horton) Anglo-Saxon swords from Bamburgh Castle (commentary by Graeme Young)
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The hide was the basis for the assessment of taxes. The hide was not ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon England, with, for example, land in Kent being assessed in sulungs (approximately twice the size of the average hide). a Knight's fee: is the amount of land for which the services of a knight (for 40 days) were due to the Crown. It was determined by ...