Æt Cliuæ: Clyffe Pypard and its Dark Age Boundaries, Part One
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- Clyffe Pypard is a parish north of Avebury and south of Swindon. It has Dark Age landmarks set out in a Saxon charter (Sawyer No. 846 here: esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter....
These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.
But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.
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Thanks for this! Great video, lived there for 4 years, always curious about the areas history!
The highlighted boundary route on the map was very helpful. Interestingly straight with a right angle turn!
A scientific approach by our just-out-of-the-forest Saxons or the remains of a Roman estate? The drive up to the Roman villa at Tockenham? Just chasing phantoms at the moment but I wonder …
Fascinating as always. So what do you make of the suspiciously straight boundary. I understand what you mean, but what can we take from that?
I started to think Roman road, but then remembered that the enclosures straightened wobbly bits and then remembered that there are only two landmarks along that long three mile stretch so it was probably always straight-extra landmarks would imply turns in the boundary. There are no stræts but there is a hricweg but that is easily identified and not just because it is on a ridge. The charter says go uferweard (overward, uphill) to get to it which is the escarpment over Broad Town. You know about Roman roads, is there anything from Margary coming up from Calne/Chippenham towards Swindon?
@@AllotmentFox absolutely nothing. The Bath, Mildenhall and Cirencester triangle is rather bleak (internally) for main Roman Roads. The Lidar also shows nothing other than what you have suggested... an extremely long boundary.
@@pwhitewick old and straight is still a curious combination
@@pwhitewick that massive imperial villa in Tockenham that Time Team refused to dig up in the nineties is quite closely aligned with that boundary! Something or nothing
@@pwhitewick Plus it also aligns with Covingham (Swindon), Durocovinium in the other direction. Now all I need to do is the simple process of finding a Roman milestone or something
Nice work! Is it this Aethelmaer who received it from Aethelred?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelm%C3%A6r_the_Stout
Thank you. As for Aethelmaer: ah! As strange as it sounds I am not really into Anglo-Saxons, I am into the English language (all its history), the landscape and its earliest records (hence the importance of Saxon land charters for the south) seeking out prehistoric and Romano-British landscape names (there are a surprising amount, especially rivers and streams) and trying to understand how we got to where we are today. Sometimes individually named Saxons do enter these areas: for example, the surprising number of women who gave their names to places and managed to fend off challenges to their property. I shall try and find out though because it would be churlish not to give it a go. He is described as the King's thegn so there can't be many high-ranking people with that name. Thank you for watching
@@AllotmentFox Thanks for your intriguing and calming videos, I'm loving them. Your work reminds me of Oliver Rackham's books. So good to feel the deep time.
@@sswan5271 I’d never heard of him but after looking him up I shall order a book or two. Calming? I feel like they are a desperate struggle half the time! But thank you.
@@AllotmentFox Try 'The History of the Countryside', you'll love it.
@@sswan5271 Thank you, I took note of your recommendation, received the book yesterday and can't put it down 😊