Category Archives: Domesday

The brief – or non-existent – history of early medieval salt production in Surrey

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

In a way, this post follows on from my previous one, since it touches upon issues of research, engagement and finding smart ways of working to further knowledge of the early medieval period. However, I began writing it long before, … Continue reading →

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SMSW 3 – a statistical perspective on Surrey’s early medieval coin corpus

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

Three posts in three days was always going to be a bit of an ask, especially when trying to write them around hosting a dinner party, attending a birthday and London’s premature celebration of Swiss National Day, and watching Chris Froome’s fantastic … Continue reading →

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SMSW 1 – Surrey place-names in Anglo-Saxon charters

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

Among the many (too many) unfinished pieces of work I have “on the go” at the present time is the write-up of a talk I gave to the Surrey Archaeological Society’s Villages Study Group in a bitingly-cold village hall early … Continue reading →

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Calculators at the ready – it’s Surrey Medieval Stats Week!

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

Having never been the greatest at maths when at school (I feel vindicated by my scepticism that GCSE-level algebra has real life applications in adulthood), it came as something of a surprise to discover subsequently that I’m quite partial to … Continue reading →

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Making progress on several fronts

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

“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 →

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Not for the first time… Coins and Surrey in the eighth and ninth centuries

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

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 →

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The “Surrey Fens” causeways – finished at long last

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Robert J S Briggs

I’ve written and rewritten so much of this essay over the past year or two that I have nothing else to add, other than to recommend you head over to here and have a read of it (and if you … Continue reading →

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New work (of sorts) – medieval agriculture in Puttenham parish

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Robert J S Briggs

My book/study/report on Puttenham parish and its landscape is nearly complete; however, this has been the case for years now and, having done no work on it in months, unfortunately it doesn’t looks like I will get the opportunity to change … Continue reading →

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New work – reconsidering weala-tun place names in Surrey

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Robert J S Briggs

I’ve put the finishing touches to another short essay that’s been lingering on the slate for over two years, adding it to the Work section here. As much as its primary subject matter is self-evidently to do with place-names, I … Continue reading →

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New work – Woking Hundred land tenure

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Robert J S Briggs

I’ve added a page with a paper I’m particularly proud of (having read it through over breakfast this morning after months of it languishing on my hard drive) to the Work section. If the above heading is a little cryptic … Continue reading →

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