Julia Crick, `Introduction to the Exon Domesday Project'

This paper looks at the evidence of the Domesday text and 'diplomatic' to reconsider the nature of the borough entries

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As has been seen, in this latest review, many of the traditional archaeological periods have been broken down into sub-phases, which enables the more subtle nuances of each period to be explored and the often quite dramatic changes which occurred during these periods to be more readily understood. Such is the case with the Anglo-Saxon period, which in this review is divided into discussions of the Early Anglo Saxon period (see Hills this volume) and the Middle and Late Anglo Saxon periods considered here Back to top  discussions of the Early Anglo-Saxon period (see Hills, this volume) and the Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon periods, considered here. As with all such attempts to encapsulate the past, there is a degree of artificiality about these divisions, but there is an underlying rationale to the split. Within the eastern region, a strong contrast has traditionally been painted between the archaeological record of the Early Anglo-Saxon period and that of the Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon periods. As has been seen, the former is characterised by its funerary archaeology, dominated by the cremation and inhumation cemeteries which have been regularly recorded discoveries since the 17 century, and which have been greatly added to since the rise of metal-detecting as a hobby and the development of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Early Anglo-Saxon settlements are archaeologically considerably less visible and, although new examples continue to be excavated and analysed, they remain enigmatic and are still very much the poor relation. The archaeological record of the Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon periods, by contrast, is dominated by the archaeology of settlements, many of which continue to thrive today, with the related funerary remains all but becoming invisible in a period which saw the cessation of the use of grave-goods and the development of churchyard burial as the norm. The transitional period which witnessed this near-complete reversal was one of immense social, economic and political change, encapsulating several major research questions of its own, and these are explored more fully below. At the later end of the period considered here stands the milestone of the Norman Conquest-'the most famous date in English history'. This marks a fitting chronological end to the period, although again there is a degree of artificiality here, as the cultural influences of the Normans were already being felt in the region before the Conquest and the indigenous Anglo-Saxon traditions continued well beyond that date. National Overview At a national level, both academic and popular interest in the Anglo-Saxon period has grown considerably during the time which has elapsed since the previous Research Framework was compiled. This is doubtless in no small part due to nationally significant, highprofile discoveries, such as the finding of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 (Leahy et al. 2011), the excavations at Lyminge (Kent) conducted between 2008-15 (Thomas and Knox 2017), the discovery of the Winfarthing pendant and the Great Ryburgh cemetery in 2016 (Fairclough and Holmes 2016), and the initial results of the long-running Rendlesham project, which were also made public in 2016 (Scull et al. 2016). It is notable that many of these discoveries were made in the East of England. At the time of writing, the British Library is preparing to open a major exhibition entitled Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, which will bring together manuscripts and artefacts from across the country, including a significant number of East Anglia artefacts, including the Winfarthing pendant. To a lesser extent may also be felt the popular effect of the Alfredian novels of Bernard Cornwell (2004-) and their BBC adaption screened as The Last Kingdom (2015-), along with the television series Vikings (2013-) and Beowulf (2016), and the perennial interest in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, all of which serve to raise the Anglo-Saxon period in the public consciousness. Perhaps the most significant national publication to have appeared during the review period is the series of landmark overviews brought together in the Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, published in 2011, which features the work of numerous scholars and covers a wide range of themes (Hamerow et al. 2011). Although the contents of the volume take a high-level view of their subjects, many of these themes have been complemented by the rich series of more specific publications and wide-ranging research projects which have been undertaken during the intervening years. As well as producing stimulating results, all of these large-scale projects mark something of a watershed for academic researchers, who have at last begun to realise the potential offered by the vast collections of unpublished archaeological grey literature and other information contained within the country's Historic Environment Records and other archives.

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The BBC Domesday disc contains an impressive range of socioeconomic variables for small geogr paper outlines the process by which the variables for inclusion on the disc were selected, and the diffi data which provides a comprehensive reflection of the British economy and society. Attention is dr geographical character of the data contained on the disc-and the fact that information for the 21 m collection area is stored thus permitting scale effects to be investigated by the user. The difficulties of us from government sources and the facilities available for interpreting data available on the disc are dis KEY WORDS: Interactive video disc, Social and economic data, Scale effects, Official data sources, Aid Areal bases

Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, ed. N. J. Higham & M. J. Ryan (Woodbridge, 2011), 175-94, 2011

His main propositions are these. William the Conqueror did not commission Domesday Book. The threat of invasion and the strain on resources created by the need to billet a large mercenary army in England caused him to commission the Domesday inquest at Christmas in 1085. This inquest took place the following year and produced a survey of royal resources and a geld survey, and also a survey of the tenurial resources of tenants-in-chief and their tenants. Prior to 1086, the land which tenants-in-chief held in demesne had been exempt from the geld, and the purpose of the inquest was to identify this land with a view to taxing it. All the records from the inquest were brought to the king. There followed some hard bargaining between the king and his barons: in return for the loss of geld exemption on their demesne, the tenants-in-chief received certain concessions concerning the service they owed to the king, and their requirement to billet mercenaries was also lifted. The production of Domesday Book was an entirely separate and later exercise. Domesday Book was 'unrelated to the concerns which launched the inquest in 1085. It seems to have been compiled, probably under the supervision of Rannulf Flambard, from the records of the inquest after 1089 and is best interpreted as a response to the revolt, and consequent tenurial chaos, of 1088' (p. ix).

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1 Richard fitzNigel, Dialogus de Scaccario, ed. and trans. by Emilie Amt, The Dialogue of the Exchequer (Oxford, 2007), pp. 96 99. ' […] after taking counsel he [King William] sent very prudent men, his own companions, on circuit throughout the kingdom. By them a careful survey was then made of the whole land, of woods and pastures and meadows, and also of farming, and was collected in one book written in plain words, so that everyone should be content with his own