Hawling and a Return to the Sealt Stræt, Part One

[@callanist]

Thankyou for taking us out into the Gloucestershire countryside again and delving into its past - it's the gloomy time of year, and the ground is very soggy, but it does us all good to get out there in person when we can and virtually with you when we can't. Appreciated. Clive

[@AllotmentFox]

Cheers, mate. A good pair of boots makes all the difference though

[@sUASNews]

You make some lovely maps old boy

[@AllotmentFox]

Jolly good of you to say so

[@WildwoodTV]

8:58 can't wait 'ti Solstice, fed up of the dark & wet... happy to let you lead the way 😊

[@tobybirdsall7677]

Really pleasing to drive past, and say Hello to Mr Fox in Cirencester today….best regards from Toby and daughter Celeste - both (60’s and 20’s) greatly enjoy both content and presentation. 👍👋

[@AllotmentFox]

@@tobybirdsall7677 oh hello! It was nice to see you, it really makes things worthwhile being appreciated. Are you local?

[@tobybirdsall7677]

@ I am, lived in Glos since 1995….Sherborne, Coln St Aldwyns and now Cirencester….some of the local settings I know quite well. Northleach has a few hidden gems btw…..’the Guggle’ is a tiny cottage with a fine scalloped cellar door that leads to passages to both church and prison (apparently), and I think the name is onomatopoeiac regarding the river Leach bellow. I saw the masonry above the cellar door in ‘97 - magnificent. It’s very curious. Will catch up with yr latest this weekend and best wishes

[@tobybirdsall7677]

I should add that Google pictures the incorrect cottage - the real guggle is tiny and set back to the right of image

[@DanielMcgonigle-t8e]

I was on the hill in winchcombe last week , its got amazing views with pheasents everywhere. An old saxon village.

[@AllotmentFox]

But what an exhausting uphill walk!

[@DanielMcgonigle-t8e]

@AllotmentFox They have sheep on the inclines grazing at 160° , an amazing place .

[@JimBagby74]

I do occasionally find myself at odds with reality when supposition and proper information collide. That collision never arrives in the form of a 12th Century document. But how wonderful that a voice from that long ago can still speak to and inform us, even on the tiniest of details. Too bad we don't have it all! By the way, when I visited the Salisbury Museum in '21, I was wearing a mask when I met the Amesbury Archer at long last. I don't think he was in any danger. They were confusing times.

[@AllotmentFox]

Sometimes when I wander the halls of Hogwarts I get quite lonely. Did you have houses in your school? And do you have the idiom of the ‘thinking cap’ in America? As in, “we must all put our thinking caps on to solve this problem’.

[@JimBagby74]

We do indeed speak of this cap.

[@leslieaustin151]

Ooo! Hallow in Worcestershire! My sister lives there, and a couple of nephews and nieces. I’m going to have to watch this again so I can get the full import of what you’re saying. Thanks. Les

[@WC21UKProductionsLtd]

I can't remember, is the Sudeley Castle mosaic an original from Spoonley Villa? Or do I have to wait until part two?!

[@AllotmentFox]

I'm eyeing up the copy and comparing it to the 'other copy' and rubbing my chin going hmmm

[@WC21UKProductionsLtd]

@ MattMesserPics did a very detailed video on it some time ago - worth a look.

[@martinwall502]

Stephen J. Yeates suggests that Kinver in Staffordshire (originally Cynibre) is derived from Cunomaglos. What do you think??

[@AllotmentFox]

Ekwall says cynibre, the second element being Welsh for hill. Therefore, without evidence to the contrary I’m okay with that. Interestingly he says Cyne means noble but elsewhere in the same book he rubbishes that idea saying it means hound. I might write to the editor, several editions have been printed so they might be interested in correcting that. I think if he were alive then he would say ‘hound hill’. The first element of Cunomaglos is hound too.

[@NorfolkNomad-UK]

That definitely sounds very soggy! I recently went for a walk on a similarly wet area near me, common land, adjacent to an old enclosure surrounded by the 'Haugh Ditch'.

[@AllotmentFox]

Did the ditch have a hedge and did you count its species? Sounds like a good walk

[@NorfolkNomad-UK]

@@AllotmentFox Only a short section of hedge remaining adjacent to the common, I assume most has been grubbed up (agricultural land), a few oaks in the bank of the ditch. I will have to return to do a count along the hedge. Am I correct thinking 'haugh' comes from old English for meadow land? The nearby village of New Buckenham is very interesting, a planned Norman settlement, surrounded by a moat and mostly still inside the original boundary.

[@AllotmentFox]

@ I have no evidence but other placenames with haugh come out as ‘hedged enclosure’. It may be something else but the hau cries out haw and the ha-gh cries out haga, both meaning hedge. If you are interested in this stuff it could be a good project: prove it is hedge by seeking out old maps and documents then dating it using the hooper method.

[@nicflanagan6662]

I think the sheep you asked about is a Border Leicester, largest sheep in England 🤔

[@AllotmentFox]

Looks like a flippin llama

[@pwhitewick]

Sheep, sheep, sheep.... what the hell is that. 😂

[@leoniebelcher1680]

THAT caused a belly laugh here in Canada.😂

[@AllotmentFox]

@leoniebelcher1680 Turns out it wasn’t a cross between a goat and a llama. Who’d a thought it?

[@AllotmentFox]

He was a bit of a clever sheep too, he knew where he was and what I was, poor soul.

[@JudyReadsCards]

Stopped here to quote the same section. Figured someone else had to have thought it worth a comment. 😂

[@StormchaserJockMcGinty]

As in the old British ‘king’ Cunobelin or Strong Dog

[@AllotmentFox]

Yes

[@danbroome8772]

😂❤🎉

[@danbroome8772]

Do Boudicca field and or Roman Shrine And Hord to Her as There is Probably Something to This 😂🙏🏼A Roman Shrine 😂 ❤you know the One ☝️ Hord 🎉 😂🤣😂🤣💯🙏🏼

[@willbick3]

You think the masks seem ridiculous?! I saw an old poster advising people how to play doubles tennis safely in the immediate aftermath of lockdown - its truly the epitome of middle-class extreme risk-averse health&safety paranoia!!

[@AllotmentFox]

Yes with 20-20 hindsight its ridiculous but at the time I didn’t want to get it and give it to my elderly father, so I wouldn’t have been indoors playing tennis at all. Outside I would’ve, as ridiculous as the sight of me playing tennis would be, and sans mask. What it taught me is not to be rammed in a bus with people coughing on me ever again and I haven’t had a cold since. Touch wood.