How Trees Gave Places Their Names
Gone Medieval
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The Importance of Oak in Place Names
archaeology is our best, i guess, solid material evidence for trees and what they were using. So lots of structural oak, lots of ash, things like that to lets move straight on to that. Now you mention these particular timbers and anactually the use for building, because that seems to me the most obvious and naturally useful for trees really. And you mentioned oak especially in some of these names. Have you been able to tease out any more information about how oak was used in this period? Yes, oak's been a particularly interesting species. Talked about it a few times already. It was an incredibly useful word. I went and looked at archaeological surveys and records and looked how
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