At 21:55 17/03/2009, you wrote:
>---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The earliest recorded spelling W(o)lfheye
> 1251 (PN BdHu 228), suggests 'wolf-enclosure'
> (<hæg) rather than 'island'. The Time Team
> program last Sunday found several enclosures of
> uncertain date and function, but made no use of the place-name evidence.
> > Did wolves live in the fens? If so, until
> when? Were wolves trapped in
> enclosures? (Cf. the several places called Woolpit.)
Blatant plug time. While it will not help
resolve the p-n- queries, Paul Williams' book
'Howls of Imagination: Wolves of England'
(details online at www.hoap.co.uk/general.htm#HOI
) deals - along with much else - with the
evidence for the extermination of wolves in the
British Isles (Cutting to the chase, Paul
concludes that '[Wolves] were eradicated
completely in England by about 1509 and in
Scotland and Ireland in the mid-eighteenth century.')
Bob
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