There is a review at http://fugitiveink.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/on-robin-flemings-britain-after-rome/
"Far and away the best thing about the book is the final chapter, “Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain: The Fifth to Eleventh Century” [sic]. Here, with the end in sight, as it were, Professor Fleming is at last able to bypass aspects of human experience that don’t seem to engage her quite so fully — religion, politics, warfare, agriculture, craftsmanship, linguistics — and can concentrate fully on the part of her subject to which she brings the most obvious energy."
---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I quote from Robin Fleming, Britain after Rome (Penguin 2011), page 57:
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> "... many more British place names survive today in Eastern England , where Germanic settlement was heaviest and earliest, than in the west"
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> Can this be right? Gelling (Signposts to the past, 2nd ed., page 90, and the only place-name book referred to by Fleming) says "there is a general increase in the number of surviving Celtic names as one goes further north and west in England".
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> Fleming has a number of other doubtful claims about place-names (pp. 56-59, 106-107). Vercovicium is equated with Barcombe (discussed on this list in Sep 2008). Vindolanda is said to be a fort on Hadrian's Wall. Hunaton is said to refer to hounds. The Pennines is said to be a British name. There is apparently only one River Avon.
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The Roman Map of Britain
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