> 'ferraria' Does it have a different significance in
>different places?
>
There must be an element of location in its translation - as with the 'iiii
ferruarios' recorded in Domesday for North Molton, Devon, who are unlikely
to have been smiths in the common sense of the term. They are translated as
ironworkers and generally associated with the mining and smelting of
extensive iron deposits now known to have been worked from circa BC160 - 90AD.
Peter
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