Jim,
The term is not listed in the 1993 AIA IRIS Handbook, but my dictionary has
"stithy" or "stiddie", an anvil: a smithy (from Old Norse "stethi", an
anvil).
Julia
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> Subject: Stiddy - what is it?
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> I've had an enquiry about a site which the enquirer says has a brick kiln
> and "stiddy foot". The latter is not a term I know. Stiddy is listed in
> the EH Thesaurus as a non-preferred term for Blacksmith's workshop. Does
> anyone know anything more about this term, either as stiddy or stiddy
> foot?
> Ta,
> Jim McNeil, South Yorkshire Archaeology Service
>
> PS Can I take it from the way that my enquiry on stat. undertakers
> developed into a discussion on hedgerow regs that everyone is happy with
> the way they're being consulted by gas, electricity and water? I'll take
> no response as a big thumbs up to those nice people who enable you to heat
> and light your house....
>
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