At a day school in Caerleon last weekend on early Welsh towns we were
discussing the idea of medieval housing as squalid, with floors
covered with filthy rushes &c: several archaeologists had seen house
sites (particularly at Skenfrith and Trelech, both little boroughs on
the Welsh borders) where the floors were markedly hollowed,
presumably by repeated sweeping.
Maddy Gray
Dept for Continuing Education, UW Cardiff
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