Part 1 of my study achieves a few useful new things (at least I hope it does), chief among which is making Surrey in the 7th—9th centuries a little smaller than it’s been understood as being in previous scholarship. It’s an ongoing area of research for me, on which I hope to publish again one day.

What’s especially pleasing for me (and frankly no-one else but I’m) cool with that) is how it’s appeared 100 years to the month after the opening part of the last attempt at a comprehensive published study of the #Farnham charters; an enterprise that continued the following year but never completed…

Thanks for these tips. I’m now 140 pages in, not yet at the Adventus chapters proper, so an apt time to become aware of his John Morris stan account (I jest of course but having known Mees’ work through a brace of Roman-period epigraphy articles it’s good to be aware of his thinking re other things)

There are oodles of them about this year, feel like I see one here in London almost every day (and every time get my hopes up it’s a Painted Lady butterfly that’s made the trip from NE Africa)