Some thoughts, slowly and crudely strung together, about today's Guardian article on the "Viking Watford Gap" etc. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/16/uk-north-south-divide-vikings-watford-gap …
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I was thinking it's a simple (and all too common) case of bad reporting of pre-modern archaeology/history. It is and it isn't.
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Seems the article was written by an arts reporter. No surprise there - what newspaper has the £€$ for an archaeological specialist nowadays?
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Her interviewee/author of new book seems legit too: ex-pro field archaeologist, raft of peer-reviewed publications (http://www.theambulist.co.uk/publications )
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So how did this end up in a situation whereby the empirical work of generations of place-name scholars goes entirely unmentioned?pic.twitter.com/asWij0AbYg
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Landscape archaeologists too. Tom Williamson has been highlighting the general directions in which English rivers flow since at least 2010pic.twitter.com/anxAgMW7ne
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(all good points, but just wanted to add how much I like this map! One of my favourites :) )
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