Here's a great fact: of the 14,783 place-names recorded in the Domesday Book, only 1,219 no longer exist. That's an impressive survival! (Hall, 2012 Palmer, 2007)
Yes! It was definitely needed for the PN evidence, but Alaric's model now makes the language evidence stand out even more dramatically...!
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I do like his Cornish chronology - the data matches the political shift so neatly.
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It really does! I also like his points on the Welsh evidence; esp noteworthy for me was how we have only 1–2% of 6thC & earlier names surviving there too...!
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