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Deer in Sussex Place-Names

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Carole Hough
Carole Hough
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Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK E-mail: .
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Abstract

Recent evidence for fallow deer at the first-century AD Roman palace at Fishbourne, Sussex, is supported by place-names identifying a nearby deer park and testifying to the presence of fallow deer in Anglo-Saxon Sussex.

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Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 88 , September 2008 , pp. 43 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2008

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