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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
The iron stirrup and pottery vessel recorded here were found at Rabley Heath, Hertfordshire, in September 1938. Rabley Heath is a heath only in name, for to-day it is divided into fields interspersed with much woodland. It is situated about a mile south of Knebworth and two miles north of Welwyn, at an altitude of less than 600 ft.; the soil is Boulderclay overlying the chalk. To the south-west the land falls to the Mimram valley, and in the opposite direction to the southern end of the Hitchin Gap which cuts through the extension of the Chiltern Hills along the north edge of Hertfordshire.
page 304 note 1 Rygh, Norske Oldsager, types 587–9 and 590.
page 304 note 2 e.g. T. J. Arne, Das Bootgräberfeldvon Tuna in Alsike, pl. iv, fig. 15.
page 304 note 3 Arne, op. cit., pl. xiii, figs. 11—12.
page 304 note 4 R. Zschille and R. Forrer, Die Steigbügel in ihrer Formenentwicklung, pls. iv—v.
page 305 note 1 Cf. London and the Vikings (London Museum Catalogues, no. 1 ), fig. 17.
page 305 note 2 Zschille and Forrer, op. cit., pl. iv, figs. 1–3.
page 305 note 3 Schlieben, A., ‘Geschichte der Steigbügel’, Nassauische Annalen, xxiv (1892), p. 208Google Scholar, pl. 11, fig. 91.
page 306 note 1 Cf. cooking-pots from Grosmont Castle and White Castle, Antiq. Journ., xv, 326 ff., figs. 4–5, and from Bungay Castle, Proc. Suffolk Inst. of Arch., xxii, 334, figs. 1–9.
page 308 note 1 Trans. Essex Arch. Soc., N.S. xii, 180, pl. G, e, and fig. 7, 1.
page 308 note 2 Payne, G., Catalogue of the Kent Archaeological Society's Collections at Maidstone (1892), p. 8, no. 13Google Scholar.
page 309 note 1 Proc. Isle of Wight Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc., ii, 678, fig. 2.
page 311 note 1 Brit. Mus. Catalogue of English Pottery, p. 297, S38. Unfortunately the vessel is not available for examination at the time of writing. A second storage-jar in the British Museum (ibid. S39) has no locality.
page 312 note 1 Thus Dr. R. A. Pelham: ‘the period 1250—1350 was the most prosperous century of medieval agriculture and the one during which the largest quantities of corn were exported’ (Historical Geography of England before 1800, ed. H. C. Darby, P.238).