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wilts rover

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #60 on August 28, 2017, 02:35:47 pm by wilts rover »
I am a bit more wary of that Sproty. The Chase didn't become a royal hunting area until 1347 when the de Warenne family, who had held it since the Norman Conquest ceded it to the crown. Certainly after that time it was specifically maintained for hunting and in Tudor times was said to be the best hunting ground in the country, but they seem to have hunted from boats. Did the Saxons do that?

It has a fair few deer on it now and it did under the Tudors, but you cant say that it is ideal country for them. Whereas up in the Cheviot Hills around his base in Yeavering it is perfect red deer country.

If Edwin was at Hatfield in October 633 I reckon he would have been hunting more human enemies than red deers.



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Sprotyrover

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #61 on August 28, 2017, 03:08:59 pm by Sprotyrover »
Wilts the red deer on the moors are huge,appRently the Saxon kings used to go from place to place putting on the local vassals for hospitality, as they did in the Middle Ages. I'm more into the preservation of wildlife than hunting so I don't know much about it. I do know the Stags make a racket in October which probably makes them easy to locate.the landscape out there didn't change much from the time of Ostorius Scapula until Vermuyden, so I assume the deer were always hunted in the same way.

Plus Hatfield is a good jump off point if you had a fleet of longships giving access to the Trent,Don,Idle,Humber,Ouse, River Witham via Lincoln,and the North Sea via either The Humber or the Witham.

moses

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #62 on August 28, 2017, 08:33:38 pm by moses »
Random slightly related rumour.
I heard last night that The Hatfield Chase pub is going to be Slug and Lettuce pub!

Muttley

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #63 on August 28, 2017, 09:53:29 pm by Muttley »
Random slightly related rumour.
I heard last night that The Hatfield Chase pub is going to be Slug and Lettuce pub!

It is certainly closed at the moment, I think for refurbishment.

Hope they keep the traditional name.

moses

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #64 on August 30, 2017, 09:25:22 pm by moses »
Apparently it is going back to Chace

drfchound

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Re: Battle of Hatfield 633ad
« Reply #65 on August 31, 2017, 07:55:48 am by drfchound »
..............and rightly so.

 

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