Lane, B. (2002). Gooseland in the Upper Axe Valley, Somerset. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13. Vol 13, pp. 139-145. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069502. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 Gooseland in the Upper Axe Valley, Somerset
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Issue:		 Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13
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Page Start/End:		 139 - 145
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Abstract:		 Large areas of the central Somerset Levels were owned by the Abbots of Glastonbury and the Bishops of Wells (or Bath and Wells from 1091) from the early medieval period. Relatively little has been written about land and estate management by the Bishops probably because of the dearth of documentary evidence. Goose/and lies below the Mendips on the moors in the upper Axe Valley 7 km west of Wells (see Figure 1: inset). It separates Westbury-subMendip from Wookey, both manors of the Bishops from before the Norman Conquest. Along its southern boundary flows the Wookey Axe, a tributary of the main River Axe, which still flows northwards through the Bleadney-Panborough gap. Research and fieldwork suggest that Goose/and was created out of the moor as a large hay meadow by Bishop John de Tours at the same time that he enclosed his adjacent deer park in Westbury in the early l2th century (Nott 1997). Its use by wild or semi-domesticated geese then, or later, probably gave it its name.
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Author:		 Barry Lane
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Other Person/Org:		 Damaris D Dodds (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 2002
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EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 09 Oct 2017