It’s Michaelmas, 29th September! Hurry, today’s the day to drive your pigs into the Weald or other not-so-local detached wood pastures to gorge themselves on acorns and beech mast for the next few weeks www.academia.edu/28324736/Tes... #MedievalSky
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Testing transhumance: Anglo-Saxon swine pastures and seasonal grazing in the Surrey Weald
It is commonly stated that the main pre-Norman Conquest use of the Weald was for transhumance – the grazing of certain pastures, to and from which livestock were moved over substantial distances at th...