23rd November 2014, 05:33 PM
All the 'primary' woodland around here got cleared around 500-400BC and stayed chopped down, so much the same as now throughout mid/later IA, RB, Saxon, Med and PM - but there still seems to have been plenty of wood available for building stuff, ironworking etc
'Forest' doesn't mean trees per se (bit like 'waste') in DB and other medieval sources, so can't be used as direct evidence of woodland
'Forest' doesn't mean trees per se (bit like 'waste') in DB and other medieval sources, so can't be used as direct evidence of woodland