Alan G. James

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Alan G. James

Cumbric Trev in Kyle, Carrick, Galloway and Dumfriesshire

TDGNHAS Series III, 88 (2014), 21(WARNING large file size: 7.34 MB)

Abstract

This paper reviews the evidence for the important Brittonic/Cumbric place-name element trev as it exists within south-west Scotland, and suggests how it might be interpreted in the light of current thinking on the development of landholdings during the first millennium AD and the central middle ages.