I said I would provide some RW references.
_The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms_,
ed. Steven Bassett,
Leicester University Press 1989,
ISBN 0-7185-1317-7.
pg. 21:
[About the _regio_, that is, the district of, a people called the Rodings:]
`What is so striking about it is... the extent it conforms to the prevailing
natural topography. It comprises a discrete block of the valley of the
River Roding... and clearly contains a cross-section of all available land
resources: it is geographically coherent... [This area is] exactly what one
would expect a well organized, self contained community living under an
economy of subsistence and exchange to have occupied.'
[The _regio_ is about 7x9 km. Another poster suggested that was about the
size of a Sartar clan.]
_A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution_,
Anglo-Saxon Books 1995,
ISBN 1-898281-12-2.
pg. 260:
`The landscape was structured in basic resource units consisting of arable,
river-grazing areas, an intercommoning area, a large tract of rough pasture
and woodland, some of which could be used for emergency cultivation or
transhumance... Together they contained the types of area that could produce
sheep, pigs and cattle as well as cereal crops and honey.'
pg. 261:
The legal standard Wessex food rent for a mere 10 hides included honey,
loaves & ale, bullocks or wethers, geese & hens, cheese & butter,
salmon & eels, and fodder: even small regions apparently had various land
types.
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