Alex
> It strikes me as odd, to say the least that one
> would have 'communal property' which is actually owned at social
> right-angles to the actual (micro-)community in which ones lives.
>
Does not Pendragon provide a similar example where one knight holds
lands in the midst of his enemies in addition to his main foeff? (Far
from books so I can't quote the mobs concerned)
And then there is the example of the Oz Aborigines (pull me up if I'm
well off beam here John) in which IIRC a bloodline has the right to the
use of a site but one or more others may well be its custodians. Owning
a communal bit of grazing or hunting some distance from home & not
shared by the other dwellers in your building is far from odd. Applying
the same rules to spades, or worse spears, may well be.
D