Churls and Serfs in Charlcombe, Bath (“Ceorlacumbe”)

There are three particularly interesting Dark Age landmarks that talk of social class in those days: Walcot (the cottages of the serfs/Welsh), Charlcombe (the valley of the Churls), and Aethelmund's hill (the first element of the name means aristocratic). This is another walk in the hills around Bath (Aquae Sulis in Roman times) talking about ancient landmarks.
These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.
But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.
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