Abstract

128 landscape yhistor Della Hooke della.hooke@blueyonder.co.uk ‘Hedges’ can be found in a wide variety of different continued to be used within woodland where light forms. The Cornish ‘hedge’ frequently contains no was scarce or boundaries impermanent, as in woods shrubs at all but in this area of salt-laden winds compartmented for coppicing (Pl. Ia). They might normally consists of a turf-covered bank of boulders provide temporary stock-proof barriers and might also and large stones packed with earth, and may be many shed seeds and berries that gave rise to quick hedges centuries old. ‘Dead’ hedges were also common in (Muir 2008, p. 121). They were still widely used in earlier periods — gathered thorns and brushwood etc. Dorset, Kent and elsewhere in the early nineteenth laid along a boundary ensuring a fairly impenetrable century (Barnes & Williamson 2006, p. 1). barrier. These seems to have been particularly com- tingad hedges mon around areas of woodland enclosed for the conservation of deer, as may have been the case with In the 1970s Max Hooper and his colleagues (Pollard the Anglo-Saxon haga; some of these boundaries et al. 1974, p. 79) proposed a formula for dating in northern Hampshire later demarcated