Pecsaetan
The Pecsætan (
Old English: Pēcsǣtan; singular Pēcsǣta, literally "Peak-dweller"),[1] also called Peaklanders or Peakrills in modern English, were an Anglo-Saxon tribe who inhabited the central and northern parts of the Peak District area in England.[2]
The area was in the southern part of the
In A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, Daniel Defoe mentions a later group of people called The Peakrills writing, "The Peakrills, as they are called, are a rude boorish kind of People; but bold, daring, and even desperate in their Search into the Bowels of the Earth: for which Reason they are often employed by our Engineers in the Wars to carry on the Sap, when they lay Siege to strong fortified Places."[4]
References
- ^ Also Pēacsǣtan in Old English
- ^ Turbutt, G., (1999) A History of Derbyshire, Volume 1, pp. 259–60 Cardiff: Merton Priory Press
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 72.
- ^ Defoe, Daniel (1753). A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. Divided into circuits or journeys giving a particular and entertaining account of whatever is curious and worth observation, Vol. 3. London: London : Printed for S. Birt [and others]. p. 78.
Further reading
- Bigsby, R. (1854) Historical and Topographical Description of Repton. London.
- Collis, J. (1983) Wigber Low Derbyshire: A Bronze Age and Anglian Burial site in the White Peak. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.
- Davies, W. and Vierk, H. "The contexts of Tribal Hidage: social aggregates and settlement patterns", in Frühmittelalterliche Studien, viii (1974)
- Dumville, D. "The Tribal Hidage: an introduction to its texts and their history", in The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms ed. S.Bassett, 1989. ISBN 0-7185-1317-7
- Fowler, M. J. (1954) "The Anglian Settlement of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Peak District." DAJ 74, 134–151.
- Hart, C. R. (1981) The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey. Leeds: A. Wigley & Sons
- Hodges, R. and Wildgoose, M. (1980) "Roman or native in the White Peak", in Branigan, K. (ed) Rome and the Brigantes, 48–53. Sheffield, Sheffield University Press.
- Hodges, R. (1991a) "Notes on the Medieval Archaeology of the White Peak." In R. Hodges and K. Smith (eds) Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Peak District :111–122 (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 2) Sheffield.
- Hughes, R. G (1961) "Archaeological Sites in the Trent Valley, South Derbyshire" DAJ 81, 149–50.
- Jones, H. (1997) The Region of Derbyshire and North Staffordshire from AD350 to AD700: an analysis of Romano-British and Anglian barrow use in the White Peak. Ph.D. thesis, University of Nottingham.
- Ozanne, A. (1962–1963). "The Peak Dwellers" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 6–7: 15–52.
- Roffe, D. (1986b) "The Origins of Derbyshire" DAJ 106, 102–112.
- Rollason et al.
- Routh, T. (1937) "A Corpus of the Pre-Conquest Carved Stones of Derbyshire" DAJ 58, 1–46.
- Sidebottom, P.C. (1994), Schools of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in the North Midlands. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield.
- Sidebottom P.C (1999) "Stone Crosses in the Peak and the Sons of Eadwulf." DAJ 119, 206–19.
- Stenton, F. (1905) "Introduction to the Derbyshire Domesday", in W. Page (ed) The Victoria History of the County of Derbyshire. London.
- Unwin, T. (1988) "Towards a model of Anglo-Scandinavian rural settlement in England", in Hooke, D. (ed) Anglo-Saxon Settlements, 77–98.
- Yorke, B. (1990) Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England, London: Seaby.
External links
- East Midlands Archaeological Research Framework: Resource Assessment of Anglo-Saxon Derbyshire, An Archaeological Resource Assessment of Anglo-Saxon Derbyshire, by Dave Barrett, Derbyshire County Council