Sounds like a calendar running approximately from fall equinox to fall equinox -- from end of growing season to end of growing season, end of harvest to end of harvest. That might make sense in an agrarian society that needed a way to reckon the beginning and ending of an entire year . . .
 
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of paul.courtney2
Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 10:30 AM
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Subject: Re: calendars michaelmas



Year for medieval accounts e.g from agrarian estates ran from Michaelmas
to Michaelmas (29 Sept)- not sure when this went out of use.

David Legare wrote:
> To confuse matters further, the federal fiscal year
> (Oct. - Sep.)is related to the old Celtic year that
> began on Samhain (Holloween).  I have no idea why this
> is.
> 
> --

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