In message <[log in to unmask]>, Anna Agbe-Davies
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>Regarding the question/comments below.
>
>I would also check out things written by *Robert Blair St. George*.  I have
>heard him lecture about--I believe they're spelled--"bawns" in Britain
>and their relationship to early American architecture.  Sorry I can't
>give a citation to a published piece.
>
 
Ivor Noel Hume pointed out the relationship between the Ulster bawne and
the Virginian enclosures in _Martins Hundred_ (pp 257-9, 253).
 
Looking through Beresford and St. Joseph's _Medieval England: An Aerial
Survey_ shows other possible parallels (to Wolstenholme Towne), such as
Ogle in Northumberland (p. 113).
 
But as these settlements consist of a major dwelling, with a surrounding
encloser, within or abutting a large enclosure that contains many minor
dwellings and other buildings, and the Virginian site looking for
paralels is smaller than Wharram Percy - a farmhouse within a garden,
ajoined by the usual group of farm buildings set around a courtyard?
 
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Pat Reynolds
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