In message <20020715215725.35605.qmail@web10506.mail.yahoo.com>, peter rooke <rookepb@yahoo.com> writes > >Thanks for your research which is interesting as it contradicts what I >found in Websters Unabridged Dictionary of 1913 which is on the web: > >Stang, n. [OE. stange, of Scand. or Dutch origin; cf. Icel. stöng, akin to >Dan. stang, Sw. stång, D. stang, G. stange, OHG. stanga, AS. steng; from >the root of E. sting.] > >1. A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake. > >2. In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift. When the Time Team Live came from York, the landscape archaeologist (Stewart?) was walking through former Viking parts of York measuring shop frontages. He found they were still one perch wide, which was the standard size for a plot of land in Viking times. John -- John Rouse, searching for PARR and TINDILL in Yorkshire.