SNSBI 2002 Newcastle meeting (April 5–8)
The 2002 annual conference was held at Newcastle University. It was organised by Dr Diana Whaley. The conference report appeared in Nomina 25, 153–4.
- Richard Bailey: Bernician sites: what needed naming?
- Richard Coates: Lindisfarne
- Ann Cole and Margaret Gelling: Is there a place-name code stretching from the south to the north?
- Paul Cullen: Grappling with M [in VEPN]
- Ian Fraser: Scottish surnames: a brief survey
- Peder Gammeltoft: I sauh a tour on a toft, tryelyche i-maket, part 2: Place-names in -toft in England (Nomina 26, 43–63)
- Alison Grant: Inversion compounds (Nomina 25, 65–90)
- Carole Hough: ‘White’ in place-names and surnames (Nomina 26, 83–92)
- John Insley: The Goths in south Gaul: the evidence of the names
- Alan James: The hunting of the Snook
- John Koch: Northern English place-names in early Welsh sources
- Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Early Ireland: the Anglo-Saxon connection
- Bill Nicolaisen: North-west Germanic place-nomenclature
- George Redmonds: Surnames, genes and genealogy
- Veronica Smart: Pitit and Litelman — an onomastic conundrum (Nomina 25, 133–138)
- Liz Sobell: Riggs to Pingles: field-names of a Hexhamshire farm
- Victor Watts: Field-names of South Durham (Nomina 25, 53–64)
- Doreen Waugh: Place-names of Old Scatness (Nomina 26, 29–41)
Late on Saturday afternoon there was a coach trip: Newcastle sights and street-names: bridges, quayside, and cathedral, ending with a reception at Newcastle University’s Museum of Antiquities. On Sunday afternoon Richard Bailey, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Civilization at the University of Newcastle, led the coach trip to Lindisfarne via Yeavering and Milfield.
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Conference delegates at the Yeavering site
