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SNSBI 2002 Newcastle meeting (April 5–8)

2002 Annual Conference – Newcastle University

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 Civilisation at the University of Newcastle, led the coach trip to Lindisfarne via Yeavering and Milfield.

Conference delegates at the Yeavering site
Conference delegates at the Yeavering site