On 2/19/18 3:20 PM, Steve Doerr wrote: > On 19/02/2018 09:00, Philip Barnes wrote: > >> As a native English speaker I have never heard the term Hollow Way, >> however reading the description it seems that this proposal is >> describing what is called a Sunken Lane. > > Might need a bit more research as both are fairly obscure terms, I > would imagine. For what it's worth, 'hollow-way' [sic] is mentioned in > the Oxford English Dictionary, while 'sunken lane' isn't, as far as I > can see the concept of a sunken way or sunken road is one that historians are fairly familiar with. i know of examples in both italy and the US. the italian ones i've seen are older and thus much more sunken than the ones in the US.
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