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Jeremy: thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not convinced by a V-shaped estuary entrance.  I don't think there's any database of the kind you mention.   It's quite easy to antedate OED on place-name elements, but our evidence is not usually of a kind acceptable to them, because it doesn't come with a context defining the sense.

Keith

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Sent: 13 March 2019 14:40
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Dear Keith, Dear All,

 

There’s a Herringbone Field on the TM for Stapleford Abbots (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&ved=2ahUKEwjww-Dfqv_gAhU3DWMBHX5YDNYQFjALegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww1.essex.ac.uk%2Fhistory%2Fesah%2Fessexplacenames%2FBooks%2FStapleford%2520Abbots.doc&usg=AOvVaw3pnSaX1RHw8KwXySkdVLOg) and a glance at the map suggests this it was V-shaped. As the Orwell makes a V-shaped turn at the estuary (at least, it does now) could this be the point of reference for Fyshhbane?

 

Congratulations on beating the OED. Is there a record kept in the vast underground bunkers of the EPNS for toponymic citations of words which antedate first forms in the dictionary?

 

Jeremy Harte

 

 

From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Keith Briggs
Sent: 13 March 2019 13:20
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Subject: Fishbane (Suffolk)

 

There was a settlement on the south shore of the Orwell estuary called by a name meaning `fish-bone'.  I have long been aware of records of it as Fyshhbane 1488 and Fishbane hamlet 1601, but I have recently found that it is much older: Fissbane 1295.   Perhaps it is named from a prominent house built with a whale-bone as a door frame, or something similar.

 

Are there any parallels to such a name anywhere else?

 

Keith

 

PS: OED first records "fish-bone" in 1530.

 

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