 Archaeologist Bob Silvester suggests that the term "roddon" is more popular among local writers such as Fowler (1932), Darby (1940), Phillips (1970), and Harry Godwin (1978), though "rodham" is acknowledged by Godwin.Silvester notes that Astbury (1958) and e.g.Seale (1975) "Soil survey of Cambridgeshire" preferred the term "rodham".