{The field of blood} (agros haimatos). This name was
attached to it because it was the price of blood and that is not
inconsistent with  Ac 1:18f . Today potter's field carries the
idea here started of burial place for strangers who have no where
else to lie (eis taph(886e) tois xenois), probably at first Jews
from elsewhere dying in Jerusalem. In  Ac 1:19  it is called
{Aceldama} or {place of blood} (ch(9372)ion haimatos) for the
reason that Judas' blood was shed there, here because it was
purchased by blood money. Both reasons could be true.