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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\
The text describing the next few landmarks is defective.
20. Et ex e0 Baldwines Healh : ' And after that
Baldwin's Hollow.'
This hollow is possibly that which lies E. of the E. end
of Hens Wood (OMi).
21. Appro(j>inquat ?) supremum sic (in f) quoddam
vallum ejusque tramite progressum in ilium vallem (ab)
austro Bulcan Pyttes (The translation is very uncertain.
I am inclined to read vallem for vallum): ' And so it
approaches finally a certain dyke, and going along the
path in it to the south of Bulca's Pit.'
The valley appears to be that which comes down W.
of Scrope's Wood (OMi). A cart track runs down it at the
present day. The pit mentioned may be the old chalkpit
just NW. of Scrope's Wood.
22. Sicque in longum valli progressa in ilia antiqua
monumenta in locum ubi a ruricolis dicitur aet tham
Holen stypbum : ' And so along the dyke to those
ancient monuments to the place the natives call the Holly
Stumps.'
All that can be said of this landmark is that, judging
from the landmarks which precede and follow it, it must
have been on that part of the by. running S. from Scrope's
Wood to the Marlborough-Hungerford road.
23. Sicque ad illos gabulos : ' And so to the Crosses.'
24. In longum gemaerweges to Wadbeorge : ' Along the
Boundary Way to Woad Barrow.'
25. Sicque of Wadbeorge in ilium fontem qui dicitur
Forsca Burna : ' And so from Woad Barrow to that
spring which is called (Frogs' ?) Bourne.'
The crosses must have stood near the line of the Hungerford
road.
The boundary way must have been along the line of
the present road, near Harrow Farm (OMi). The Barrow
either stood at the point where the parish by. turns S.
from the road, or else at the SW. corner of Almshouse
Copse, where the by. turns once more E. The Forsca Burna
was probably some small stream which ran from the E.
side of the Almshouse Copse (OMi) into Bedwyn brook,
where the parish by. makes a semicircle.
Another possibility is that the Forsca Burna is the brook
on which Froxfield lies, which runs from a point W. of