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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
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Harrow Farm (OMi) E. to Froxfield village. If so, the barrow must have stood in the valley W. of Harrow Farm. But, if this be assumed, it is difficult to understand why the surveyors took so many landmarks just before reaching the bourne, and then merely defined the boundary which lies between this stream—a boundary with many bends—in the general terms of the next landmark 26. 26. Et ejus ex alveo intrat Bedewindan : ' And from its bed it enters Bedwyn (brook).' The by. reaches the brook about f m. NNE. of Little Bedwyn village. 27. Indeque (it)em in Cymenesdene : ' And thence once more to Cymen's Dean.' See landmark 1. A charter of Purton, near Swindon (probably not including Purton Stoke). B.279, 279A; K.174. RD. A.D. 796. Granted by Egeferth, king of the Mercians, to the monastery of Malmesbury. Hides: 35. Name : (a) in title, Perytun ; (b) in text, ' in the place which is called aet Piertean, on the east side of the wood which is called Braden ' ; (e) in the survey, Puritona, Puritone. Ident. K. ? ; B. Purton, Wilts. The determination of the topography of this charter presents considerable difficulty. The land is described as lying E. of Braden Forest. But in post-Conquest times it was all included in the forest, as is shown by a perambulation of the forest dating from the time of Edward the First. That would imply a large reduction of the population of the district, and would lead to many of the old landmarks falling into oblivion. Only a few of them are determinable with certainty at the present day. The language of the survey shows that the extant copy is of post-Conquest date, several centuries later than the reputed date of the grant. Whether the document records a survey made in the post-Conquest times, or whether it is
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