It must be understood by all those who read these charters that this ...

THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\
Hedge (or Game Enclosure) (Hagan) to Heath 1 Combe
(Hae . . Cumb).''
3. 'To the Cut Wheel 2 to the (Hedged ?) Way.'
4. ' From the (Hedged ?) Way to High Hill (Hean HyUe)
to the Rough Thorntrees (Rugan Thyrnan).
5. ' From the Thorntrees to the Bramble Thorns
(Brembel Thyrnan) to the north end of the Dyke (Dice).'
6. ' Then along the Dyke as far as its south end.'
7. ' From that end to the Way (TVeg)?
8. ' From the Way to the Old Dyke (Die)?
9. ' From the Dyke to the Bend in Wulfstan's Hedge
(TVulfstanes Heges Byhte)?
10. ' From the Bend on the Head of the Combe to
the Chalkpit (Cealc CrundeT)?
11. ' From the Chalkpit to . . . Damp Meadow
(Ceab TVisce)?
12. ' From . . . Damp Meadow to the Red Plough
Land (Reade Land)?
13. ' From the Red Plough Land to Eadeag's Tree
(Eadeages Treow)?
14. ' From the Tree to Dry Brook (Dyrbroc)?
This brook is the only landmark in the survey which
appears in any other Wilts, charter. It is in the surveys of
that group of charters labelled Downton (B.27, 39 1 » 863,
690, and K.698). See p.
15. ' From Dry Brook again quickly to the Lea of the
Swing Gate.' See 1.
(Note added.) ' And the Lea on the Open Heathlands
is for the common use of everyone.'
A charter of the western part of the lands of Little
Langford, 4* m. WNW. of Wilton.
B.783 ; K.396.
RD. A.D. 963 for 943.
Granted by King Eadmund to ... 3
Hides. 3.
Name : Aet Langanjorda.
Ident. K. Langford, Wilts. ; B. Langford, Wilts.
1 Reading baetb.
3 The earlier half of the MS. has been
2 What this means I cannot say, except destroyed,
that a ' shard gate ' is a gap cut in a fence or
hedge to let. waggons through.