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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ 5. Thanen on Abbenbeorg : ' Then to Abba's Barrow.' 6. That on Stortencumb on thes Linkes Havede suthward and northward : ' Then to Storta's Combe to the Headland of the Lynch, running from south to north.' 7. Thanen on Leon Berg : ' Then to (Lion ?) Barrow.' 8. That on tha Ealden Dich : ' Then to the Old Dyke.' 9. Thanne onne that Furch the is athe riuen to Nodre : ' Then to the Furrow which is driven to Nadder (river).' 10. Thannen on Funtnesford : ' Then to the Ford of the (great) Spring.' 11. Thannen on Here-path : ' Then to (the) Highway.' 12. On the Reden Wege : ' To the Red Way.' (Added) On (read ond) tha two meades other be Nodre other be Wilig the tharto herath : ' And the two meads, one by the Nadder (river) and the other by the Wylye (river), which belong thereto.' This last note to the survey shows clearly that the grant includes both the Teffonts. The mead of Teffont Magna must have been a detached piece of land on the Wylye, and that of Teffont Evias on the Nadder. And the latter fact explains a noticeable feature of the survey, namely, that it never mentions the Nadder as an actual by. of the grant, though it is at the present day the S. by. of Teffont Evias. No doubt the mead of Teffont Evias ran along the river, along the S. border of the parish ; and, as is sometimes the case with statements of boundaries in AS. grants, the mead is not included in the survey. But when we turn to the details of the landmarks given, the solution of the survey presents great difficulties. It will be well to take those landmarks first which seem to a certain extent determinable. At 6 the survey is going N., as the wording shows; and, as nearly all AS. surveys go with the clock, it is pretty certain that at 6 that survey is traversing the W. by. It is therefore probable that Stortan Cumb is the combe on that by. about f m. NW. of the church at Teffont Magna. If so, then Hoddes Clif of 4 is probably the steep slope on the W. by. about 1 m. S. of the combe, at the E. end of Cleeve (Clif) Copse (OM6) in Chilmark parish. Abba's Barrow must have been somewhere between the Cumb and the Clif, possibly about where the Chilmark road cuts the W. by. Broken Barrow (or Hill) of 3 stood
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ then S. of the Clif. It may, of course, have been a barrow which has vanished ; or it may have been that hill where (OMi) the quarries are marked about 5 fur. SSE. of Portash in Chilmark. Going further S. along this W. by. my impression is that the old by. did not follow the brook, as the present by. does, but rather the line of fence which runs down parallel with the brook, at an average distance of perhaps 100 yds. from it on the E. side. The strip of land between this line and the brook may have been part of the mead of Teffont Evias. The Ford of 2 I should be inclined to place where the road from Teffont Evias crosses this brook at a point ^ m. due W. of Lower Chicksgrove (OMi) in Tisbury ; and the road itself I guess to be the red way of 1 and 12 of the survey. Turning now to points 7-11, the old dyke of 8 is almost certainly that dyke which (OMi) runs along the ridge on the N. by. of Teffont Magna, a dyke also mentioned in the Wylye charter B.757. If Leon Beorh is rightly placed in the survey, then it must have been somewhere on the W. by. between the Stortan Cumb and the dyke. I am inclined to suspect that the landmark has got displaced in the extant copy of the survey, and that it should have come after the dyke. In that case it would be the tumulus (OMi) near the NE. corner of the parish. The furrow of 9 presents great difficulty. It is not impossible, but it is improbable, that a furrow might be carried for a very long distance where no natural landmarks existed ; but the distance from the NE. corner of the parish to the Nadder is over 3 m. My impression is that several landmarks have fallen out from this copy of the charter between 8 and 9, and that the furrow was towards the S. end of the E. by. The furrow ran down to the river, but the by. did not. The Funtnes Ford must have been over the Fefunt stream. I suspect that it was where the road crosses that stream at the head of the lake in Teffont Park. Points 11 and 12 are probably really one landmark, where Herepath merely defines the nature of the red way, the road going to Ley Farm (OMi) to the Ford of 2. Charter of lands including the whole of Buttermere, 5 m. S. of Hungerford, and parts, at any rate, of
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