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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ B7. Thonne forth be streame on Blacan Lace : ' Then forth with the stream to the Black Lake.' 1 Just E. of where the road from Gores to Bottlesford (OMi) crosses the Avon the parish by. does not for a few yards follow the course of the main stream, but that of a branch stream just E. of the main river. This is no doubt the Black Lake of the charter. B8. And lang lace on Afene : ' Along the " Lake " to the Avon.' The by. joins the main stream after following the Black Lake for a few yards. B9. And swa and lang stremes eft on Stintes Ford: ' And so down stream again to Stint's Ford.' See the first landmarks of the two charters. Appended to the charter is a survey of a detached part of the grant :— This synt tha Land gemaere aet tham Or an : ' These are the Boundaries at the Hillslope.' 1. Aerest on Haesel Wylle : ' First to the Spring of the Hazels.' 2. Th' andlang Weges on Beorh Die : ' Then along the Track to Barrow Dyke.' 3. Thonne andlang thaere Die on Risthysel: ' Then along the Dyke to the Rush Thicket.' 4. And swa west on Butan on Bradanstan : ' And so west (with a bend ?) to Broad Stone.' 5. Of, etc. on RuganDic : ' From the Stone to Rough Dyke.' 6. Thonen on Lusa Beorg : ' Then to (Louse ?) Barrow.' 7. Th' andlang Weges on Readan Sloh : ' Then along the Track to the Red Slough.' 8. And swa to Wodnes Die: ' And so to Woden's Dyke (Wansdyke).' 9. Thonne forth be thare Die on Cry-pel Geat: ' Then on by the Dyke to Burrow Gate.' 10. Thonne to Draeg Stan: 'Then to . . . Stone.' 2 11. And swa to Meos Leage : ' And so to Moss Lea.' 12. Of thare leage andlang Oxna Paethes eft on Haesel 1 i.e. ' lake' (AS. lacu) in its old sense of a stream with very little current, often applied to the backwaters of rivers. ' Lake ' is still used in this sense in Hants nomenclature. 2 Draeg is that word which occurs so often in the place-names Drayton and Draycot, a word of which the meaning is not known.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Wylle : ' From the Lea along the Path of the Oxen once more to Hazel Spring.' In the body of the document this land is called Motenes Or a, ' Moten's Hillslope,' and the hidage is given as 5. It is practically certain that this parcel of land is either the whole or part of Oare, which is now the N. part of Wilcot parish. In an article in the Wilts. Archaeological Magazine 1 it is stated that this piece of land is the later estate of Rainscombe. Rainscombe Farm stands about 3 fur. NNE. of Oare village. It would therefore, according to this, be the land N. of Oare village ; and that is what I had taken it to be before I saw the statement above mentioned. But, as it extends to the Wansdyke, it certainly goes N. of the present Wilcot (Oare) by. and includes some portion of the S. parts of the parishes of Fyfield and Preshute. As in the case of all old land-units which do not coincide with modern parishes, the determination of the individual landmarks is almost impossible. The Meos Leage of 11 is mentioned in the Pewsey charter B.748 ; and the topography of that charter, together with the fact that the name Maizeley Coppice still survives on the E. by. of Wilcot, 5 fur. ENE. of Oare village, show that Meos Leage was at that point. Landmarks 8 and 9 show that the by. not merely touched the Wansdyke, but followed it. The part of the dyke which formed this by. must have been that in the SE. part of West Wood (OMi); and if, as is most probable, the by. is going with the clock, the Crypel Geat of 9 must have been where the Wansdyke meets the W. by. of North Savernake. The DraegStan must have been somewhere on the E. by. of Wilcot near Clench Common (OMi). Doubtless Beorh Die of 2 was the dyke or dykes on Oare Hill and Huish Hill (OMi). The sites of the other landmarks are not determinable. Charter of the lands of Fovant and Sutton Mandeville,, about 6i m. WSW. of Wilton. B.588; K.331. RD. A.D. 901. Granted by King Eadward to the thegn Wihtbrord. 1 1 have mislaid the reference.
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