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

THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\
This was probably a balk of a ploughland where stones
had been placed as landmarks. It ran almost certainly
along the straight piece of the E. by. of Fovant which runs
S. from the Wilton road.
B5. Of, etc. to Hearpathe : ' From the Farm to the
Highway.'
This old highway passed along the foot of the hill on
which Chiselbury Camp stands (OMi). 1
Β6. Thonne andlang Hearpathes to tham Anheafdan :
' Then along the Highway to the Headland (of a ploughland).'
This shows incidentally that the highway mentioned
could not be what I had once supposed it to be, the Wilton
road. The passage of the by. along the highway must have
been brief, viz. the short bend which the E. by. of Fovant
makes from SSE. to ESE. at the bottom of the slope of the
down. The headland was no doubt at the end of this
bend.
The landmarks in both charters come very quickly in
this part of the by.
Βj. Of, etc. on Lokeres Leage·. ' From the Headland to
(Locer's ?) Lea.'
This must have been very near the last, on the slope of
the down just NE. of Chiselbury Camp (OMi).
A4. Thonne on Sigewunne Die westewearde ·. ' Then to
Sigewine's Dyke on its west side.'
B8. Of, etc. on Sigwynne Die : ' From (Locer's) Lea
to Sigewine's Dyke.'
The position of the dyke is certain, owing to the
precise nature of the landmark which follows in B. It was
on the slope of the down, probably near the W. end of the
wood called (OM6) Compton Ivers, the wood on the slope
E. of, and quite n^r to, Chiselbury Camp (OMi).
A5. And so up on Land Scare Hangran : ' And so up to
the Hanging Wood of the Boundary.'
This wood must have been more or less on the site of
the wood called Compton Ivers (OM6). (See notes on the
last landmark.)
1 For a description of it see Arch. Journ: vol. lxxv, 1918, 'Ancient Highways of
Wilts.' road j3, p. 108.'