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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ 6. Of, etc. on Fugan Biorge : ' From the Barrow to Fuga's Barrow.' Fro Greneburw to Fugynburw: A Grenebur-w ad Fugynburw. 7. On Eorthebyrg : ' To the Earthen Camp.' To Orthebrygge 1 : Usque ad Orthebrygge. 8. Of, etc. on Audulfes Cnol: ' From the Camp to Athulf's Knoll.' Fro Orthebrygge to Athulfes Knol: Ab Orthebrygge ad .limitem vocatum Athulfes Cnol. 9. Of, etc. on thone Thornstyb : ' From Athulf's Knoll to the Stump of the Thorntree.' Fro Athulfes Knol to Thornestyb : ab illo loco ad limitem vocatum Thornstyb. 10. Of, etc. on Mearcumbe : ' From the Stump of the Thorntree to Boundary Combe.' Fro Thornestyb to Mercumbe: A quo fertranseas ad Mercumbe. 11. Of, etc. on Hordestan : ' From Boundary Combe to Treasure Stone.' 2 Fro Mercumbe to Horston : A Mercumbe ad terminum vocatum Horeston. 12. Of', etc. thaet eft on Eorthebyrig: ' From Treasure Stone then again to Earthen Camp.' From Horston agen to Orthesbrygge : ab Horeston iterum ad Orthebrygge. Athulf's Knoll of 9 is almost certainly Plough Hill (OM6), which stands between the villages of Badbury and Chisledon. Boundary Combe is the combe E. of the village of Hodson. It is evident from an old form of the name of Hodson, viz, Hordereston, that that village derives its name from the Hordestan of 11, and that that stone must have been on or near the site of the present village. It is with regard to landmarks 4-7 that the real topographical difficulties arise. The language of 4 seems to imply that Frida's burialplace was where the Roman road cuts the E. by. of Chisledon about \ m. ESE. of Badbury 1 A repetition of the error in translation 2 Named possibly from finds of coins in noted in note 3, p. 201. the neighbourhood.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Wick (OMi). Therefore the green barrow, Fuga's barrow,, and the earthen camp were probably all of them on the E. by. of Chisledon, though it is conceivable that the last may have been on that unknown S. by. of Badbury. The Liddington survey (K.386) which runs down this line gives us no assistance, because the surveyors of its boundaries have, as AS. surveyors sometimes will, taken a different series of landmarks. But the other Chisledon charter (B.904) speaks of an Aenlipe Beorh, ' Barrow standing alone,' and of a Brocene Beorh, ' Broken Barrow,' both of which must have stood on the E. by. just S. of where the ridgeway (OMi) cuts it. These are very likely the green barrow and Fuga's barrow of the present charter. One is naturally tempted to identify the eorthburgh with Liddington Castle (OMi), the great camp just E. of this part of the by. But the nearest part of its vallum is more than a furlong outside the present Chisledon by. Perhaps some outlier of it existed in former days on the by. 1 Charter of the whole of the lands of Chisledon,. including Badbury. B.904; K.434. RD. A.D. 955. Granted by King Eadred to Dunstan, abbot of Glastonbury. Hides. 25. Name : (1) in title, Baddeburi ; (2) in body of document, the same. The extant copy of the survey is certainly of a date considerably later than the Conquest. Whether it goes back to an AS. original is quite uncertain. 1 There is something in the Chisledon charter (q. v.) which faintly suggests that the S. part of the E. by. of Chisledon was further E. than at the present day, and included the SW. part of what is now Liddington. But such modifications of by. unless absolutely attested in a charter— as, for instance, in the case of the present charter, with reference to the N. part of Liddington—are, generally speaking, im- probable ; for our parish boundaries go back in most cases to long before the Conquest; and such modifications as have been made in them have usually been made in quite recent times by collusion between bishops and incumbents who have no reverence for the historic past; and those modifications are consequently for the most part easily traceable.
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