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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.