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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\
i. Erest on Bweleseroundel: 'First to . . . Quarry.' 1
2. Thanen on the Strete : ' Then to the Street (Made
Road).'
The street is the Roman road which begins to form
part of the E. by. at a point about 3£ fur. NNE. of South
Farm (OMi). The quarry of ι was probably at the point
where the road begins to form the by.
3. Endlangstrete on the Berghes : ' Along the Street to
the Barrow.'
The survey goes S. along the Roman road, which is
called in the 1591 perambulation of Aldbourne High
Strate Waie. I suspect that the language of the survey is
somewhat loose, for the barrows are almost certainly the
tumuli on the S. by. of the parish, partly on, partly E. of,
Burderop Down (OMi).
4. Thanen on the Thorn bi Stonestrete as the Linche
stant: ' Then to the Thorntree near Stonestreet as (where)
the Lynch stands.'
Stonestreet was undoubtedly the great ridgeway which
is represented at the present day by a track or road which
crosses the W. by. of the parish 3 fur. S. of Mudgell (OMi)
and about 3! fur. N. of the SW. corner of the parish. The
thorntree was probably at this SW. corner; and it is
quite possible that the track or tracks of the ridgeway
passed nearer to it than at the present day. The use of the
term strete would, were the document of the Saxon age,
imply that the ridgeway had been ' made ' in this part in
Romano-British times; and may so imply even in the
extant copy of the charter. Such ' making' of parts of
ridgeways appears from the charters to have been by no
means uncommon in Roman Britain. 2
5. Of, etc. on the Stanbrugge (read Stanrugge) : ' From
the Thorntree to the Stone ridge.'
This is the ridge just S. of where the ridgeway crosses
the W. by. of the parish.
6. Thanen on other Stanbrugge (read Stanrugge) : ' Then
to the other Stone Ridge.'
1 Bweles is probably a corrupted form of ' Ancient Road-system of Britain,' p. 96.
Ά personal name.
For description of this ridgeway see Arch.
2 See Arch. Journ. vol. lxxiv, 1917,
Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918, ' Ancient Highways
of Wilts,' road 14, p. 78.