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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ 14. Thanen on the Wey : ' Then to the Track.' 15. Ende lang Weyes to than Redensloheued: 'Along the Track to the Head of the Red Slough.' 16. Thanen on Heggenberles : ' Then to the (Burialplace ?) by the Hedge (?).' 17. Of than Bugle thanen on the Thorn Stubbe : ' From the . . . then to the Stump of the Thorntree.' 18. Thanen on the Brokenestret: ' Then to the Broken Street (Made Road).' This part of the survey is very corrupted by bad copying ; and the same is the case with the landmarks which follow those given above. But the broken street of 18 is the Roman road at the point where it cuts the E. by. of the parish. The epithet ' broken ' was probably applied to the road because part of it had been destroyed ; and the modern map shows pretty clearly that that had taken place near Covingham Farm (OMi), close to the point where it joins the Roman road which comes up to that farm from the old Roman station at Speen near Newbury. The red slough of 15 is mentioned in the Liddington charter K.386 ; and by dead reckoning it must have been somewhere just N. of where the road from Coate to Liddington cuts the E. by. of Chisledon. I suspect that the track of 14 is a further part of the hay way. There is no clue to the exact sites of the tree stumps of 13 and 17, though their approximate positions must have been respectively N. and S. of the red slough. The translation of 16 is quite uncertain ; but the landmark, whatever it was, must have been on the by. not far N. of Badbury Wick (OMi). 19. Thanen on the Northheued tha Sehirlaundes : ' Then to the North Headland of the Ploughland on the Boundary.' 20. Thane to tha Staureweye (almost certainly for an original AS. Stanraewe) at Τammeresslade (for Tanmeres Slaede) 1 : ' Then to the Row of Stones at the Slade on Osier Pond.' 2 Rows of stones are comparatively common landmarks 1 The obvious corruptions of the text in this part are very troublesome. I have restored Tanmere from the name of a pond mentioned in the Hurstbourne Tarrant (Hants) charter. 2 Tan means a ' t\\ig ' or ' slender rod.' I have guessed that the meaning here is ' osier.'
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ in AS. charters. The stones were no doubt boundary marks. 21. Eft ther on Medebourne : ' Again there to the Bourne of the Mead.' Eft is obviously an error. I suspect that Est, ' east,' would be the word in the original copy of the survey, for the by. is bending SE. at this part. This bourne is mentioned in the Liddington charter K.386, and its name survives in that of Medbourne (OMi). It was the brook one branch of which rises just SW. of Liddington village, and the other branch at the N. end of Badbury village. The headland of 19 and the stone row of 20 must have been on the quarter mile of by. which intervenes between this brook and the Roman road. 22. Thanen on Rishlak : ' Then to the (sluggish) Rush Brook.' This was one of the two branches of the Meadbourne mentioned above. 23. Thanen on Hewinput ·. ' Then to . . . Pit.' Simply called Pytt in the Liddington charter, Κ 3 86. It must have been on the by. E. of Badbury village. 24. Thanen on the Hane 1 : ' Then to the Stone.' 25. Of, etc. up on than Enlippanberwe : ' From the Stone up to the Barrow which stands alone.' The language implies that the by. is going up hill, which the E. by. does just about where the ridgeway (OMi) crosses it. The barrow must have been somewhere near the ridgeway. No traces of it are marked on the map. 26. On than Weie : ' To the Track.' 27. Endlangzueies biweste Brokenanberwe on the Olde Dieh : 'Along the way on the west side of the Broken Barrow to the Old Dyke.' The old dyke is mentioned in the Liddington charter K.386, under the name Biean Die, ' Bitch's Dyke.' Remnants of it survive on the E. by. at the angle which the by. makes £ m. NNE. of Lower Upham Farm (OMi). It is just possible that the tumulus (OMi) if fur. W. of that angle may be the broken barrow of the charter. Other- 1 That Han means a ' stone ' is certain ; but how it differed in meaning from the ordinary stan we do not know. In the charters it is nearly always accompanied by the epithet read, ' red.' That, and the fact that it has given us our word ' hone,' a stone for sharpening knives, makes me suspect that it was sandstone.
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