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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.