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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ 15. On thone Beorh to than Rigwege : ' To the Barrow at the Ridgeway.' 16. Thonne eaest andlang Hrigweges : ' Then east along the Ridgeway.' The Ridgeway is undoubtedly the great ancient track along the comb of the down along the S. edge of Hare Warren (OMi). The barrow may be Neale's Barrow on the S. edge of Wilton parish. 17. Ίο Bryt Fordingea Landscaere : ' To the Boundary of the people of Britford.' It will be noticed (OMi) that the Britford by. just touches the Roman road on the Race Course (OMi). This is the site of the landmark. 18. Thonne suth on Stretford·. 'Then south to the Ford of the made way.' The charter B.832 shows that the part of modern Stratford Tony N. of the Roman road was not in AS. times part of that land unit. This by. also runs down the Roman road to the village of Stratford to the point where the survey began. It will thus be seen that the charter is of the parish or land-unit of Bishopstone and that part of Stratford Tony N. of the Roman road. As to the statement that it belongs to Duntun (Downton), that is probably due to the fact that this piece of land was part of a large estate belonging to Winchester cathedral in the Downton neighbourhood. The grouping of various land-units under one name is quite common in the charters. Cf. in Wilts, the Malmesbury lands under Brokenbarough. A nearer parallel is perhaps supplied by a charter labelled Micheldever [in Hants] which does not apply to Micheldever itself, but to a part of Sutton Scotney which was in post-Conquest times part of the manor of Micheldever. Large units, like this of Downton, are probably the AS. forerunners of post- Conquest manors. 1 1 1 do not propose to enter into an elaborate discussion of the probable date of the charters given in this collection. All that I am concerned with is whether the survey attached to any particular charter is of pre- Conquest origin. Some conclusions on that question may now and then be drawn from the state of the text of the surveys attached to charters. I shall therefore confine myself to giving the reputed date, and to saying whether the survey is or is not a post- Conquest copy of an AS. original. In the case of the present charter the survey seems to -be of pre-Conquest date ; for the few errors in it are merely mistakes that a Saxon copyist might have made.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ It may be well to take out of their numerical order the other charters which deal with the same area as that included in the above survey. B.391. K.1036. Land at Duntun. Hidage; 55 at Duntun and 45 at Eblesbuma. Granted by Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons, to the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Winchester (i.e. the Old Monastery). Refers to charter B.27 above. Ident. B. Downton, Wilts. ; K. Downton. RD. A.D. 826. Survey. Refers to the same lands as B.27 5 anc l· as i n case > the earlier landmarks are not determinable. Variations in the landmarks, the numbers being those of B.27.·— l · Omitted; 2. Same; 3. Same; 4. Herepath, ' highway,' instead of Weg,' track.' Great Die, ' great dyke,' instead of Die, ' dyke' ; 5. Cealcan Gemere, ' boundary of Chalk,' i.e. Broad Chalk, instead of the Thry Crundelas,' three quarries ' ; 6. Omitted ; 7. No reference to Dune, and Weodu Beorh instead of Wudu Beorch; 8. Omitted; 9. Same; 10. Same; 11. Iiafuc Hlinc, ' hawk lynch,' instead of Hlinces Ende, ' lynch's end,' but probably the reference is to the same lynch ; 12. Omitted ; 13. Omitted ; 14. Omitted ; 15. Ruh Beorh,' rough barrow' for Beorh, ' barrow,' but the same barrow; 16. Herepath, ' highway,' instead of Hrycgweg, ' ridgeway,' but the same road; 17. Practically the same; 18. Practically the same. B.690. K.1108. Land at Duntun. Hidage not stated. Granted by King Aethelstan to the see of Winchester. Refers to charter B.27 a bove. Ident. B. Downton, Wilts. ; K. Downton. RD. A.D. 905 for about 932. Survey. Refers to the same lands as B.27 > an< ^' as t ^ iat case > the earlier landmarks are not determinable.
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