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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Charter of either the whole or part of the lands of Collingbourne Kingston, 9 m. SSE. of Marlborough. B.635. Not in K · RD. A.D. 921. Granted by King Eadweard to the thegn Wulfgar. Hides. 10. Name : At Colingburne. Ident. B. Collingbourne, Wilts. The survey is in three forms: (1) AS.; (2) Middle English ; (3) Latin. The AS. form goes back to the AS. age, though the spelling of some of the words is unusual, and would suggest that the extant copy was made late in the AS. period. Surveys. As far as the ME. and Lat. forms are concerned, the matter is not given here except where it either differs from, or throws light upon, the AS. form. 1. Aerest Feovertyne Gearda beneothan tham Pytte: ' First fourteen rods beneath the Pit.' Fyrst begynne For teen Gerde bynethe the Pytte. Inprimis incipe per spatium quatuordecim virgarum inferius quendam puteum de proximo jacentem. 2. Thanon of Collengaburnan west: ' Then west from the Bourne of the Collings.' It seems pretty certain that the survey begins where the S. by. of Collingbourne Kingston passes across the bourne. The pit must have been about 80 yds. from the stream, and was probably about 1 fur. NW. of the railway station. The survey then runs along the S. by. W. of the bourne. 3. Up to than Haethenan Byrgelsan : ' Up to the Heathen Burialplace.' Quousque perveneris ad quendam locum in quo sepultus erat quidam paganus a solicolis the Hethen-Byryell nuncupatum. The whole circumference of the by. of this large landunit amounts to many miles ; and there can be little doubt that the outlying parts of it were not as a rule under arable cultivation. Where AS. surveyors were traversing arable land or mead they were accustomed to define boundaries very accurately by the citation of frequent landmarks. But where they were traversing stretches of uncultivated
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ land they would take landmarks which might be at long distances from one another ; and that is what the surveyors have done in the case of the greater part of this by. It is probable that this heathen burialplace was at the extreme S. corner of the elongated SW. extension of the parish, on the S. part of Snail Down (OMi). There are numerous tumuli in the neighbourhood ; but it is not to be supposed that one or more of these is to be taken as representing the heathen burialplace, for the charters show clearly that, whatever these heathen burialplaces were, they were distinct from beorhs and hlaews. 1 4. Thanon on Scortan Dye : ' Then to the Short Dyke.' This is probably the dyke which runs up the W. by. from the last landmark. It is marked ' Ditch ' in OMi. . 5. Thonne to Scealdan Crundle : ' Then to the Shallow Quarry.' 2 6. Thanon to Preostan Lyfan : ' Then to the Priest's Horse-block.' 3 7. Thanon andlang Grenan Dene on tha Fox Holo westweard : ' Then along Green Dean to the west side of the Fox Earths.' The dean is undoubtedly the valley which the W. by. traverses along its length NE. of the village of Everley. The fox earths must have been at the bend which the by makes f m. N. by E. of that village. 8. Thanon on Bradanbeorg: ' Then to the Broad Barrow.' Than to Bradbyge : ' Then to Broad Bend (or Corner).' Ex tunc versus occidentem ad Bradbrygg: ' Thence westwards to Broad Bridge.' The ME. and Latin forms of this landmark suggest by the obvious errors in them two things : (1) that the copyists of these forms were translating the AS. form ; (2) that the copyist of the ME. was not the same as that of the Latin form. Both have misinterpreted beorg, which is certainly the correct form of the landmark; and the copyist of the Latin form- has transferred the orientation of the previous landmark, westzveard, to this one. 1 See note i, p. 166. 2 1 translate Crundel 1 quarry' for convenience sake. The word might mean any sort of digging for stone, gravel, etc. See discussion of its meaning in English Essays and Studies, 1922, ' On the Meanings of certain terms in the Anglo-Saxon charters.' 3 Probably a local nickname for some large stone.
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