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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.