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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ 30. Thaet on Langan Hangran : ' Then to the Long Hanging Wood.' 31. Thonne on Grendles Mere : ' Then to the Pond (of the Green Quarry ?).' 32. Thonon on Dyrnan Geat: ' Then to Hidden Gate.' 33. Thonne eft on Lin leage Geat: ' Then again to Flax Lea Gate.' For the last, see 1. The landmarks 28-32 were all on the eastern two-thirds of the N. by. ; but, as may be easily imagined from the nature of them, their individual sites are not determinable. The charter B.1037, K.i220 is attributed by B. to Ham, Wilts. It is certainly not of this place. A reference to a fleot suggests that it is some place on the coast. Charter which apparently records the grant of the lands of Enford, n-£m. S. by W. of Marlborough. B.705. K.ino. RD. A.D. 934. Granted by King Aethelstan to the church of the Holy Trinity, Winchester (Winchester cathedral). Hides. 30 at Enedford (Enford) ; 10 at Ceolholdinetun (Chilbolton, Hants) ; 10 at Esemeresweorth (Ashmansworth, Hants). Name : Enedforda and Enedford. Ident. K. Enford, Wilts. ; B. Enford, Wilts. The survey is undoubtedly of the AS. age. It is very difficult to determine the sites of some of the most important landmarks, a peculiarly exasperating feature of the survey, since the landmarks are for the most part of a nature such as would lead the practised inquirer to expect that they would not be difficult to determine, and some of them are of very great importance for the general topography of the county in AS. times. Survey. 1 1. Aerest of Afenan East Stathae : ' First from the East Bank of the Avon.' 1 It must be distinctly understood that my determinations of the sites of the various landmarks in this survey are of a more or less tentative character, and do not claim any finality. I give them in the hope that some other inquirer may find them useful, either in the process of confirming them, or in the process of refuting them.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ The survey seems to begin at the point where the N. by. crosses the Avon, a short £ m. N. of West Chisenbury (OMi). 2. Upp on tha Die to tham Weallum : ' Up on the Dyke to the Walls.' The by. almost certainly runs E. from the river ; and the dyke must have run up from the river. The reference to ' walls,' a very rare landmark, as far as my experience goes, in the AS. charters, is interesting but exasperating. They must have been real walls, not mere earthen dykes ; and they may have been of the Romano-British age. Were they part of some outlier of Chisenbury Camp (OMi), which is only ι fur. S. of this part of the by. ? 3. O/, etc. and lang Haerpathaes in to Lortan Hlaewe : ' From the Walls along the Highway to Lorta's (?) Low (or Tumulus).' The herepath was undoubtedly along the part of the N. by. which lies NE. of Chisenbury Camp. In a perambulation of Upavon dating from 1591 there is mention of a hare pitt at this point in the by. ; and that term can be shown in other instances, of which one is in Wilts., to be a corruption of the AS. term herepath. The tumulus has apparently vanished ; but it must have been somewhere not far W. of Chisenbury Warren. I cannot find any other trace of this herepath, and have therefore omitted it from the article on the ' Ancient Highways of Wilts.' in Arch. Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918. 4. O/, etc. east and lang Furh on Ceaster Herpath : 4 From Lorta's Low east along the Furrow to the Highway of the Roman Station.' This landmark presents the greatest difficulty ; and any explanation of it cannot be more than tentative. The furrow ran E. and therefore must have been on the N. by. Probably the by. abutted on the Ceaster Herepath at or near the NE. corner of the parish. There are two possible explanations of this mysterious herepath. That it led to something which the Saxons called ceaster is obvious. One is inclined to suspect that it was a highway leading to the Roman station at Old Sarum. The land between the Avon on the W. and the Bourne on the E. is divided S. of Everley into two ridges by the valley of the Ninemile river. There was certainly an old highway along the eastern of these two ridges. But there survive also traces less marked
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