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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