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from the south-east corner of the parish, where the parishes of 

 Upavon, Rushall, and North Newnton meet, and then, skirting the 

 northern boundaries of Rushall and Charlton, come to Cotton-ham^; 

 thence they go on to Wyvlesford (='Wilsford), and next in a north- 

 east direction to i/o^-lesford (the site, I believe, of " £ot-an wylle " in 

 the charter); they then proceed southwards till they come again to 

 the point of starting. 



The latter portion of the second charter, which is described as 

 " ^Et -Sam oran," i.e., literally, " at the edge or border " — at " the 

 border " of Savernake Forest — and elsewhere as " Mt Moten-tf.j 

 oran," from the name of some old owner or dweller there — (may 

 " Moten " be still preserved in Martin-sell ?) — is as follows : — 



-^rest on hseselwylle ; ^aet and- First at Hasel-well ; then along 

 bug weges on Beorh-dic ; "Sonne the way to Barrow-dike [or hill- 

 andlang ^sere die on risc^yfel ; dyke] ; thence along the dike to 

 and swa west onbutan on bradan a rush-bed [?J ; and so west about 

 stan ; of Sam stane on rugan to a broad stone ; from that stone 

 die ; donen on Lusa-beorg ; 'Saet to the hoar dike ; thence to Lusa- 

 andlang weges on Readan-sloh; barrow [or hill]; thence along 

 and swa to Wodnes-dic ; ■Sonne the way to Read-slow ; and so to 

 forS be i5are die on Crypel-geat; Wansdyke; thence forth by the 

 "Sonne to Drsegstane ; and swa to dyke to Crypel-gate ; thence to 

 Meos-leage; of "Sare leage and- Drsegstan; and so to Meos-legh ; 

 lang oxna ^ pselSes eft on Hsesel from that legh along the path 

 wylle. by the river again to Hasel-well. 



I do not presume to seek to interpret this portion of the charter. 

 It is more than possible that, in talking with some of the Wiltshire 

 peasantry, some of these names — it may be in a strangely distorted 

 form — may be discovered in one or other of the boundary-points of 



' The first portion of this name, which may well he supposed to have " Ceolt- 

 an-ham," and which is a very short distance from " Ca^«-brains," may not un- 

 fairly be supposed to have been derived from the same source, whatever that may 

 have been ; and this can hardly in any case be from " castra." 



^ It is not unlikely that " oa- -na " may be a corruption of a word which ia 

 various forms, such as " ax," " usk," and " ox " — (as in Ox-ioii) — means water. 

 See Wilts Mag., xiv., 157. 



