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The Date of Wamsdyke. By the Eev. C. S. Taylor, F.S.A. 

 Transactiuns of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaological Society, 

 vol. xxvii., pp. 131 — 155. 



This is an important paper in which the author makes a bold attempt 

 to fix the actual date of the construction of the dyke, and starting from 

 the assumption that Gen. Pitt Rivers was right in assigning a " Eoman 

 or post-Roman" date to the work, the writer devotes the.first eight pages 

 to a very careful survey of the course of the dyke from Chisbury Camp to 

 Maes Knoll Camp on DundryHill. He is disposed to regard these two points 

 as the terminations of the dyke, and doubts whether it really extended 

 further at either end, though Collinson takes it to the Severn, and Sir E. 

 C. Hoare believed that he could trace it five miles further than Chisbury 

 towards Inkpen. 



He then proceeds to give a series of summaries of the earliest known 

 references to the dyke in Anglo-Saxon charters, from the cartularies of 

 the Cathedral of Winchester "aud the Abbeys of Bath and Wilton, as 

 follows : — 



" I. Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus, mxxxv. ; Birch Cartularium 

 Saxunicum, 390. Aug. 19 and Dec. 26. A.D. 825. 



quindecim cassatorum in ^theltune. King Egcberctus to the 

 Cathedral at Winchester. Alton Priors. Boundaries: be tcestan 

 irodnesheorge} Winton. 



Domesday Book, 20 hides. Monks of Winchester. 



II. K., G. Z>., MLxx. ; 0. ,Sf. 566 ; Thorpe, Bipl., 492. After A.D. 871 . 

 Will of Ceolwen leaving 15 hides at Aweltune acquired by her husband 



in legal possession with witness of King Alfred to the Cathedral at 

 Winchester. Alton Priors. The same boundaries as in the previous 

 charter. Winton. 



III. K., C. D., Gccxxxv. ; C. S. 600. A. D. 903. 



XX cassatorum in Stantun. Rex Eadward principi Ordlaf. Stanton 

 St. Bernard. Boundaries: thonne ofer wodnes die. Wilton. 

 D. B. 20 hides. St. Mary of Wilton. 



•As to " Wodnesbeorge," identified by both Kemble and Thorpe with 

 Wanborough, Mr. Taylor says the estate in question is certainly Alton Priors. 



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