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STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



EXPLANATION. 



dispossessed thereof. The site of 

 the present barrow exactly taUies 

 with the boundary of the old sur- 

 vey. Both it and Blackbarrow 

 are ancient landmarks, which 

 still exist. From this barrow the 

 boundary went south-west; Spra- 

 combesheved being easily identi- 

 fied with the headland above 

 Orchard Corner; and near the 

 east end of the Warren Allot- 

 ment, crossing the Exe at the 

 west corner of Orchard Gorse. 

 Thence to Radstone, Redstone, 

 a well-known point in the Exford 

 parish boundary, on the present 

 road to Simonsbath. From Red- 

 stone the boundary followed the 

 present Simonsbath road (the 

 north hedge whereof is the bound- 

 ary of Exford and Exmoor 

 parishes) westward to the insig- 

 nificant water (now probably 

 under the road) which runs down 

 to Radleycombe(Red-de-Combe: 

 compare Short - a - Combe and 

 Small-a-Combe). The boundary 

 then turned south for Schepecumbe- 

 hevcd, which is identical with the 

 head of the present Shutscombe, 

 though Deresmarke is apparently 



ORIGINAL. 



and thence to a place called 

 Spracombesheved ; and thence 

 by a certain duct to Ex water ; 

 and so going up by an old ditch 

 to a stone called Radston ; and 

 thence between the fee of John 

 Mohun and the fee of the Abbot 

 of Neth to a ford which is called 

 Reddeford : and so ascending by 

 the heath directly to a place 

 called Schepecumbeheved, as far 

 as a stone known by the nauie of 

 Deresmarke ; and thence going 

 along beyond the heath between 

 the King's demesne and the fee 

 of the Abbot of Neth, to a place 

 called Stonchiste, and so going 

 down to a place in the water of 

 Berghel, where the water of 

 Schureburn runs into the water of 

 Berghel, which place is called 

 Schureburnessete, and thence on 

 the other side the heath directly 

 to a stone called Hockleston, and 

 so going down to a ford called 

 Wylleneford in the water of 



