By the Rev. A. Du Boulay Hill. \ 53 



It must be noted, as a general characteristic of Saxon charters, 

 that the boundaries given are always those of the whole manor or 

 township, whether the grant refers to the whole or only to some 

 holdings in it. The total area included in the Downton charter is 

 about 18,000 acres, omitting Standlynch. Allowing one-third for 

 uncultivated down and marsh-land, and taking the Mansa as the 

 normal hide of 120 acres, we have roughly the manor of a hundred 

 mansce extending over the whole of the Downton and Bishopstone 

 portions except Standlynch. The translation of the charter 

 boundaries is here indicated by italics. 



These are the boundaries at Duntun. First from Cradwan Crundel. 

 The meaning of Crundel is doubtful. It may indicate a stone 

 cairn, or perhaps a quarry or pit dug out in the chalk. I take it 

 here as referring to that abrupt termination of Grim's Ditch on 

 Wick Down, marked (1) on the plan ; or, even more probably, 

 since the boundary here touches the Cawdon and Cadworth 

 Hundred, Cradivan Crundel may denote a " Cawdon cairn " as the 

 starting point of the circuit. No trace of a cairn remains. 



To Warrior's Hill, to the ford's meadow, to Ebblesburn at Afen. 

 The boundary runs north-west to the south corner of the ancient 

 wood known as Great Yews (2) passing at least one tumulus. 

 Here it turns north-east, passing between Odstock and Nun ton 

 Churches, and crossing the river Ebble (3) (or Chalk) follows its 

 stream down to the junction with the Elver Avon. 



To the Vetches, to the Muddy Lake. Turning south along the 

 Avon (4) at Bodenham, it then crosses the wide river bed now 

 occupied by water meadows (5). 



To earnesbeoerh. Bising from the river bank eastward, it traverses 

 Witherington Bing and the old stockaded entrenchments called 

 The Lynchetts, by an old road known as Pack Bath. I suggest 

 that these earthworks may be Earnesbury or Eaglesbury (6). 



To ditch at Bered's Tree, to the Warpath, to Headda's Grave. A 

 mile from the Lynchetts it reaches the top of the down, and with 

 an abrupt turn strikes the Salisbury and Whiteparish Boad. The 

 only evidence of a ditch here perhaps survives in the name of the 

 neighbouring parish of West Grimstead (Grimestead) . The 



