54 The Saxon Boundaries of Dovmton, Wilts. 



boundary now runs easb for half-a-mile along the road to the point 

 where the track to the Pepperbox crosses it. At the top of a 

 mound in an angle of the crossing there is a socketted stone known 

 as Austin's Cross, which seems to correspond in position to 

 Headda's Grave (7). 



Then along the hedge at Witan ivyrth to Water (?) brook, to willoxo. 

 From Austin's stone a line of Yew trees is still to be clearly seen 

 running south and forming the hedge boundary of Whiteparish (in 

 which is unexpectedly preserved the name of Witan-wyrth, or 

 Counsellor's Field) (8). This line is continued till it takes up the 

 winding course of a stream near New House, the Blackwater (9), 

 flowing south to the marshy ground by Langley Wood, where 

 willows grow. 



To the ditch at Iiiceles ivyrth. By Langley Wood the stream 

 turns and runs east for about two miles to Landford Bridge (10). 

 I cannot discover any survival of the name of Hicel's field, there. 



Then across the open field to the Hedge, out through Brembcr Wood 

 to the stone post. The boundary leaves the course of the stream 

 at Landford Bridge, passing southward straight across Landford 

 Common, where it strikes an angle of the county boundary between 

 Hants and Wilts (11). Here it turns south-west and follows the 

 county boundary, skirting Bramshaw Wood and Bramble Hill till 

 it reaches the ridge of the "Telegraph" road (12). The "hedge" 

 of the county boundary is now marked by oak posts. 



Along the Warpath to Fobb's spring. Still continuing along the 

 county boundary and telegraph road, to the hamlet of North 

 Charford on the ridge overlooking the Avon Valley, the edge of 

 the Tertiary 'sands is reached. A spring now known as Hobb's 

 Well lies about a quarter-of-a-mile from the road and there are 

 other springs near (13). 



Along the Warpath to the hedge end at the fair-battle-ford. We 

 are now on the route by which Cerdic must have led his army to 

 the Avon Valley. The land here falls rapidly, and the boundary 

 runs down to strike the Kiver Avon at right angles (14), at the 

 site of the famous battle of Cerdices Lord, or Charford (15), where 

 in 519, a hundred and fifty years before the granting of this charter, 



