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Elstub 



Dole 



v./ 



iUnder, 

 Ditch 



Amesbury 



Branch 



Cadworth 



Alderbury 



kms 







kms 



Fig. 7. Stonehenge in relation to boundaries of the Domesday Hundreds of south-east Wiltshire. Black dots show valley- 

 based Domesday settlement pattern. 



(Sawyer 1968, cat. no. 264). The Latin boundary 

 clause records the northern edge of the estate (and 

 also that of the Domesday Hundred of 

 Kinwardstone) : 'in longum valli progressa in ilia 

 antiqua monumenta in locum ubi a ruricolis dicitur. 

 aet dam holen stypbum. Sicque ad illos gabulos. In 

 longum gemazrweges. to wadbeorge...' (and so 

 along the dyke to those ancient monuments to the 

 place the natives call 'at the holly stumps', and so 

 to the gallows, along boundary way. to 

 woadbarrow...). This early boundary clause thus 

 encapsulates the characteristics of the excavated 

 cemeteries noted above. Between the mid 9th and 

 the 1 1 th centuries, 15 sets of charter bounds record 



the locations of 12 named burials, demonstrating 

 the continuation of isolated burial from the 7th to 

 the 11th century (Reynolds in press, cat. nos. 52- 

 66). 



Landscape context of 4.10.4 



The territorial context is of particular interest. 

 Stonehenge lies 800m north of the boundary 

 between the Domesday (1086), and potentially 

 much earlier, hundreds of Amesbury and 

 Underditch (Figure 7). One might suggest a 7th- 

 century date for the origins of what became 

 hundreds here by or at about the time of the 



