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 TN CHARTERS, RENTALS, ACCOUNTS, &C. 279 The compiler of the charter seems to have selected his dis- cordant materials from genuine charters of various and very distant dates, and it is therefore not iinpossihle that he found the words " cum stagnis, tm'bariis, bliatariu,'' &c., in an au- thentic instrument. The word used for this purpose in such genuine records as 1 have seen, coimccted with Dartmoor, is the connuon one " turbaria." — " (jllebaria" is employed in the same sense in some A¥elsh charters. From the word blestaria, or blcsta, such local names as Blisland, Bhston, and Tewai) Blusty", ai)pear to be derived. E. SMIRKE. BERKSIIIIIE ANTIQUITIES. In the course of the present year, and also two years ago, some barrows were opened in the neighbourhood of Ilsley Downs, in this county ; and as a record of such proceedings is always of a certain value to antiquarians, both as a guide in future researches, and to prevent useless trouble in making them, it may not be unacceptable to the readers of the Jour- nal, to be presented with a few particidars of what occurred. The tumuli in question are situated in the parish of Blew- bury, upon the estate of John S. Phillips, Esq., who had kindly given ])ermission for them to be examhied. There had formerly been many of these, of large dimensions, on the hill above the village ; but in the progress of cultivation, the plough has passed over most of them, and two, if not more, have been conqjletely dug down and levelled, so that hardly a trace of their site remains. One, however, of the largest and most consj)icuous, called Churn Knob*, still maintains its position, partly in consequence of having been planted with fir trees about 40 years since, and forms a land-maik for many miles round, especially in coming towards Blewbury along the bottom from Kate's Gore, on which side it is seen to much advantage. Close by, and almost attached to this, is a smaller and lower barrow, now ploughed, which seemed to have been " Tewan or Towan Blusty seems to be * A term applied also to Cuckamsley, the old name of Newquay on the north both bein;; a sort of knob or excrescence coast, or of some place near it. See Mo- on the brow of the lulls on which they re-, nasticou Dioc. Exon. p. 5i. spectively stand.