The Stream Ceren and its Gemyðum, Saxon and Prehistoric Landmarks of Charney Basset, Berkshire Pt 2

This is part two of my exploration of Charney Basset in Berkshire and its Saxon charter which is found here:

https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter...

I make the case that it describes an Old Brythonic (Welsh) fortification with a name that goes back to those pre-English days. It is named after the stream that is next to it which is a Celtic word for rocks and is the same as the rivers Churn and Cerne.

These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.

But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.

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