On Swinbroc first, thence up from Swinbroc on to rush-slade, from this rush-slade's corner fore-against Hordwell-way, thence along this way until it comes to the Icknild way, then from these ways upon the old wood-way, then from that wood-way by east Tellesburg to a corner, then from that corner to a _goreacre_, thence along its furrow to the head of a _headland_, and which headland goes into the land, then right on to the stone on ridge way, then on west to a _gore_ along the furrow to its head, then adown to fernhills slade, thence on a furrow in the acre nearer the _lince_, then on that lince at fernhills slade southward from that lince to its head, forward then on a furrow to a stonerow, then right on to the ridge-way, thence thereon to a _goreacre_ at its head, the goreacre being within that land, thence along a furrow till it comes to a corner, thence from that corner forward on a furrow till it comes to a _headland_, which headland is within the land, then on the Ickenild way by Tellesburg west, thence north over the Ickenild way to Sican-well, thence . . . over a _furlong_ right on to an alder-bed at hedgehill's brook corner, along this brook till it comes to two _goreacres_, which goreacres are within that land, thence on a _headland_ to its head, then right on to Redcliffe on Swinbrook, then along this brook on that rush-slade. In this single instance there is mention of _acres_ or strips, of _gores_ or _gored-acres_, of _headlands_, of _furlongs_, and of _linches_. «All the marks are found.» Scores of similar instances might be given from the Abingdon charters, 'Liber de Hyda,' and the 'Codex Diplomaticus,' showing that the boundaries constantly make mention of one or another of the distinctive marks by which the open field system may be recognised.[132] [p109] «1,000 years ago.» There can, therefore, be no doubt that the fields of Saxon manors or villages were open fields divided into furlongs and strips, and having their headlands and linches. Even the little odds and ends of '_no mans land_' are incidentally found to have their place in the Saxon open fields 1,000 years ago. But how far back can these Saxon open fields be traced? The answer is, as far back as the laws of King Ine can be held to reach into the past. These laws were republished by King Alfred as 'The Dooms of Ine,' who came to the throne in A.D. 688. In their first clause they claim to have been recorded by King Ine with the counsel and teaching of his father _Cenred_, and of _Hedde_, his bishop (who was Bishop of Winchester from A.D. 676 to 705), and of _Eorcenwold_, his bishop (who obtained the see of London in 675); and so, if genuine, they seem to represent what was settled customary law in Wessex during the last half of the seventh century--the century after the conquest of the greater part of Wessex.