Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . cceeding warriors. The hill, on the top of which Buncton Chapel stands, isIqow a portion of Ashington parish entirely insulated withinthat of Wiston, a fact which in itself seems to denote anImportant proprietor in old times (as again in the case ofpedgewick Castle, near Horsham), and it slopes gently into;he Weald on all sides, except on the north-west, where iti sinks more precipitously into a woody glen, through whichr :uns a small brook. There is a gable-ended house, at the; lorth-east foot of the hil
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . cceeding warriors. The hill, on the top of which Buncton Chapel stands, isIqow a portion of Ashington parish entirely insulated withinthat of Wiston, a fact which in itself seems to denote anImportant proprietor in old times (as again in the case ofpedgewick Castle, near Horsham), and it slopes gently into;he Weald on all sides, except on the north-west, where iti sinks more precipitously into a woody glen, through whichr :uns a small brook. There is a gable-ended house, at the; lorth-east foot of the hill, surrounded by a moat. The accom-panying woodcut of the steeper side from the north-west (fort :he drawing of which I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Medland»)f Steyning, whom I had the pleasure of accompanying to the| spot) will sufficiently explain the position of the chapel on the 17 Sec Mr. Medlands Paper, Sussex ArcJi. Collections) V, p. 115. viii. 24 180 BUNCTON. hill. In the structure of this small chapel, so simple and simassive that it might almost have been formed from the ha. of a Saxon chief, many Roman tiles appear, derived probablfrom the ruins of that Roman villa, the hypocaust of which wenrecently discovered half a mile Mr. Earle, whom we have already had occasion to thanMhas most kindly favoured me with his opinion, that the contraction of the name into its modern appearance, the hicalled Biohchandoune of the eighth century now changed inti Buncton, is a probable modernism, and that the originsname meant Birch Down. Instances of similar compressionof ancient names are readily found in this vicinity, where th|Donechitoune, Botechitoune, and Wistanestun of Domesdajhave become Duncton, Burton, and Wiston, while Bunctoiappears there in an intermediate form as Bongetune, with Iwood of ten hogs. The identity of the names is als<|considered more than probable by the eminent Anglo-Saxoijscholar, Benjamin Thorpe, Esq., to whom I am much indebtecfor his com
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