G. B. Grundy

George Beardoe Grundy (1861-1948) was a classicist, and for many years a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At the end of the Great War, when he was approaching 60, he turned to the study of the vernacular boundary-clauses in Anglo-Saxon charters, maintaining a steady stream of publications, county by county, for the next twenty years. 

G. B. Grundy, Fifty-five Years at Oxford: an Unconventional Autobiography (London, 1945).

Grundy's heavily annotated copy of Birch's Cartularium Saxonicum was acquired in November 1992 by Patrick Wormald. It was sold with the rest of PW's library in 2006, and is now penes SDK in the Department of ASNC, Cambridge.

For a list of Grundy's publications on charter boundaries, see Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters (1968), pp. 9-10, and the Electronic Sawyer.

  • 'The Ancient Highways and Tracks of Wiltshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, and the Saxon Battlefields of Wiltshire', Archaeological Journal 75 (1918), 69–194
  • 'On the Meaning of Certain Terms in the Anglo-Saxon Charters', Essays and Studies 7 (1922), 37–69
  • 'West Monkton: Revised Notes of its Charter', Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 84 (1938), 104–06
  • 'Berkshire Charters', Berkshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal 27 (1922), 96–102, 37–71, 93–247
  • 'Berkshire Charters', ibid. 28 (1924), 64–80
  • 'Berkshire Charters', ibid. 29 (1925), 87–128, 96–220
  • 'Berkshire Charters', ibid. 30 (1926), 48–63, 102–20
  • 'Berkshire Charters', ibid. 31 (1927), 31–62, 111–45
  • 'Berkshire Charters', ibid. 32 (1928), 16–30, 62–68
  • 'Dorset Charters', Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 55 (1933), 239–68
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 56 (1934), 110–30
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 57 (1935), 114–39
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 58 (1936), 103–36
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 59 (1937), 95–118
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 60 (1938), 75–89
  • 'Dorset Charters', ibid. 61 (1939), 60–78
  • Saxon Charters and Field Names of Gloucestershire, 2 pts, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol, 1935-6)
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire with Notes on Place and Field Names', Archaeological Journal 2nd series 28 (1921), 55–173
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire with Notes on Place and Field Names', ibid. 31 (1924), 31–126
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire with Notes on Place and Field Names', ibid. 33 (1926), 91–253
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire with Notes on Place and Field Names', ibid. 34 (1927), 160–340
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire with Notes on Place and Field Names', ibid. 35 (1928), 188–96
  • Saxon Oxfordshire: Charters and Ancient Highways, Oxfordshire Record Society (Oxford, 1933)
  • The Saxon Charters and Field Names of Somerset (Taunton, 1935), first issued in parts as supplements to the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 73 (1927) - 80 (1934)
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Wiltshire', Archaeological Journal 2nd series 26 (1919), 143–301
  • 'The Saxon Land Charters of Wiltshire', ibid. 27 (1920), 8–126
  • 'Saxon Charters of Worcestershire' [1], Birmingham Archaeological Society Transactions and Proceedings 52 (1927), 1–183, reptd (Oxford, 1929)
  • 'Saxon Charters of Worcestershire' [2], ibid. 53 (1928), 18–131, reptd (Oxford, 1931)