bescata

bescata , area of turbary (= besca 2b). b spit, spade’s depth. 1193 duas †boscatas [l. bescatas] terre in insula de Aganas (Ch. Tavistock) MonA II 498 (cf. Cart. Tavistock 374); 1208 duas acras Flandrenses in novo marisco de Iclesham et unam ~am terre inclusam (Ch. Bayham) MonA VI 914.  b c1230 reparabit xxxij pedes [fossati] in longitudine et unam bechatam in profunditate (Cust. Hungerford) Doc. Bec 67; c1250 in fossato operato cum profunditate unius ~e et longitudine duarum perticarum Cart. Rams. I 461; 1285 fossabit xvj pedes in longitudine, iiij pedes in latitudine et ij beschatas de profundo pro j opere (Tangmere) Cust. Suss II 12.