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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and Roman (1) Bronze Age burial (unlocated). A small Wessex-type grape-cup (Plate 22) was found at Twywell in 1904 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and Steyning it was owned previously by the kings of Wessex. 57 The name, however, is not recorded before 1210. 58 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the 7th9th centuries and the burial of Brihtric, King of Wessex, in Wareham in 802 1 imply the existence of a church … in the list of fortresses defending the frontiers of Wessex known as the Burghal Hidage. This list, which was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Like many other royal manors of the Wessex kingdom, Westbury developed urban or semiurban …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Oct. 1985. V.C.H. Som. i. 461. Finberg, Early Charters of Wessex, 113-14, 122-3, 201; L. Abrams, Anglo-Saxon …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… landownership. H. P. R. Finberg (ed), Early Charters of Wessex (1964), 143. VCH Som. I, 517. Feudal Aids, IV, 306. I. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… came a richly furnished burial of the Early Bronze Age Wessex Culture. This barrow was later the meeting place of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… also W.A.M. xlv, 208. O. G. S. Crawford and A. Keiller, Wessex from the Air, 254. V.C.H. Wilts. ii, pp. 133, 153. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… son of Cerdic, and his successor in the sovereignty of Wessex, advanced with his army towards Sorbiodunum, or Old … Wiltshire shortly became incorporated in the kingdom of Wessex. It derives its name from Wilton, which, for a long …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… about the middle of the 6th century founded the kingdom of Wessex. How early Wilton became the royal seat of the kingdom … were issued. Thus the concordat of 838 between the King of Wessex and the Archbishop of Canterbury made at Kingston on … the Danish wars of Alfred the primacy of Winchester in Wessex was unquestioned, 3 but Wilton remained the …