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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… until he was slain in battle by Ceadwalla, a prince of Wessex, who subjugated the kingdom of the South Saxons. On …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… defences. A full description of the earthworks appears in Wessex from the Air, by O. G. S. Crawford and A. Keiller …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from whom, in 577, it was taken by Ceawlin, King of Wessex. In 656 it was annexed to the kingdom of Mercia; and …
A History of the County of Dorset
… or Cuthburga, the daughter and sister respectively of the Wessex kings, Kenred and Ine, who after her union with …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hants, ii. 116-17; cf. below, this section. Finberg, Early Wessex Chart. p. 80. P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/3341, rott. 52-3. … p. 128; 666/1-2. Ibid. 9/10/24; 9/10/26. Finberg, Early Wessex Chart. pp. 82-3, 85; Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Chart. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… PPS, 27 (1961), 296, Nos. 1124). A miniature vessel of Wessex-type, described as a pygmy-cup 'from Weldon', and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… expanded rapidly with the co-operation of the Bath and Wessex Children's Orthopaedic Hospital to become one of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Procs., XXIX (1908), 137; Ant. J. XIII (1933), 444). Two 'Wessex Culture' bronze daggers, found in digging foundations …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cart. Sax. ii, p. 170; H. P. R. Finberg, Early Charters of Wessex, p. 127. Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. lvii, suppl. 142-9, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… ANGLO-SAXON BURH Standing as it did at the border between Wessex and Mercia, and at a strategic river-crossing, the … 2 It is one of the network of strongholds thrown across Wessex c. 880 and listed in the Burghal Hidage, a document of … and the Vikings'; D. Hill and A. R. Rumble, The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon fortifications …