The Chronicle records Edward built a burh at an unidentified place called Wigingamere in 916 and that the Danes from Huntingdon and East Anglia besieged it for three days without success and then left. The ability of a newly built burh to withstand immediate Danish attack demonstrated the speed of Anglo-Saxon fortification and the effectiveness of the burh concept in practice. Wigingamere is unidentified but was probably in Essex or eastern Hertfordshire.
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