The chronicle's timeline for the 893–894 campaign is contested. Some scholars date the Buttington siege and breakout battle to 894 rather than 893. The engagement remains significant regardless of precise dating: it shows that Alfred's strategy of coordination between different English and Welsh kingdoms could work, trapping a major Viking army through combined operations that the Danes could not evade even in the relatively open Welsh borderland.
Coalition: c. 4,000–5,000. Danish army: c. 2,500–3,500.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Shropshire