The same location — Woden's Barrow / Adam's Grave on the Pewsey Vale — saw conflict both in 592 (Ceawlin's overthrow) and again in 715 (Ine vs Ceolred). As a major landmark on the downs visible for miles, it served as a natural meeting-point for armies. The repeated significance of this site over more than a century illustrates how ancient landscape features structured early medieval military geography.
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