The Chronicle records great slaughter at Woden's Barrow in 592 and the expulsion of Ceawlin. This internal West Saxon conflict resulted in Ceawlin losing the kingdom he had spent decades building. The battle marks the first recorded West Saxon civil war and the instability that would dog Wessex before the Mercian supremacy.
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