A large Danish army ravaged Hampshire systematically in 1001, combining with the siege of Exeter and Dartmouth raids to make it one of the worst years of the Second Viking Age. The Chronicle records fighting at Dean, near Basingstoke, and at Sherfield. Many English thegns were killed trying to intercept the Danes. The Hampshire devastation contributed to the political pressure that produced the Danegeld payment of 24,000 pounds in 1002.
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