Two weeks after Ashdown, the Danes defeated the West Saxons at Basing in Hampshire. The Chronicle is brief, simply noting the Danes won. Combined with a second defeat at Merton, the reverses after Ashdown show how costly the 871 campaign was for Wessex: even victories were pyrrhic, and the kingdom's capacity to resist was being ground down.
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