The siege and storming of Anderida (the Roman fort of Anderitum, at Pevensey) by Aelle of Sussex and his son Cissa is one of the most explicit records of massacre in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The entry for 491 states that Aelle and Cissa besieged Andredesceaster and slew all the inhabitants so that not a single Briton survived. Pevensey Roman fort then lay desolate for centuries, occupied only by the Saxons who briefly used it, before the Normans built a castle inside its walls in 1066.
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