Aelle fought against the British at Mearcredesburna, the boundary stream, in 485. The Chronicle records a fierce engagement with significant losses. The location is uncertain but likely in the Sussex Weald borderlands, reflecting the contested frontier between British territory and the expanding South Saxon kingdom.
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