Recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a battle fought by Aelle of Sussex near Mercredesburne, identified with a stream boundary in Sussex. Part of the gradual South Saxon conquest of the coastal plain, this engagement reflects the slow attrition of British resistance in the southeast.
c.500–1,500 per side; early medieval pitched battle between Anglo-Saxons and Britons.
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