Near Hadrian's Wall north of Hexham, Oswald defeated and killed Cadwallon, the Welsh king who had ravaged Northumbria after Hatfield Chase. Before the battle Oswald erected a wooden cross and prayed, making it one of the first explicitly Christian acts of war in English history. Bede treated Heavenfield as a miracle and a turning point for Northumbrian Christianity.
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