The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records Aelle fighting at a stream called Mearcredesburna in 485. The location is unknown but presumed to be in Sussex — the name means "the boundary stream agreed upon by treaty". It formed part of the South Saxon conquest of the coastal plain of modern Sussex.
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