During Alfred's Athelney period, the Somerset Chronicle tradition and later sources record various skirmishing engagements in the Somerset levels and surrounding hills as Alfred maintained pressure on Danish forces. Cannington hill was an ancient defended site above the Quantocks that may have served as a local refuge and rally point for West Saxon resistance before the main campaign at Egbert's Stone.
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