One of a series of battles recorded in the Chronicle during the South Saxon conquest of what is now East Sussex. The name refers to a boundary stream — likely a marker of contested territory between the Jutish and Saxon zones of expansion. These fragmentary records show that the Anglo-Saxon takeover of the southeast was a prolonged, contested process rather than a rapid conquest.
c.500–1,500 per side; skirmish during South Saxon conquest of East Sussex.
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