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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 14 SE 30 |
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| Type of record: | Place |
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| Name: | Previously suspected battlefield (AD 804), Lyminge |
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Summary
Previously suspected site of a battle AD 804. More recently thought to be based on Sawyer charter 160 referring to a grant of land in Canterbury to the Abbess and her cmmunity at Lymine 'to serve as a refuge'.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1608 4089 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR14SE |
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| Parish: | LYMINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BATTLEFIELD? (BATTLEFIELD, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Full description
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[Name centred: TR 16084089]. Site of a Battle between the Danes and Saxons (AD 804) [NAT]. (1)
More recently the date AD 804 is thought to be based on Sawyer charter 160 from that year, which refers to a grant from 'Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Selethryth, abbess, and her familia at Lyminge' of land in Canterbury 'to serve as a refuge'. (2) The charter does not mention a battle, or Danes specifically. The wording implies a percieved potential threat rather than a present danger, and may even have been the reason given for a politically-motivated grant to pro-Mercian Selethryth and/or her brother.
<1> OS 25" 1907 (OS Card Reference). SKE48258.
<2> Kings College London, 2021, The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of A nglo-Saxon Charters - Charter 160 (Website). SKE54612.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: OS 25" 1907. [Mapped feature: #42766 battlefield, ] |
| <2> | Website: Kings College London. 2021. The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of A nglo-Saxon Charters - Charter 160. |
