The Story of Bucgan'ora
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The story of the Saxon heritage of Bognor Regis & the Kingdom of Sussex
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, states that Ælle arrived in Sussex with three ships and went on to fight at Cymenshore ..
Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Chronicles Ælle landed in AD 477 and battled the local Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa..
The spelling Cymenshore in Old English Cȳmenes ōra, which is now lost. The location for Cȳmenes ōra is traditionally identified with Selsey Bill
Battle of Mercredesburne in 485..
Ælle became the first king of the South Saxons.
The villages of Ashburnham and Penhurst in East Sussex maintain a tradition that a pre-Saxon earthwork known as Town Creep, situated in Creep Wood which adjoins the two villages, was the site of Mercredsburn. Oral tradition surviving to the end of the 19th century referred to the earthworks as being the site of a town which was besieged and destroyed by the Saxons
The Kingdom of Sussex was eventually annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex in the 9th century and went on to become the county of Sussex, England.
Citation - Gary Hook - A Journey Through Time Facebook Group
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Archaeological investigations at Oldlands Farm revealed many rare and new categories of features and finds for prehistoric Sussex, encouraging comparison with neighbouring parts of Wessex.
During both the neolithic period and the Bronze Age the site was located close to an estuary or embayment associated with the Lidsey and Aldingbourne Rifes. This location, with its rich pastures and saltmarsh habitats, may have acted as a draw to people throughout prehistory. During the late neolithic period the area seems to have been used, perhaps on a seasonal basis, for feasting and possibly the production and consumption of alcohol. Associated with this phase was Grooved Ware pottery, a ritualised pit, the earliest known burnt mound from south-east England and a pit cluster. The latter two classes of monument may have acted as beacons in the landscape for transient local groups. During the subsequent Bronze Age the area was used for agriculture, settlement and funerary practice. Two phases of regular, possibly coaxial, field systems were located, as well as a signifcant L-shaped and later circular enclosure, reminiscent of the ringworks of eastern England. The latter phase of this enclosure was proximate to a signifcant waterhole, which not only provided the frst example of a log ladder found in Sussex, but also a rare and important pollen sequence for the Coastal Plain.
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