Bratton Castle
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Bratton Castle is a bivallate Iron Age built hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury Plain escarpment. The hill fort comprises two circuits of ditch and bank which together enc
The two banks along the southern side of the hillfort
Engraving of Bratton Camp from The Ancient History of South Wiltshire by Sir Richard Colt Hoare
3D view of the digital terrain model
The Memorial to the Battle of Ethandun is a sarsen stone standing in a corner of the public recreation area adjacent to Bratton Castle
Battle of Edington
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The Battle of Edington or Battle of Ethandun was fought in May 878 between the West Saxon army of King Alfred the Great and the Great Heathen Army led by the Danish warlord Guthrum. The battle took pl
Bratton Castle
…less than one foot high, which contained a circular cist with a crouched skeleton, but no relics. The skull is at Cambridge Museum. The Memorial to the Battle of Ethandun is a sarsen stone standing in a corner of the public recreation area adjacent to Bratton Castle Location The site is at grid reference ST90125164, to…
King Alfred's Tower is one supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the battle.
England, after the Battle of Edington and the Treaty of Wedmore, in 886.