Brent Knoll Camp
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Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age hillfort at Brent Knoll, 3 kilometres from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Monument, and is now in the care of the National Tru
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Brent Knoll with a sign on the M5 motorway
Jubilee memorial
Treaty of Wedmore
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The Treaty of Wedmore is a 9th century agreement between King Alfred the Great of Wessex and the Viking king Guthrum the Old. The only contemporary reference to the treaty is that of a Welsh monk, Ass
Brent Knoll Camp
…to be the site of a battle in 875 at which forces of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex drove away the Great Heathen Army led by Guthrum, prior to the Treaty of Wedmore, which was signed three years later. During the medieval era the local land was held by Glastonbury Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries in…
Statue of Alfred the Great at Winchester