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Cerdic's Landing-place

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

O. G. S. Crawford
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In 1931 I wrote an article maintaining the thesis that Cerdic’s ora, where in 495 Cerdic and in 514 the West Saxons landed, was to be located near Totton at the head of Southampton Water; and that he advanced westwards along an old track called the Cloven Way to Cerdic's ford, which is certainly to be put at Charford on the Salisbury Avon. I still think that the latter part of the advance must have been along the Cloven Way which led to the ford down a deep hollow way that can still be seen. But certain new discoveries have caused me to abandon the theory of a landing at Totton and to locate Cerdic’s ora on the coast between Calshot and the mouth of the Beaulieu River.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 104 , December 1952 , pp. 193 - 200
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1952

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References

1 ANTIQUITY V, 441–58 : ‘ Cerdic and the Cloven Way ‘.

2 The two brothers of Arwald, king of Wight, fled from the island, ‘ et in proximam Jutorum provinciam translati ; ubi, cum delati in locum qui vocatur Ad Lapidem . . . ‘ Bede, Op. Hist., ed. Plummer, 1916, i, 237. In 1590 John Cole, a mariner of Lepe, found a mast floating in the Solent while he was ‘ in his boate passinge betwene Gurnard and Leape ‘. Book of Examinations (So’ton Record Soc., 1914), 78.

3 See Field Archaeology, by Dr Williams-Freeman, 1915, 214–16, 442 : Proc. Hants Field Club x, 1927, 35–9 (plan of road and of earthworks in Pits Copse). The present farmhouse of stone is partly built of Isle of Wight limestone, and is of medieval date. There are banks and hollows in the west bank of the stream just north of the point where it is crossed by the private road leading east to the farm.

4 Which closely resembles, but is not, the causeway of a Roman road. I owe my knowledge of this road to Mr L. A. Burgess, Deputy-Librarian, Southampton.

5 Proc. Hants Field Club XVI, 1945, 166. I wish also to thank her and the Editor for permission to reproduce the section, FIG. 3.

6 Cartulary of Beaulieu Abbey belonging to the Duke of Portland (Welbeck 1.A.2, ff. 13, 70).

7 See ANTIQUITY V, 458.

8 Cal. Pat., Ed. III, vol. 4, p. 150 (1st October, 1338).

9 The account of his excavations there is to be published by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments (England) in their Dorset volume. We give the above facts with Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s permission.

10 Kemble, Cod. Dipl, No. 626.