Cerdic's Landing-place

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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