Page "Ceawlin of Wessex" Paragraph 14

Subsequent entries in the Chronicle give details of some of the battles by which the West Saxons won their kingdom.

Ceawlin's campaigns are not given as near the coast.

They range along the Thames valley and beyond, as far as Surrey in the east and the mouth of the Severn in the west.

Ceawlin clearly is part of the West Saxon expansion, but the military history of the period is difficult to understand.

In what follows the dates are as given in the Chronicle, although as noted above, these are earlier than now thought accurate.