Record Details
| NHER Number: | 52938 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible site of the Battle of Ringmere |
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Summary
The site of the Battle of Ringmere between the Danes and the Saxons in AD 1010 is not known, but this is a possible location.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 909 878 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL98NW |
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| Parish: | BRIDGHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| KILVERSTONE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| ROUDHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| WRETHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 2009.
The site of the Battle at Hringmaraheior; Old English Hringmere-hūō, Ringmere Heath between the Danes and the Saxons in 1010 is not known. There are two possible sites near Thetford, Ringmere, Wretham, Norfolk and Rymer Point in Suffolk, which is called Ringmere in early sources. Ringmere in Norfolk sits at the junction of the five parishes of Croxton, Wretham, Kilverstone, Bridgham and Roudham and Larling.
D. Gurney (NLA), 12 August 2009.
Monument Types
- BATTLEFIELD? (Late Saxon - 1010 AD to 1010 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 98 NW 7. |
Related records - none