The version on this site - very much a working draft - was updated on 6th May 2003

This version is now superceded by the final published version, in Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 13 (brought out June 2006)

If you wish to receive a copy on pdf, please email Jeremy Haslam

go to:    PART I :-  The defeat of the Vikings in Mercia and London

go to:    PART II :-  The Burghal Hidage - a reassessment