Talk:Battle of Meretun

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I found a number of references to the Battle of Marton in wikipedia entries (eg. Danelaw, Battle of Basing) that were not linked to a battle page. I created this stub and in referencing it discovered the Battle of Merton entry. The content of both needs to be merged as they refer to the same battle - I propose the merge from Merton to Marton - both may be equally valid.Metabaronic (talk) 11:41, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Clearly the same battle. Revcasy (talk) 12:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, go for it. Just make sure you get all the redirects together. Sadads (talk) 11:20, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now merged. Metabaronic (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another possible location for this Battle was Merdon Castle (originally an iron age hill fort) now part of the parish of Hursley, Winchester, Hampshire. This would make sense as this is very close to Winchester, which in turn is near to Basing now Basingstoke

This is cited as the location in British History Online - A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3

With footnote 6 in the above reference adding...

Milner in his Hist. of Winchester identifies it thus because of the evident nearness of the scene to Winchester, whereas Merton in Surrey, with which other writers (Lingard, Hist. of England, i, 164, &c.) have identified Merantune, would have been too far from the king's capital for his military forces to reach the scene of the murder before Cynheard could withdraw (Hist. of Winchester, 111). Woodward unhesitatingly accepted Milner's opinion (Hist. of Hants, i, 319). One other point that seems to sweep away many of the objections made by Marsh in his Mem. of the Parish of Hursley is that the spelling 'Merantune' is found in one version of the chronicle in the description of a battle which he himself gives as taking place at Merdon; Angl.-Sax. Chron. (Rolls Ser.), i, 140; Cott. Tib. A. iv. Zekizeki (talk) 16:55, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see no objection to adding the possible Hampshire site. The Victoria County History is always a good reference, even with such early volumes. Moonraker (talk) 19:10, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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