The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, The Medieval World

Episode 25, The Battle of Eddington. said. Oh, you know, you know, you know,

now, you know, oh, oh, oh, He still Historians debate the exact location of the Battle of Eddington, but most historians

accept a location close to the village of Eddington in the English

County of Wiltshire.

There is no firm reason to believe that it wasn't at this location but there are other settlements in the

south of England that share the same name so the name itself is not a conclusive

factor.

Wheelchair is in the south of England and within the boundaries of the early medieval Anglo-Saxon

kingdom of Wessex.

This is not far from the historical megalithic site of Stonehenge which is

believed to have been between 4 and 5,000 years old. Stonehenge has been noted for being a location used for spiritual

ceremonies by Druids, who are the observers of Celtic paganism, but this does not mean that Stonehenge was built

by Celtic Britons.

It may well date to before Celtic language speakers ever set foot in the British Isles.

The general theory is that Celtic speakers arrived in Britain around the year 1000 B.E. but there is plenty of debate about this.

When the Romans arrived in the first century B.C. E they encountered a mixture of tribes, mainly Celtic language speakers.

In the south of England we know of the Celtic speaking

d'erotrages and they would have been neighbours of various Belgic tribes

such as the Atrebates that had likely migrated from the continent to settle Southern England too.

When the Romans invaded Britannia under Emperor Claudius in the year 43, all of these southern

English lands were very quickly brought under Roman influence.

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