Editing Battle of Deorham (section)

==Evidence==
[[File:Sixth- and seventh-century battles of West-Saxon kings according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.png|thumb|Sixth- and seventh-century battles of West-Saxon kings according to the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'']]
The only evidence for the battle is an entry in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', in the so-called 'common stock' of annals on which all manuscripts of the ''Chronicle'' build that was edited into its current form in the later ninth century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Sims-Williams |first=Patrick |date=1983 |title=The Settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44510771 |journal=Anglo-Saxon England |volume=12 |pages=1–41 |doi=10.1017/S0263675100003331 |jstor=44510771}}.</ref>{{rp|26–34}} As given in the earliest manuscript, the [[Parker Chronicle]], the annal reads:

{{Blockquote |multiline=yes |text={{lang|ang|Hēr Cuþwine ⁊ Ċeawlin fuhton wiþ Brettas, ⁊ hīe .iii. kyningas ofslōgon, Coinmail, ⁊ Condidan, ⁊ Farinmail, in þǣre stōwe þe is ġecweden Dēorham. ⁊ ġenāmon .iii. ċeastra Glēawanċeaster, ⁊ Ċirenċeaster, ⁊ Baþanċeaster.}}<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20180428104359/http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/a/a-L.html Manuscript A: The Parker Chronicle]", in ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: An Electronic Edition'', ed. by Tony Jebson.</ref><br/><br/>
577: Here [[Cuthwine of Wessex|Cuthwine]] and [[Ceawlin of Wessex|Ceawlin]] fought against the Britons, and they killed 3 kings, Coinmail, Condidan and Farinmail, in the place which is called Deorham, and took 3 cities: [[Gloucester]] and [[Cirencester]] and [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swanton |first=M. |title=The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles |publisher=Phoenix |year=1996 |location=London |pages=18 }}</ref>}}

Scholars agree that the place-name {{lang|ang|Deorham}} here survives in the name of [[Dyrham]] in what is now South Gloucestershire, on the [[Cotswolds]] escarpment a few miles north of Bath, and that it is here that the battle is portrayed as taking place. The identification of the other cities is even less controversial; they correspond to {{lang|la|[[Corinium]]}}, a provincial capital in the [[Roman Britain|Roman period]] ([[Cirencester]]); {{lang|la|[[Glevum]]}}, a former {{lang|la|[[colonia (Roman)|colonia]]}} ([[Gloucester]]); and {{lang|la|[[Aquae Sulis]]}}, a renowned [[spa]] and pagan religious centre ([[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]).<ref name=":0" />{{rp|33–34}}