Map Position This map shows the position of locations of type 'Town, Village, Roman City, Roman Town, Roman Villa, Roman Major Fort, Roman Watch Tower, Roman Port, Saxon Landing' containing 'borough, ing, ypwinesfleot, dubris, durovernum, portus lemanis, regulbium, rutupiae' centered on Wilmington in Kent.
Map Logic This map shows the land in 457AD.
The forest of Andredsweald is shown, which was impassable except where Roman Roads or rivers cut through it.
Roman roads are shown in black plotted from Ivan D Margary 'Roman Roads in Britain' published in 1955.
The red roads are taken from Ivan D Margary 'Roman ways in the Weald' published in 1948.
The Blue lines show the extent of the tidal rivers with the blue shaded areas showing tidal salt marshes as it would have been
in Saxon times.
Lets start by looking at the documentation available
Extract from the Anglo Saxon Chronicles 457AD
Original :- Her Hengest ⁊ æsc fuhton wiþ Brettas in þære stowe þe is gecueden Crecganford ⁊ þær ofslogon .iiiim. wera, ⁊ þa Brettas þa forleton Centlond ⁊ mid micle ege flugon to Lundenbyrg.
A.D. 457. This year Hengest and Esc fought with the Britons on
the spot that is called Crayford, and there slew four thousand
men. The Britons then forsook the land of Kent, and in great
consternation fled to London.
