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This page needs some work. The narrative is largely supposition and the Uffington/Ashbury location is now generally discounted. I have tried to clarify this, but the whole thing needs rewriting really Walgamanus 20:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
In the second paragraph the article says that "The battle was little more than a great clash of shield walls ..." and then "This was a 'pyrrhic victory', for a great many lives were lost on each side... ". This is contradictory. treesmill 13:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Large parts of the text on this page seem to be lifted, with only slight editing, from www.berkshirehistory.com, and as such are in breach of copyright. 86.148.170.255 18:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I am preparing to make some small but necessary stylistic and factual changes, and give some citations. Hopefully this will clarify some of the issues being here discussed and qualify the article to have the citations and verifications tag removed. To begin with, I updated the "Anglo-Saxon" spelling of Ashdown: what was there - "Aschendune" - appeared to be a combination of German spelling and the dative form (as appears in the Chronicles). It is listed a minor edit. Hopefully I will be able to make some other corrections to the satisfaction of those concerned. Delvebelow ( talk) 18:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how much of an impact this battle had on Wales so I'm not sure how to incorporate this into the article, but it seems that the Battle of Bryn Onnen ('Ash Hill') mentioned in all of the Welsh annals and chronicles (as "Cat brin onnen", "Catwren onnan", &c.) is identical with Ashdown. ( Here's at least one source backing up the identification, along with a more precise location for the battle: Compton near East Ilsley.) — LlywelynII 21:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Battle of Ashdown/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Could use some major cleanup, as well as needing references. Decent amount of content though. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 22:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) |
Last edited at 22:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 09:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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This page needs some work. The narrative is largely supposition and the Uffington/Ashbury location is now generally discounted. I have tried to clarify this, but the whole thing needs rewriting really Walgamanus 20:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
In the second paragraph the article says that "The battle was little more than a great clash of shield walls ..." and then "This was a 'pyrrhic victory', for a great many lives were lost on each side... ". This is contradictory. treesmill 13:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Large parts of the text on this page seem to be lifted, with only slight editing, from www.berkshirehistory.com, and as such are in breach of copyright. 86.148.170.255 18:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I am preparing to make some small but necessary stylistic and factual changes, and give some citations. Hopefully this will clarify some of the issues being here discussed and qualify the article to have the citations and verifications tag removed. To begin with, I updated the "Anglo-Saxon" spelling of Ashdown: what was there - "Aschendune" - appeared to be a combination of German spelling and the dative form (as appears in the Chronicles). It is listed a minor edit. Hopefully I will be able to make some other corrections to the satisfaction of those concerned. Delvebelow ( talk) 18:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how much of an impact this battle had on Wales so I'm not sure how to incorporate this into the article, but it seems that the Battle of Bryn Onnen ('Ash Hill') mentioned in all of the Welsh annals and chronicles (as "Cat brin onnen", "Catwren onnan", &c.) is identical with Ashdown. ( Here's at least one source backing up the identification, along with a more precise location for the battle: Compton near East Ilsley.) — LlywelynII 21:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Battle of Ashdown/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Could use some major cleanup, as well as needing references. Decent amount of content though. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 22:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC) |
Last edited at 22:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 09:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)