The defence of Wessex The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon fortifications edited by David Hill and Alexander R. Rumble Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press Contents List of figures page vii List of tables ix List of contributors x Preface xi List of abbreviations xiii Introduction David Hill and Alexander R. Rumble 1 The development of Burghal Hidage studies: a bibliographical 5 review David Hill An edition and translation of the Burghal Hidage, together with 14 Recension C of the Tribal Hidage Alexander R. Rumble The manuscript evidence 3.1 The known manuscripts of the Burghal Hidage 36 Alexander R. Rumble 3.2 BL Cotton MS. Otho B. xi: a supplementary note 59 Patrick Wormald The Burghal Hidage as a document 4.1 Diplomatic sub-sections Alexander R. Rumble 69 4.2 The nature of the figures David Hill 74 4.3 The West Saxon hidage and the 'Appendix' 87 Nicholas P. Brooks 4.4 The Calculation and the purpose of the Burghal Hidage 92 David Hill The Burghal Hidage place-names 5.1 A linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Burghal Hidage 98 fjohn McN. Dodgson 5.2 A collation of the Burghal Hidage place-name forms 122 Alexander R. Rumble The administrative background to the Burghal Hidage 128 Nicholas P. Brooks Contents 7 The fortifications and their shires David A. Hinton 151 8 Mints, burhs, and the Grately code, cap. 14.2 Mark Blackburn 160 Appendices I OE weal-stilling John McN. Dodgson 176 II OE warn Alexander R. Rumble 178 III The Tribal Hidage: an annotated bibliography Alexander R. Rumble 182 IV Gazetteer of Burghal Hidage sites David Hill 189 Index 232 VI.