Vestiges of the Supremacy of Mercia in the South of England, During the Eighth Century
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After all that has been lately said, and insisted upon, to the contrary, what if it should turn out that the " Sumer" tun " of the Annal of a.d. 733, was Somerton in Somersetshire; twelve miles south of Wells, as our deprecated obsolete school- books used to teach us 1 Another twenty-five miles reaches Wid- worthy. The then existing Foss-Way, which, even in its gi-ass-grown abandoned fragments, is still a broad and practicable travelling road> passes within a very few miles of Wells, Glastonbur...y, Somerton, and Wid worthy. But a more substantial evidence, of a long continuance of Mercian influence beyond the Tamar, is not wanting : and even of its great extension farther westward, down to the time of King Alfred. A large hoard of coins and gold and silver ornaments was found near St. Austell in 1774 ; and a description and tabu- lation was lately published, by Mr. Eashleigh of Menabilly, of 114 coins that were rescued from the scramble.' Of these, no less than 60 were of Mercian Kings (a.d.
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