The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon Fortifications

Part 1 Introduction, David Hill and Alexander R. Rumble. Part 2 The development of Burghal Hidage studies - a bibliographical review, David Hill. Part 3 An edition and translation of the Burghal Hidage, together with Recension C of the Tribal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 4 The manuscript evidence - the known manuscript of the Burghal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble BL Cotton MS. Otho B. xi - a supplementary note, Patrick Wormald. Part 5 The Burghal Hidage as a document: diplomatic sub-sections, Alexander R. Rumble the nature of the figures, David Hill the West Saxon hidage and the "appendix", Nicholas P. Brooks the calculation and the purpose of the Burghal Hidage, David Hill. Part 6 The Burghal Hidage place-names: a linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Burghal Hidage, John McN. Dodgson a collation of the Burghal Hidage place-name forms, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 7 The administrative background to the Burghal Hidage, Nicholas P. Brooks. Part 8 The fortifications and their shires, David A. Hinton. Part 9 Mints, burhs and the Grately code, cap. 14.2, Mark Blackburn gazetteer of Burghal Hidage sites, David Hill. Appendices: OU wealstilling, John McN. Dodgson OE waru, Alexander R. Rumble the Tribal Hidage - an annotated bibliography, Alexander R. Rumble the historical context of the Tribal Hidage, N.J. Higham the County Hidage, David Austin.