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'A Disquisition concerning the Place of Battle between the Danes and our Saxon Ancestors in Kesteven, Lincolnshire AD 870' communicated in a letter to William Rutty from William Stukeley

Reference number: RBO/14/53

Date: 1729

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Concerning Trekingham with information about place-names
Read to the Royal Society on 8 May 1729

Reference number
RBO/14/53
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1729
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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'A Disquisition concerning the Place of Battle between the Danes and our Saxon Ancestors in Kesteven, Lincolnshire AD 870' communicated in a letter to William Rutty from William Stukeley, 1729, RBO/14/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_53/a-disquisition-concerning-the-place-of-battle-between-the-danes-and-our-saxon-ancestors-in-kesteven-lincolnshire-ad-870-communicated-in-a-letter-to-william-rutty-from-william-stukeley, accessed on 10 February 2026

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