A Possible Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Werg, Mildenhall (Cvnetio), Wiltshire and the Wessex-Mercia Frontier in the Age of King Cynewulf

Reynolds This chapter is offered as a small token of immense gratitude to the honorand of this volume. Barbara Yorke’s work sets a standard that few are able to reach; always insightful, to the point and deeply thought-provoking. Her ability to throw new light on well-trodden material is widely acknowledged and is in many ways a function of her belief in, and lifelong engagement with, interdis-ciplinary approaches to the study of the early Middle Ages and the rich fruits that forays into the past of that nature can bear. Barbara has offered sage ad-vice over the last ten years or so in a series of research collaborations at the Institute of Archaeology, ucl, both guiding and informing the Leverhulme Trust funded projects Beyond the Burghal Hidage , Landscapes of Governance and, most recently, Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England . Before that, from 2000–2003, we were colleagues at the then King Alfred’s College, Winchester (now the University of Winchester), where we shared our common interests. This piece therefore attempts to encapsulate the spirit of inter-disciplinary enquiry by bringing together materials drawn from archaeology, written sources and place-names to reveal elements of the early medieval landscape history of a corner of north-eastern Wessex 12.1), part of the region that been the focus of so much of Barbara’s writing and whose com-plicated history is encapsulated in her hugely influential Wessex in the Early Middle Ages published in