I cannot conclude these few remarks without expressing the hope that British antiquaries will at a future time take great care to ascertain the localities where Cufic coins and silver ornaments have been found in England and Ireland. By such facts we should be enabled to give a still clearer and more detailed account of the remarkable trade between the east and the north of Europe which existed at so early a period, and of the influence which this connection with the Levant had upon the civilization of the north of Europe.
ON THE CITY OF ANDERIDA, OR ANDREDESCEASTER.
Among the numerous questions which have long exercised the ingenuity of antiquaries, one is the site of the ancient city of Anderida, or Andredesceaster, respecting which it is proposed to add another to the many discussions the subject has already experienced. There is, there can be, no expectation of discovering new sources of information, or of throwing absolutely new light upon the matter. All we can hope to accomplish must be to collect the substance of the notices in our old annalists; to make some observations upon the account so obtained; and to conclude with a consideration of the probabilities with regard to those places where the lost Romano-British city is, by their respective advocates, supposed to have stood.
The Saxon Chronicle[1], and several others of different periods, allude to the fate of Anderida, but merely announcing its utter destruction, they are too concise to serve the present enquiry; therefore, neglecting them, we will produce the copious statement of Henry of Huntingdon. "The kingdom of Sussex begins, which Ella maintained long and most ably; but auxiliaries had joined him from his own country, &c.—Relying therefore upon (his) large forces he besieged Andredecester, a very strong city. The Britons then collected as thick as bees, and beat the besiegers in the day by ambushes,
- ↑ Gibson's edition, p. 15.
