Maserfield, Battle of, England, 642
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found: Work cat.: Hills, P.J. The "Holy well" at Low Burnham and the site of the Battle of Maserfield, 641 A.D., 1967, 1985 printing.
found: Oxford companion to British history, 1997(Maserfield, battle of, 642. Penda of Mercia defeated and killed Oswald of Northumbria. The site of the battle ... is uncertain. It has sometimes been identified as Oswestry in Shropshire, but somewhere closer to the Northumbrian-Mercian border ... is more likely.)
found: BBC-Legacies WWW site, Jan. 14, 2005:Shropshire page (In 642, when Oswald and Penda met in battle at Maserfield (now widely identified as Oswestry))
found: Chronology of world history: military 2 WWW site, Jan. 14, 2005(642 King of Mercia kills Northumbrian King Oswald at Battle of Maserfield.)
found: Offa's Dyke WWW site, Jan. 14, 2005(In 642 at the battle of Maserfield between the pagan King Penda of Mercia and the Christian King Oswald of Northumbria.)
found: Companion to British history (Routledge):Northumbria, Anglian kingdom (Oswald. r. 633-41 ... in 641 a quarrel with Penda of Mercia and perhaps with Welsh rulers provoked a war in which he was killed at Maserfield (Oswestry, Salop))
notfound: Britannica;Columbia encyc.
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