It is believed the Vikings travelled up the River Thames and attacked London, before crossing into Surrey and travelling down Stane Street, where they encountered King \u00c6thelwulf.<\/p>\n
The battle resulted in victory for the West Saxons.<\/p>\n
In relation to the battle, Asser, a Welsh monk and chronicler, made reference to Ockley, Price said.<\/p>\n
“I think the word Aclea possible has changed into Ockley,” he told Secret Surrey.<\/p>\n
“Aclea meaning clearing in the oaks. And I believe Ockley is surrounded by a lot of oaks.”<\/p>\n
Price said he and his fellow members of Bearded Bleepers planned to search for proof field by field.<\/p>\n
“To give us proof that the battle took place round here it would mean finding something like a sword pommel, arrowhead or possibly some Viking strap ends,” he said.<\/p>\n
“That would be the ideal thing.”<\/p>\n
Yet to uncover anything from the Vikings, he added: “We’re going to search it and we’re going to try our darndest to find something.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is believed the Vikings travelled up the River Thames and attacked London, before crossing into Surrey and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-841954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}