Dorset Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...: Brithric was buried at Wareham c. 802 and Edward the Martyr at Shaftesbury in 979 . In the 9th cent. Dorset was repeatedly attacked by the Danes. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records an encounter in 837 between the men of Dorset and the Danes at Portland and another in 845 when they joined with the men of Somerset to engage the Danes at the mouth of the Parrett. Wareham was taken by the Danes in 876 and Sherborne, Dorchester, and Shaftesbury devastated by Sweyn in 1002 . By this time Dorset was a recognized county. The Domesday survey of...
History of the Field Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
...Danish prehistorian Peter Vilhelm Glob . Soon after establishing themselves on Bahrain, the Danish Gulf expedition began working in Qatar ( 1957 ), Kuwait ( 1958 ), and the Trucial States ( 1958 ), all of which had been, archaeologically speaking, terra incognita. In 1968 the Danes conducted a season of survey and excavation in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. In 1972 Abdullah H. Masry , a Saudi Arabian educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Chicago, began excavations at a number of important Ubaid-related sites...
