See shell mounds (Tropical Australia). Wessex. Kingdom of the West Saxons established, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, by Cerdic when he landed on the south coast in the early 6th century ad. It was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to become firmly established, and expanded slowly by a process of conquest to reach its zenith in the 9th century. From then on its house ruled the kingdom of England.
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