Evidence item Bromborough Went / Burghwallis Brinsworth Other Humber Burnswark Lanchester Lancashire coast Southern / inland
E1 Name: a place-name at the site regularly descends from OE Brunanburh / Brunnanwerc / Brunandun3–120.8–1.30.7–1.20.9–1.60.9–1.60.8–1.40.9–1.60.9–1.5
E2 Dingesmere: a Thing-name beside the water from which the Norse sailed for Dublin1.5–50.8–1.30.8–1.30.7–1.21.2–30.7–1.21–20.7–1.2
E3 Humber tradition: John of Worcester (c.1140) says the fleet entered the Humber0.5–1.11.6–2.71.6–2.71.6–2.70.5–1.10.9–1.60.5–1.10.8–1.3
E4 We(o)ndun and Brunandun: independent traditions that the site was a dun (low hill), with a Durham name0.8–1.30.9–1.60.9–1.40.9–1.40.6–1.11–1.60.7–1.10.8–1.2
E5 Egil's saga: Vinheidr, a northern heath with a borg, on the Scottish frontier0.8–1.11–1.41–1.41–1.41–1.31–1.40.9–1.10.7–1
E6 The poem: Norse sail from Dingesmere over deep water to Dublin; Constantine goes north by land; Irish annals1.3–2.50.6–10.6–10.6–11.2–20.6–11.3–2.50.5–0.9
E7 Strategy and logistics: convergence of three armies, an English battlefield that Aethelstan defended (ealgian), routes and distances1.2–2.50.9–1.80.8–1.50.8–1.50.5–1.10.5–11–20.3–0.8
E8 Archaeology: the mid-Wirral assemblage (consistent with a camp, not conclusive; no findspots)1–1.51–11–11–11–11–11–11–1
Prior0.050.040.030.040.040.030.050.02
Posterior (point; 5–95% of draws)64%
36–84
3%
1–8
2%
1–4
3%
1–7
2%
1–5
1%
0–2
4%
1–10
0.2%
0.1–0.4