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By c. 700 AD, present-day Sheffield city centre formed part of the Anglian kingdom of [[Northumbria]]. It was close to the kingdom's southern border with [[Mercia]], with evidence for the border being found in the local place-name [[Dore, Derbyshire|Dore]] which is from Old English ''dor'', the ancestor of present-day English ''door'', indicating a pass between the two kingdoms.<ref>Vickers, J. Edward MBE (1999). Dore. In ''Old Sheffield Town. An Historical Miscellany'' (2nd ed.), pp64–71. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press Limited. {{ISBN|1-874718-44-X}}</ref> Further toponymic evidence for the border in southern Sheffield includes the name of the Limb Brook, which appears to be from a derivative of [[Latin]] ''limes'', the ancestor of the English word ''limit''. The place-name ''Whirlow'' means "boundary mound".<ref name="david hey">''"Historic Hallamshire"'', David Hey, Landmark Publishing Ltd. {{ISBN|1 84306 049 3}}, Page 11, Name meaning.</ref> The Northumbria-Mercia boundary would latterly form the boundaries of the traditional counties [[Yorkshire]] and [[Derbyshire]] and the ecclesiastical provinces of York and Canterbury.
By c. 700 AD, present-day Sheffield city centre formed part of the Anglian kingdom of [[Northumbria]]. It was close to the kingdom's southern border with [[Mercia]], with evidence for the border being found in the local place-name [[Dore, Derbyshire|Dore]] which is from Old English ''dor'', the ancestor of present-day English ''door'', indicating a pass between the two kingdoms.<ref>Vickers, J. Edward MBE (1999). Dore. In ''Old Sheffield Town. An Historical Miscellany'' (2nd ed.), pp64–71. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press Limited. {{ISBN|1-874718-44-X}}</ref> Further toponymic evidence for the border in southern Sheffield includes the name of the Limb Brook, which appears to be from a derivative of [[Latin]] ''limes'', the ancestor of the English word ''limit''. The place-name ''Whirlow'' means "boundary mound".<ref name="david hey">''"Historic Hallamshire"'', David Hey, Landmark Publishing Ltd. {{ISBN|1 84306 049 3}}, Page 11, Name meaning.</ref> The Northumbria-Mercia boundary would latterly form the boundaries of the traditional counties [[Yorkshire]] and [[Derbyshire]] and the ecclesiastical provinces of York and Canterbury.
The earliest archaeological evidence for Sheffield in the Anglo-Saxon era is the 9th-century Sheffield Cross (discovered in the 19th century). It is the shaft of an Anglo-Saxon cross. It is Mercian in style, the most northerly example of this type.
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