Segundo os arqueólogos, um conflito sangrento em Wirral, perto de Liverpool, fez com que os anglo-saxões afastassem os vikings e os celtas da região.
A alegação reitera as teorias anteriores sobre a batalha de 937 dC, mas há um debate em andamento sobre a verdadeira localização do embate; 40 possíveis locais foram sugeridos.
Em 2017 os pesquisadores estavam convictos de que havia acontecido em Yorkshire do Sul.
Mas agora, depois de pesquisar em manuscritos medievais e realizarem levantamentos sobre as terras, os especialistas creem ter encontrado o verdadeiro campo de batalha em Wirral, no noroeste da Inglaterra.
Despite the significance of the historical conclusion archaeologists have refused to disclose the exact location to the public, reports The Sun.
The Battle of Brunanburh is one believed to have shaped the countries we know now as England, Scotland and Wales.
At the time of the battle, Britain was a divided nation ruled by the Celts in the far north, the Earls of Northumberland (of Norse, viking decent) in the north of England and most of Ireland while the Anglo Saxons controlled central and southern England.
Brunanburh saw the Anglo Saxons go head to head with a joint army of Celts and Norse warriors.
In the bloody battle, six kings and seven earls are believed to have been slain.
Until now, proposed sites for the battle have stretched from southwest England to as far as Scotland with Professor Michael Wood, a TV historian for the BBC believing it unfolded 100miles away from Merseyside in South Yorkshire.
Experts at Wirral Archaeology said the location of the battle is yet to be disclosed to the public due for 'security purposes'.
A spokesman told The Sun: 'Several eminent historians and academics have examined a range of evidence we have collected, including physical artefacts
'They have concluded that the lost site of the Battle of Brunanburh may have been identified by Wirral Archaeology.
'There is still a great deal of investigative work that needs to be done.'
Adding that the investigations were being carried out by a variety of experts including historians, archaeologists and scientists.
In 927, Anglo Saxon King Aethelstan invaded Northumbria, occupied York and expelled King of Ireland Anlaf Guthfrithson's kinsmen, the rulers of York and Dublin.
Threatened by Aethelstan's advances, ten years later in the summer of 937, Anlaf and Constantine launched their invasion with 'the biggest Viking fleet ever seen in British waters'.
At some point later in the year Aethelstan advanced out of Mercia (central England) and attacked the main allied army around Brunanburh.
In a battle described as 'immense, lamentable and horrible', King Aethelstan defeated a Viking fleet led by the Anlaf and Constantine, the King of Alba.
Anlaf escaped by sea and arrived back in Dublin the following spring.
The name Bromborough comes from an Old English place name Brunanburh or 'Bruna's fort' which is the same as the battle.
THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH
The Battle of Brunanburh, which pitted a West Saxon army against a combined hoard of Vikings, Scots and Irish in 937, was one of the most decisive events in British medieval history.
In 927, King Aethelstan invaded Northumbria, occupied York and expelled King of Ireland Anlaf Guthfrithson's kinsmen, the rulers of York and Dublin.
Ten years later, in the summer of 937, Anlaf and Constantine launched their invasion with 'the biggest Viking fleet ever seen in British waters'.
At some point later in the year Aethelstan advanced out of Mercia and attacked the main allied army around Brunanburh.
In a battle described as 'immense, lamentable and horrible', King Aethelstan defeated a Viking fleet led by the Anlaf and Constantine, the King of Alba.
Anlaf escaped by sea and arrived back in Dublin the following spring.
Had King Athelstan - grandson of Alfred the Great - been defeated it would have been the end of Anglo-Saxon England.
But upon victory, Britain was created for the first time and Athelstan became the de facto King of all Britain, the first in history.
WHY PROFESSOR MICHAEL WOOD IS CONVINCED THE BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Most people believe the Battle of Brunanburh took place in Bromborough on the Wirral, Merseyside.
But TV historian Professor Michael Wood is convinced it actually unfolded 100 miles away in South Yorkshire, near the quaint village of Burghwallis.
He gives six main reasons as evidence for the battle's location in South Yorkshire:
1 - He says a battle site on the main route from York down into England's Danish heartland in Mercia is a far more likely location for the battle.
The region south of York was the centre of conflict between the Northumbrians and the West Saxon kings during the second quarter of the 10th century.
2 - The name Bromborough comes from an Old English place name Brunanburh or 'Bruna's fort' which is the same as the battle.
But Professor Wood argues the case for Bromborough being the location of the battle 'rests on the name alone'.
He says Bromborough is not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book and doesn't appear until the 12th century.
3 - There are also doubts about whether Brunanburh should be spelt with a single or double 'n', as it was by several 10th and 11th century chroniclers.
Altering the spelling to a double 'n' and Brunnanburh changes the Old English meaning from 'Bruna's fort' to 'the fort at the spring', which could refer to Robin Hood's Well.
4 - Professor Wood highlights a poem in 1122 in which John of Worcester reported Anlaf's fleet landed in the Humber, the opposite side of the country to the Wirral.
5 - And a lost 10th century poem quoted by William of Malmesbury says the Northumbrians submitted to the invaders at or near York, implying the invaders were in Yorkshire in the prelude to the battle.
6 - An early Northumbrian source, the Historia Regum, gives an alternative name for the battle site - Wendun.
Professor Wood said this could be interpreted as 'the dun by the Went' or 'Went Hill' in south Yorkshire, near to Robin Hood's Well.
FONTE: Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7612727/Mysterious-battle-saved-England-Vikings-fought-near-Liverpool-say-archaeologists.html
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