[6] In 2003 Christopher Snyder simply stated that "722 The Annales Cambriae record a British victory at Hehil in Cornwall".
[7] Based simply on the place name, Frank Stenton suggested that the battle was at Hayle in west Cornwall.
The first was Hele at Jacobstow in north Cornwall,[12] a place which had been mentioned as a possibility in 1931 in the introduction to The Place-Names of Devon,[13] and was also supported by the landscape archaeologist Della Hooke in 1994.
[12] In 2022 John Fletcher explained why he thought that the village of Merton, north of Okehampton, has "potentially excellent credentials as the site for the historic Hehil".
[15] The British victory at Hehil in 722 may have proved decisive in the history of the West Britons: it was not until almost a hundred years later (in 814) that further battles are recorded in the area, a period which Nicholas Orme sees as probably consolidating the division between Cornwall and Devon.