Cilternsæte

[2] Eilert Ekwall suggested that "Chiltern" might be cognate with the ethnic name "Celt", such as the adjective celto- "high".

[5] There is some, circumstantial evidence linking four towns supposedly captured from Britons in 571, by a Saxon or Anglian leader named Cuthwulf may correspond to the Cilternsæte.

& þy ilcan geare he gefor" ("This year Cuthwulf fought with the Britons at Bedford and took four tuns, Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson and Eynsham.

While Cuthwulf and his battles may be retrospective constructions, the Tribal Hidage (7th to 9th century) described the territory of the Cilternsæte as comprising 4,000 hides.

In the Burghal Hidage (10th century) 4,000 hides are also recorded for the three burhs of Oxford, Buckingham and Sashes, corresponding to the tuns of Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson and Eynsham.