| | British Kingdoms of the South |
 | | The Iclingas who eventually formed Mercia and many other groups of Middil Engle (Middle Angles) were already entering the Midlands by the time of the kingdom's founding, and it seems they forced their way south from the territory of Caer Lerion in the Leicester region. |
 | | One can imagine the kingdom slowly shrinking in the face of Middle Angle advances from the east and north, eventually losing Dunstable and becoming bottled up in the Chilterns until the end came and the kingdom collapsed some time in the early 600s, either before or relatively soon after Elmet not far to the north. |
 | | By AD 500 the Middil Engle were heavily infiltrating this region in the form of the Elge, Spaldingas, Herstingas, Undalum, and Iclingas. |
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