1578244 Shields of Wessex and Sussex from the Heptarchy; a collective name applied to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms; (add.info.: Shields of Wessex and Sussex from the Heptarchy; a collective name applied to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of south, east, and central England during late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Detail from an antique map of Britain, by the Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu in Atlas Novus (Amsterdam 1635)); Universal History Archive/UIG; out of copyright.