The traditional landing site of the Saxons is thought to have been located at Ebbsfleet. The original date for this event was AD 449 and the basis for this is information found within the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. This states that the Saxons Hengist and Horsa, on the invitation of Vortigern, King of the Britons, landed in 449 at a place called 'Ypwines fleot'. This is assumed to be Ebbsfleet in the Isle of Thanet. It is also thought that St Augustine may have landed here in AD 597, however the source for this dates from 1874. The venerable Bede, writing over a century after Augustine's landing merely stated that the landing was in the Isle of Thanet. (See also TR 36 SW 37). The site is no longer suitable as a landing place due to land reclamation.