 In the annal, it is stated that ""Hunbeanna and Alberht divided the kingdom of the East Angles between themselves"".Until about thirty years ago, this record stood alone and unverifiable, with the exception of a single coin attributed to Beonna and two other brief mentions of him.Since then, well over a hundred coins attributed to Beonna have been found, many in archaeologically secure contexts, so that it is now clear that a ruler named Beonna did rule in East Anglia at that time, as originally suggested by H. M. Chadwick.