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Offa's Dyke: Pattern and Purpose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

David Hill
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The great eighth-century earthwork on the frontier of Wales and England has been known for at least eleven hundred years as Offa's Dyke. Research into this work has been dominated by the need to find, or explain, the ‘missing’ stretches of the Dyke. The interpretation presented here is based on the known earthwork and does not involve the need to explain away any perceived gaps.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , September 2000 , pp. 195 - 206
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2000

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