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By Ian Bapty,Keith Ray

The huge historic earthwork that gives the only commemoration of a unprecedented Anglo-Saxon king and that offers its identify to 1 of our most well-liked modern nationwide jogging trails continues to be an enigma. regardless of over a century of research, we nonetheless don't totally know how or why Britain's greatest linear monument was once equipped, and in recent times, the perspectives of these who've studied the Dyke have diverged while to such uncomplicated questions as its actual volume and date of building. This booklet offers a clean point of view at the production of Offa's Dyke coming up from over a decade of research and of conservation perform through its authors. It additionally offers a brand new appreciation of the particularly Mercian and English political context of its building. The authors first summarise what's recognized in regards to the Dyke from archaeology and historical past and evaluate the debates surrounding its shape and goal. They then set out a scientific method of knowing the layout and development of the big linear financial institution and ditch that has come to face proxy for the Anglo-Welsh border. What can presently be deduced concerning the construct traits of the Dyke are then summarised from the authors' fresh (and newly elaborate) examine of information of its localised shape and building and its panorama surroundings. The authors in the meantime additionally clarify Offa's Dyke as an tool of overdue 8th-century Mercian statecraft and the imperial pursuits of Offa himself.

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