Offa's Dyke Journal: Volume 5 for 2023

Contents

Linear Pasts and Presents: Researching Dykes, Frontiers and Borderlands – Howard Williams

Insights from a Recent Workshop on Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World – Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Tal Ulus and Gideon Avni

The Olger Dyke: An Early Roman Iron Age Linear Earthwork in Denmark – Lisbeth Christensen

The Current State of Research on Early Medieval Earthworks in East Central and Southeastern Europe – Florin Curta

The Serpent Ramparts in Ukraine: Fifty Years of Archaeological Research – Florin Curta

‘Cofiwn i Facsen Wledig/We remember Macsen the Emperor:’ Frontiers, Romans, and Welsh Identity – Roger H. White

The Linear Earthworks of Cornwall: What if They Were Early Medieval? – Erik Grigg

Rethinking Offa’s Dyke as a Hydraulic Frontier Work – Howard Williams

Evaluating the Early Medieval Portable Antiquities Scheme Data for the Welsh Marches – Pauline Clarke

Treaties, Frontiers and Borderlands: The Making and Unmaking of Mercian Border Traditions – Morn Capper

Border Culture and Picturing the Dyke – Dan Llywelyn Hall, Gillian Clarke, Gladys Mary Coles, Menna Elfyn, Oliver Lomax and Robert Minhinnick

Commentaries

Reflections on Walking with Offa – Diana Baur

The Past in the Time of Covid: The Art of Dan Llywelyn Hall – John G. Swogger

Art on the March – Howard Williams

About the Author

Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester and researches public archaeology and archaeologies of death and memory. He co-edits the Offa’s Dyke Journal and writes an academic blog: Archaeodeath.

Reviews

‘This volume of eleven articles and three notes adds significantly to the corpus of knowledge about international examples of linear monuments and their interpretation, based on historic and recent excavations, and on our understanding of the period in which they may have been constructed. … This discussion is delivered by a diverse authorship and provides a very different perspective on how monuments and borderlands can be perceived by modern societies, irrespective of their historical integrity.’ – Tim Malim (2024): Archaeologia Cambrensis 173