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.