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200 pages

Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white

Published Apr 2026

Archaeopress Journals

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Paperback: 9781805833123

Digital: 9781805833130

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Keywords
Linear earthworks; cross-ridge dykes; Offa’s Dyke; heritage interpretation; borderlands; early medieval frontiers; public archaeology

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Offa's Dyke Journal 7

Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 7 for 2025

A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers and Borderlands Research

Edited by Howard Williams

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Volume 7 of Offa's Dyke Journal, an open-access peer-reviewed academic publication venue for interdisciplinary research on linear monuments, frontiers and borderlands,

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Contents

Flags and Frontiers: Linear Monuments Research in 2025 – Howard Williams


New Results and Considerations regarding the Fieldstone Wall of the Eighth-Century Danevirke – Astrid Tummuscheit and Frauke Witte


The Welsh Marches and the PAS: Possible ‘productive’ sites and their significance – Pauline M. Clarke


A Drone Photographic and Photogrammetric Portrait of Offa’s Dyke – Julian Ravest and Howard Williams


Reply to Ravest and Willams – Lena Delaney


The Great Dykes of the Welsh Borderlands on Early Cartography – Robert Silvester


Poetry and Archaeology as Earthwork: Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns – Christoph Bode


The Contemporary Archaeology of Offa’s Dyke – Howard Williams


Viking Wirral in Public Archaeology and History – An interview with Clare Downham and Paul Sherman

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.