Description
Book SynopsisThis open-access and peer-reviewed academic publication stems from the activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh borderlands and comparative studies of borderlands and frontiers from prehistory to the present. The proceedings of a series of academic and public-facing events have informed the character and direction of the Journal. Moreover, its establishment coincides with the Cadw/Historic England/Offa’s Dyke Association funded Offa’s Dyke Conservation Management Plan as well as other new community and research projects on linear earthworks. Published in print by Archaeopress in association with JAS Arqueología, and supported by the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association, the journal aims to provide a resource for scholars, students and the wider public regarding the archaeology, heritage and history of the Welsh Marches and its linear monuments. It also delivers a much-needed venue for interdisciplinary studies from other times and places.
Trade Review'Volume 1 has delivered an exceptional series of articles which illustrates the breadth of interest and variety in how people engage with dykes.' – Tim Malim, Archaeologia Cambrensis 170 (2021)'...we are presented with a journal on a single, albeit complex, monument, Offa’s Dyke... This is an exciting new development, challenging past practices whereby reports on individual monuments might be published in a range of local and national journals... The papers have met the aspirations of the editors and the journal is attractively produced.' – David J. Breeze, Current Archaeology 371 (2021)Table of ContentsThe Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal –
Howard Williams and Liam Delaney ;
Offa’s Dyke: ‘the Stuff that Dreams are Made of’ –
Ann Williams ;
Wat’s Dyke: An Archaeological and Historical Enigma –
Margaret Worthington Hill ;
Hidden Earthworks: Excavation and Protection of Offa’s and Wat’s Dykes –
Paul Belford ;
Llywarch Hen’s Dyke: Place and Narrative in Early Medieval Wales –
Andy Seaman ;
The Danevirke: Preliminary Results of New Excavations (2010–2014) at the Defensive System in the German-Danish Borderland –
Astrid Tummuscheit and Frauke Witte ;
Making Earthworks Visible: The Example of the Oswestry Heritage Comics Project –
John Swogger
