Description
Book SynopsisThis open-access academic venture has established itself as a distinctive venue fostering new research and public understanding regarding the complex global story of walls, barriers and frontier zones from prehistoric and ancient societies to the medieval and modern world. In doing so, the Offa’s Dyke Journal does not only present reliable peer-reviewed academic research in an accessible venue, it also critiques and combats both misinformation and disinformation shared about this aspect of the human past in popular culture and political discourse in today’s world. Promoting an informed and nuanced conversation about their stories and legacies and the positive dimensions of linear monuments is thus a key aspiration of the Offa’s Dyke Journal as both an academic and open-access resource. In doing so, we can learn about the human past, recognise how these material traces inform contemporary identities and society, and both recognise their legacies as well as celebrate their redundancies.
Table of ContentsLinear 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
