Offa's Dyke
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 01, 2021 03:16 PM
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History
Offa's Dyke is a linear earthwork of the eighth century that formed a boundary between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56616072
52.344, -3.049
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Offa's Dyke (AD 640 - AD 1453)
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- Clawdd Offa (Welsh, modern)
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earthwork
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- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, and Tom Elliott, 'Offa's Dyke: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56616072> [accessed: 21 September 2023]
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