Offa's Dyke Journal: Volume 2 for 2020 (Paperback)

Howard Williams

ISBN 10: 1789698529 / ISBN 13: 9781789698527

Published by Archaeopress, Oxford, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. As the first and only open-access peer-reviewed academic journal about the landscapes, monuments and material culture of frontiers and borderlands in deep-time historical perspective, the Offas Dyke Journal (ODJ) has a concerted focus on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands given its sponsorship from the University of Chester and the Offas Dyke Association in support of the Offas Dyke Collaboratory. Yet ODJ also provides a venue for original research on frontiers and borderlands in broader and comparative perspective. While Offas Dyke and Wats Dyke remain key foci, the contents of volumes 1 and 2 together illustrate the wider themes, debates and investigations encapsulated by ODJ concerning boundaries and barriers, edges and peripheries, from prehistory through to recent times, as well as considerations of the public archaeology and heritage of frontiers and borderlands. ODJ has a concerted focus on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands alongside wider themes, debates and investigations concerning boundaries and barriers, edges and peripheries, from prehistory through to recent times. The public archaeology and heritage of frontiers and borderlands is also considered. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Offa's Dyke Journal: Volume 2 for 2020 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Archaeopress, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789698529
• ISBN 13: 9781789698527
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

As the first and only open-access peer-reviewed academic journal about the landscapes, monuments and material culture of frontiers and borderlands in deep-time historical perspective, the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ) has a concerted focus on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands given its sponsorship from the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association in support of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory. Yet ODJ also provides a venue for original research on frontiers and borderlands in broader and comparative perspective. While Offa’s Dyke and Wat’s Dyke remain key foci, the contents of volumes 1 and 2 together illustrate the wider themes, debates and investigations encapsulated by ODJ concerning boundaries and barriers, edges and peripheries, from prehistory through to recent times, as well as considerations of the public archaeology and heritage of frontiers and borderlands.

Table of Contents

Collaboratory, Coronavirus and the Colonial Countryside – Howard Williams

Two Chimeras in the Landscape – Mark Bell

The ‘Wall of Severus’: Pseudoarchaeology and the West Mercian Dykes – Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews

Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent – Ethan Doyle White

Living after Offa: Place-Names and Social Memory in the Welsh Marches – Howard Williams

Offa’s and Wat’s Dykes – David Hill

Grim’s Ditch, Wansdyke, and the Ancient Highways of England: Linear Monuments and Political Control – Tim Malim

About the Author

Howard Williams is a Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester.