Great Works by Great Men? Rethinking Linear Earthworks

Howard Williams

Abstract


Introducing the sixth volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ) for 2024, the introduction surveys the contents and recent related research published elsewhere as well as the main Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory’s activities during late 2023 and 2024.


Keywords


monument biographies; borderlands; dykes; frontiers; landscape; linear earthworks

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/odj.v6i0.14325

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