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Offa's Dyke () is a massive linear earthwork, roughly followed by some of the current border between England and Wales.
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The Offa's Dyke Path is close by and the Marches Way, the Beacons Way and Usk Valley Walk all pass through the town.
That Offa could summon the resources to build Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.
He is noted for Offa's Dyke, built as a defence against Welsh marauders.
* Offa's Dyke is constructed.
Offa's Dyke near Clun
Map of the British isles in AD 802, showing ( when enlarged ) Offa's Dyke between Mercia and Wales
Schematic cross-section of Offa's Dyke, showing how it was designed to protect Mercia against attacks / raids from Powys.
A section of Offa's Dyke
That he was able to raise a workforce and resources sufficient to construct such an earthwork as Offa's Dyke is testament to his power.
His greatest contribution was to stir up new academic interest in Offa's Dyke.
His MPhil thesis, " Offa's Dyke Reviewed " ( 1978 ), raised several questions.
Noble also helped establish the Offa's Dyke Association, which maintains the Offa's Dyke Path.
Ongoing research and archaeology on Offa's Dyke has been undertaken for many years by the Extra-Mural department of the University of Manchester.
According to Hill and Worthington, dykes in the far north and south may have different dates, and though they may be connected with Offa's Dyke, there is as yet no compelling evidence behind this.
Recently, some writers have suggested that Eutropius may have been referring to the earthwork later called Offa's Dyke.
Archaeologists concluded that this part of Wat's Dyke, so long thought of as Anglo-Saxon and a mid-8th century contemporary of Offa's Dyke, must have been built 300 years earlier in the post-Roman period in Britain.
Offa's Dyke Centre
The Offa's Dyke Centre is a purpose-built information centre in the town of Knighton, situated on Offa's Dyke on the border between England ( Shropshire ) and Wales ( Powys ).
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The Offa's Dyke Path ( Welsh: Llwybr Clawdd Offa ) is a long distance footpath close to the Welsh-English border.
Offa is credited with the construction of Offa's Dyke, marking the border between Wales and Mercia.
Thus Offa's Dyke is a combined structure and Car Dyke is a trench though it once had raised banks as well.
The area is also attractive to walkers, with both the Offa's Dyke Path, a long distance footpath beginning in Chepstow and finishing in North Wales, and the Wye Valley Walk passing through the town.
In the early years of Offa's reign it is likely that he consolidated his control of midland peoples such as the Hwicce and the Magonsæte.
This reduction in the power of Canterbury may have been motivated by Offa's desire to have an archbishop consecrate his son Ecgfrith of Mercia as king, since it is possible Jaenberht refused to perform the ceremony, which took place in 787.
Only three gold coins of Offa's have survived: one is a copy of an Abbasid dinar of 774, and carries Arabic text on one side of the coin, with " Offa Rex " on the other side.
Offa's Dyke, most of which was probably built in his reign, is a testimony to the extensive resources Offa had at his command and his ability to organise them.
Other surviving sources include a problematic document known as the Tribal Hidage, which may provide further evidence of Offa's scope as a ruler, though its attribution to his reign is disputed.
Offa's ancestry is given in the Anglian collection, a set of genealogies that include lines of descent for four Mercian kings.
Offa's wife was Cynethryth, whose ancestry is unknown.
Charters dating from the first two years of Offa's reign show the Hwiccan kings as reguli, or kinglets, under his authority ; and it is likely that he was also quick to gain control over the Magonsæte, for whom there is no record of an independent ruler after 740.
It is likely that both London and Middlesex were quickly under Offa's control at the start of his reign.
The overlordship of the southern English which had been exerted by Æthelbald appears to have collapsed during the civil strife over the succession, and it is not until 764, when evidence emerges of Offa's influence in Kent, that Mercian power can be seen expanding again.
Offa's and massive
Offa's Dyke, a massive linear earthwork, also runs through the area, and across the Clun Valley area.
Offa's and earthwork
The construction of the earthwork known as Offa's Dyke ( usually attributed to Offa, King of Mercia in the 8th century ) may have marked an agreed border.
Much of the long route either follows, or keeps close company with, the remnants of Offa's Dyke, an 8th century earthwork, the majority of which was probably constructed on the orders of Mercian King Offa.
As the power of Mercia grew, a string of garrisoned market towns such as Shrewsbury and Hereford defined the borderlands as much as Offa's Dyke, a stronger and longer boundary earthwork erected by order of Offa of Mercia in the late 8th century.
* Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales
In the 8th century Offa extended the Mercian frontier to the Wye, securing it by the earthwork known as Offa's Dyke.
In 765 he constructed Watt's Dyke to defend his territory against the Welsh, and in 779, having pushed across the River Severn, drove the Welsh King of Powys from Shrewsbury, he secured his conquests by a second defensive earthwork known as Offa's Dyke.
They include The Personality of Britain ( 1932 ), drawing attention to the differences between upland and lowland Britain, Offa's Dyke ( 1955 ), a seminal study of that great earthwork, and studies on Celtic Art, on the major discovery of early ironwork at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey, and of Monmouthshire houses.
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A map of what is now England during Wiglaf's reigns ; the remnants of Offa's Dyke are shown, running roughly along the modern border between England and Wales.
The boundary line very roughly follows Offa's Dyke from south to north as far as a point about from the northern coast, but then swings further east.
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