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XX.—On Offa's Dyke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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There are few points in ancient history more interesting than an inquiry into the age and object of the great “dykes”; such as those of north Wiltshire, between central and southern England; those north of Cambridge, which bar the only access into East Anglia from the south; those which run from the estuary of the Dee to that of the Severn, cutting off the whole of Wales; or the great earthwork nearly parallel to the Roman wall which crossed the island from the Solway to the Tyne.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1893

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page 466 note e Wise, 10.

page 466 note f Ed. 1652, 118.

page 466 note g This is probably the origin of the name Force Ditch, applied to part of the southern end of the earthworks referred to Offa.

page 466 note h Cf. Gale, XV. Scriptores, i. 194.

page 466 note i Reference in Ormerod, , Archaeologia, xxix. 13Google Scholar, to Caradoe's Welsh Chronicle, ed. 1584. p. 19. Matt. Paris, Vita Offce Secundi, ed. Wats. p. 27.

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page 467 note h Some notices of the dyke and protests against the destruction of parts of it will be found in the Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. iii. 204, 397–8.

page 467 note i Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. iv. 335.

page 467 note k Archaeologia Cambrensis, 4th S. vi. 275.

page 468 note a 3rd S. iii. 197–209.

page 468 note b Parkins, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 4th S. vi. 275.

page 469 note a See above p. 2.

page 470 note a See Guest op. cit. supra. p. 4.

page 472 note a Cf. Fosbroke, Gentleman's Magazine, cii. 2, p. 500 et seq.

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page 473 note a See p. 2, inf.

page 473 note b 1 inch O.S. Map 79 N.W., 6 inch V.Va.

page 473 note c 1 inch 79 N.E., 1 inch 79 S.E.

page 473 note d Maesterfyn is, however, a long way from any dyke, and the word may mean the termination of a road or of anything.

page 473 note c 1-inch 79 S.E.

page 473 note e 6-inch Flint vi.

page 474 note a 1-inch 79 S.E.

page 474 note b 6-inch, Flint ix. Denbigh x.

page 474 note c 1-inch 79 S.E.

page 474 note d 6-inch, Flint xiii. Denbigh xv.

page 474 note e Flint xiv.

page 474 note f Flint xvii, Denbigh xxi.

page 474 note g 1-inch 74 N.E.

page 474 note h 6-inch, Shropshire xii N.W., xii S.W.

page 474 note i Shropshire xix N.W.

page 475 note a 6-incli, Flint xvii, Denbigh xxi.

page 475 note b 6-inch, Flint xxxv, Denbigh xxi, Denbigh xxxix, Denbigh xliii.

page 475 note c 6-inch, Shropshire Va. S.E., Shropshire xi N.E.

page 475 note d 6-inch, Shropshire xi S.E., Shropshire xviii N.E.

page 475 note e 1-inch 74 S.E.

page 475 note f 6-inch, Shropshire xxvi N.W., Montgomery xi N.W., xi S.W., xvi N.W.

page 475 note g Montgomery xvi S.W.

page 475 note h Montgomery xxxiii N.E., xxxiii S.E.

page 475 note i Montgomery xxiv S.E.

page 475 note j Montgomery xxx N.E.

page 475 note k 1-inch 50 S.E.

page 476 note a Shropshire xxx S.E., xlvi S.E.

page 476 note b Montgomery xxxvii N.E., Shropshire liii N.E.

page 476 note c Montgomery liii S.E., Shropshire liii S.E.

page 476 note d Montgomery xxxviii S.W., Shropshire liv S.W

page 476 note e Shropshire lxii N.W., Montgomery xlv N.W.

page 476 note f Shropshire lxii S.W., Shropshire lxix N.W., Shropshire lxix S.W., Shropshire lxxvi N.W., Radnor xi N.W.

page 477 note a Shropshire lxxvi S.W., Radnor xi S.W.

page 477 note b Radnor xviii N.W., Radnor xviii S.W.

page 477 note c Hereford x N.W., Radnor xxv N.W.

page 477 note d Hereford x S.W., Radnor xxv S.W.

page 477 note e Hereford xvii N.E., xvii S.E., xviii S.W.

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page 481 note b Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vii. 200207Google Scholar.

page 481 note c I have just received a letter from a Fellow of the Society, the Rev. Thos. Auden, written after he had received the notice of this meeting, informing me that he had a denarius of Vespasian which was picked up on Offa's Dyke, near to Llanymynech.

page 481 note d Procopius de Bell. Goth. iv. 20, Nieburh, 1833, p. 565.

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