‘A great dyke from sea to sea’
‘Roman genius and energy’: Offa’s Dyke near Edenhope Hill, Shropshire. In the late 780s Offa took the decision for which he is best remembered: to build the dyke along the Welsh frontier. There had been such dykes before in England, but Offa’s surpassed all these earlier works in scope. Why did he do it? Up […]
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