Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 4 for 2022

Special issue: Borders in Early Medieval Britain

Edited by Ben Guy Edited by Howard Williams Edited by Liam Delaney

Book cover: Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 4 for 2022

Extent: 182 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Offa's Dyke Journal

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2022)

ISBN: 9781803273969

6.93 x 9.84 inches

Price: $56.00

In stock

The contents of this special issue comprise the proceedings of a conference held over Zoom on the weekend of 11-12 July 2020.


Providing a dedicated venue for new research on the early medieval frontiers and borderlands of the island of Britain, the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ) is also the first and only open-access peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the investigation of frontiers and borderlands in deep-time perspective. The journal’s remit spans detailed and original explorations into landscapes, earthworks, monuments and material culture. Exploring specific themes and issues in the archaeology, history and heritage of frontiers and borderlands in comparative and global perspective, ODJ is edited and produced under the auspices of the interdisciplinary research network, the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, and funded by the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association. The contents of this special issue comprise the proceedings of a conference held over Zoom on the weekend of 11-12 July 2020.

Borders in Early Medieval Britain: Introducing the Special Issue - Ben Guy The Fluidity of Borderlands - Lindy Brady Bige Habban: An Introduction to Money, Trade and Cross-Border Traffic - Rory Naismith Donation and Conquest: The Formation of Lothian and the Origins of the Anglo-Scottish Border - Neil McGuigan King Aethelstan and Cornwall - Oliver Padel The Changing Approaches of English Kings to Wales in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries - Ben Guy Place-names and Offa's Dyke: The Limits of Inference - David N. Parsons The Organisation of the Mid-Late Anglo-Saxon Borderland with Wales - Keith Ray Shifting Border, Shifting Interpretation: what the Anglo-Norman Castle of Dodleston in Cheshire might be trying to tell us about the eleventh-century northern Anglo-Welsh Border - Rachel E. Swallow, Borders in Early Medieval Britain: Introducing the Special Issue – Ben Guy The Fluidity of Borderlands – Lindy Brady Bige Habban: An Introduction to Money, Trade and Cross-Border Traffic – Rory Naismith Donation and Conquest: The Formation of Lothian and the Origins of the Anglo-Scottish Border – Neil McGuigan King Æthelstan and Cornwall – Oliver Padel The Changing Approaches of English Kings to Wales in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries – Ben Guy Place-names and Offa’s Dyke: The Limits of Inference – David N. Parsons The Organisation of the Mid–Late Anglo-Saxon Borderland with Wales – Keith Ray Shifting Border, Shifting Interpretation: what the Anglo-Norman Castle of Dodleston in Cheshire might be trying to tell us about the eleventh-century northern Anglo-Welsh Border – Rachel E. Swallow

  • Edited by Ben Guy
  • Edited by Howard Williams
  • Edited by Liam Delaney

'This collection of papers gives a strong insight into the debates about how ‘borders’ might fluctuate and the conclusions which careful analysis may offer. For those primarily interested in Offa’s Dyke it is a taste of what the next few decades of archaeological, place name and historical study may bring.' – Alan Lane (2023): Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. 172