Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 7 for 2025

Volume 7 of Offa’s Dyke Journal, an open-access peer-reviewed academic publication venue for interdisciplinary research on linear monuments, frontiers and borderlands,

Linear monuments of different scales and characters are but one among many interleaving strategies by which people past and present have subdivided and transformed their world. Built, used, discarded and reutilised over time, they tell us about both changing strategies of landscape organisation, control and experience in past times, as well as present perceptions and concerns with dividing the land. Shedding fresh insights on the evolving spatial and temporal diversity of linear monuments, frontiers and borderlands, and their significances in today’s world, the Offa’s Dyke Journal now comprises fifty-seven articles spread over seven volumes. In this way, the journal brings new research on some of our most extensive, monumental and yet enigmatic monuments to scholars and students as well as to the wider public attention and for public benefit.

Flags and Frontiers: Linear Monuments Research in 2025 – Howard Williams

New Results and Considerations regarding the Fieldstone Wall of the Eighth-Century Danevirke – Astrid Tummuscheit and Frauke Witte

The Welsh Marches and the PAS: Possible ‘productive’ sites and their significance – Pauline M. Clarke

A Drone Photographic and Photogrammetric Portrait of Offa’s Dyke – Julian Ravest and Howard Williams

Reply to Ravest and Willams – Lena Delaney

The Great Dykes of the Welsh Borderlands on Early Cartography – Robert Silvester

Poetry and Archaeology as Earthwork: Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns – Christoph Bode

The Contemporary Archaeology of Offa’s Dyke – Howard Williams

Viking Wirral in Public Archaeology and History – An interview with Clare Downham and Paul Sherman

• Edited by Howard Williams