Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 448 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait |
Contents |
On Offa's Dyke; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; Prefatory notes; Introduction: Landscape and hegemony: Offa's Dyke in dual perspective; PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND REVIEWED; 1 Offa's Dyke in profile: character, course and controversies; 2 Studying Offa's Dyke: a cumulative inheritance; 3 The Mercians: a border history; PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE EXPLORED; 4 Placing the Dyke in the landscape; 5 The structure of the Dyke; 6 Building and operating the Dyke; PART THREE: THE CONTEXT RE-APPRAISED; 7 In a frontier landscape; 8 The material of Mercian hegemony; 9 Offa's Dyke: power in the landscape |
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Epilogue: Reconnecting Offa's Dyke in the twenty-first centuryAppendix: Selected Offa's Dyke profiles; Notes; List of Figures; Bibliography; Index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Landscape archaeology
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SUBJECT |
Offa's Dyke (Wales and England) -- History
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Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Offa's Dyke
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bapty, Ian, author
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Fox, Cyril, Sir, 1882-1967, honouree.
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ISBN |
9781909686212 |
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1909686212 |
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9781909686199 |
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1909686190 |
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