Title

'Offa's Dyke crossing a hill top, in Denbighshire', Wales, 1935. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

'Offa's Dyke crossing a hill top, in Denbighshire', Wales, 1935. View of the large linear earthwork, known as Offa's Dyke, which roughly follows the current border between England and Wales. Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 757 until 796 AD, is traditionally believed to have ordered its construction. From A History of the Anglo-Saxons, Vol. II, by R. H. Hodgkin. [The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935]
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Date

1935

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D45_494

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,0Mb (962,7Kb) / 13,2in x 8,5in / 3972 x 2548 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature Wales archaeology century archaeological thirties archaeological site archeology B&W MONOCHROME dyke Denbighshire black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century The Print Collector 8th century Anglo Saxon Anglo-Saxon earthwork TGN photograph landscape Unknown Offa's Dyke photograph landscape landscape