Offa's Dyke Journal: Volume 4 for 2022

Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester and researches public archaeology and archaeologies of death and memory. He co-edits the Offa’s Dyke Journal and writes an academic blog: Archaeodeath.

• 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

'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