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|text=Offa's Dyke is a massive linear earthwork running north-south in a line once perhaps 150 miles, roughly followed the boundary between England with Wales, which it was designed during the Dark Ages to mark border. In places, it is up to 65 feet wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet high. | |text=Offa's Dyke is a massive linear earthwork running north-south in a line once perhaps 150 miles, roughly followed the boundary between England with Wales, which it was designed during the Dark Ages to mark border. In places, it is up to 65 feet wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet high. | ||
| − | The work is a defensive earthwork, consisting of a classic bank and ditch. The ditch is to the west, showing it to have been built to defend the Mercian side to the east. The dyke was created in the 8th century to form a delineation between the English kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys and it is attributed to King Offa, under whom Mercia reached the pinnacle of its power}}<noinclude> | + | The work is a defensive earthwork, consisting of a classic bank and ditch. The ditch is to the west, showing it to have been built to defend the Mercian side to the east. The dyke was created in the 8th century to form a delineation between the English kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys and it is attributed to King Offa, under whom Mercia reached the pinnacle of its power.}}<noinclude> |
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