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

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'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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Size: 3972px × 2548px
Location: World,Europe,United Kingdom,Wales,Denbighshire
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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