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Offa's Dyke is a linear earthwork monument forming part of the substantial defensive or territorial boundary constructed during the reign of King Offa of Mercia in the late eighth century. The section within Garden Wood in Herefordshire extends approximately eighty metres in a south-easterly direction and represents one of the surviving portions of this ambitious engineering project that originally ran for many miles along the Anglo-Welsh border. The dyke at this location comprises a substantial bank with an associated ditch, typical of its construction across the Midlands and Welsh Marches, and survives as an upstanding earthwork of archaeological and historical importance. This section is protected as a scheduled ancient monument in recognition of its significance as evidence of eighth-century political authority and frontier management in early medieval Britain.
Offa's Dyke: the section E of Garden Wood, extending SE 85yds (80m) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001734. View the official record →
Offa's Dyke is a linear earthwork monument forming part of the substantial defensive or territorial boundary constructed during the reign of King Offa of Mercia in the late eighth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1001734.
Offa's Dyke: the section E of Garden Wood, extending SE 85yds (80m) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1001734.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: section NW of Holme Marsh extending 615yds (560m) to the railway (0.6 km), Mound S of Woodbrook (2.8 km), Oldcastle Twt (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Offa's Dyke: the section E of Garden Wood, extending SE 85yds (80m)'s history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Offa's Dyke: the section E of Garden Wood, extending SE 85yds (80m) stands on Pridoli Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Pridoli. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.