New Dating for Wat's Dyke.(Wales)

From: History Today | Date: August 1, 1999| Author: Nurse, Keith | Copyright information

The frontier earthwork in Wales known at Wat's Dyke was constructed some 300 years earlier than supposed. It was previously thought to be of 8th century origin, but radiocarbon dating puts the construction date at around AD446. This time would coincide approximately with Roman withdrawal from the area, and the dike probably went on to become the boundary to northwest Mercia.

A POST-ROMAN LOCAL KING or powerful warlord, rather than an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia, now ...

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