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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
There are few points in ancient history more interesting than an inquiry into the age and object of the great “dykes”; such as those of north Wiltshire, between central and southern England; those north of Cambridge, which bar the only access into East Anglia from the south; those which run from the estuary of the Dee to that of the Severn, cutting off the whole of Wales; or the great earthwork nearly parallel to the Roman wall which crossed the island from the Solway to the Tyne.
page 465 note a Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vii. 200–207Google Scholar.
page 466 note a Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vi. 41–44Google Scholar.
page 466 note b Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vi. 355–361.
page 466 note c Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. ii. 152–3.
page 466 note d De Rebus gestis Alfredi, in the Monumenta Historica Britannica, 471.
page 466 note e Wise, 10.
page 466 note f Ed. 1652, 118.
page 466 note g This is probably the origin of the name Force Ditch, applied to part of the southern end of the earthworks referred to Offa.
page 466 note h Cf. Gale, XV. Scriptores, i. 194.
page 466 note i Reference in Ormerod, , Archaeologia, xxix. 13Google Scholar, to Caradoe's Welsh Chronicle, ed. 1584. p. 19. Matt. Paris, Vita Offce Secundi, ed. Wats. p. 27.
page 467 note a p. 20.
page 467 note b Tour in Wales, i. 315, 351Google Scholar.
page 467 note c Qto ed. ii. 273, see Archaeologia, xxix. 13Google Scholar.
page 467 note d 3rd S. ii. 1–23, 151–4, 155; v. 317.
page 467 note e Archaeologia, xxix. 13Google Scholar.
page 467 note f Archaeologia, xxxviii. 23Google Scholar.
page 467 note g Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. iii. 311.
page 467 note h Some notices of the dyke and protests against the destruction of parts of it will be found in the Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. iii. 204, 397–8.
page 467 note i Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd S. iv. 335.
page 467 note k Archaeologia Cambrensis, 4th S. vi. 275.
page 468 note a 3rd S. iii. 197–209.
page 468 note b Parkins, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 4th S. vi. 275.
page 469 note a See above p. 2.
page 470 note a See Guest op. cit. supra. p. 4.
page 472 note a Cf. Fosbroke, Gentleman's Magazine, cii. 2, p. 500 et seq.
page 472 note b Archaeologia, xxxviii. 19Google Scholar.
page 473 note a See p. 2, inf.
page 473 note b 1 inch O.S. Map 79 N.W., 6 inch V.Va.
page 473 note c 1 inch 79 N.E., 1 inch 79 S.E.
page 473 note d Maesterfyn is, however, a long way from any dyke, and the word may mean the termination of a road or of anything.
page 473 note c 1-inch 79 S.E.
page 473 note e 6-inch Flint vi.
page 474 note a 1-inch 79 S.E.
page 474 note b 6-inch, Flint ix. Denbigh x.
page 474 note c 1-inch 79 S.E.
page 474 note d 6-inch, Flint xiii. Denbigh xv.
page 474 note e Flint xiv.
page 474 note f Flint xvii, Denbigh xxi.
page 474 note g 1-inch 74 N.E.
page 474 note h 6-inch, Shropshire xii N.W., xii S.W.
page 474 note i Shropshire xix N.W.
page 475 note a 6-incli, Flint xvii, Denbigh xxi.
page 475 note b 6-inch, Flint xxxv, Denbigh xxi, Denbigh xxxix, Denbigh xliii.
page 475 note c 6-inch, Shropshire Va. S.E., Shropshire xi N.E.
page 475 note d 6-inch, Shropshire xi S.E., Shropshire xviii N.E.
page 475 note e 1-inch 74 S.E.
page 475 note f 6-inch, Shropshire xxvi N.W., Montgomery xi N.W., xi S.W., xvi N.W.
page 475 note g Montgomery xvi S.W.
page 475 note h Montgomery xxxiii N.E., xxxiii S.E.
page 475 note i Montgomery xxiv S.E.
page 475 note j Montgomery xxx N.E.
page 475 note k 1-inch 50 S.E.
page 476 note a Shropshire xxx S.E., xlvi S.E.
page 476 note b Montgomery xxxvii N.E., Shropshire liii N.E.
page 476 note c Montgomery liii S.E., Shropshire liii S.E.
page 476 note d Montgomery xxxviii S.W., Shropshire liv S.W
page 476 note e Shropshire lxii N.W., Montgomery xlv N.W.
page 476 note f Shropshire lxii S.W., Shropshire lxix N.W., Shropshire lxix S.W., Shropshire lxxvi N.W., Radnor xi N.W.
page 477 note a Shropshire lxxvi S.W., Radnor xi S.W.
page 477 note b Radnor xviii N.W., Radnor xviii S.W.
page 477 note c Hereford x N.W., Radnor xxv N.W.
page 477 note d Hereford x S.W., Radnor xxv S.W.
page 477 note e Hereford xvii N.E., xvii S.E., xviii S.W.
page 477 note f Cf. Meyrick, , Gentleman's Magazine, ciii. 1, 504Google Scholar.
page 477 note g Archaeologia, xxxviii. 23Google Scholar.
page 477 note h See also Fosbroke, Gentleman's Magazine, ci. 582
page 477 note i Archaeologia, xxix. 9Google Scholar.
page 478 note a Gentleman's Magazine, N.S. iii. 491.
page 479 note a Archaeologia Cambrensis, 2nd S. i. 72.
page 479 note b Montgomeryshire Collections, vi. 377Google Scholar.
page 479 note c Montgomeryshire Collections, xxvi. 237Google Scholar.
page 481 note a Archaeologia Cambrensis, 4th S. vi. 275Google Scholar.
page 481 note b Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vii. 200–207Google Scholar.
page 481 note c I have just received a letter from a Fellow of the Society, the Rev. Thos. Auden, written after he had received the notice of this meeting, informing me that he had a denarius of Vespasian which was picked up on Offa's Dyke, near to Llanymynech.
page 481 note d Procopius de Bell. Goth. iv. 20, Nieburh, 1833, p. 565.
page 482 note a Cambridge Review, ix. 195, 210, 227Google Scholar. Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vi. 355Google Scholar.
page 483 note a vi. 386.
page 483 note b Cf. Nicholson, Cambrian Travellers' Guide, p. 910.