Join us on Saturday 4 April for a digital extravaganza: Special Offa: Communities and Offa’s Dyke. Follow the presentations via Facebook and Twitter, with links to the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory blog and YouTube! Here is the schedule for the day, starting with a 09.30 Introduction by Professor Howard Williams and concluding with Tragical History Tour of Offa’s Dyke at Trefonen and an Archaeosoup Live event at 6pm!

SPECIAL OFFA – Communities and Offa’s Dyke

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 Saturday 4th April 2020

            Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/OffasDykeCollaboratory/   

Twitter – https://twitter.com/ODCollaboratory

                        The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory Blog: https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/

Presentations will take the form of blog-posts, YouTube videos and Twitter presentations

Organised by Howard Williams and Pauline Clarke for the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory in liaison with Andy Heaton of the Trefonen Rural Protection Group (TRPG)

09.30–09.45       Introduction – Howard Williams

09.45–09.50       Welcome from King Rædwald of East Anglia – Paul Mortimer of Wulfheodenas

09.50–10.15         Launch of the Offa’s Dyke Journal volume 2 – Howard Williams

10.15–10.30          The Offa’s Dyke Conservation Management Plan – Dave McGlade

10.30–10.45         Trefonen’s Heritage and Offa’s Dyke – K Kimber, Artie Edmonds & Chris Woods

10.45–11.00         Offa’s Dyke Sonnet & Oswestry Round Challenge – Dave Andrews

11.00–11.15           The Offa’s Dyke Path’s 50th Anniversary – Dave McGlade

11.15–11.30            DIGITAL COFFEE BREAK WITH E-BISCUITS

11.30–12.00          Public Archaeology & Wat’s Dyke – Howard Williams

12.00–12.15          Caer Alyn: Wat’s Going On? – Alan Brown

12.15–12.30          Drawing People In: Comics and Borderlands Archaeology – John G. Swogger

12.30–12.45         YAC about Offa’s Dyke – Melanie Roxby-McKay and Ian McKay

12.45–13.00         The Northern Quest for Offa’s Dyke – Ray Bailey

13.00–14.00        HYPERLINKED BUFFET LUNCH

14.00–14.15         A Special Offa from the PAS: What early medieval material culture tells us about life in the Welsh Marches – Peter Reavill

14.15–14.30          Formation of the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands in the Early Middle Ages: Portable Antiquities in the Landscape – Pauline Clarke

14.30–15.00         Exploring (Remotely) the Affects of Offa’s Dyke within the Landscape – Liam Delaney

15.00–15.15          Digi-Dykes: Linear Earthworks Online – Chloe Bridge and Howard Williams

15.15–15.30         ONLINE AFTERNOON TEA BREAK WITH E-SCONES

15.30–15.40         Drone over Pen Offa – Julian Ravest

15.40–15.50         Discovering an Enclosure next to Offa’s Dyke – Julian Ravest

15.50–16.00         A Possible Roman Signal Station under Offa’s Dyke – Julian Ravest

16.30                     Offa’s Dyke at Trefonen – The Special Offa Tragical History Virtual Tour –Howard Williams

18.00                     #SpecialOffa ArchaeoS0up Live! – https://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up