Monument Type(s):

• BOUNDARY BANK? (Early Saxon to Mid Saxon - 410 AD to 800 AD)

Summary

A short section of low embankment was noted to the immediate NE of Pen-y-bryn farmhouse during a site vist in 2015. It perhaps represents the remains of Offa's Dyke between an earthwork stretch to the S (see PRN 01000) and the stretch at the Ceiriog (on the welsh side of the border).

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA7619 - 2015 DBA and walkover survey at Pen-y-Bryn Farm, Bron-y-Garth, Weston Rhyn by Castlering Archaeology
• ESA957 - 1977 field observation of Offa's Dyke in advance of forestry works, Pen-y-Bryn by Shropshire County Council

Description

A short section of low embankment was noted to the immediate NE of Pen-y-bryn farmhouse during a site vist in 2015. It perhaps represents the remains of Offa's Dyke between an earthwork stretch to the S (see PRN 01000) and the stretch at the Ceiriog (on the Welsh side of the border). The low bank is ill-defined on the west side and on the east side it falls to a sinkhole located within the garden area. Recorded as a speculative interpretation, but on the correct alignment. <1>

Visit to a section of the dyke which Fox had identified at Pen-y-Bryn (<2a>). Field visit confirmed survival, running down c.40m from the road to the river. The part beside the road was obscured, but recorded lower down the slope as a spread bank c.0.30m high, apparently without a ditch to the W or E. <2>

<01> Frost Pat, 2015, Site of proposed new steel-framed building, Pen-y-Bryn Farm, Bron-y-Garth, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Shropshire: heritage assessment (Deskbased survey report). SSA28275.

<2a> Fox C, 1955, Offa's Dyke. A field survey of the western frontier-works of Mercia in the 7th and 8th centuries, p57 (Monograph). SSA1059.

<2> Burrow Ian, 1977, Site Visit Form: Offa's Dyke Field Report, Pen-y-Bryn (Field recording form). SSA3566.

Sources

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