Monument Type(s):

• BOUNDARY BANK (Early Saxon to Mid Saxon - 410 AD to 800 AD)
• DYKE (DEFENCE) (Early Saxon to Mid Saxon - 410 AD to 800 AD)
• FRONTIER DEFENCE (Early Saxon to Mid Saxon - 410 AD to 800 AD)

Summary

The main street of Llanymynech has been suggested as following the alignment of Offa's Dyke, with a series of buildings located over the bank and ditch. Partly in Shropshire, partly in Wales.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA8307 - 2015 Historic building assessment, Lion Hotel, Llanymynech by L-P Archaeology (Ref: 17/01952/FUL)

Description

The main street of [Llanymynech] follows the alignment of Offa's Dyke and the site is located over the bank and ditch. The Monmouthshire Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Wales states: “The Lion Hotel is built on [Offa's Dyke], and also the smithy (now a dwelling house), the Bradford Arms Inn, the Bradford cottages, the Cross Keys Hotel, and the shop and cottages to the north. The bank can be seen between the Lion Hotel and the smithy, and also where the roads cross.” (<1a>). During a site visit one local inhabitant said that the buildings had been positioned along the line of the dyke so that the cellars could be easily dug into the softer ditch fill. <1>

<01a> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of Wales (RCHMW), 1911, An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire (Volume). SSA29605.

<01> Williams M, 2015, Historic building assessment: Lion Hotel, Llanymynech, p.9 (Field survey report). SSA29604.

Sources

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