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To: blam

And there’s also Wat’s Dyke, which is centuries older than Offa’s Dyke, and may have inspired it.


40 posted on 05/14/2007 4:46:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 11, 2007.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"And there’s also Wat’s Dyke, which is centuries older than Offa’s Dyke, and may have inspired it."

Ah yes. Wodenes Dyke.

"In its most perfect state it began at Andover, in Hampshire, ran through the counties of Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire, and terminated in the “Severn Sea” or Bristol Channel. It was called Wodenes Dyke by the Saxons, contracted into Wondes-dyke, and corrupted to Wans-dyke, as Wodenes-daeg is into Wednes-day."

41 posted on 05/14/2007 5:06:57 AM PDT by blam
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