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The hedge on the horizon, a familiar feature on the road out from Countess Wear to the M5 interchange at Sandy Gate, is an unremarkable feature of modern Exeter. It is nevertheless very ancient, being part of the boundary of the estate of Topsham…

An Anglo-Saxon Estate at Great Tey, Essex.

An examination of the documentary, topographical and archaeological evidence for the existence of an estate centre at Great Tey, suggesting continuity from a Roman estate centred on the villa at Great Tey.

A view along the dyke (on the left, with the ditch in the centre), looking south about a mile south of Reach. The dyke runs for about 12 kilometres from Reach in the north to Woodditton in the south, passing through the middle of Newmarket racecourse…

The Battle of Edington is believed to have taken place near Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 878. Alfred of Wessex successfully repelled a group of Danes, led by Guthrum the Old. This is a series of images of the present-day site of the battlefield.

A view from the narrow valley up which the ship in the great Sutton Hoo ship burial would have been dragged, looking towards the ridge behind lay the plateau on which the graveyard is located. The house belonged to Mrs Pretty, the landowner at the…

Several photographs of the remains of the earthworks/defences commonly termed Offa's Dyke. These were taken south of Selattyn, just north of the B4580 near Oswestry. Asser mentions a dyke that ran from 'sea to sea' at the time of Offa, but modertn…

A black and white holiday photograph taken by my father in 1980 of me and my mother at Offa's dyke.

Photos taken of Sutton Hoo site and exhibition in March 2010.

Photos of Sutton Hoo site and exhibit, taken in March 2010.

Photograph of the profile of a furrow, in a ridge and furrow field on Station Road, Honeybourne, Worcestershire. Photograph taken facing roughly East, mid-morning. Honeybourne was recorded in the Domesday Book as Huniburn. The field has been used for…