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Offa s Dyke: Bid to revive UK s longest ancient monument
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A fund has been set up to help preserve the longest ancient moment in the UK.
The 8th Century Offa s Dyke earthwork has suffered from centuries of gradual benign neglect , according to the Offa s Dyke Association.
Chairman Dave McGlade said other monuments such as Hadrian s Wall and Stonehenge were in better shape.
He described the 177-mile (285 km) monument on the Wales-England border as a sensitive archaeological landscape .
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VANDALISM to a centuries old, historic piece of land bordering Wales and England has prompted conservation groups and government bodies to join forces in an attempt to secure its fragile existence. Offa’s Dyke – an earthwork monument – was built in the late 8th century by the Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia, Offa. Stretching from Flintshire to Gloucestershire, it roughly follows the border between Wales and England and, today, about 80 miles of the monument survive in varying states of preservation and condition. The Offa’s Dyke Path itself runs for 177 miles between Prestatyn and Chepstow and for long sections it shadows the monument, notably in Powys, Shropshire and the Wye Valley in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.
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