There is no doubting of the presence of Offa’s Dyke at Trefonen, but in Flintshire, contrary to tradition, officially, Offa’s Dyke does not finish at the coastal town of Prestatyn as traditionally accepted, In fact they say it has never run through Flintshire, it finished at Treuddyn, some 20 miles from the coast! It never went ‘From sea to sea’ as stated by Asser. The population is still unaware of this, indeed so was I, until, when researching for a talk on Medieval Flintshire some years ago, I came across this fact. The latest book ‘Offa’s Dyke, Landscape and Hegemony in eighth century Britain’ published in 2016 by Keith Ray and Ian Bapty, states at the beginning, “That the evidence to date, including archaeology, seems to confirm that Offa’s Dyke is absent in the area”. But they do acknowledge the possibility that new evidence could question this, and throw new…
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