Britain; it shows that peoples were located within specified territories for administration.

Early scholarship

The first historians and archaeologists to examine the dyke compared their conclusions with the late 9th-century writer Asser, who wrote, "there was in Mercia in fairly recent time a certain vigorous king called Offa, who terrified all the neighbouring kings and provinces around him, and who had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea". In 1955, Cyril Fox

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