EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 1ST FEBRUARY 2024.

Are you researching dykes, walls, borders and frontiers from prehistory to the present? We’ve the perfect academic venue to publish your work!

The Offa’s Dyke Journal is an exciting interdisciplinary open-access academic journal dedicated to exploring the archaeology, history and heritage of frontiers, borderlands and linear monuments.

Volumes 1-5 for 2019-2023 are already published online. Furthermore, each volume is available to purchase as hard copies via Archaeopress’s website.

Together, ODJ has published 43 articles on linear monuments and their landscape contexts to date. Volumes 1-3 were co-edited by Professor Howard Williams and Liam Delaney. Volume 4 was lead-edited by Dr Ben Guy and constitutes the select proceeding of his 2020 conference. Volume 5 was edited by Professor Howard Williams.

The journal is produced under the auspices of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory funded by the Offa’s Dyke Association and the University of Chester. The Collaboratory is a research network set up in 2017 to support dialogue and projects focusing on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands in the Early Middle Ages and comparable themes and case studies.

The latest volume, ODJ 5 for 2023, is in production and was be published online by the summer of 2023.

I am now looking for submissions for ODJ 6 for 2024.

Submission details can be found here. You will see we welcome notes of up to 3,000 words, interim reports up to 5,000 words, and original articles up to 10,000 words.