Early British trackways, moats, mounds, camps, and sites

Name: Early British trackways, moats, mounds, camps, and sites
Author: Watkins, Alfred

Watkins, Alfred

Great Britain -- Antiquities; Leys -- Great Britain; Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain; Mounds -- Great Britain

[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.

    1. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest.
    2. A Glade on a Ley.
    3. Four Stones, New Radnor.]

    Early British
    Trackways, Moats,
    Mounds, Camps,
    and Sites.

    A Lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, at Hereford,
    September, 1921, by ALFRED WATKINS, Fellow and Progress Medallist
    (for 1910), of the Royal Photographic Society; Past President (1919)
    of the Woolhope Club. With illustrations by the Author, and much
    added matter.

                                 1922:
                    HEREFORD: THE WATKINS METER CO.
         LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.

                          TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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    TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS                                         4

    FOREWORD                                                       7

    INTRODUCTION                                                   9

    OUTLINE OF CONCLUSIONS                                        10

    PROOF                                                         11

    THE LEY                                                       12

    ANTIQUITY OF THE LEY                                          13

    INDIVIDUALITY OF A LEY                                        13

    MOUNDS                                                        14

    EARTH-CUTTINGS                                                15

    WATER SIGHTING-POINTS                                         15

    MARK-STONES                                                   16

    SIGHTING STONES                                               17

    TREES                                                         19

    CAMPS                                                         20

    CHURCHES                                                      21

    CASTLES                                                       22

    TRADERS’ ROADS                                                22

    HEREFORD TRACKWAYS                                            23

    TRADITIONAL WELLS                                             24

    PREVIOUS DATA                                                 25

    ROMAN ROADS                                                   26

    PLACE NAMES                                                   26

    DISCOVERY BY PLACE NAME                                       30

    THE LEY-MEN                                                   30

    HINTS TO LEY-HUNTERS                                          31

    A FEW LEYS                                                    33

    ENDWORD                                                       34

    INDEX                                                         35

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                               41

                        TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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