Early British trackways, moats, mounds, camps, and sites — John Shaqi
Early British trackways, moats, mounds, camps, and sitesWatkins, Alfred
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Early British trackways, moats, mounds, camps, and sites
Watkins, Alfred
Great Britain -- Antiquities; Leys -- Great Britain; Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain; Mounds -- Great Britain
I have a mental vision of a Scout Master of the future, out ley hunting
with the elder boys of his troup, instructing them as they look out
from a high sighting point. “Now, Harold! if you only take that pole
out of your eye, you will see better to pick out that distant moat that
Cyril has in his eye. He’s got it, right enough, just a speck of light
from the ring of water round the island. When I told you to use your
pole as a sighting staff, I didn’t tell you to see nothing else. Now
we have found the ley, I think we shall see a bit of the old track in
that far grassy field this side the moat; it’s narrow and straight, and
there are many who never find it because they look for a broad way like
our present wheel tracks.”
A FEW LEYS.
(_Additional to others detailed in text and maps_).
Colva Hill to Birdlip Hill, via Parton Cross, Breinton Camp and Ford,
Red Hill, Holme Lacy House, Caplar Camp, Yatton Church, Moat and Camp
beyond Newent, and dead on “Ermin Street” for five miles.
Gwaun Ceste Hill to Brimpsfield Castle, via Michaelchurch, Eaton Camp,
Perry Hill, Dinedor Cross, Tump, Brockhampton Old Church, Cross in
Hand, Upton Court, The Conigree, Rudford Church, Gloucester Cathedral,
Castle Hill, Witcombe Park, and Blacklains.
Gwaun Ceste Hill to West Tump, via Colva Church, Brilley Green, The
Scar Rock (Brobury), down Monnington Walks (central), Monnington
Church, The Chantry, Perrystone, Mullhampton, Anthony’s Cross,
Tibberton Court, Llanthony (Glos.) Abbey, and dead on a Gloucester
street.
Little Mountain (Westbrook) to St. Ann’s Well and Priory Church,
Malvern, via Arthur’s Stone, Cross End, Moccas Church, Monnington
Church, Credenhill (old) Court, Pipe and Lyde Church, and Beacon Hill.
Pen-y-Beacon to North Hill, Malvern, via Sugwas Park, Ten Houses Pond
(Plate VI.), Burcot Pool, White Stone Chapel, Shucknell Hill, Stretton
Grandison Church, Moat at Birchend, and Mathon Church.
Croft Ambury to Y-Fan-Drongarth (2,410 peak in Brecon Beacon group),
via Hill Barn, Easthampton, Milton House, Court of Noke, Elsdon,
Bollingham Chapel Tump, Clyro Church, Llowes Church, Bryn-Rhydd, and
Slwch Camp, Brecon.
Bailey Hill (Knighton) to May Hill (Longhope), via The Warden,
Presteign, Golf Course Tump, Holmer, Holmer House, Holmer Lane Tump,
Venn’s Lane, The Prospect and Tupsley Hospital Road, Main Street and
Church, Fownhope, Caplar Camp, How Caple Church, Old Gore Cross, and
Linton Church.
ENDWORD.
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