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
PLATE IX. MARK-STONES. 1, Red Lion, Madley. On a “red line”
ley from the Whitney pottery. Note subsequent boundary stone
alongside. 2, Credenhill. 3, Wye Street, Hereford, marking the
Palace Ford; there are a pair of these stones. Bartonsham Farm,
Hereford (see Plate VIII.).
PLATE X. TRANSITION OF MARK-STONE TO CROSS.
1, Wergin’s Stone, Sutton. With flat face suited for sighting.
A cavity for payments (or offerings) on the flat base. Early
example of “shaft and base.” 2, Pedlars Cross above Llanigon. A
menhir chipped into rude semblance of a cross. 3, In churchyard,
Vowchurch, unworked base. A ley runs through it. Inset, Sighting
hole in shaft of Bitterley Cross. 4, In Capel-y-fin churchyard
(Black Mountains).
PLATE XI. CHURCHYARD CROSS. Bitterley (see Inset Plate X.).
PLATE XII. TREE. Eastwood Oak, Tarrington, on a ley.
PLATE XIII. TREES. 1, A “One Tree Hill” near
Llanvihangel-nant-Melan. 2, Monnington Walks, an avenue of
Scotch Firs (Scots Pines) on a ley sighted on Scar Rock,
Brobury, seen in distance. See Map, Plate XIX.
PLATE XIV. CAMPS. 1, Sutton Walls. One of the sighting mounds,
there being four, a pair at eastern end, a pair at this the
western end. 2, Herefordshire Beacon. Winds Point to the left.
PLATE XV. CHURCH. Church Lane, Ledbury. The detached tower of
Ledbury Church is shown on the ley.
PLATE XVI. CASTLE. Wigmore Castle. The keep is on a sighting
mound, the ley passing also through the church, as is almost
invariable where castle and church are near together.
PLATE XVII. CASTLE. Brampton Bryan Castle (on a sighting mound)
with Coxall Knoll, another mound, in the distance on the right.
PLATE XVIII. HOUSE IN MOAT. Gillow.
PLATE XIX. MAP. TWO LEYS. A, Consecutive strips
containing the straight ley from Glascwm Hill to Birley Hill
_via_ four mounds; Turret Tump, The Camp, Batch Twt,
Almeley, Moat, Sarnesfield Coppice; and Weobley Church.
B, Little Mountain to Holy Well Malvern, through Moccas
“Castle” Tump, Preston-on-Wye Church, Byford Ford, Holmer
Church, Palmer’s Court, Moat, Shucknell, Walsopthorne. Portions
of two interesting leys are also shown. C, Scar Rock,
Brobury, through Monnington Walks to Monnington Church (see
Plate XIII.); and D, Little Mountain (Westbrook),
through Arthur’s Stone (dolmen), Cross End, Moccas Church,
Monnington Church, St. Ann’s Well, and Priory Church, Malvern.
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