The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones / by Alfred Watkins, Fellow and Progress Medallist (for 1910) Royal Photographic Society, past president (1917) Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1945
About
Alfred Watkins' 3rd edition of The Old Straight Track had its beginning with a small booklet titled Early British Trackways, itself an expanded verion of a lecture. After many months of fieldwork, The Old Straight Track emerged with the 1st edtion in1925, the 2ns in 1933, and this editio in 1945, which provides an indepth investigation of Leys and Mounds in Britain.
Dates
- Publication: 1945
Creator
- Watkins, Alfred, 1855-1935 (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 Books : xxviii, 2 unnumbered pages, 234 pages, 56 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, b&w photographs, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Contents
Preface (p.v-vi)
Introduction (p.xv-xviii)
Mounds (p.1-6 and plates)
Alignment of mounds (p.7-13)
Leys in Radnor Vale (p.14-22 and plate)
Mark stones (p.23-33)
The sighted track (p.34-41)
Water sights points (p.42-48 and plate)
Sight notches (p.49-56 and plate)
Initial points (p.57-60 and plate)
Mark trees (p.61-64)
Camps (p.65-73)
Ley-men (p.74-83)
Sighting staff (p.84-90)
Traders' tracks (p.91-99)
Sun alignment (p.100-109)
Beacons (p.110-116)
Churches of mark-points (p.117-127)
Orientation (p.128-133)
Castles on mark sites (p.134-142 and plate)
Assemblies at mark-points (p.143-148)
Roman era (p.149-156)
Place-names (p.157-167)
Folk-lore (p.168-174)
Hermes and hermit (p.175-179)
In other lands (p.180-183)
Bible record (p.184-188)
Confirmation (p.189-196)
Obscurities and objections (p.197-204)
Chronology (p.205-208)
Alpha and Omega (p.209-213)
An outline (p.214-218)
Appendix A. Ley hunting (p.219-222)
Appendix B. Buckinghamshire leys (p.223-224)
Appendix C. Oxford city leys (p.225)
Appendix D. Brecon camps (p.226)
Index (p.227-234)
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