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Leys -- Great Britain

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lines on the Landscape Leys and Other Linear Enigmas / by Nigel Pennick and Paul Devereux. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1989

 Book
Collection number: NAMOSRL GN805 .P39 1989 (Circulating)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The origins of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) can be traced back to 2004 when Guy Frost and Cliff Landis began discussing the preservation of hard to find and at risk Pagan periodicals. Cliff’s concept was called New Religious Movements Archival Library (NRMAL), and tasks were divided between the two with Cliff investigating the technological aspects as well as making the first contacts with publishers and Guy began creating a descriptive...
Dates: Publication: 1989
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-150-1, New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) / Series 12: NAMOSRL Browsing Collection / Books: Titles Beginning L-M

The Ley Hunter's Manual: A Guide to Early Tracks / Alfred Watkins. Bristol: Pentacle Books, 1977

 Book — Box 1: Series 1, Book: 4
Collection number: Book 1
About

"The sacred places and settlements throughout the country are founded on an esoteric pattern of 'leys' or accurately aligned monuments, stretching far across the landscape and laid down by the astronomer-priests of prehistoric Britain. The existence of an advanced stone age science was first recognized by Sir Norman Lockyer at the begging of this century. Alfred Watkins's Manual shows the nature and extent of its relics and how to discover them."--Page 4 of cover

Dates: Publication: 1977
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-150-1, New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) / Series 1: Non-Circulating Books, Pamphlets, etc. / Box 1: Non-Circulating Books, Pamphlets, etc.

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

 Book — Box 1: Series 1, Book: 6
Collection number: Book 3
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
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-150-1, New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) / Series 1: Non-Circulating Books, Pamphlets, etc. / Box 1: Non-Circulating Books, Pamphlets, etc.