Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites (Classic Reprint)

Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Alfred Watkins

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781331894964

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Excerpt from Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites was written by Alfred Watkins in 1922. This is a 58 page book, containing 13895 words and 24 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Old Straight Track

The Old Straight Track PDF

Author: Alfred Watkins

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780349137070

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First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old when the Romans came to Britain. First in the Herefordshire countryside, and later throughout Britain, Alfred Watkins noticed that beacon hills, mounds, earthworks, moats and old churches built on pagan sites seemed to fall in straight lines. His investigation convinced him that Britain was covered with a vast network of straight tracks, aligned with either the sun or the path of a star. Although traces of this network can be found all over the country, the principles behind the ley system remain a mystery. Are they the legacy of a prehistoric scientific knowledge which is now all but lost? And was their purpose secular or religious?