Early British Trackways: Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites - Couverture souple

Watkins, Alfred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596054697 ISBN 13 : 9781596054691

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2005

Synopsis

These¬-if ancient-seem to be invariably on (not merely alongside) a ley, and in many cases are at the crossing of two leys, thus appropriating the sighting point to a new use. -from "Churches" Were the significant sites of ancient Britain deliberately aligned along an invisible web of power? Or is it a mere coincidence that so many locations associated with worship and arcane knowledge are situated in unique spatial relationship to one another? Self-taught photographer and anthropologist Alfred Watkins was the first to discover the "ley lines" apparently connecting the churches, megaliths, earthen mounds, holy wells, and other places of power in Britain, and he published his results in this 1922 book. Though he offers no extraordinary explanation of their meaning-except, perhaps, that the leys represent ancient trade routes-others have associated ley lines with UFOs, crop circles, dowsing, and other paranormal phenomena. Long out of print, this foundational work is a vital resource for students of the supernatural. British photographer and amateur archaeologist ALFRED WATKINS (1855-1935) was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and served as president of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in 1919. He also wrote The Old Straight Track (1925) and The Ley Hunter's Manual (1927).

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Top. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest, 1,250 feet above the sea, and is supposed to be the Cruger Castle of the Itinerary of Giraldus. Background. A glade on a ley. Bottom. The Four Stones, New Radnor, the easterly pair lined up for sighting over. PLATE I. PRIMARY PEAK. Titterstone Clee Hill, and Park Hall, Bitterley. PLATE II. MOUNDS. 1, Tre-fedw, Pandy. The Skirrid, a primary peak, in distance. 2, Didley. With homestead alongside. PLATE III. MOUND and MOAT. 1, Houghton Mound. 2, Lemore Moat. Note how slight is the dividing line between this type of mound and a moat. PLATE IV. THREE-POINT PROOFS. 1(a telephotograph), Hereford Cathedral and Pen-y-B eacon. Here the camera stood on a known ley in gateway near top of Hafod Hill, and the line runs through pond at foot (marked by sheet of paper), tower of Cathedral, and the 20 mile distant mountain point or bluff. A nother ley is seen crossing the meadow in a straight line just where the lowing herd winds slowly oer the lea. 2, Tre-fedw Mound (see Plate II.), shown at top of sighting line down present road to ancient Monnow ford (alongside present bridge) at Llanvihangel Mill. PLATE V. SIGHTING CUTTINGS (all telephotographs). 1, Notch with earthwork at Trewyn Camp above Pandy (B lack Mountains). 2, Cutting through top of ridge at Marstow, a bridge now spans it, and the sighting line down to a ford on the Garron is indicated. The road beyond the cutting is on the ley. 3, Black Darren, Longtown (B lack Mountains). This is taken from the Tan House, Longtown, and only 100 yards to right or left the notch begins to lessen and then disappear. PLATE VI. CAUSEWAYS. 1, Through pond near Ten Houses (now Priory Terrace), Holmer. Note the unmistakable direction, confirmed on map. 2, Through the River Monnow, behind Tan House, Longtown. A piece of fine engineering, the below-stream edge of large stones embedded in grouting or conc
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596054697
• ISBN 13: 9781596054691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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