Alfred Watkins’s Cuttings Book

Index to text of cuttings, order as in book

Other indexes

Text, arranged by topic

Colour images, 2 pages/view

Mono images, 1 page/view

9 Report of AW’s lecture to the Woolhope Club #1

11a EBT to be published (Birmingham Gazette)

11b EBT to be published (Pall Mall & Globe)

12 Review of EBT (Fishing Gazette)

13b Notice of EBT (Graphic)

13c Review of EBT (British Journal of Photography)

14a Review of EBT (Essex County Standard)

14b Review of EBT (Hereford Times (?))

15a Review of EBT (Bazaar, Exchange and Mart)

15b Notice of EBT (English Mechanic)

15c Notice of EBT (Popular Science Siftings)

16a Review of EBT (Estates Gazette)

16b Notice of EBT (Newcastle Chronicle)

16c Notice of EBT (Gloucestershire Chronicle)

16d Notice of EBT (East Anglian Daily Times)

17a Notice of EBT (Truth)

17b Review of EBT (Times Literary Supplement)

17c EBT to be published (Bookseller)

17d Notice of EBT (Building News)

18a Notice of EBT (Farm, Field, and Fireside)

18b Review of EBT (Yorkshire Post)

18c EBT to be published (English Mechanic)

18d Review of EBT (South Wales Daily News)

18e Notice of EBT (Agricultural Gazette)

18f Review of EBT (Scotsman)

19a Review of EBT (Hereford Journal)

19b Review of EBT (Birmingham Gazette)

20 Report of AW’s lecture to the Woolhope Club #2

21b EBT to be published (Bookseller)

22a Notice of AW’s lecture to the Woolhope Club

22b Review of EBT (Daily Chronicle)

23a Review of EBT (Aberdeen Journal)

23b Review of EBT (Land Agent’s Record)

24a Notice of EBT (Newcastle Chronicle)

24b Notice of EBT (Herts & Essex Observer)

24c Notice of EBT (Great Thoughts)

24d AW replies to Spectator review

25a Report of AW’s lecture to the Woolhope Club #3

25b Review of EBT (Estates Gazette)

26a Notice of EBT (Wiltshire Gazette)

26b Review of EBT (Spectator)

26c Notice of EBT (Farm and Home)

26d Review of EBT (Wellington [Shropshire] Journal)

27 Further review of EBT (Bazaar, Exchange and Mart)

28a Notice of EBT (Whitby Gazette)

28b Praise for AW’s Town Hall lecture (D.W.A.)

28c Review of EBT (Schoolmaster)

28d Report of lecture by AW in Hereford Town Hall

29b Criticism of AW’s Town Hall lecture (S. Wright)

30b AW replies to Wright

31b Rejoinder by Wright to AW

32b Suffolk barrows and trackways (C. Morley)

34a Review of EBT (Devon & Exeter Gazette)

34b Review of EBT (Bristol Times & Mirror)

35a Notice of EBT (Western Daily Press [Bristol])

35b Notice of EBT (Western Daily Press [Bristol])

36a Leicestershire mounds and saltways (A.W. Foster)

36b Review of EBT (Lady)

37 Leicestershire test of EBT

38 Review of EBT (Daily Express)

39 Review of EBT (Country Life)

40a Dorset: ancient trackways (H.R.B.)

40b Review of EBT (Western Mail)

40c Review of EBT (Liverpool Daily Courier)

41 Incident at the Cross in Hand (AW)

42 The Roman steps, Ardudwy, Wales (E. Vale)

43b A witch-broom maker, Lancashire (H.L. Kay)

44a Review of EBT (North Mail [Newcastle])

44b Notice of EBT (Bristol Observer)

45a Notice of EBT (Newcastle Weekly Chronicle)

45b Notice of EBT (Kent Messenger)

45c Notice of EBT (Liverpool Weekly Post)

45d Notice of EBT (Newcastle Weekly Chronicle)

46 Review of EBT (Strand Journal)

47a Review of EBT (Eastern Daily Press [Norwich])

47b Review of EBT (Hampshire Advertiser)

48a Review of EBT (Merthyr Express)

48b Notice of EBT (Portsmouth Times)

49 Review of EBT (Unknown source)

50b Notice of EBT (Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald)

51a Notice of EBT (West Yorkshire Pioneer)

51b Review of EBT (Nottingham Journal and Express)

51c Review of EBT (Reading Mercury)

52a Notice of EBT (Somerset County Gazette)

52b Review of EBT (Oxford Times)

52c Review of EBT (Derbyshire Advertiser)

52d Notice of EBT (Badminton Magazine (?))

53 Review of EBT (Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette)

54 Further review of EBT (Eastern Daily Press)

55a Review of EBT (Oxford Chronicle)

55b Review of EBT (Dumfries Standard)

56a Further review of EBT (Derbyshire Advertiser)

56b Nothing in AW’s theory (W. Rye)

57 Support for AW’s theory (W.A. Dutt)

58 AW replies to Eastern Daily Press review

60a Norfolk: layout of ancient sites (A. Cross)

60b Leicestershire ley-hunting

61b Notice of EBT (Worcester Herald)

62a Elmley Castle parish, Worcs.

62b Notice of EBT (Builder)

63 Texas: sighting over heaps of rock #1

64 AW replies to review in Cyclists’ T. C. Gazette

65a Review of EBT (Dundee Advertiser)

65b Review of EBT (Salisbury & Winchester Journal)

65c Review of EBT (Nature)

66 Review of EBT (Aberdeen Free Press)

67a East Anglia: support for ley theory (W.A. Dutt)

67b Eastern Daily Press reviewer replies to AW

68 Thundersfield Castle, Surrey (in book review)

69a Thundersfield Castle (AW)

69b Texas: sighting over heaps of rock #2

70a Devon: are leys or unit of length found? (H.G. Pickard)

70b Texas: sighting over heaps of rock #3

70c Texas: sighting over heaps of rock #4

70d Coldharbour: origin of name #1

71a Devon: AW to replies to Pickard

71b Cheshire: place names in “ton” and “ley”

72a Archenfield: origin of name #1 (H. Reade)

72b Devon: Pickard objects to AW’s suggested leys

72c Notice of EBT (Journal of the Royal Photog. Soc. of India)

73a Devon: rejoinder by AW to Pickard

73b Review of EBT (Shooting Times)

74 Review of EBT (Notes and Queries)

75a “Port” names and Portways #1 (A.B. Anderson)

75b Devil’s Arrows, Yorks: note and photo

76 Review of EBT (Western Weekly News)

77 Place names and topography (AW; A. Mawer)

78a “Port” names and Portways #2 (AW; J.A. Morris)

78b Place names and Roman roads (AW)

78c Notice of EBT (Australasian Photo-Review)

79a “Folly” place names #1 (AW)

79b “Cole” and “Cold” place names #2 (L. Knowles)

79c Review of EBT (Shooting Times)

80 “Cole” and “Cold” place names #1 (AW)

82 Tibble Stone, Teddington (Anon.)

83a “Cole” and “Cold” place names #3 (P. Hulburd; W.B.H.)

83b Blubberhouses and “blue” place names (AW)

83c Storridge Hill, Herefs.

84 Monmouthshire leys and place names (N.L.)

85b Route of Via Julia, Newport, Mon. (J. Basham)

86b St Woollos Parish. Mon.

86c Names for toes (Lucy Watkins)

86d Anglo-Saxon for “lie” and “lay” (Lucy Watkins)

87a “Hunger” place names #1 (AW)

87b “Hunger” place names #2 (W.D. Beal)

87c Direction sense (AW)

88b Dumfriesshire: test of EBT suggested (Anon.)

88c “Cole” and “Cold” place names #4 (AW)

88d Early Britons not ignorant savages (AW)

89 Romans had precise land surveys (H. Belloc)

92 Stane Street on pre-Roman alignments #1 (AW)

93a Stane Street on pre-Roman alignments #2 (AW)

93b Report of AW’s Malvern lecture #1

93c Droitwich saltways: report of lecture by Dr. Whitley

94a Report of AW’s Malvern lecture #2

94b AW’s ley theory disputed (F.S.A.)

95 Stane Street: AW’s theory disputed (C.G. Stevens)

96a Lecture by J.M. Newnham on leys

96b AW replies to F.S.A.

97a Alignments were not trackways (J. Inglis)

97b Discover England, avoid best-known resorts (C.S.)

97c Report of AW’s Leominster lecture #1

98b Direction sense: reply to AW (A. Johnston)

99a Rejoinder from F.S.A. on AW’s theory

99b What books on Roman roads? (K.T. Gemmell)

99c Devil’s Jumps: protest against afforestation

100a F.S.A. not deep enough in etymology (J. Inglis)

100b Becontree named from a beacon

100c “Folly” place names #2 (H.F. Hatch)

100d Report of AW’s Leominster lecture #2

100e Rowing on Wye in decline (part of talk by AW)

101a Hertfordshire: support for ley theory (C.L. Davis)

101b Report of AW’s lecture on bygone Herefordshire

102a Inkpen Beacon no longer classed as mountain

102b Diffusion of culture: Mexican pyramids (E. Clodd)

103a Sahara: piles of rock mark the way

103b Old stone shaft, Bodenham, Herefs.

104a Real roads in pre-Roman Britain (D. Pater)

104b Reply to Gemmell’s enquiry (F.G.P.R.)

105a Notice of AW’s lecture to RPS (Hereford Journal)

105b Earl of Carnarvon buried on hilltop

105c Sewerage works uncover old track

105d AW’s latest discoveries; photo of AW

106a Salt tracks near Birmingham #1

106b Report of AW’s lecture to RPS #1

107 Stonehenge: bluestones came from Prescelly (E.R.)

108a Aberdeenshire alignments (Marquis of Huntley)

108b Direction sense #3 (H. Hutchinson)

109a Report of AW’s lecture to RPS #1

109b Mawer replies to AW on place names

109c Aerial photography in archaeology #1

110a Salt tracks near Birmingham #1

110b Salt tracks near Birmingham #2

111 Aerial photography in archaeology #2 (O.G.S. Crawford)

113b Deforestation: Romans rather than Saxons (J.W. Evans)

114a Crawford replies to Evans, Newman, O’Branagain

114b Stonehenge from air; Lockyer disproved (O.G.S. Crawford)

115b Stonehenge: bluestones probably by land (G. Engleheart)

116a Air photo of Stonehenge

116b Scotch firs on hilltops (C.)

117a Coldharbour: origin of name #2 (G.B. Barham)

117b Coldharbour: origin of name #3 (W.J. Roffey)

117c Coldharbour: origin of name #4 (E.A.E.)

117d Coldharbour and other “Cold” names (AW)

118a Lockyer defended against Crawford #1 (AW)

118b Lockyer defended against Crawford #2 (E.H. Stone)

118c Stonehenge not Neolithic: reply to Engleheart (A.H. Allcroft)

119b Stonehenge: legends of floating stones (F. Rose-Troup)

119c Water-mills in Britain before Saxons (M. O’Branagain)

119d Roman altar on Ham Common, Surrey

119e Centre of England (R.C. Gilson)

120 Scotch firs on old straight tracks (AW)

122a Long Man of Wilmington: sketch

122b Matlock: Roman road revealed by sewerage works

122c Bull ring: what area was enclosed? (W.A.)

122d Bull ring was iron ring, not enclosure (AW)

123a Devon: large burial mound near Exeter to be excavated

123b France: skeletons 25,000 years old discovered

123c Bull ring: three more replies

124 Report of AW’s lecture to RPS #2 (R. Mellas)

127 Long Man of Wilmington: theories of origin

128b Long Man of Wilmington: what is its origin?

128c Review of EBT (H.J. Randall) (Unknown source)

130a Norwich Folk Museum opens; first in Britain

130b Card: AW to lecture in Birmingham

130c Report of AW’s Birmingham lecture

131a AW replies to Randall’s review of EBT

131b Finds of burial urn (Wales), canoe (Cheshire)

132a Long Man of Wilmington: origin (H.F. Morres)

132b “Franchise” place names (H.K. Hudson; AW)

132c Alinement of Stowe Avenue, Bucks. (AW)

132d Tendrils of briony (AW)

133a Sun worship on Malverns (lecture by P. L’Estrange)

133b Moot at Gray’s Inn: wife’s authority as agent

133c M. and C.H.B. Quennell accept AW’s theory

134a Ludgate and other “Lud” names (AW)

134b Bristol nails successors to markstone (AW)

134c Aconbury Camp, Herefs.

135a M. and C.H.B. Quennell accept AW’s theory

135b AW’s theories supported

136a Caplar Camp, Herefs. (AW)

137b Bristol nails ought to be cleaned

138a Beacon on church towers (H.J. Stratton; AW)

138b Beaconsfield: name not from beacon (T.H. Butler)

138c Use of the word “Scotch” defended (AW)

138d Boroughbridge Mump alignment (Mrs Baker)

139a Roman post-stations in Gloucs. (StC. Baddeley)

139b The Old Straight Track to be published

139c Report of AW’s lecture to Hereford Scouts

140a Beacon on church towers (H.J. Stratton; AW)

140b Sutton Walls, Herefs: old track aligns (AW)

141b Shropshire markpoints: where do they exist?

142 Archenfield: origin of name #2 (AW; StC. Baddeley)

143b Bristol nails: tradition of speech to Mayor

143c Archenfield: AW’s theory contested (StC. Baddeley; P.M.)

144b Archenfield: AW replies to Baddeley

145 Aberdeenshire alignments (Marquis of Huntley)

InsertNote on AW’s proposed 1:√2 paper sizes

Loose Report of AW’s Birmingham lecture

Loose Athelstan: 1000th anniversary of his coronation

Loose Big fire in London warehouse

Loose Roman roads and how they were made (R. Wellbye)

Loose Allen Watkins: letter to his mother

Loose AW promotes “political guessing” competition

Loose Boulder, possible markstone, uncovered by sewerage works

Loose “Cole” in church names (AW) + “Puck” in place-names

Loose Cornwall: origin of “Roman” roads

Loose Cambrian Archaeol. Assoc. meet at Hereford

Extra AW replies to Mawer’s criticisms

Extra Uriconium: air photos suggested (A. Newman)

Extra Uriconium: suggestion welcomed (J.A. Morris)

Extra Bluestones perhaps via Bristol Channel (C. Moor)

Extra Rejoinder by Evans to Crawford

Extra “Agricultural revolution” Roman not Saxon (M. Sharpe)