Under the title of “Early British Trackways,” a book by Alfred Watkins, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society has given a new meaning to moats, mounds, camps and ancient sites. He has found that these are practical “sighting points and were the ancient method to gauge the straightest and therefore the shortest course between places. The book, which is small and beautifully illustrated with fine photographs, needs to be examined before it is judged. Mr. Watkins has provided some remarkable facts in proof of his statement. It is a discovery of wide scope. It not only reveals for the first time a systematic planning of pre-historic trackways, but throws a flood of light on the evolution of defensive camps, of the sites of castles and churches, and on the meaning of place names. The idea provides a new objective for field-ramblers and scout-masters. (The Watkins Meter Co., Hereford; and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton and Kent, London, 4s. 6d.)
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