Beginning, as he says, without theories, Mr Alfred Watkin found himself last summer on the trail of what he believes to be a line of investigation and discovery, which may upset previous ideas and discoveries regarding the origin of roads in this country. His Early British Trackways, in which he includes moats, mounds, camps, and other sites, is a lecture he delivered to the Woodhope Field Club, at Hereford, last September. (4s. 6d. net. London: Simpkin, Marshall.) He holds that long before the Roman period, going back perhaps, thousands of years before Christ, the country was covered by a network of tracks, laid out by sighting lines, or “leys,” from some terminal point, usually on high ground, and running as nearly as possible on a straight line, marked, as he seeks to show from facts and photographic views taken in his own district, by existing tunnelsMisreading of ‘tumuli’ ?, moats, camps, and ancient churches and castles. His views, which will need a great deal more evidence to justify acceptance, are supported by many doubtful excursions into archæology and etymology.
Source info: Cuttings agency.