Review of EBT

In “Early British Trackways” (The Watkins Meter Co., Hereford, 4s. 6d.) Mr. Alfred Watkins has published with a number of interesting photographic illustrations a lecture which he delivered to a Hereford Field Club. The special interest of the little book lies in the lecturer’s theory that these early trackways were all straight lines done by experts on a sighting system. Water, mounds, trees, and stones were used as points in the line of sight, and so the line was preserved. Mr. Watkins is quite sure that his theory is right, and he gives examples in Herefordshire to support it, and certainly he does make out a prima facie case for consideration by archæological societies. It would be foolish to dismiss this interesting theory without careful investigation, and as Gloucestershire is so near to Herefordshire, perhaps the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, or some members of it will take up Mr. Watkins’s challenge.