“Early British Trackways,” 4s. 6d. net, by Mr. Alfred Watkins, dealing with Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites, is a book all should read before going on their holidays. The author is a Fellow and Progress Medallist for 1910 of the Royal Photographic Society, and a past president of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Hereford. The volume, which is cleverly and beautifully illustrated and printed, is issued by the Watkins Meter Co., of Hereford, and is published by Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd., of London. The antiquity of the Ley, its individuality, of mounds, marks, and sighting stones and camps, castles and churches are dealt with, and trackways, traders’ roads, and Roman roads and place names are also discussed with great skill. The Leymen are described and hints are given to Ley hunters. Mr. Watkin’s discovery is one of great importance and wide sense. In his book he 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. This book certainly provides a new objective for field-ramblers and scout masters.
Source info: MS note by AW “Newcastle Weekly Chronicle June 17”.