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Derbyshire Advertiser, 24 June 1922
In book: 52c
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(1) “Early British Trackways.” Alfred Watkins (Simpson Marshall).

EARLY BRITISH TRACKWAYS, MOATS, MOUNDS, CAMPS, AND SITES.

This little book is the outcome of a lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club at Hereford by Mr. Alfred Watkins, to which is much added matter and a wealth of admirable illustrations. It is a book for the specialist rather than the general reader, but the author has his subject very much at heart, and lays his string of facts before his readers in a very concise form. The illustrations from photographs taken by the author himself and others are quite charming, but as Mr. Watkins is well known in the photographic world, this is not to be wondered at. He writes a foreword and an endword to the booklet, which all antiquarians and others interested in early trackways of our county should endeavour to read, if only to set up a controversy, for the whole interesting essay is highly controversial. Something more may be said later on the subject in our antiquarian notes.

 

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