An Appeal to the Nation: The “Druids’” Temple near Glasgow (1937)
The Druid Temple Explained (1939)
both published by the Mann Publishing Co., London & Glasgow.
The burial site popularly called the “Druid Temple” was discovered near Knappers Farm in July 1937. Mann, who was already supervising an archaeological dig nearby, investigated the find. His enthusiastic interpretation and reconstruction of the supposed temple were not accepted by other archaeologists, and the Office of Works refused to schedule the site as an ancient monument. Even Graham Ritchie, whose article on Mann is by no means unsympathetic, writes that “he went over the top at Knappers”.
Mann’s appeal for funds to allow work on the site to continue was in print by the end of the year. The second booklet, subtitled “a set of talks”, probably summarizes the lectures that Mann gave at the site (see the photo in Ritchie’s article).
The digitized version contains the following Web pages:
| TEXT |
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| An Appeal to the Nation |
| The Druid Temple Explained |
| EXTRA |
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| Notes on the illustrations (MB, 2013) |
| Some news items about the “Druid Temple” (1937–9) |
| Note on the “Druid” Temple in Nature (1938) |
