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The Geometrical Arrangement of Ancient Sites

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The Geometrical Arrangement of Ancient Sites

A development of the “Straight Track” Theory

by

Major F. C. Tyler, o.b.e.

London
Simpkin Marshall, Ltd.
Stationers’ Hall Court, E.C.4
1939

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First published December 1939
by Simpkin Marshall, Ltd.
Stationers’ Hall Court, London, E.C.4

made and printed in great britain

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PREFACE

This Monograph is based on a lecture delivered by Major F. C. Tyler to the London Antiquarian Society in October 1938, entitled The Old Straight Track and some Developments from it.

Owing to the exigencies of publication it is impossible to illustrate it as fully as it deserves, and only oblique references can be made to many of his effective slides and diagrams.

A breakdown in health has prevented the author’s revising the MS. for publication, and that work has been done by others not so conversant with the great mass of detailed observation which he has collected.

The “Straight Track Club” has followed up the thesis promulgated by the late Mr. Alfred Watkins in his book The Old Straight Track, and has collected a great corpus of corroborative evidence which amply proves Mr. Watkins’ main contention. In the Preface to his book Mr. Watkins wrote: “What really matters in this book is whether it is a humanly designed fact, an accidental coincidence, or a ‘mare’s nest,’ that mounds, moats, beacons, and mark stones fall into straight lines throughout Britain, with fragmentary evidence of trackways on the alignments.”

Major Tyler’s researches have opened up a vast field for further inquiry, and the undersigned consider it is well worth while to publish his conclusions in literary form in the hope that public interest may be stimulated and that the problems he has indicated will be seriously examined.

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CONTENTS

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