Alfred Watkins - The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones

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( Photographs by Alfred Watkins.
Diagrams and Sketches by W. H. McKaig )

Frontispiece: Alfred Watkins

Maps of Hereford and surrounds

FIG. (INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE)

1. The Woolhope Club at Goodrich Court (photograph by J. Parker)

2. Farmland near Abbey Dore

3. Bronge Age Cist

4. Watkins inscription at Dinmore Hill

5. Ruins of Wigmore Castle

6. Distant View of Knighton

FIG. (INTRODUCTION BY ALFRED WATKINS)

1. Track sighted on Notch, Llanthony

FIG . ( MAIN TEXT )

1. Caple Tump, assembly point for amusement

2. Caple Tump, flat top, with earth walling

3. South Radnor Mound Alignment

4. Pilleth Mound Alignment

5. A Cotswold Ley

6. A Hereford Church Ley

7. Hundred House Mount

8. Turret Tump, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow

9. The Batch Twt, Almeley

10. Mound, Capler Camp

11. Hundred House

12. Part of S. Radnor Mound Alignment

Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M Stationery Office

13. Church Leys, Woolhope to Aconbury

Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office

14. Arthurs Stone, mound sighted on Green Way

15. Arthurs Stone, near view

16. Hills round Radnor Vale

17. Radnor Forest, skyline with mounds

18. The Black Mixen

19. Avenue to Old Radnor Church on Ley

20. Ley through New Radnor Mound to above

21. Scotch Firs, on barrow site, Radnor Vale

22. Radnor Vale, eastern end.

Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office

23. The Four Stones, New Radnor

24. Mark Stone, Knobley to Burfa

25. Mark Stone, Kinnerton, and Whimble

26. Natural Boulder, Old Radnor

27. Burfa Camp, contour vallum

28. Mark Stone, Beggars Bush, New Radnor

29. Mark Stone, Cwm Bwnt, Clyro, Radnor

30. Mark Stone, The Leys, Weobley

31. Mark Stone, English Bridge, Shrewsbury

32. Mark Stone, Leominster

33. Mark Stone, at well, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow

34. Mark Stone, Wergins Stone, Sutton

35. Mark Stone, Vowchurch, at ford, in churchyard

36. Long Stone, Staunton, Gloucestershire

37. Long Stone, Wern Derries, Michaelchurch Escley

38. Long Stone, Harolds Stones, Trelech, Mon.

39. The Clump, Mansel Gamage, distant view

40. The Clump, Mansel Gamage, near view with Lady Lift

41. The Clump, Mansel Gamage, with mark stone

42. Mark Stone for ford, Wye Street, Hereford

43. The Queen Stone, Huntsham, Symonds Yat

44. The Queen Stone, Huntsham, Symonds Yat

45. Holy Well, Cornwall

46. Cresset, Llanthony

47. Churches align to Dinedor Camp. (Telephoto)

48. Devils Arrow, Boroughbridge, Yorks

49. Herrock to Hanter, sighted track

50. Hanter to Herrock

51. Tre-Fedw Mound, with Skirrid Mountain

52. Tre-Fedw Mound, sighted on road to south

53. Tre-Fedw Mound, sighted on road to north

54. Stoned Track, Hereford, section

55. Stoned Track, Hereford, surface

56. Hollow Road to Wye Ford, Much Fawley

57. Hollow Road to Sky Notch, Wormsley

58. Water Sight Point, Moat, Eardisland

59. Water Sight Point, Causeway through Pond, Holmer

60. Eardisland, track through mound and ford

61. Longtown, hollow road to ford and notch

62. Longtown, causeway of above through ford

63. Longtown Castle Keep, on mound

64. Longtown Castle, aligning with church to Black Hill

65. Longtown Castle, camp earthwork aligning to

66. Sight Notch, in desert, Ghaza

Photo by C. H. Harvey

67. Sight Notch, Pandy

68. Sight Notch, Cwm-y-Yoy

69. Sight Notch, Llanthony

70. Sight Notch, Black Darren, Longtown

71. Sight Notch, Coldmans Hill

72. Sight Notch, Rhiw-cwrw

73. The Dodman (snail)

74. Bwlch-yr-Effengyl, Black Mountains

75. Llanthony, sighted track through Abbey

76. Llanthony, sighted track through Abbey, reverse direction to notch

77. Llanthony Abbey, with mountain tracks

78. Initial points, Malvern Range, Herefordshire side

79. Herefordshire Beacon or British Camp

80. Coles Tump, with Black Mountains, etc.

81. Walterstone Camp and ley

82. Ivington Camp and leys

83. Credenhill, Magna, and Brinsop Camps

Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office

84. Dinedor Camp and ley

85. Aconbury Camp and ley

86. Capler Camp and ley

87. Capler Camp, within the vallum

88. Longtown Castle, Camp, and leys

89. Sighting Staves, Long Man, Wilmington

90. Sighting Staves, Statue at Tut-ankh-amens Tomb

91. Sighting Staves, Pilgrims

92. Sighting Staves, a Roman Optios

93. Sighting Staves, a Pilgrims

94. Method of using sighting staves

95. Pembridge Market House and mark stone

96. Grosmont, market stone prehistoric

97. Grosmont, market stone in Market House

98. Pembridge: socket stone of Market Cross

99. Bristol Nails (market tables) the oldest

100. Bristol Nails (market tables) all four

101. Sacrificial Stone, the Malverns

102. Giants Cave, the Malverns

103. Holme Lacy Church, orienting over Wye ford

104. Stonehenge, with aligning barrows

105. Stonehenge, sketch of

106. Cascob Church, on a mound

107. Wigmore Church, on a bank

108. Leys through Bristol churches

109. Bristol Church Ley, through St. Johns Gate

110. Ditto, reverse view to Christchurch

111. Offa St. ley, Hereford, from St. Peters, sighted on Cathedral

112. Ditto, sighted on St. Peters, from Cathedral

113. Ditto, from Aylestone Hill, showing above with Beechwood Knowl

114. Ditto, above three points and a pond aligning

115. Silchester, temples and churches on leys

Based on the Map of the Society of Antiquaries, with their sanction

116. Richards Castle, church orients to mound

117. Ewias Harold Castle, church orients to mound

118. Kilpeck Castle, church orients to mound

119. Exeter Castle, Saxon windows

120. Skenfrith Castle, central keep on mound

121. Wigmore Castle, on mound

122. Ewias Harold Castle, mound site

123. London Roman Walls, align to White Mount

124. Cruger Castle, Radnor Forest

125. Castle Farm, Madley, causeway to mound