The Old Straight Track
Alfred Watkins

First published in 1925 and out of print for many years, "The Old Straight Track" remains the most important source for the study of the ancient straight tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles – a fascinating system which was old when the Romans came to Britain.

First in the Herefordshire countryside, and later throughout Britain, Alfred Watkins noticed that beacon hills, mounds, earthworks, moats, and old churches built on pagan sites seemed to fall into straight lines. His investigations convinced him that Britain was covered with a vast network of straight tracks, aligned with either the sun or the path of a star.

Although traces of this network can be found all over the country, the principles behind the ley system still remain a mystery. Are they the legacy of a prehistoric scientific knowledge which is now all but lost? And was their purpose secular or religious?

'A remarkable book... it will not be long before Alfred Watkins is recognised for what he was, an honest visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time'
- John Michell, author of "The View Over Atlantis"

Table of Contents

~Preface to the Original Edition
~List of Illustrations
~Notes from the Publishers
~Alfred Watkins:
   A Note by John Michell
~Introduction: by Alfred Watkins

I. Mounds
II. Alignment of Mounds
III. Leys in Radnor Vale
IV. Mark Stones
V. The Sighted Track
VI. Water Sight Points
VII. Sight Notches
VIII. Initial Points
IX. Mark Trees
X. Camps
XI. Ley-Men
XII. Sighted Staff
XIII. Traders' Tracks
XIV. Sun Alignment
XV. Beacons

XVI. Churches on Mark-Points
XVII. Orientation
XVIII. Castles on Mark Sites
XIX. Assemblies at Mark-Points
XX. Roman Era
XXI. Place-Names
XXII. Folk-Lore
XXIII. Hermes and Hermit
XXIV. In Other Lands
XXV. Bible Record
XXVI. Confirmation
XXVII. Obscurities and Objections
XXVIII. Chronology
XXIX. Alpha and Omega
XXX. An Outline

Appendix A - Ley Hunting
Appendix B - Buckinghamshire Leys
Appendix C - Oxford City Leys
Appendix D - Brecon Camps
Index

234 pages, 5 x 8, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $15.00