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Early British Trackways

by Alfred Watkins

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1, Wergin’s Stone, Sutton. With flat face suited for sighting. A cavity for payments (or offerings) on the flat base. Early example of “shaft and base.” 2, Pedlars Cross above Llanigon. A menhir chipped into rude semblance of a cross. 3, In churchyard, Vowchurch, unworked base. A ley runs through it. Inset, Sighting hole in shaft of Bitterley Cross. 4, In Capel-y-fin churchyard (Black Mountains).

PLATE XI. CHURCHYARD CROSS. Bitterley (see Inset Plate X.).

PLATE XIII. TREES. 1, A “One Tree Hill” near Llanvihangel-nant-Melan. 2, Monnington Walks, an avenue of Scotch Firs (Scots Pines) on a ley sighted on Scar Rock, Brobury, seen in distance. See Map, Plate XIX.

PLATE XIV. CAMPS. 1, Sutton Walls. One of the sighting mounds, there being four, a pair at eastern end, a pair at this the western end. 2, Herefordshire Beacon. Winds Point to the left.

PLATE XV. CHURCH. Church Lane, Ledbury. The detached tower of Ledbury Church is shown on the ley.

PLATE XVI. CASTLE. Wigmore Castle. The keep is on a sighting mound, the ley passing also through the church, as is almost invariable where castle and church are near together.

PLATE XVII. CASTLE. Brampton Bryan Castle (on a sighting mound) with Coxall Knoll, another mound, in the distance on the right.

PLATE XIX. MAP. TWO LEYS. A, Consecutive strips containing the straight ley from Glascwm Hill to Birley Hill via four mounds; Turret Tump, The Camp, Batch Twt, Almeley, Moat, Sarnesfield Coppice; and Weobley Church. B, Little Mountain to Holy Well Malvern, through Moccas “Castle” Tump, Preston-on-Wye Church, Byford Ford, Holmer Church, Palmer’s Court, Moat, Shucknell, Walsopthorne. Portions of two interesting leys are also shown. C, Scar Rock, Brobury, through Monnington Walks to Monnington Church (see Plate XIII.); and D, Little Mountain (Westbrook), through Arthur’s Stone (dolmen), Cross End, Moccas Church, Monnington Church, St. Ann’s Well, and Priory Church, Malvern.

PLATE XX. MAP. Portions of eight leys passing through Capel-y-tair-ywen (Chapel of the three yew trees), a chapel site, originally a mound, described in Woolhope Transactions, 1898, p. 38, on the high plateau below the great northern escarpment of the Black Mountains. A, Hay Tump (near church ford) to Pen-y-Beacon, on to Castle Tump, Rhos-goch. B, Mouse Castle to Tumpa, passes through Maes-coch (red field), Priory Wood, and the ancient “red” pottery, Whitney. C, Merbach to Llanelieu Church. D, Mynydd-brith Tump to Talgarth Church. E, Castle Tump, Dorstone, to Moat at Felin-fach. F, Snodhill Castle to Aberllynfi Gaer; beyond Snodhill it passes to or through Holy Well, near Blakemere. G, Michaelchurch Escley to Llanigon Mound. H, Black Hill (Olchon) to Painscastle Mound.

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