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PeterH
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Re: how deep is your love?
Nov 03, 2005, 05:02
"Personally, I reckon Alfred Watkins is spinning in his grave at what people have turned his Old Straight Track into. His ideas have been twisted almost beyond recognition by the Ley Hunter crowd"

Agreed - and that is a real tragedy, because he may well have been on to something. As a result of all the crap, no one has seriously looked at his work and people have largely avoided looking at trackways. Watkins was interested in how people navigated across the landscape and how they might have used landscape features, waymarks and in particular skyline notches, stones and clumps of trees as navigation pointers. So little work has ben done on pre-Roman routes that the popular concept is that Britain was a tractless wilderness before the Romans built their straight roads and it just is not so. Time to re-assess Alf and look at what he really did try to say.
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