This website will publish scanned versions of books and articles. These will mostly be of earth mysteries and antiquarian interest, at least to start with. All items in the list are out of copyright, unless marked otherwise.
Book titles in italic, article titles in quotes:
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Leys and Landscape Geometry
See also Ley statistics and Links to other sites.
British Geomantic Pioneers 1570–1932 (collection of papers, ed. Nigel Pennick 1982):
Lambarde •
Black 1 •
Black 2 •
Dymond •
Bennett •
Fraser •
Watkins •
Hudson
Joseph Houghton Spencer,
“Ancient trackways in England” (1889)
An
Alfred Watkins miscellany (1920–1935)
O. G. S. Crawford,
“Place-names” (1921)
W. A. Dutt,
The Ancient Mark-stones of East Anglia (1926)
R. C. Dunt,
“Local markstones, roads and trackways” (1931)
Alfred Watkins,
Archaic Tracks Round Cambridge (1932)
F. C. Tyler,
The Geometrical Arrangement of Ancient Sites (1939)
German geomantic works
See separate index
Ancient Astronomy
F. Magnusen,
“On the ancient Scandinavians’ division of the times of the day” (1839)
O. S. Reuter,
“Der Himmel über den Germanen” (1936);
tr. “Skylore of the North” (© 1982)
Hill Figures
W. C. Plenderleath,
The White Horses of the West of England (1885)
Nigel Pennick,
Ancient Hill Figures of England (© 1976)
Mazes
Edward Trollope,
“Notices of ancient and mediæval labyrinths” (1858)
Maze snippets (various dates)
Maze mathematics
See separate index
Subterranea
Joseph Beldam,
The Origin and Use of the Royston Cave (1858/1904)
E. Gebauer,
„Felsenbilder am Bürgstein in Böhmen” (1935)
(article on a Czech analog of the Royston Cave, with English translation)
Lincolnshire (especially Grimsby & Cleethorpes)
Anon.,
The Lay of Havelok the Dane (c. 1300, ed. W. W. Skeat 1902)
C. P. T.,
“A Lincolnshire Dialogue” (1865)
Some old Meggies:
Cleethorpes Directory for 1880, etc.
M. C. Balfour,
“Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars” (1891)
C. Ernest Watson,
A History of Clee and the Thorpes of Clee (1901)
Jabez Good,
A Glossary of Words, &c., Current in East Lincolnshire (3rd edition, 1906)
William Matthews,
“The Lincolnshire dialect in the eighteenth century” (1935)
Other Antiquarian
James Garden,
“On the circular monuments in Scotland” [stone circles] (1692)
A. L. Lewis, Selected papers on stone circles etc. (1879–1906):
Devil’s Arrows •
Stone circles near Aberdeen •
Stone circles of Britain •
Cornwall part 1 •
Cornwall part 2 •
Ancient measures
C. W. Dymond,
“The Hurlers” [stone circles] (1879)
A. J. Hubbard & G. Hubbard,
Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattle-ways (1907) Added 16 May 2012
Arthur Gray, Two papers read to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1911):
“On the late survival
of a Celtic population in East Anglia” •
“On the Wandlebury legend”
Alfred Pope,
“Some dew-ponds in Dorset” (1912) Added 16 May 2012
J. B. P. Karslake,
“On Coldharbours” (1922), with material by other writers
Boyle Somerville,
“Instances of orientation in prehistoric monuments of the British Isles” (1923)
T. F. G. Dexter,
The Sacred Stone (1932)
T. F. G. Dexter,
The Pagan Origin of Fairs (1932)
Ludovic Mann,
A Forgotten Researcher (articles by Mann, ed. Michael Behrend 1977)
Jim Kimmis,
Essex Church Dedications (1981)
Nigel Pennick,
Daddy Witch and Old Mother Redcap (© 1985)
Miscellaneous
François Couperin,
Préfaces, les quatre Livres de Clavecin (1713–1730)
John Tatam Stanesby,
“Railways” (1841)
Easter algorithms from Nature (1876)
Reminiscences of Bateman Brown, J.P. [Huntingdon / St Ives interest] (1905)
Anon.,
“The true history of the Tichborne case” (1929)