Mr. Alfred Watkins of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club has now ready for distribution his work on Early Trackways of the British Period, including critical examination and description of moats, mounds, lays, camps, and other sites. The book will delight and instruct antiquarians, archæologists, and students of primeval life in Britain. Mr. Watkins finds that moats, mounds, and other artificial treatment of the surface of our country generally range in a straight line with a hill or peak at one end, some of the elevated points of view being set up or enhanced by man’s handiwork improving on natural features. Anterior to the coming of the Romans there was, the author finds, a well-defined principle of roads and paths along which trade and other intercourse was carried out by the natives. His photographs and maps elucidate the theories he expounds and add to the attractions of the work.
Source info: MS note by AW “The Builder”, no date.