Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Introduction Robert Macfarlane xii

Preface to the original edition xxxviii

Introduction Alfred Watkins xli

I Mounds 1

II Alignment of mounds 12

III Leys in Radnor Vale 24

IV Mark stones 41

V The sighted track 60

VI Water sight points 74

VII Sight notches 87

VIII Initial points 101

IX Mark trees 108

X Camps 114

XI Ley-men 127

XII Sighting staff 139

XIII Traders' tracks 149

XIV Sun alignment 163

XV Beacons 177

XVI Churches on mark-points 185

XVII Orientation 202

XVIII Castles on mark sites 209

XIX Assemblies at mark-points 224

XX Roman era 231

XXI Place-names 241

XXII Folk-lore 254

XXIII Hermes and hermit 262

XXIV In other lands 268

XXV Bible record 272

XXVI Confirmation 279

XXVII Obscurities and objections 288

XXVIII Chronology 297

XXIX Alpha and omega 302

XXX An outline 308

Appendix A Ley Hunting 315

Appendix B Buckinghamshire Leys 321

Appendix C Oxford City Leys 325

Appendix D Brecon Camps 327

Acknowledgements and select bibliography for Robert Macfarlane's introduction 329

Index 331