Alfred Watkins - Wikipedia
Alfred Watkins (27 January 1855 – 15 April 1935) was an English businessman and amateur archaeologist who developed the idea of ley lines. [1] Watkins was born in Hereford to an affluent family which had moved to the town in 1820 to establish several businesses including a flour-mill, a hotel and brewery.
Ley line - Wikipedia
Archaeologists and scientists regard ley lines as an example of pseudoarchaeology and pseudoscience. The idea of "leys" as straight tracks across the landscape was put forward by the English antiquarian Alfred Watkins in the 1920s, particularly in his book The Old Straight Track.
Ley Lines, The 'Mystical' Paths Said To Connect Ancient Landmarks
2024年4月23日 · In 1921, amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins made a remarkable discovery. He noticed that ancient sites around Britain all fell into a strange alignment. Both man-made and natural monuments could be connected by perfectly straight paths. He coined these routes “ley lines” — and opened up a world of supernatural and spiritual beliefs.
The Old Straight Track - Wikipedia
The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones is a book by Alfred Watkins, first published in 1925, describing the existence of alleged ley lines in Great Britain. [1]
Ley-lines - Ancient-Wisdom
'Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book 'The Old Straight Track' brought the alignments to the attention of the wider public'.
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines? - TheCollector
2024年5月3日 · First proposed by amateur English archaeologist Alfred Watkins during the 1920s, ley lines are theoretical energy lines which connect key landmarks across the globe, joining sacred sites from Stonehenge to the Egyptian Pyramids.
Alfred Watkins
Ley Lines - It was in 1921 that Alfred Watkins read a paper to the Woolhope Club members on Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites. In his talk he introduced members to a new concept — the old straight track; the ley line — prehistoric trading routes based on straight lines between a variety of sighting points.
The Truth About Ley Lines - Medium
2022年6月15日 · Watkins was convinced there was a grid of secret lines in the Herefordshire countryside; a network of mounds, hummocks and tumps, moats, megaliths and camps that coalesced in his mind to form...
(PDF) A Strange Cartography: Leylines, Landscape and
2015年10月16日 · In addition to providing a concise cultural history of the leyline, with particular reference to the works of Alfred Watkins, this paper develops a critical engagement with ley-walking...
Ley Lines: Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and …
2008年1月9日 · Ley lines are alignments on the landscape of natural and artificial features, some of which follow perfectly straight tracks for miles. First discovered in Britain by the author of this book, Alfred Watkins, a photographer and inventor, ley lines were pursued eagerly by organized clubs in the period between the world wars.
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