Download or read book Historia Anglorum written by Henry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Hugh Davies and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archeology.
Download or read book The Ancient Paths written by Graham Robb and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extraordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing. Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.
Download or read book The Old Roads of England written by Sir William Wilkinson Addison and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain written by M.C. Bishop and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout?The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Download or read book Early British Trackways Moats Mounds Camps and Sites written by Alfred Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pilgrims Way written by Derek Bright and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winding its way from Winchester to Canterbury, through the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, and Kent, can still be found one of England’s most ancient trackways. Well trodden and beloved of walkers throughout southern England, the Pilgrims’ Way serves as a hidden by-way linking those that travel along it with some of the countries oldest cathedrals, castles and abbeys, yet it remains an enigma to many of those who regularly follow its tracks. From the Neolithic through to the Victorian pilgrimists, Derek Bright brings together a mass of evidence and re-evaluates how we should view this ancient trackway that Ivan D. Margary described as one of the most important in Britain. Using evidence of roadside crime, prohibitive legislation, and the everyday hazards facing wayfarers, he makes decisive arguments for how the road has served travelers over time.
Download or read book Ancient Trackways of Wessex written by Harold William Timperley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Carnac to Callanish written by Aubrey Burl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the lines of standing stones that until now have been the neglected wonders of prehistoric Europe, rows that were foci of rituals in Britain, Ireland and Brittany for over two thousand years. Places such as Carnac in Brittany and Callanish in the Hebrides are visited by many visitors each year, but before now there has been no book that seriously explains the history, significance and background to these impressive sites. Aubrey Burl shows that the settings vary from pairs of isolated stones in the far south-west of Ireland to networks of long lines in Scotland, Dartmoor and Brittany, and describes the types in a sequence of architectural chapters that stress the increasing social and commercial connections between regions hundred of miles apart. He uses information from a wide variety of sources - excavation reports, megalithic art, astronomical analyses and legends - to provide explanations of why the rows were erected, when, and what they may have been used for.
Download or read book The Old Straight Track written by Alfred Watkins and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old when the Romans came to Britain. First in the Herefordshire countryside, and later throughout Britain, Alfred Watkins noticed that beacon hills, mounds, earthworks, moats and old churches built on pagan sites seemed to fall in straight lines. His investigation convinced him that Britain was covered with a vast network of straight tracks, aligned with either the sun or the path of a star. Although traces of this network can be found all over the country, the principles behind the ley system remain a mystery. Are they the legacy of a prehistoric scientific knowledge which is now all but lost? And was their purpose secular or religious?
Download or read book The Roads of England written by R. M. C. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrim Pathways 1 2 Day Walks on Britain s Ancient Sacred Ways written by Andy Bull and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full colour, larger format Inspirational guide describing 20 pilgrimages in England, Scotland and Wales that are achievable over one or two days. There are many ancient pilgrim paths in Britain, some long-forgotten and we offer routes inspired by the very best of them, distilled into short walks so you can be a weekend pilgrim. Practical information accessed via dedicated webpages linked with a code in the book - step-by-step route instructions, public transport information, places to eat and places to stay, gpx file for use on smartphone based mapping and GPS units.
Download or read book The Green Roads of England written by R. Hippisley Cox and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Road written by Hilaire Belloc and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Other London Adventures in the Overlooked City written by John Rogers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches.
Download or read book Ancient Trackways in England written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Beckhampton Avenue, Camlet Way, Dartmoor crosses, Greater Ridgeway, Harrow Way, Herepath, Icknield Way, Kennet Avenue, Nine Mile Ride, Pilgrims' Way, Post Track, Ruthergate, Sparrows Herne turnpike, Sweet Track, Tarr Steps, The Ridgeway, Timber trackway, Wansdyke (earthwork), Watling Street, Welsh Road.
Download or read book The Ancient Roads of England written by Jane Oliver (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
