Title: NEOLITHIC DEW-PONDS AND CATTLE-WAYS

Publisher: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO, LONDON

Publication Date: 1916

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Edition: 3rd Edition

Green Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front board, 255 x 180 mm approx,  + 116 pp + 1 of publisher's adverts. 29 illustrations as called for being mainly monochrome photos. 3rd Edition 1916 which seems to be essentially a reprint of the 2nd Edition. Condition is good, no DJ, light edgewear on DJ and cover, name in pencil written on inside cover, internally all pages very clean no writing or tears, sent Royal Mail Second Class

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

Few things can be more interesting to the traveller than to survey, from some elevated spot, the road by which he has journeyed, and to observe its course as it winds away in the distance and is lost on the horizon. It is an interest of a similar character, only immeasurably greater in degree, which we experience in looking back to the horizon of time and examining the works that remain to us of the earliest civilisation in our land.

The road behind us is dim, and the traces which our far-away fathers have left upon the hills and plains of England are so multitudinous, and yet so little understood, that it is necessary to make use of certain

definitions and limitations of the subject, if we are to arrive at any conclusions which shall be at once accurate and intelligible.

First, let us say that for the purposes of this work we use the word "neolithic" as a general term, applicable not only to stones bearing the imprint of a certain style of workmanship, but to all the works done by the earliest men of whose lives we can find traces, and also to the workers themselves. Palæolithic man is below the horizon.