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Alfred Watkins, the Glossary

Alfred Watkins (27 January 1855 – 15 April 1935) was an English businessman and amateur archaeologist who developed the idea of ley lines.^[1]

28 relations: Archaeology, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Beekeeping, Blackwardine, Celtic Britons, Douglas Mawson, Endurance (1912 ship), Ernest Shackleton, Frank Hurley, Geographer, Herbert Ponting, Hereford, Herefordshire, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Internet Sacred Text Archive, John Michell (writer), Ley line, Light meter, Neolithic, Pembridge, Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom, Pinhole camera, Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Photographic Society, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, The Old Straight Track, Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Wye Valley Brewery.
Amateur archaeologists
English beekeepers
Ley lines
Photographers from Herefordshire
Pseudoarchaeologists

Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Australasian Antarctic Expedition

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia.

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Beekeeping

Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives.

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Blackwardine

Blackwardine is a village in Herefordshire, England (at), in the parish of Ford and Stoke Prior. Alfred Watkins and Blackwardine are ley lines.

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The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic.

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Endurance (1912 ship)

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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Frank Hurley

James Francis "Frank" Hurley (15 October 1885 – 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer and adventurer.

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Geographer

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.

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Herbert Ponting

Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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Internet Sacred Text Archive

The Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA) is a Santa Cruz, California-based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain religious texts.

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John Michell (writer)

John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of the pseudoscientific Earth mysteries movement.

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Ley line

Ley lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures, prehistoric sites and prominent landmarks. Alfred Watkins and Ley line are ley lines.

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Light meter

A light meter (or illuminometer) is a device used to measure the amount of light.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Pembridge

Pembridge is a village and civil parish in the Arrow valley in Herefordshire, England.

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Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom

The Photographic Convention of United Kingdom (PCUK) was founded in 1886 and held its first convention in the city of Derby, England, in August of that year.

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Pinhole camera

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called pinhole)—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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Royal Photographic Society

The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies.

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Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) (also known as Anti-Scrape) is an amenity society founded by William Morris, Philip Webb, and others in 1877 to oppose the destructive 'restoration' of ancient buildings occurring in Victorian England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Watkins