Prehistoric London: Its Mounds and Circles

"There was a vogue for these sorts of books in the 1920s and 30s when there was a particular effort by prehistorians to discover something of London’s supposedly hidden past. There were books on the language of London, the early inhabitants and so forth. And they all tended to identify tokens and traces of Celtic or Druidic London. This sort of work was effectively killed off in World War II, but for me it still has abiding interest in the way that, for example, existing street names may betray a Celtic or prehistoric origin, such as Pancras Lane, Maiden Lane. The book reveals long forgotten trackways which, in fact, guide modern thoroughfares. The crossroads at the Angel, Islington, for example, mark the point where two prehistoric British roads intersected. So for all those reasons I find this particular book very absorbing and very revealing."