Gogmagog. The Buried Gods, Lethbridge.

A search into the meaning of figures cut from the hillsides of the Gog Magog Hills.
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  • Etat/Condition: bon, rousseurs sur les tranches, couverture traces d'usures, exemplaire de bibliothèque/good and clean inside, some shelfwear, some spotting to the edges, ex library copy.
  • Illustrations : quelques-uns  + photos en N&B/half-tone plates and line drawings.

    Thomas Charles Lethbridge (23 March 1901 – 30 September 1971), better known as T. C. Lethbridge, was an English archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer. A specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, he served as honorary Keeper of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from 1923 to 1957, and over the course of his lifetime wrote twenty-four books on various subjects, becoming particularly well known for his advocacy of dowsing.
    In 1954 Lethbridge focused on searching for a chalk hill figure that was reported to have once existed on Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire. Towards the end of 1954 he began investigating the site, inserting metal rods into the ground to determine where he believed the turf had once been removed to expose the chalk below. He believed that he had revealed three large figures, a warrior, a hooded goddess, and a sun god, asserting them to be likely 3000 years old, and then began excavation to remove the turf and reveal the figures. Lethbridge sought much publicity for his discovery, reporting on it to The Times and being interviewed by the London Evening News. However, many archaeologists were sceptical of Lethbridge's methodology and the existence of the hill figures; they believed that the soft patches of chalk were the result of chalk solifluction and were only interpreted as human-made figures through Lethbridge's vivid imagination. The Council for British Archaeology brought together a committee to assess Lethbridge's findings, composed of I.W. Cornwall, W. F. Grimes, Christopher Hawkes, and Stuart Piggott. With the aid of geologist F. E. Zeuner, the committee concluded that the shapes Lethbridge had discovered were natural, having been formed during the last Ice Age. However, Hawkes disagreed with his colleagues, and believed that while not proven, Lethbridge's conclusions could not be disproved. Lethbridge stuck by his original ideas, and wrote a book aimed at a general audience, Gogmagog – The Buried Gods on the basis of them. It was published by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1957, but received no supportive reviews. In May 1957, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray involved herself in the Gogmagog debate, championing Lethbridge's ideas against the academic fraternity in a letter she sent to The Times. W. F. Grimes responded by claiming that she was out of touch with contemporary scholarship.

    Thomas Charles Lethbridge, mieux connu sous le nom de T. C. Lethbridge, était un archéologue, parapsychologue et explorateur anglais.

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Condition Used - Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated Yes
Publicaton Date 1 Jan 1957
Year 1957
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Lethbridge T. C.
Editor Routledge & Kegan Paul
First edition Yes
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
Size 22 x 14 cm
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