Title: Sacred Stones and Holy Water: a series of monographs surveying the prehistoric sites of Surrey associated with stone and water Published: Don Namor Press June 2004, £3.50 Description: 26pp, map, 5 photos colour, 3 photos b&w/halftone, 2 b&w illustrations, and diagram. Details: historical, folkloric, topographical, and mythological investigation into one of Surrey’s best-known caves. This is the only work on the site to provide a comprehensive overview of both it and its context within the wider field of speliology and the only study to analyse the 13th century manuscript in which the cave was first mentioned and so to deduce that the cave’s origins are pre-medieval.
Title: Sacred Stones and Holy Water: a series of monographs surveying the prehistoric sites of Surrey associated with stone and water Published: Don Namor Press August 2004, £3.00 Description: 17pp, 6 photos colour, 3 photos b&w, 3 diagrams. Details: A comprehensive investigation into one of Surrey’s very few remaining standing stones, a forgotten megalith saved from destruction by two local historians, to whom the monograph is dedicated. All theories are considered and a solution proposed using comparative studies against widespread Neolithic techniques in the Pyrenees.
Title: The Surrey Puma: The Natural and Unnatural History of Published: Don Namor Press May 2005, £6.95 Description: 67pp, map, 11 b&w photos, 1 illustration. Details: The only study of what is generally regarded to be the prototype Alien Big Cat in Britain. In two parts, Part 1 chronicles the entire phenomenon through hundreds of newspaper reports, police records, and the input of more than 50 former eye-witnesses or their descendents who were tracked down as far away as America. Part II explores the various theories as to why such ABCs continue to be seen and relates some of the more absurd notions and events associated with the original phenomenon. Uniquely, the author was granted full access to the police records, which are otherwise not liable to public exposure under the recent Freedom of Information Act. An unimpeachable conclusion is reached that involves more than one Big Cat species.
Published: Don Namor Press, 2nd revised and expanded edition March 2006, £4.95 Description: 27pp, map, 2 photos colour, 2 photos b&w, 1 illustration Details: A comprehensive investigation into one of the many sightings of the infamous “Victorian bogeyman” known as Spring-heeled Jack. Throughout 1877, this strange phenomenon affected the military camp at Aldershot to the astonishment and bewilderment of everyone. In this monograph, every newspaper and extant official record is used to chronicle the incidents in their fullest detail for the first time anywhere. The many theories are explored, and the near pathological resistance of sceptics is rejected to leave a conclusion based on an extension of exteriorised trance-forms, the starting point of which is the shamanic theories associated with the origins of Upper Paleolithic cave-art. |
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