The One Hundred and Forty-Third Report of the Council

In March 1991 and February—March 1993 a series of military training earthworks in Crowthorne Wood, near Bracknell, Berkshire, was surveyed by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (R.C.H.M.E.) at the request of Berkshire County Council. The results of the survey and research into the earthworks' history have revealed a chronological depth reflecting the development in military earthworks from the Napoleonic Wars to the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The following account falls into two sections: the first describes remains which probably date from manoeuvres of 1792; and the second describes later trench systems. Each is preceded by an outline of the historical background to the remains.     

Twenty-First Annual Report of the Council

THE SAVIOUR GOD, comparative studies in the concepts of Salvation presented to Edwin Oliver James. Manchester University Press, 1963. 37s. 6d. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

THE SACRED BRIDGE. Researches into the nature and Structure of Religion. By E. J. BLEEKER. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1963. Pp. 272. 2 8 guilders. Reviewed by E. O. James.

EDWARD LHUYD IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS 1699–1700. By J. L. CAMPBELL and DERICK THOMSON. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. xxxii, 319; plates XXIII. 63s. Reviewed by Stewart F. Sanderson.

VOLK UND VOLKSTÜMLICHE MOTIVIK IM FESTWERK DES BAROCKS. Dargestellt an Dresdner Bildquellen. By FRIEDRICH SIEBER. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für deutsche Volkskunde vol. 21. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, i960. Pp. xii, 202. 29 text figs and 112 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

FEBOLD FEBOLDSON: TALL TALES FROM THE GREAT PLAINS. By PAUL R. BEATH. New Edition including: Louise Pound, ‘Nebraska Strong Men and Olof Bergstrom Swedish Pioneer’. University of Nebraska Press, 1959. Pp. 137. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

BUSOJARAS MOHACSON. By L. Mandoki. Pecs, 1963. Reviewed by E. O. James.

JAPANESE RAINMAKING AND OTHER FOLK PRACTICES. By GEOFFREY BOWNAS. 176 pp. George Allen &; Unwin Ltd, 1963. 25s. Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

THE MENOMINI LANGUAGE. By LEONARD BLOOMFIELD. London, Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. 515. 72s. net. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

JUBELFEST. By J.-Ö. SWAHN. Lund, 1963. Reviewed by W. R. Mead.

LACE. By L. W. VANDER MEULEN-NALLE. London, Merlin Press, 1963. Pp. 79 + 32. 5 plates. Reviewed by W. Bonser.

SKANDINAVISCHE BALLADEN DES MITTELALTERS. By I.-M. GREVERUS. Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1963. Reviewed by W. R. Mead.

KINSHIP AND COMMUNITY IN CARRIACOU. By M. G. SMITH. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1962. Reviewed by A. William-Ellis.

JAHRBUCH FÜR VOLKSKUNDE DER HEIMATVERTRIEBENEN. Vol. vi. Freilassing, Otto Müller, 1961. Pp. 207. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

CONTES CORSES. By GENEVIÈVE MASSIGNON. Centre d'Etudes Corses de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines d'Aix, 1963. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THREE BAGS OF GOLD AND OTHER INDIAN FOLKTALES. By MURKOT KUNHAPPA. Asia Publishing House, 1963. Pp. 134. 25s. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.

FIABE E LEGGENDE ROMAGNOLE. Corpus delle Tradizioni populari Romagnole. Edited by P. TOSCHI and ANGELO FABI. Bologna, Cappelli Editore, 1963. Pp. xii, 303,12 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Nineteenth Annual Report of the Council

In this paper, by analysing the folk tradition, available historical data, and archaeological excavations at the location of an emplaced tradition about the Franciscan monastery in the village of Skakava, Bosnia, the author demonstrates how a tradition inscribed or emplaced in a landscape can preserve the knowledge of the local community about a place long after physical remains have been destroyed.