Otherworldly straightness

Bob Trubshaw

We are all familiar with the phrase ‘dead straight’. Paul Devereux [1] has argued persuasively that at least some ‘leys’ are ‘corpse ways’ and identified a number of clear examples of ‘dead straight’ burial paths in various parts of northern Europe, with related examples from north and south America, the far east and elsewhere. These examples are, almost exclusively, medieval in date.