This tightly constructed novel is set in the fictitious village of
Slatefield, where dinosaur bones were first found in England. The
arrival of a writer of popular books at the house of his brother,
an Oxford archaeologist, stirs up an old rivalry. A strange stone
has been unearthed from a local quarry bearing what looks like an
ancient script and the two brothers have very different
interpretations of its contents. For the archaeologist it is
clearly a fake, but for his brother and his artist wife it opens a
window to a prehistoric civilization, going back even to the age of
the giant dragonflies. There is also a land dispute over the site
of a Roman villa, and disagreement among the villagers over the
possible reopening of the slate mines. A humorous element is
introduced by the bumbling new vicar who tries to smooth over all
these disputes with words of unorthodox Whiteheadian wisdom.
Science and imagination are at loggerheads, and their resolution
(of sorts) provides a surprising ending.
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