The Company of Avalon: A Study of the Script of Brother Symon, Sub-Prior of Winchester Abbey in the Time of King Stephen

xxxix, 159, [1] pp. 8vo. Original tan cloth, black titles, rules & decorations. Frontispiece of 'the wall that found itself', illustrations in text. A companion to The Gate of Remembrance by the same author, both of which explore his excavation of archaeological remains at Winchester Abbey, which was aided by spirit writing. Spiritualism was quite popular at the time, and Bond used spirit writing as a tool in several other digs. The automatic writing performed here was by a woman referred to only as 'S.', who claimed to be a twelfth-century monk (Brother Symon) reborn.