TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Most spelling variants are retained. Punctuation is occasionallycorrected, especially in the index and in footnotes, to maintainconsistency.
Figures have been moved to before or after the paragraphs near whichthey appeared in the text. On occasion, the pagination shown here maybe slightly disordered. Internal references to pages have been hyperlinkedto the original page. Given the approximate placement of figures, the readermay need to scroll up or down a bit to find the figure.
The titles and page references for the five appendices have been added tothe table of contents.A Transcriber’s Endnote at the end of this text contains more detailedinformation about corrections made.
ARCHAIC ENGLAND
AN ESSAY IN DECIPHERING PREHISTORY FROM
MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS, EARTHWORKS,
CUSTOMS, COINS, PLACE-NAMES, AND
FAERIE SUPERSTITIONS
BY
HAROLD BAYLEY
AUTHOR OF “THE SHAKESPEARE SYMPHONY,” “A NEW LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE,”
“THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM,” ETC.
“One by one tiny fragments of testimony accumulate attesting such asurvival and continuance of folk memory as few men of to-day havesuspected.”—Johnson
LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL LTD.
11 HENRIETTA STREET
1919
TO
W. L. GROVES
WHO HAS GREATLY AIDED ME