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قراءة كتاب Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions
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Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions
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 a survival and continuance of folk memory as few men of to-day have suspected.”—Johnson
LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL LTD.
11 HENRIETTA STREET
1919
TO
W. L. GROVES
WHO HAS GREATLY AIDED ME
CONTENTS
| CHAP | PAGE | |
| I. | Introductory | 1 |
| II. | The Magic of Words | 34 |
| III. | A Tale of Troy | 78 |
| IV. | Albion | 124 |
| V. | Gog and Magog | 186 |
| VI. | Puck | 230 |
| VII. | Oberon | 309 |
| VIII. | Scouring the White Horse | 389 |
| IX. | Bride’s Bairns | 455 |
| X. | Happy England | 522 |
| XI. | The Fair Maid | 593 |
| XII. | Peter’s Orchards | 663 |
| XIII. | English Edens | 710 |
| XIV. | Down Under | 764 |
| XV. | Conclusions | 832 |
| Appendix | 871 | |
| Appendix A: Ireland and Phœnicia. | 871 | |
| Appendix B: Perry-Dancers and Perry Stones. | 873 | |
| Appendix C: British Symbols. | 874 | |
| Appendix D: Glastonbury. | 875 | |
| Appendix E: The Druids and Crete. | 875 | |
| Index | 877 |
“Of all the many thousands of earthworks of various kinds to be found in England, those about which anything is known are very few, those of which there remains nothing more to be known scarcely exist. Each individual example is in itself a new problem in history, chronology, ethnology, and anthropology; within every one lie the hidden possibilities of a revolution in knowledge. We are proud of a history of nearly twenty centuries: we have the materials for a history which goes back beyond that time to centuries as yet undated. The testimony of records carries the tale back to a certain point: beyond that point is only the testimony of archæology, and of all the manifold branches of archæology none is so practicable, so promising, yet so little