Folk-memory: Or, The Continuity of British Archaeology |
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A. C. Haddon ancient antiquity believed Brit Britain British Britons Bronze Age camp caves celt Celtic century chalk chalk-wells CHAPTER Chislehurst clay cross Crown 8vo custom Danes dene-holes dew-ponds Dict district dolmen Dorset early earthworks edition England English Essex evidence examples excavations existed F. J. Bennett fact fairies feet flakes flint folk-memory Folklore Geol Gomme Grant Allen Grimes Graves gun-flint Hill Hist History holes horseshoe Ibid implements Iron Age JOHNSON F.M. Kent known later linchets long barrows marling Mediaeval megaliths menhir metal modern mound Neolithic Notes and Queries origin Palæolithic period Pilgrims pits Pitt-Rivers plough pond Prehist prehistoric primitive probably Professor race relics represent road Roman Romano-British round barrow rude Saxon seen seqq shaft soil Stone Age Stone Impts strike-a-light superstition Surrey Sussex terraces Teutonic theory tion to-day tradition village White Horse Wiltshire Winklebury word writers yews
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Page 15 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 160 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 120 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 302 - And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold: Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main: Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall; And in my heart, if calm at all...
Page 359 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Page 142 - Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion ; they, they are thy lot : even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering.