Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie SuperstitionsGood Press, 18 de mai. de 2021 - 804 páginas "Archaic England" by Harold Bayley is an archeology book about the application of the jigsaw system to certain archæological problems of Great Britain, Ireland, and Central Europe. Excerpt: "The fact is now generally accepted as proven by both anthropologists and archæologists, that the most ancient records of the human race exist not in Asia, but in Europe. The oldest documents are not the hieroglyphics of Egypt, but the hunting-scenes scratched on bone and ivory by the European cave-dwelling contemporaries of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros. Human implements found on the chalk plateaus of Kent have been assigned to a period prior to the glacial epoch, which is surmised to have endured for 160,000 years, from, roughly speaking, 240,000 to 80,000 years ago. It is now also an axiom that the races of Europe are not colonists from somewhere in Asia, but that, speaking generally, they have inhabited their present districts more or less continuously from the time when they crept back gradually in the wake of the retreating ice." |
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... modern criticism is, however, not to be supposed. Referring to The Lost Language, one of my reviewers cheerfully but disconcertingly observed: “He must deal as others of his school have done with all the possible readings of the history ...
... modern criticism is, however, not to be supposed. Referring to The Lost Language, one of my reviewers cheerfully but disconcertingly observed: “He must deal as others of his school have done with all the possible readings of the history ...
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... modern Briton evolving in unbroken sequence from the primitive cave-dweller, and it points with self-complacency to the fact that even as late as the Battle of Hastings some of Harold's followers were armed with stone axes. There has ...
... modern Briton evolving in unbroken sequence from the primitive cave-dweller, and it points with self-complacency to the fact that even as late as the Battle of Hastings some of Harold's followers were armed with stone axes. There has ...
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... modern engineers.”[21] Who were the indefatigable people who, prior to all record, reclaimed the marshes of the Thames-mouth by an embankment which is intact to-day all round the river coast of Kent and Essex? Who were the ...
... modern engineers.”[21] Who were the indefatigable people who, prior to all record, reclaimed the marshes of the Thames-mouth by an embankment which is intact to-day all round the river coast of Kent and Essex? Who were the ...
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... modern geology, is thus embodied in the thirteenth Triad: “The second perilous mishap was the terror of the torrent-fire, when the earth was cloven down to the abyss, and the majority of living things were destroyed”. It is a singular ...
... modern geology, is thus embodied in the thirteenth Triad: “The second perilous mishap was the terror of the torrent-fire, when the earth was cloven down to the abyss, and the majority of living things were destroyed”. It is a singular ...
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... modern work of newcomers . Frequently the later generations forgot the original meanings of the ancient terms ; and thus , for instance , at Brandon Hill in Suffolk there is the curious phenomenon of Hill Hill Hill — in three languages ...
... modern work of newcomers . Frequently the later generations forgot the original meanings of the ancient terms ; and thus , for instance , at Brandon Hill in Suffolk there is the curious phenomenon of Hill Hill Hill — in three languages ...
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ALBION | |
GOG AND MAGOG | |
PUCK | |
OBERON | |
SCOURING THE WHITE HORSE | |
THE FAIR MAID | |
Peters Orchards | |
ENGLISH EDENS | |
DOWN UNDER | |
CONCLUSIONS | |
APPENDIX A IRELAND AND PHOENICIA | |
APPENDIX B PERRYDANCERS AND PERRY STONES | |
BRITISH SYMBOLS APPENDIX D GLASTONBURY APPENDIX E THE DRUIDS AND CRETE | |
BRIDES BAIRNS | |
HAPPY ENGLAND | |
LENVOI INDEX | |
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according Æneid Akerman Alban ancient antiquity archæology associated Avebury Bards barrow Biddenden Bona Dea Britain British Britons Cabiri called cave Celtic Celts Christian Iconography Didron church circle coins connection connoted Cornish Cornwall Cretan Crete cross curious dene holes divine Druids Elphin emblem England English equated Etruria evidently fairy Father feet festival figures fire Folklore Gaulish giant Gnostic goddess Golden Golden Legend Greek Hebrew Hill Holy Iberian illustrated implied Ireland Irish island Janus John King known Lady legend little doubt London Lord Maiden Margate Mary Max Müller meaning meant megalithic modern Mother mystic mythology neighbourhood neighbouring once originally pagan place-name prehistoric probably Queen radically represented river rock Roman sacred saint Sancreed seemingly Skeat stone Stonehenge Street suggested supposed symbol Tarchon term to-day town tradition tree Troy Wales Welsh wheel whence White Horse word worshipped