Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 305
Names, p. 224. 2 Survey of Lotidon (Everymans Libvavy), p. 41C. 294 AECHAIC ENGLAND [chap. ment. Peck is also an old word for proVender, and we stillspeak of feeling peckish. The word bucket—2i\\\eA to Anglo-Saxon buc, meaning apitcher—implies that this variety of large can or mug wasused for peck… … Fig. 139.—Bronze from bucket, Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore. From theBritish Museums Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age. It is unnecessary to dilate on the great importanceplayed in civic life by inns: numberless place-names aredirectly traceable to inn-signs ; and the brewing of…
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